Cruise to catch up.....Allowed?

[Reverend Del]

OK, so if I am in my trader, and am running from a pirate who just tried to tax, and if he engages his cruise to catch me, he is retreating and has to leave the system. Right? If that is so, I have not run across pirate yet, that is following this rule.

Provided you escape via thrusters (Impossible versus a fighter when you're in a transport) then the pirate would be breaking the rules if he re-engaged.

Traders are exempt from the four hour rule regarding re-entering a system, if they want to get shot again and again and again then that's their own stupid fault.

As Jinx said, the four hour rule for fleeing is there to prevent tempers flaring and multiple re-engagement violations.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.