Now lad get this straight the nomads had disappeared from the scanner while he was in Chester. Also the fact that we engaged him in Leeds any other person would have had fought us in Leeds then if he lost he died simple.
However he decided to go all the way round through a top secret system through Newcastle. When he could of said oh I retreat now but he didn't did he ?
Also anther fact we never allied with the nomads but simply put we had the same enemy that we shot.
lets look at a different perspective
If you were the nomad and you were being at attacked by a enemy that outnumbered you then other hostile ships jumped in and engaged you the nomad you would feel annoyed. So in essence we were balancing the forces until the mohican acted his usual self and took us on merry trip bretonia. we were annoyed with that.