Just have fun with it. Its your first pvp, what happens happens. Win or lose no one can fault you for starting your first go with a major fight like this.
Could get stranded and then be boarded by pirates. Would make for a fun team building exercise. Could also lead to all the sith killing each other over food and who gets to sleep next to the heating vents while starvation and fatigue sets in.
Makes for an interesting viewing thread, but probably will stretch the inter-thread boundaries. Obviously the guests would intervene were one to attempt such an act.
There are more than one ways to make a star ship go adrift, hell make something up. And it's not treasonous against the empire or emperor, intervening in a kesh goes against the entire idea of a kesh no sith would ICly follow someone who intervened in the duel, and would most likely call for them to be executed.