Burn Jita V

Burn Jita V

Burn Jita V ran from approximately 2 March 2018 (Friday) through 5 March 2018 (Monday), a 72-hour main window organised once again by MiniLuv under the Goonswarm banner. By this iteration the format was deep into its mature phase - annual cadence, predictable late-winter timing, standardised Catalyst / Coercer gank fits, MiniLuv-led organisation - and the press / community-side coverage treated it as a calendar event rather than a story.

The headline operational fact was the sheer logistics scale the Imperium showed off ahead of the event: stockpiles included approximately 36,000 Coercer hulls, 72,000 sensor boosters, 72,000 rigs, 110,000 heat sinks, 288,000 small energy turrets, and 288,000 crystals - pre-positioned for the weekend's gank rotations. Even after six years of practice, the eye-watering supply-chain numbers underline how industrial-scale a "casual community gank weekend" had become.

Reported damage from the 2018 iteration broadly matched Burn Jita 4's ~700B-ISK band, though specific numbers vary by source and the Imperium's own post-event reporting was lower-key than in previous years. The defending side - anti-gank groups, freighter pilots, CODE.-aligned counter-CODE. roleplay corps - was by 2018 organised enough that single-freighter losses were less novel than they had been in 2013-2014. The story-shape was incremental refinement rather than spectacle.

The iteration is notable as the last Burn Jita before The Mittani's relationship with Goonswarm started to publicly fray (the chain of events leading to his eventual 2022 resignation ran across ~2019-2022). Burn Jita 2019 would still happen under his leadership; subsequent named iterations would not.

For returning players: Burn Jita V is the iteration to read up on if you want to understand the industrial-logistics side of late-2010s Goonswarm - the gank fleets weren't just suicide ships, they were a supply-chain-managed operation. Talking In Stations' contemporaneous coverage is the cleanest snapshot.