Was this a SvS bug?

[Jeava]

Hello all

I recently started doing SvS priveteering and have been enjoying it. However today I noticed some odd behavior from two ships I was fighting. One of them seemed to have the island shield on even after moving away from the island a substial amount of distance. The other I saw seemed to have almost infinite range on his specrtral shots. I have the Spec shots myself and know that the range isn't that great, however they were able to fire them at me from well past what would normally be out of range for that shot. Were these players glitching in some fashion that you know about? Thanks