Curious situation

[Akumabito]

Akumb. The admin's decisions are not biased by who the perpetrator is, but what the action is.

I know differently.

1) If the Traders dropped the cruiser/battleship's shields to 50% or less. This would be self-defense.
2) If there was a planned RP event that involved a cruiser opening fire on a transport.

In this situation, however, neither of these things happened.

Actually we don't know what really happened and have only heard one side. If the liners dropped the cruisers shields down to 50% before the cruiser dropped a liners shield down 50% then it was legal, by the rules.

Also, if one of the trader team rammed the cruiser he would be allowed to respond to the attack and destroy the liners.

Also technically the cruisers actions were within RP, the cruiser wasn't pirating, it probably wasn't anywhere near the vessel that was pirating when the pirating took place and the pirating was over and pvp started by the time the cruiser got involved, so the pvp rules should apply and the pirating restriction should not apply.