I started a new game. Was playing a Lasher. Got in a fight and was nearly out of health. Was on my way back to a space station when I was attacked again. Got wrecked, and before the battle ended itself I hit escape. The prompt asked me if I would like to leave the game, rather than the usual 'auto resolve battle? y/n' but I hit yes anyways. It kicked me back to the main screen and I started another new game. Character generation occurred normally, but once I started the game I appeared in my old lasher, from the game I just quit, with all the same damage except I was traveling in normal space (I was in hyperspace when I quit). Confounded, I flew around for a few seconds before the game crashed.
Note: I always used to just hit Autoresolve in the previous versions whenever I had been defeated rather than wait for the screen to fade on it's own.
