Actually Templar, and this you know full well, the BSG DID shoot first. My internet crashed when BSG was still about 6k away. By the time I restarted the router and logged back on, the other NovaPG (pay attention to who your fighting) were dead and I was being shot by one of the Albatrosses. Before the black screen finished loading. I should even have screenshots. (I'll check when I get home.)
And the reason we were there was because TBH helped SCRA in the war, then refused the first peace treaty we offered. And Benitez and OPG began helping them in battles. We retaliated. We left the BSG alone, even when you were attacking Vespucci, and did so in Gamma until I was shot at. Of course, seeing as how BSG are self-admitting 'Fellow Corsairs' as you said in Gamma, I can see how you would shoot a non-combatant.
And now BSG have attacked Theta 3-4 times, and we even found one of you docking Freeport XV in Omicron-74. I think thats plenty of reason to retaliate. And even chase you to Tau-23, where you ran to after the Caedo told you it would stop you from entering the Omicrons, and you cruised around and entered Alpha. We retaliated in Tau-37, where you then retreated to Tau-23, and we followed.
So if you don't think we should have crossed swords, you shouldn't have shot first.