Bloodbath of B-R5RB
| Bloodbath of B-R5RB | |||||||||
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| Part of Halloween War | |||||||||
 A screenshot of the battle |
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Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC)
Halloween Coalition
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N3/Pandemic Legion
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Lazarus Telraven |
Manfred Sideous |
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~3670 ships ~143 Titans ~273 Supercarriers ~817 Dreadnoughts ~233 Carriers thousands of smaller ships |
~1616 ships ~72 Titans ~172 Supercarriers ~355 Dreadnoughts ~414 Carriers thousands of smaller ships |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 16 Titans 2 Supercarriers 106 Dreadnoughts 5 Carriers ~1900 sub-capital ships |
59 Titans 12 Supercarriers 259 Dreadnoughts 112 Carriers ~1250 sub-capital ships |
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| Total forces involved 7,548 participants. Damages amounted to an approximate real-currency value of $300,000-330,000 USD. | |||||||||
Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC)
Halloween Coalition
N3/Pandemic Legion
Lazarus Telraven
The Mittani
Sort Dragon
Mister Vee
Manfred Sideous
Vince Draken
Elise Randolph
The Bloodbath of B-R5RB or the Battle of B-R5RB was a massive-scale virtual battle fought in the MMORPG space game Eve Online, and was possibly the largest player versus player battle in history. Pitting the Clusterfuck Coalition and Russian alliances (CFC/Rus) against N3 and Pandemic Legion (N3/PL), the 21-hour-long conflict involved over 7,548 player characters overall and a maximum of 2,670 players in the B-R5RB system at one time. The in-game cost of the losses totalled over 11 trillion InterStellar Kredit (ISK), an estimated theoretical real-world value of $300,000 to $330,000 USD. This theoretical value is derived from PLEX, an item purchasable with real currency that can be redeemed either for subscription time or traded for in-game currency.
Part of a larger conflict known as the Halloween War, the fight started after a single player controlling a space station in the star system B-R5RB accidentally failed to make a scheduled in-game routine maintenance payment which made the system (a key staging area used by N3/PL in the war) highly vulnerable to capture. The CFC and Russian coalitions began pouring players into the system in a swift offensive, and N3/PL moved in a large fleet of players as a response as well. A massive battle erupted in the system and numerous smaller engagements occurred throughout the game universe as players attempted to block reinforcements from joining the battle. CFC/Rus gained a clear win by inflicting heavy losses on N3/PL and successfully capturing B-R5RB. The losses totalled 576 Capital-class ships including 75 Titans (the largest ships available to players), along with thousands of smaller vessels.
To commemorate the sheer size and cost of the battle, the game's creators, CCP Games, erected a permanent monument in the system B-R5RB named "The Titanomachy", consisting of non-salvageable capital ship wrecks.
Eve Online is a MMORPG space game in which players engage in a variety of activities including mining, piracy, manufacturing, trading, exploration, and combat. Players may form corporations (analogous to clans, guilds or alliances in other video games), and these corporations in turn can formally join in alliance with other corporations. Many of these alliances create informal coalitions to work toward common goals and fight competing alliances. Despite the prevalence of coalitions in the game, there is no formal ingame mechanic providing for these "super-alliances." The Halloween War was a conflict in the game universe which started around Halloween in late October 2013 and pitted the CFC and "Russian" coalition and their allies against the N3 and Pandemic Legion coalitions and their allies. B-R5RB, located in the Immensea region, served as the staging ground for all Pandemic Legion fleets. A few days before the fighting in B-R5RB, the CFC and Russian coalition suffered a decisive loss to N3 and Pandemic Legion forces in the Battle of HED-GP in the Catch region, due to the N3/PL's "Wrecking Ball" formation of Titan and Supercarrier "supercapital" ships in the center of a huge sphere of mainly Archon-class carriers (one of the most popular and effective types at the time).
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