Hypothetically, if Player A boards Player B's ship, kills Player B and takes the ship, is that ship now fully owned by Player A to play with as he wishes? And if so, when Player B respawns with a ship, wouldn't that start to cause an inflation of ships in the universe?asked by Charles Wellington

So yes, if you manage to disable someone's ship and remove the occupant and fly off with it, yeah, you can fly with that ship all you want. However, that ship is stolen, so people are going to be looking for you. It's not like you can just, yeah, everything's great, go visit Terra, and then they realize that your ship is reported stolen and they spend a lot of time trying to make it into small pieces. So yes, there could be temporary inflation of ships, but at the end of the day, stolen ships are going to be hunted, so it's not scot-free.