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Traders are not prohibited from returning to a system where they were killed within the past 4 hours in order to conduct trading. If they come back and hunt down and attack the character who killed them, then they have violated the rule. If they simply continue trading, they are ok. The pirate who killed them is also allowed to pirate them each time they come into the system. There is no four hour rule against pirating the same person twice.
On a separate but related issue, the four hour rule only applies to the loser of a fight. It does not apply to the winner. The winner can engage the loser again without waiting four hours, although the winner must give the loser the chance to leave the system where the first fight took place if the loser respawns in it after being destroyed. In other words, if the police destroy a pirate in Texas, and the pirate goes to California, the same police can go to California and attack the pirate again. The pirate, however, may not attack the police except in self defense for the next four hours. The pirate may defend himself if the police attack him again.
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