Something interesting is happening in Eve Online, the massive space MMORPG: the largest alliances in the game, Band of Brothers and Ascendant Frontier, have declared war on each other, sucking 9,000 players into the game's first truly massive PvP conflict. Huge battles are taking place for entire systems. And all in a game I once declared the world's prettiest spreadsheet.

Most interestingly, Ascendant Frontier pulled out the big guns in their war against Band of Brothers. In fact, they pulled out the biggest gun, the Doomsday Weapon, which looks like a sort of solar-system sized nuke. But even more hilarious is that apparently, Ascendant Frontier missed, mostly killing a good chunk of their own guys. Check the video after the jump for what the Doomsday Weapon looks like in action.

I always really wanted to love Eve Online because it ad the potential for just this sort of thing, but ultimately, I found that most of my time was spent flying from one place to another... something I would have found more manageable if I could have done it in the background as I worked, but my aging rig at the time didn't allow it. Now, I do have a rig that would support it, but it's OS X... when are you going to do a port, Eve devs? This sort of conflict is just the sort of thing that'd bring me back. Florian Eckhardt

First hostile doomsday device fired [Eve Online Forums]