I had just dropped some supplies off in a star system. As I engaged FSD to head off to my next stop, I was interdicted by some scumbag of the spacelanes.
Thinking to teach him a lesson, I throttled back and submitted to the interdiction. A brief fight ensued before I ensured said scumbag would never again pillage innocent delivery pilots in the depths of space by turning his ship into little more than motes of dust, drifting in the solar wind...
And then I got a bounty for "the Murder of Sir Scumbag the Pious", and the feds came for me, guns a-blazin'.
So, what happened? I was inderdicted and attacked, so was surely(?) blameless. I had recently been aligned to one of the powers and was in another power's space, but I had left the power half an hour or so before and had not joined any other power.
Any thoughts on why this happened are appreciated!