There is a glitch where when your ship blows up you don't re spawn (If you blow up the space station like I did)

and even if you did not blow it up what do you do when you re spawn now you have no ship to leave

If you lose any of the main quest line ships, stations or items it is game over and you will have to reset the server. Once you take down the prototype vessel the game becomes more open ended and you will have more freedom. You will only have to worry about protecting the new spawn station, which is quite a bit stronger (especially after you complete the quest that upgrades it).

One thing that may also help is to Set Spawn at your Ship's Auto Doc. At least in multiplayer, that keeps our group together.