Reprocessing Report #3, June 2026: The Small Hubs Run Assembly Lines

Back in the Amarr report I promised we'd check whether the repeat-offender modules held up into June. They did. The Heavy Knave nosferatu actually flagged more often than in May. But that turned out to be the least interesting thing that happened, because June's real story was at the hubs I wasn't writing about.

A confession before the numbers. The scanner has been watching all five major trade hubs since day one (Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Rens, Hek, plus a couple of backwater stations it auto-discovered on its own). I only wrote up Jita and Amarr in May because those were the two markets I understood well enough to say anything useful about. That excuse is gone, so from this month on you get the whole board.

June was also the first full calendar month of data, and it was a big one: 1,127 flagged trades across 359 distinct items, worth about 5.6 billion ISK in recoverable spread. For scale, the late-May window came to about 1.6B across all hubs in twelve days. Jita's per-day rate roughly doubled. Amarr's stayed flat.

The scoreboard

Hub	Flags	Distinct items	Total profit	Median trade
Jita 4-4	290	174	~2.61B	2.1M
Amarr VIII	309	138	~1.21B	1.7M
Dodixie IX	222	83	~665M	1.5M
Hek VIII	165	38	~583M	1.4M
Rens VI	127	32	~522M	2.9M

(Plus 14 flags worth 58M at a Federal Navy Academy rookie station in Couster. No idea who's reprocessing in a rookie system, but good for them.)

A few things worth noticing here. Amarr produced more flags than Jita, 309 to 290, while making less than half the ISK; Jita's money came in fewer, fatter bites. And little Rens, the smallest hub on the list, somehow posted the highest median trade of anywhere at 2.9M. More on Rens below, because that number isn't an accident.

Jita: four modules paid for the month

Two flags, four physical modules, almost a third of Jita's entire June.

On June 18, someone listed two Capital Ionic Field Projector IIs at 28M each. The minerals inside were worth about 242M apiece. Four days later it happened again with a different module: two Capital Warp Core Optimizer IIs at 25M, reprocessing into roughly 228M each. Call it 798M of spread from two sell orders. Both were gone within hours of being flagged.

Item	Hub	Flags	Total profit	Avg buy	Reprocessed value
Capital Ionic Field Projector II	Jita	1	~409.5M	28.0M	242.2M
Capital Warp Core Optimizer II	Jita	1	~388.9M	25.0M	228.4M
Medium Ship Assembly Array	Hek	26	~261.0M	50.0M	60.4M
Unrefined Caesarium Cadmide	Jita	1	~204.9M	45.0K	537.1K
Heavy Jigoro Enduring Stasis Grappler	Rens	35	~196.5M	870.6K	1.01M
Standup M-Set Structure Target Multiplexing II	Amarr	1	~161.2M	345.0M	442.7M
Capital Particle Dispersion Projector II	Jita	1	~87.4M	155.0M	206.8M
Heavy Gunnar Compact Stasis Grappler	Rens	27	~83.2M	848.1K	1.03M
Bountiful Loparite	Jita	1	~67.6M	354.2K	753.4K
Standup Hyasyoda Research Lab	Amarr	1	~64.5M	402.0K	69.8M
Heavy Karelin Scoped Stasis Grappler	Rens	27	~62.7M	856.9K	1.03M

The rest of Jita's month was the usual long tail of unrelated accidents. A stack of 452 Unrefined Caesarium Cadmide at 45K with half a million of moon materials inside each one. Somebody dumping Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher IIs at 50K a piece, which is not a typo; the minerals were worth about 960K per launcher.

I also owe you a follow-up from May: the frequency crystal lane is dead. Gamma L, Radio L and Infrared L carried the May report with steady bulk margins, and in June the three of them managed about 7M combined. If you built the routine I described last month, it stopped paying weeks ago. Oddly the crystal action seems to have moved to Dodixie, where Ultraviolet L flagged 13 times for 32.5M.

Amarr: the watchlist held

The May thesis was that Amarr rewards a fixed watchlist over a wide net, and June agreed. The Heavy Knave Scoped Energy Nosferatu flagged 14 times, up from 10. The Heavy Gunnar and Heavy Jigoro grapplers went for 10 and 8. The 'Concussion' smartbomb doubled from 5 flags to 10, its cousins 'Notos' and 'Vehemence' added ten more between them, and the 500MN Y-T8 microwarpdrive went from 7 to 11. Mission loot keeps flowing in, and the cheap side of the book keeps refilling with the same names.

The one item that broke the pattern was a Standup M-Set Structure Target Multiplexing II: two units at 345M each against 443M of reprocessed materials. Real spread, but you needed 690M liquid and the nerve to buy structure rigs nobody trades daily. So the May read still holds. The floor in Amarr is repeatable modules; the ceiling is rare mistakes that want deep pockets.

One correction to the watchlist itself: the 1600mm Restrained Plates, May's second-best repeater, faded from 8 flags to 3. Watchlists need pruning too.

Rens and Hek: the assembly lines

Now the part I didn't see coming.

Rens spent June running what I can only describe as a stasis grappler factory. Three modules — Heavy Jigoro (35 flags), Heavy Gunnar (27), Heavy Karelin (27) — produced 342M, roughly 65% of the whole hub's profit, on a loop that barely paused. The pattern was the same every time: buy at 850–870K, reprocess into just over a million. Someone out in Heimatar is running missions, looting grapplers, and listing them under mineral value week after week. Eighty-nine flags of the same three items doesn't happen by accident.

Hek did something even stranger. Starting June 24, a Medium Ship Assembly Array sat listed at a flat 50M while its minerals were worth about 60M, and it flagged every single six-hour scan cycle through the end of the month. Twenty-six consecutive flags, 261M total. A quick mechanics note since I never spelled this out: each item re-flags at most once per six hours per station, so 26 flags means the gap survived twenty-six checks in a row. Someone kept restocking that order. Add 37 flags of Medium Knave Nosferatus and Hek starts to look like Amarr's little brother.

One stat sums up each hub's personality, the share of profit that came from items flagged three or more times: Hek 75%, Rens 70%, Dodixie 48%, Amarr 41%, Jita 18%. In Jita you fish. In Rens and Hek you clock in.

The shape of the month

• June 18 was the monster: 91 flags worth about 835M, headlined by the Capital Ionic Field Projector and a 67M Bountiful Loparite stack.
• June 22 rode the Warp Core Optimizer to ~437M on just 25 flags.
• June 2 opened the month with 369M, mostly that Caesarium Cadmide haul.

The bigger change from May is the floor, though, not the peaks. May had genuinely quiet stretches. June's slowest day still cleared 38M across the hubs. Watching five markets instead of two smooths out the drought days in a way I probably should have predicted.

How to read these numbers

Same honesty as always. Reprocessed values assume a standard station yield and tax, so your skills, standings and structure move your personal number up or down. The figures assume you buy at the flagged price and sell the output without moving the mineral market, which is fine for grappler-sized trades and very much not fine for 345M structure rigs. The scanner logs anything clearing 1M ISK of spread. The medians tell you most flags are modest; the big lines in the table are why you keep it running anyway.

Next month: Jita doubles its flag count and stops behaving like Jita. The July report is where this series gets weird.