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[AeternusDoleo]

The Tau Sentinel was me, and the situation was as follows:
Two gunboats were less then 4K away from a mining party (1 miner, 2 transports) working the field. You as a -known- pirate were warned, to turn away. With 2 gunboats present, it'd be a ganking whichever way it turned out, I wanted to give you a chance to withdraw. You did not.

During this time, my character mentioned that if either of the gunboats tried anything both of the civilians would have their ships destroyed before they could destroy me.

And with a comment like that, you still complain about getting blown out of the sky by allied patrol craft, protecting said civilians?

Shortly after this, Sentinel said: "As I recall we didn't get to finish this the last time around." That was a reference to another incident in which I escaped.

As I recall you were there with another Gallic Brigands bomber, doubleteaming me. A flight of CR interceptors came along and I held off on targeting you (the other bomber had already been destroyed) since I didn't want to gank. But that was another situation.

They had two gunboats and I wouldn't've standed a chance in a fight, but there could've been some great role-play during and I am disappointed that it was ruined by such a dreadful stance toward the treatment of the person on the other side of the shoot-right-after-typing guns.

I saw you coming towards me, figured you were intending to SNAC. But read this back to yourself. "I wouldn't have stood a chance in a fight". And yet you complain about the outcome, simply because, after you threatened to destroy the civilians, I did not give you -any- chance to do so. Granted, it was a little harsh, but I was not going to wait for:
A: Your backup to arrive (not sure if you had any, but last time you had friends). Usually in the Taus, dawdling sees reinforcements coming from both sides and it turning into a slugfest, which frankly I've grown tired of.
B: For you to fire first. I get the feeling it's expected here by pirates that the unlawfuls get to fire the first shot. I don't see why that should be.

In all truth, you should have seen the two gunboats, realised you were outclassed, and gone away, perhaps to find another mark. I explicitly gave you the chance to withdraw. As it stands, I still don't see myself having done anything wrong by destroying a bomber that was threatening a civilian. I did not act in response to our previous encounter. I responded to you threatening the civvies. The moment you threatened to attack them, you went from potential threat to actual threat.

Apologies if you feel grieved, but I do not feel to have done anything either against the rules, or disrespectful to you.

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Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

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