At the end of 2025, a guy who had been playing notorious space MMO, spreadsheet-in-disguise, and corporate espionage sim EVE Online for just six months basically got a $7,000 ship out of nowhere⁠. After a brief, agonizing period in which he might have been lowballed or otherwise thwarted like a Coen Brothers character sitting on a hot score, this player sold the goods. He's now living like a dark future king, even paying for his own subscription to EVE with his instant fortune. As a dumb guy, I can best understand EVE Online's Titan-class Molok as a classic car that's too valuable to drive, the EVE equivalent of a priceless Ferrari you'd see in Jay Leno's garage. The major difference (aside from the digital/physical divide) is probably the Molok's utility to EVE's warring player factions: According to zKillboard, only four have been destroyed since the ship was first added to the game in 2017⁠—which makes for an impressive k/d ratio paired with the Molok's 4,782 kill count at the time of writing. Speaking to me at the end of last year, EVE community manager Peter Farrell estimated that fewer than 50 players have ever scored a kill with one, owing to its more or less exclusive use as a high-value asset for EVE's player corporations and alliances. "You could play for over a decade and never even be in the same location as a Titan, let alone own one yourself," EVE brand manager Maziar Shahsafdari told me. "The ship is so rare, when you first get it, the first thing you do is you either shoot your friend, or you shoot your alt [account] or you just shoot something that you know can get you in that record book," said Farrell, "Because you want to be one of the first." The consensus on a Molok's value appears to hover around 700 billion ISK (EVE's in-game currency), which is more than double Farrell's own net worth as a 20-year veteran of the game, a member of EVE's economic 1% who considers himself basically set for life. So how does someone join that club and beco