NPC attacking disconnected player - issue

[kumisz]

Yesterday, as I was heading back to my home base to log off, I got disconnected and my internet connection was severed for a few minutes. As I logged back in, my ship has lost a durability and was sitting in a port near where I disconnected. Apparently while being disconnected, I got attacked by an NPC ship, which was not in sight when I disconnected.

(I am kind of sure it was NPC, the area I was in is not very popular with enemy players and I got attacked there by other NPCs earlier)

 

Could it be technically possible for the NPC ships to avoid attacking timed out players?

 

I am okay with that you can't just pop out of the map with logging off when you see someone attacking, and I am okay with losing a ship in any way, but this kind of loss only creates frustration.