Ok so here's a question for you guys. I took a mission that immediately bumped me up to a 5 star wanted level during the completion. I fly around for a bit and notice that the sentinels are not going into searching. Look it up on the wiki and indeed once you are at 5 star the sentinels will always know where you are, there is no escape. SO I fly into space since I can't avoid them on the ground maybe I can fly into space and destroy the sentinel fighter, since I'm currently in what I consider a beast of a combat ship.
Destroy the fighter no problem, already outperforming my first death. 2 more fighters warp in, and I see my wanted level went up here too. Not wanting a repeat of what happened on the ground I turn to run. No dice I can't get far enough away to pulse drive, OR set them to searching and on the radar they are keeping pace with me, no outrunning them.
So I turn around and wreck them too, and pulse drive away immediately ignoring the loot. No dice there as it seems the bastards straight up teleport to me 2 seconds into pulse drive killing my drive again. I ended up flying at snail speed to the nearest space station which was fortunately only 10 minutes away on afterburners where the sentinels left. Looking up on the wiki just indicates my situation would become completely untenable if I just kept killing them (sentinel battleship....great...) and seems to give no advice on how to escape that situation. So how do you escape sentinels in space I doubt flying holding shift for 10 minutes is the intended solution.