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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3668169" data-attributes="member: 14159">Fugitive is a valid way of describing their status.  Fugitive in modern American English does have the connotation of fleeing justice (I don't know about other countries), but that's not the only meaning."Fugitive" has been used in the modern era to describe the status of people fleeing the destruction of their homes by war.  Good Geek example of this: The closing narration of every episode of the 1979 Battlestar Galactica series described the fleeing colonials as a "rag tag fugitive fleet".  They weren't fleeing from Cylon law enforcers, they were fleeing from the destruction of their homeworlds.</blockquote>