is Colonial at war with Bretonia?

[Ursus]

I was in an HMS gunboat and got engaged by a couple of SCRA bombers, and a 3rd Colonial Republic bomber. It took me a minute to figure out the colonial was shooting at me because I dont have them hostile.

I looked at the ID text and it says two relevant things: they can demand-engage from factions they are at war with, and they cannot perform any other illegal acts. Engagement without demand seems like its against the spec, but setting that aside, I dont recall Colonial being at war with Bretonia so any kind of engagement would be illegal per item 2.

So that's my question: is Colonial in a state of war with Bretonia?

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