As Haste said you can avoid any kind of unnatural situations or dumb complex encounters by just logging off after you die. You died in the fight, stop trying to get back into it in a weird way.
The rule was allowing the freedom to return into the system should everything stop and all players leave. So you can resume your usual gameplay earlier than 2 hours. As it appears people here want to rather be forced to stay away on all their ships for 2 or even 4 hours.
What are you guys doing? The only way to make this rule less complex or confusing is to remove all freedom and just force you to log off for 2 hours and don't even glance at that system on the nav map.