[Q]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
Neutrals are prevented from warping out of the system. Try it and see. Start a game, put your player on computer control (turn the AI on first), and put a neutral under your control. You can't warp, the orders get cleared. If a ship gets sent to another system by an event, or you trade for a ship with the AI -- it can't leave that system.

That seems to be correct. I can't explain then what I did see other than to be a random effect, although this is extremely improbable! Not my day today.