I'd swear the Hawkwood actually does try to target you with at least one of it's TerSlashes if you're roughly the same distance as or closer than Enif Station.
Just today, I was about a klick(possibly more) below Enif when the Hawkwood jumped in; one of its two forward beams drew cleanly across the station...and the other went clearly well under the station, horizontally, and a little overhead. Other times, it snipes you with them(it's not the middle of a grand wide slash); you're just minding your own business near the station(well beyond 1500m), and the next moment you hear, 'whirrr...poof!'. The beam is nowhere to be seen on the death screen, as if you were the intended target of a very short beam slash.
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So many good ones already taken, so... I'm not the only one who enjoys snarking back at the TSM instructor, am I? So mechanical, and yet so serious...
"Welcome to Training Simulator Module TSM-1XXx, pilot. Don't touch the controls until you are told to do so. You will fail this session, if you do not follow instructions carefully!"
After asking you to target him in TSM-103a:
"That is the lead indicator. It shows you where YOU NEED to fire your primary weapon, in order to hit your target."