This may be an odd question, but as far as precedent and everything goes, back during the Red Senerios, did anyone ever pretend to be arrested or capture or anything like that, and/or did anyone ever pretend to be a member of a faction other than the one they actually are a member of, whether by stealing a uniform or a ship or whatever? If so, isn't that essentially what happened here?
There's always been the rule about not impersonating people (as long as I can remember at least), so when did pretending to be in a different faction become impersonating another person?