When Ferrians Attack (bug or feature?)

[Atarlost]

Okay, the story. I ran across a Ares Outpost, a Dwarg Fortress, and a Ferrian Colony close together with a Luminous Assembler close enough that I was within range of the Dwarg Fortress when luring Luminous Drones. The Ferrian Colony was directly in line between the Dwarg Fortress and the Luminous Assembler. Actually it's about 2/3 hidden by the Fortress. That may be a bug that's not worth fixing or a feature since nothing's really to scale anyways.

Needless to say the Dwarg Fortress hit the Ferrian Colony when trying to fire on me. The Ferrians retaliated and destroyed it. Either it killed the Colony before dieing or its explosion killed the Colony. I was fighting Luminous Drones at the time. That's fine. Ferrians are behaving like Ferrians and explosions are behaving like explosions. What may be a bug is that the Ferrians didn't stop. They kept circling the station wreck firing into it. I don't think any even withdrew to go through the stargates after killing the Fortress because I was between them and both stargates. Hyper-vengeful Ferrians make a sort of sense in the context of their status as zooanthropes so this may be intended behavior, but I suspect it's not a situation that was specifically coded for and so may be unintended behavior or may be a situation that hasn't been contemplated.

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mmmhh, I think it could be a rare bug.
Cardinal reported the same behaviour some time ago, where a ship was attacking a wreck.
http://neurohack.com/transcendence/foru ... php?t=1692