Jekyll, don't worry bro, your not hallucinating quite yet

Couple of weeks ago, I saw the exact same thing, and it was even a niki.
I was manning a 5" gun on the fleet and watched a enemy Niki engage a squaddie of mine in a seafire right inside the ack umbrella.
They fought literally for over 4 minutes, with a smooth graceful swirling dogfight, no hint of warp or stutter at all.
Of course it was very strange that I hit the guy with 5" proximity bursts 3 times, and my squaddie hosed him down over and over, until he was literally just a cockpit with a smoke trail.
Then he turned around and flew merrily away.
Of course it was just a bad connect... *cough... roadkill.... cough*

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