Are you supposed to get scanned every time you get close to a Steel Watch robot? Because after the meeting with Gortash before his coronation, it does not seem like this should be happening to me but it is.

Anytime one of the Steel Watch sees me they engage the closest party member to be scanned. Have to pass something like a 20 DC Wisdom check or its surrender or fight. Choose fight, it's usually not a hard fight. 1-2 robots tops and some Fists. But then the corpses are red and looting them is stealing...so I get accosted by 10 HP NPCs and have to either leave the bodies there, try and stealth loot them or just kill the NPCs preventing me from looting. Fist patrols are also dispatched to the scene where like 4 of them show up and try to arrest you. They get beaten down. Then trying to loot them, usually another NPC wants to die. This has happened to me like 5-6 times now. Does this happen to everyone or did I do something to bring this on myself?

The very first time I got scanned at Worm's Crossing, which is scripted, the gnomes interrupted the scan but I killed the lady and the malfunctioning robot anyway. But I was able to walk through the Wyrm fort to the coronation and out of it, no problem. This is only happening to me on the city streets.