Need some help understanding what happened, I got 2 grav survey ships in a system and they encounter this ship:
23rd December 2083 01:40:16,Unknown,Sensor Data reveals that the alien ship class Shrike (Epsilon Eridani Aliens #1039) is capable of 1000 km/s
24th December 2083 15:10:16,Epsilon Eridani,New Thermal Contact! Contact ID: Shrike 001, Class ID: Shrike, Race ID: Epsilon Eridani Aliens #1039, Strength 1200 Shields: 600 (Existing) Active Sensor S336/R100 (Existing)
I set my ships to follow at 500 K to gather some intell via em and thermal and they both get rammed although they go 4722 km/s.
I expected them to keep their distance because of the speed gap but apparently not. Was I wrong in assuming this?