Doomsday lasers light up the galaxy in Eve’s most destructive battle in four years

The galactic war of Eve Online chunders on. A massive battle on Wednesday ended in the destruction of over 50 Titans, the game’s biggest, most expensive warships. The laser-laden space ruckus occurred when a huge fleet of ships appeared close to a Keepstar (a giant and powerful space station) prompting defenders of the space station to scramble their pilots and brace themselves for an assault. Soon, the lasers were flying. By the end of the eight-hour slugfest, the amount of money lost in destroyed ships was an estimated 9 trillion ISK (Eve’s fancy space money). To put that into perspective, the game’s most notorious and costly battle to date, the “Bloodbath of B-R5RB” resulted in losses of 11 trillion ISK. That means, if estimates are correct, this is the second most destructive battle New Eden has seen.

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