Great Khan Warping Away

[LordDynuKin]

So this is something I noticed since the 3.3 update with the Great Khan Crisis and I am unsure if this is intended or not.

As soon as you engage the Great Khan, he can just warp away without triggering a "Death" counter of his fleet and when he does, it can show up in any system near the one where the fight occurred or back in the main 3 systems that they start in. This has happened in two separate games so far that I am playing with friends and its rather frustrating that you have to go on this wild goose chase to try and find his fleet only for it to warp out instead of actually losing the fight.

To top it off, although I am sure this is just a coincidence but its weird that it happened both times so far, storms appear on top of the controlled territory of the pirates making it impossible to actually see where he is as well as making any movement really slow.

I am hoping this is not intentional since it is insanely annoying to deal with and is under no circumstance actually interesting to play out. Even if you are way above the strength of the pirates and have jump drives, its still a pain to track them down and fight the Khan over 7-8 times instead of just the 2 if you win both fights.

[Big mean bunny]

I don't think this is unique to the khan but rather the admirals now much more likely to warp out than go to the bitter end on an unfavourable encounter.

[Blackberry]

What exactly do you mean by death counter? Do you mean the point at which you get the popup saying the Great Khan suffered a defeat at the gripping appendages of ______?
Cause the thing of 2nd time he/she actually dies.

I assume it's just that 'almost' any fleet, A.I. or other, can emergency FTL after a certain amount of time in combat. I'm fairly sure this includes the great khan's fleets.

[ChaffyExpert]

You don't get events about the great khan escaping and forming a new fleet?

[Bumc]

Met khan once in 3.3, he got effortlessly demolished by bots, but I managed to swoop in and grab the relic on his second death.
He didn't try to warp away at any point.

[LordDynuKin]

I am mostly just trying to see if anyone else has dealt with this before 3.3, but basically you normally only have to fight the Khan fleet 2 times, which is what I mean by death counter, but since 3.3 he just emergency FTL's out without triggering the normal popups meaning he will respawn with ships fully repaired (any that are destroyed seem to stay destroyed until the proper respawn event pops up).

I have never had the Khan fleet do this before, it was always just 2 fights and the event is done. Usually this is never an issue its just ridiculously time consuming when he can just disappear for months at a time without triggering the event pop ups.

It also does not seem in the nature of the Khan to flee so quickly and so often so I am assuming because of the overall A.I changes, it has affected the Khan as well in a weird way.

[Mennan]

He's not supposed to retreat. I'm pretty sure marauders have always had a no retreat policy.