Suicide message?

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Not sure how/why butI after building my ship with hardened green hull, D1000 (x8) missle arrays, 10 shields around my ship. 10 SDKB missle arrays, 10 antimatter cannons. I came across 5 pirates and entered into firefight. I clicked the space bar to look at my ship in full condition, switched back to flight mode and Within moments I got a message saying "you committed suicide" and wham I am dead and no ship.

So now I am stuck having to rebuild a whole new ship etc.