On the 20th February a Nyx was destroyed in the lowsec system of Sakht in Aridia.
The Nyx was being piloted by Kreea of LowSechnaya Sholupen [-LSH-] and died after dropping on a Northern Coaliton. [NC] and DARKNESS. [DARK.] gang on it’s way to kill a POS.
The Nyx was deployed as 2 [NC] triage were caught on the in-gate of 1-SMEB upon entering the Sakht system. The Ishtar gang deployed by [-LSH-] knew they would be unable to break the reps with what they had so brought in supers at a range of 100km to destroy each triage carrier in turn as seen below.
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As the supers began to kill the Chimera’s [NC] pinged for titan’s and super’s in range to login. However once the Chimera’s died the [NC] Raven fleet was forced off field due to the lack of logistics. As the order was given to align back to the hostile cyno, and hopefully the hostile supers, it was reported that they had apparently left grid.
Thankfully, Travis Musgrat of Burn Eden and one of [NC]’s main FCs was able to probe down the supers in quick succession. Unfortunately the first successful scan caused him to land on a POS. However, the second was within close range to the first at a safe spot.
The HICs then warped to the super and as points were called a cyno was lit for supers and titans to enter the field. Fortunately the super was damage fit and unable to tank the consecutive doomsday’s that hit much to the dismay of the supers who were still attempting to lock.
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Battle report for this system can be found here.
The [NC] FC for the fleet, Dah’ Khanid of Burning Napalm had the following to say:
The russians did cyno off us at 100km and trapped our triage on the 1-SMEB gate with their Ishtar fleet. We quickly scrambled supers, but as we logged in they warped off to safe spots. So we probed them down, tackled one of them and killed it. I want to thank the low sec russians for being good sports and bringing it and the hero prober that is Travis.
Once this occurred the supers warped off to a safe tower and the fleet continued to complete it’s objective. First of which was to engage the original POS in Rafeme which was successfully repaired enough to re-stront due to being delayed by the aforementioned engagement so was reinforced for a second time. They then continued onto Anath to kill an additional POS but ended up having an engagement on the shields against the original hostile gang before finishing off the tower and heading home.
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What originally looked like a standard brawl over a moon quickly escalated into a supercapital kill. This puts the total ISK lost on either side, including the fight in Anath, at approximately 11 billion for [NC] and allies compared to 35 billion for [-LSH-] and friends. We will have to see if the next fight results in a similar outcome.
A video just as it exploded can be seen here:
alexfishka of [-LSH-] has been contacted with regards to their point of view and this post will be updated following his response.
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