It Started With a Mining Barge
Raa sits in the Devoid region, and on 29 September it produced a fight that took a hundred and two minutes to settle. It opened at 17:28 UTC with a Retriever flown by a pilot from Prime Directive - a mining barge, and therefore the last ship anyone expects to find at the top of a capital battle report. The system got busy quickly. By the time the final confirmed loss landed at 19:10 UTC, 187 pilots had taken part, 87 losses were on the record, and 158.3 billion ISK had been destroyed. Twenty-six of those losses were capitals. None were supercapitals - no Titans, no supercarriers - but twenty-six dead capitals in under two hours is a serious commitment of assets, and the value column makes it clear that nobody in Raa was treating the afternoon as a training exercise.
Four Wrecks, Four Fifths of the Bill
Most engagements spread their losses around. Raa concentrated them into a handful of extremely expensive hulls. Four ship types account for roughly 127 billion ISK of the 158.3 billion destroyed - about four fifths of the entire battle, sitting in four wrecks. The headline number is a Revelation, the Amarr dreadnought, valued at 75.4 billion ISK. That single loss is very close to half of everything destroyed in the system, which is a startling figure for a hull whose bare cost is a fraction of it. Killmails rarely explain the gap between base price and final value, but they do record it, and 75.4 billion is what the record says. Behind it came an Apostle at 25.9 billion - capital logistics, and the sort of ship a fleet would very much rather keep - then a Zirnitra at 13.6 billion, the Triglavian dreadnought, and a Revelation Navy Issue at 12.3 billion. Two dreadnoughts, a faction dreadnought and a capital support ship: the shape of a fleet that came to Raa to do considerably more than pass through.
Both Names Appear on Both Sides
On the organisational scoreboard, one name stands out. x Never Regret x finished with 40 kills against 13 losses, the best exchange recorded in the report by a wide margin. Rattini Tribe appears on both sides of the ledger, which is the clearest sign that this was a two-way fight rather than a fleet being farmed: 10 kills credited, 25 losses taken. So does x Never Regret x, present in both the attacker and victim lists. Nobody in Raa spent the afternoon exclusively on the winning or the losing end of the killmails. Below them, the supporting cast. African Atomic. logged 5 kills, with DRONE REBORN and the 24th Imperial Crusade on 4 each. On the receiving side, Minmatar Fleet Academy took 9 losses, Every Little Helps. took six, and WHITE H0RSE five, alongside a longer tail of organisations with fewer losses on the day.
Meravin's Name at the Top of the Damage Table
The battle record names Meravin as the top damage dealer in Raa. It is the least dramatic line in any engagement report and often the most important one: while hulls were dying on both sides, Meravin's name sat at the top of the pile of hurt. Damage totals do not appear on killmails. What appears is a wreck and a name, which is why the pilot applying the most consistent pressure in a 158 billion ISK fight tends to be remembered rather less than the pilot whose Revelation detonated. Raa was a battle of attrition fought with capital-grade firepower, and attrition is decided by whoever keeps shooting accurately for the longest.
A Capsule, a Structure, and the Final Bill
One structure was also destroyed in Raa. The report does not identify which, but even a single dead structure is a useful reminder that engagements like this are rarely only about the ships. Twenty-six capitals, one structure and 87 losses add up to 158.3 billion ISK - a number that takes some time to work through, and rather longer to replace. The last confirmed loss was a capsule belonging to a WHITE H0RSE pilot, logged at 19:10 UTC. A pod dying last means its ship had already gone, which is a fitting note to end on. Raa opened with a mining barge and closed with an escape that did not work, having taken 158 billion ISK out of circulation in a hundred and two minutes. When the shooting stopped, x Never Regret x had 40 kills and 13 losses - the best trade on the board, and the one organisation in Raa that will look back on the day without wincing.
