Tech hunters attacking us a slave farm???? Why??

We just went to the slave farm south east of heng and freed almost everyone, got my weaker people caged a few times, freed them too! I just noticed there are tech hunters hanging out in the slave trader prison/bar and when I tried to lock pick my friend out of a cage some injured slaver threw them into the tech hunters said “I see what you’re doing” and then started attacking us, now we’re running away because we don’t want to make an enemy of the tech hunters.

I have living world installed. All I could think of was that tech hunters were assuming ownership of the slave farm like a second after my people were throw into cages and now it registers as picking tech hunters locks?? Idek but I don’t like it at all