H A V O C, a corporation within Nulli Secunda who belonged to the N3 Coalition, missed a payment in order to maintain sovereignty over their station in B-R5RB. Enemy scouts noticed this when they witnessed H A V O C quietly trying to recapture their own station.
The Clusterf**k Coalition (CFC) and a coalition of Russian alliances decided to capitalize on the mistake, using the real life timezone difference to their advantage to field a Capital fleet ready to invade the system before N3 and Pandemic Legion could amount an effective defense. But as both coalitions began amassing their fleets, sending out call-to-arms across the expanse of New Eden, it became obvious this would be no minor conflict.

The 21-hour-long conflict involved over 7,548 player with a maximum of 2,670 players in the B-R5RB at one time, resulted in the loss of 11 trillion ISK (around $300,000 USD), the destruction of an unprecedented 75 Titans, along with hundreds of Capitals, and tens of thousands of sub-capital ships.

The event drew the attention of major news outlets the world over. According to Kotaku, the fighting got so big the Associated Press even sent out a war correspondent to record the events. In recognition of the massive battle, CCP has elected to erect a monument in B-R5RB at the location of the battle. The monument, called Titanomachy, was implemented on January 31st and appears in the game as a ship graveyard that can be visited in space.

A real monument was also unveiled in honour of the battle on Reykjavik Harbour in Iceland.