https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33-qOXOWS4

Now let us imagine that same scene but with 79 more ships shooting the large ship. Surely the small ships are not going to sit there and allow one of their own to be hit with a tractor beam and brought on board an enemy ship to be destroyed without retaliating? The obvious answer is they're going to shoot the large ship while it attempts to tractor them one at a time. To claim that you can do in good faith what the accused did without causing a battle tick defies logic and is certainly not how the game was designed or meant to be played. This is a massive case of bug using, pure and simple. A ship/fleet that is on red alert is going to retaliate if any hostile action is taken against it.