Of course, if he were hunting then he would typically be d-scanning from a safe. He might be the hunted, but then no other ships showed up so that didn’t seem to be the reason. Strange or not Starwalker decided to hunt him down. If he were bait then Starwalker’s Rifter would be coming in hot!
Shortly afterwards the target was scanned down to an asteroid belt and rather than wait any longer for him to bounce again Starwalker warped in to zero. Surprise! The target Rifter was there but so was a Republic Fleet Firetail (Endureth). No time to check whom the other pilot was, and so Starwalker went for the Rifter on the basis it was closest and being hunted by two people.
Starwalker ran into the usual problem when coming out of warp – some commands seemed to be lost by initiating actions too early like target and approach. However, when Starwalker was around 14km away sl Garsk warped away and Starwalker was now being bombarded with artillery from the Firetail, around 18km away. This was not looking good, as there was a real possibility of being kited to death. Equally, why had the Firetail switched targets, unless Starwalker was always their target? But if so, why had sl Garsk run, perhaps to save his Rifter?
Never mind the speculation – time to act. Starwalker decided to burn away to a random celestial with the afterburner overheated. This was not especially to run but to try and slingshot and then get into close range. If that could be achieved then the Firetail would go down fast, however, the Firetail was fast and maneuverable and might be difficult to pin down.
Before that plan could even really begin a Stabber Fleet Issue arrived on the scene. This was simply too much and the Firetail must have felt the same as he dropped point, and so Starwalker’s Rifter took the opportunity to simply warp away. This Rifter would burn, but not today.
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