If that is the case then I am really pissed, the game sold itself to me as a PVE game. Now it sounds like Eve with prettier graphics.
Damn it.
I'm not sure what the issue is. You will always have the option of playing Squadron 42 (SP campaign), or playing it co-op, or hosting your own server and playing true-PVE with friends. But there will be systems that are so policed that people won't be able to just attack you without being annihilated.