Boosting Away From A Fight

[Spear]

When in a fight, and you decide to start to boost away.. how far away is considered a retreat?

Example: This happened to me a couple days ago, but I forgot to ask until now.

So a Outcast Destroyer appears outside Manhattan. Me, two other lawfuls, and two other varying pilots appear start to attack him. He proceeds to boost to about 10k away from Manhattan, with us attacking him (and him attacking back) all the way. By the time he's 10k away from Manhattan, two of us have died, and two have retreated. So since I'm the only one left, and I'm in a VHF, I decide to boost my way back towards to Manhattan in order to possibly bring more people into the fight. Of course, he follows me, shooting all the way.. but.. since I boost faster (at 60 m/s faster), I start to get ahead - eventually getting to about 3k away from him.

He then enters cruise to catch up, and continues shooting at me.

Did he have to leave the system for cruising? Or did I have to leave the system because I "retreated"? Who is in the wrong here?

Generally, I think 8k or more away is considered a retreat, but that's just me.

Tricky, to be honest if you are afterburning away and the enemy cruises to catch you up then I dont really have a problem with that, however cruising in combat IS against the rules. However I would not rule lawyer somone out the fight for this.

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