What actually happened - corsairs see a red Guardian with cardamine in cargo hold. For some reason they do not destroy it right away. Guardian has about 5 minutes to come up with something... but it doesnt. Somebody gets bored and kills it. But why not?
After that Guardian goes: // uuuugonnnnaaheeerfrommeee naabz
But I have to agree that BS was probably an overkill. Independants should save those and use against agressive dependants like Gentle when he feels like factionlancering much again.