When I need to get away from the game immediately, I just Alt-F4. This does not include character interaction; where I either excuse myself or in the case of combat, let myself be killed with a "Critical systems failure! The core's overloading, abandon ship!" message and drifting into EK.
Those that simply go AFK in space can and should be mowed down with impunity.
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