Gray area, need clarification

[Othman]

Alright. I was on my RHA character. Met 2 [RM] in O-15. One of them was setting up, so I decided not to attack them first.
I jumped back to Dresden and was fighting some NPC's, and RM guys jumped and engaged. Alright.
So, we fought and fought. BHG BC comes over, and he starts farming dozens of NPC's around.
RM bomber re-filled his entire bots like 3 times. That means around 300 bots.. I scanned him, and he had full bots/bats again.
So, I decided it's pointless to fight near that BC, and thrusted off a bit. They didn't follow in that exact moment.
I stayed on some 8-10k distance from them when I heard they are going for NB. Alright, they started closing to me - so I entered a lane, and after that another lane.
I hacked the lane there when they came - and attacked them, this time without a BC around.
I didn't loose any bots/bats in the first part of the battle, and I didn't dock anywhere (how could I?) to refill my ammo.
I also never started my cruise engines to run away.
If it was a system with no trade lanes, I would stay in those 8-10k at all times, waiting for BC to go away.
But this way, I had to go in front of them if I wanted to disrupt the lanes.

So, practically, I just changed the position of the fight, because I was outnumbered and outgunned there.
It's called tactics. Now, did I break the rule of re-engagement? I was accused for that, yes, but I'm not convinced.
I didn't do anything worse then that BC refilling Bomber's bots.
In my mind - I only used strategy to have a chance of beating them.
If I did break the rules, admins can use this as my confession, and fine me with appropriate fine.

All comments are welcome. Thanks.

While the 'so called' tactics sound quite reasonable to me, a guerilla fighter, the ironic point was that both ships needed to complete their setups and the rules, sadly but truly dictates that after disengaging from an occured contact, and getting out of scanner range means that the so called contact is over in which sides should not take part in again. You were completely out of range and I told you on system comms as 'call it a day hessian'. Your answer was, 'Why would I? I will try to ambush you somewhere else where you don't have a BHC near.' Now, its not my fault if a cruiser came in and aided my partner with bots and bats. He could have shot you either, but he didnt as I think you were not that unfortunate to whine about a cruiser's existence there. I made it clear that we were returning back to Berlin and thats why I used the jump gate instead of the jump hole. But you just camped in the same system via the jump hole, intercepted our new recruit with dropping him off the lane, who you had been a part of contact with in the previous 2-3 minutes period and engaged him without a word. This is called re-engaging and not a gray area or something else. You would have a point if we went on chasing you after the first contact but we didn't. So it was over, completely, both sides went to their own business as you departed into the asteroids and we headed to the lanes, you were out of sight. Best thing to do was either leaving the system or meddling with another business, not blatantly re-engaging and interpreting the rules according to your good. And better keep in mind that, you don't actually have to cruise to be considered as departing from a fight. If you are out of sight and not being chased, its over.

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