quoting someone for refrence as to scale and grandness of this battle.
For anyone confused about the significance of huge battles like this: Subscriptions, or Pilot Licenses Extensions (PLEX), in this game can be bought with real money or with the in-game currency, ISK. This makes PLEX a sort of conversion factor between money and ISK. The ships that were destroyed during this battle had a combined value of 11 trillion ISK. You could buy more than $300,000+ worth of PLEX with that dough. And now it's all gone.
apparently the guys that own eve did a nice video on this battle.