Glitch? Bug? Or intentional feature?

[wires memelord]

So there was this one time I connected to my character to find a flying mech attacking a base (the main base wasn't mine I was allowed to use a room to put my rescue teleport in), so I try to lure it away... It kills me, I try again... It kills me, I keep doing this because I didn't have good enough weapons to kill it (trust me I tried) eventually I don't have any matter left, and then I go outside one last time, die, and then I don't get saved by my rescue teleport even though it still had full matter.

I respawn and go back to the base and then find a disconnected version of myself on the rescue teleport. I typed /kill and disconnected, then reconnected but I could not reconnect to that version of myself.

Anyone know what happened there?

Also, once I was hired by this Aboaba(sorry if I got your name wrong) guy to mine for obelisks using a hover tank. I end up accidentally shooting him while mining and he gets rescued, this happens a second time, he gets rescued but his mech gun got left behind. I retrieve it and try bringing it back to him but I was killed by a virus swarm.

Why was his gun left behind?