Ah yes. You probably loved the part about ‘slipping away in unarmored and unshielded transport ships’...
Cause the Empire is not going to be looking for any ships leaving the Cruiser...
Cause...
Well cause...
Well just cause...
They are the Empire after all.
If they want to not monitor the ship they are chasing that is in increasingly dire straights for desperate escapees, that is their business.
If you start worrying about plot holes in a movie with space wizards you’ve walked into the wrong theater. The whole series are basically Roger Corman exploitation movies only with good budgets, watch them like B movies, understand them like B movies.