I've noticed in some of the story fights, particularly some TT bounty hunters coming after you, I'll often get stuck in a situation where I cannot do anything except attack them, but the game warns me that i'd be declaring war if I attack them.
I think this is happening because my fleet is too big to disengage normally??
They'll move in to me, bring up a confrontation screen. I open coms, talk to them for a bit, close coms, and then...
My options are now:
1. Open coms again (does nothing, they will not talk to me anymore)
2. Move in to engage (Warns me that I am declaring war)
3. Use a story point to disengage. (I don't have any story points.)
It seems kind of weird and broken that this would happen. If I am getting attacked by them, it shouldn't act like I am the one making things hostile. If TT is going to be hostile to me no matter what now, shouldn't they have just changed to hostile? Or, if this isn't supposed to happen like this at all, then I think 'move in to engage' is incorrectly assuming that I am the one who initiated combat, for some reason, but I don't know why.
Normally if I get a message that attacking would start a war, it'd be in a situation where I can also just walk away from the encounter.