Then what about this (happened to me yesterday).......
(\^/)Defiant is killed in battle in Theta (nommies fight dirty anyways ). So I re-log as (\^/)Hephaestus and sit at our player base in Zeta. The same Nomad Fleet attacks me and said player base. So I was technically not allowed to return fire? I mean the rule clearly states that as long as theirs no 'obvious connection' between ships, re engagement is possible. I did not announce to anyone that the same char was commanding either ship, so the argument could be made from both sides that the Nomads involved did not know who's ship it was.
Lets try something else.....
(I think I'm pretty much just rewriting Gheis's example in my own words but you be the judge)
Order|Jellysmasher is killed in the same situation. Then (\^/)Vagabond intercepts the returning Nomad fleet in o-74 or Kappa, and destroys them. Once again nobody is the wiser as to which player is flying those ships. Were those 'legal' kills?