Eve Online is an MMORPG space game in which players engage in a variety of activities including mining, piracy, manufacturing, trading, exploration, and combat.

The size, scale, and intricacy of the game world and its economy and politics means that accomplishing anything consequential typically involves joint efforts by many players over days, weeks, even months and years.

[3][7] A few days before the fighting in B-R5RB, the CFC and Russian coalition suffered a decisive loss to N3 and Pandemic Legion forces in the Battle of HED-GP[which?]

[5][6] Sovereignty grants the controlling player "reinforcement timers", that is, real time waiting periods of several days designed to allow defenders to rally.

[5] On January 27, 2014 (YC 116 in-game), the one-year anniversary of the immense Battle of Asakai, player corporation "H A V O C", a member of Nulli Secunda, mistakenly failed to make a scheduled payment to CONCORD.

[6][7][10] The user Manfred Sideous of Pandemic Legion claimed that he had enough ISK in his holding corporation wallet and had autopay checked, raising the possibility of sabotage or an in-game bug.

CFC and Russian coalition forces scrambled to gain control of the system, with thousands of players logging on and preparing their fleets.

[3][8] As the conflict was a surprise and occurred on a Monday workday, CFC and Rus decided to take advantage and gain field superiority before N3 and PL could respond and so deployed their entire capital fleet to the system.

The two sides traded Titan kills every hour, when their Doomsday weapons could fire again, and the system became filled with warp disruption bubbles, making extraction difficult.

[11] For a while neither side gained any real advantage, though CFC/Rus managed to on-line their Territorial Claim Units and held a slight lead in the number of enemy Titans destroyed.

[3][11] Throughout the engagement, related battles played out across the entire game universe as fleets tried to block reinforcements, destroy fleeing capitals and super-capitals, or trap pilots attempting to enter the fray.

[3] The tide of the battle started to turn when Manfred Sideous, the initial N3/PL fleet commander, handed control to Vince Draken, CEO of the player alliance Northern Coalition.

However, N3/PL overestimated their success and began to focus their attacks on the Titan belonging to Sort Dragon, the commander of all remaining Russian forces in the field.

[3] James Carl, a member of the N3/Pandemic Legion coalition, reported to the Associated Press that "It looks like CFC is winning, but we're hoping now that all of our US players are online, we'll turn the tide".

[14] But when the US time zone players logged on and reinforcements became available, PL did not see the numbers they had expected, and the CFC blockaded adjacent systems to prevent them joining the battle.

The tremendous removal of value due to B-R5RB results in longstanding economic impact, as ships would need to be replaced, minerals mined, and people reorganized and trained.

[7]Also near the end of the battle, Ali Aras wrote on TheMittani.com, an Eve Online news website run by the CFC, that the "kills made here decide not only this war, but the next, and the next after that".

[11] Following the Battle of B-R5RB, Pandemic Legion withdrew from the Southeast theater and formed an agreement with the CFC which allowed them to evacuate billions of assets from the B-R5RB system.

[22] In the longer term, B-R5RB established CFC, later re-branded as The Imperium, as the predominant superpower in Eve Online, with little serious resistance challenging the coalition for the next two years.

[32] CCP Games posted on the Eve Online website that they planned to install "Titanomachy" during downtime of January 31, and were "hard at work placing the wrecks in a hauntingly beautiful arrangement".

[3]The history of the battle and the installed memorial was labeled by historian Daniel Fandino "must-see" for players as well as the general public who might otherwise not be interested in the game.

[32] In 2021, PC Gamer included the Titanomachy as one of the "coolest Eve Online locations you should visit at least once", and called the landmark one of the most important in the game's history.