for the CFC and its allies included 3 Titan-class ships, 5 supercarriers, and 29 carriers; in comparison, HBC and its allies had lost 1 supercarrier and 11 carriers. The in-game estimated cost of the battle was 700–800 billion , a theoretical value of approximately US$15,000–20,000. However, Liandri Covenant, an ally of CFC and who controlled Asakai VI, retained their hold on the system and made a significant profit collecting scrap from the battlefield. Exactly a year later, CFC exacted revenge on Pandemic Legion and N3 at the Bloodbath of B-R5RB. Background EVE Online is a persistent world, massively multiplayer online role playing space trading and combat game. Players control corporations and can form alliances with other players, which in turn can be formed into coalitions. Within the fictional galaxy of New Eden, star systems are assigned security ratings. In high security ("hi-sec") systems, the AI-controlled in-game security forces will swiftly punish aggressive attacks on other players, and aggressors take a large penalty to their reputation, key to non-player character interactions. In low security ("low-sec") systems, in-game security is slow to respond, and player reputations are only mildly affected from attacking other players. In "null-sec" systems, areas where there is no AI security force, players can attack each other without penalty. Additionally, in high- and low-sec systems, the doomsday devices equipped on Titan-class ships (the largest ships in the game) cannot be used. The planet Asakai VI, located in the Black Rise region, is a low-sec system. At the time the Battle of Asakai commenced, a small alliance called the Liandri Covenant controlled a small player-owned station (POS) in orbit of the 14th moon of Asakai VI. At the time of the Battle of Asakai, two of the largest coalitions in the game were the Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC), led by the Goonswarm Federation alliance, and HoneyBadger Coalition (HBC), led by TEST Alliance Please Ignore (TEST). Each alliance contained about 20,000 players. Goonswarm, formed in 2006, quickly became infamous for militarism and trolling. It became the largest faction of CFC and de facto leader. TEST formed in 2010 and quickly impressed Goonswarm, which "adopted" TEST into the alliance. However, relations between Goonswarm and TEST grew increasingly antagonistic, and TEST, resenting their reputation as the "pet" of Goonswarm, abandoned that faction in 2012 to join HoneyBadger Coalition (HBC). Pandemic Legion (PL) had also been friendly with Goonswarm, but, as with TEST, its relations