The Slicer was playing on the gate with the Rebels, knowing that the sentry guns would fire on any Rebels that took aggressive action. Of course, the Rebels knew that too but decided to play with the Slicer as it targeted various Rebels and so a Jaguar locked it up and fired.
Starwalker also had the Slicer locked because he had auto-lock set and watched the Slicer shield disappear and enter armour. Presumably the Slicer was not returning fire and would simply jump as soon as it felt in serious danger. So, Starwalker decided to open fire just to add a little scare by increasing the incoming damage a little faster.
His intent was to fire two rounds and then warp away before the gate guns decimated the tank of the Rifter. The first part of the plan went fine but when the warp away was supposed to happen - nothing happened. Everything seemed to hang and then suddenly, everything caught up and Starwalker was in structure and then his pod. WTF!
Starwalker went back to station hugely disappointed. He knew the target was not red, knew he had not been fired on, knew the gate would open fire if he aggressed, but decided he could get away before being destroyed if he didn't hang around but inexplicably he did not warp away.
The only consolation was that the Slicer was caught a little later at the sun and Starwalker was on the kill mail. Starwalker heard the good news in station and was about to undock when his system crashed.
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