Yes, Felipe. Was it just like a regular combat aftermath USS in the anumclaw system that Yuri took special interest in? We definitely need to see more of the preceding events to draw any firm conclusions.
Regarding Yuri giving up a rebuy of his ship mid-mission, I have my doubts about that. Here's a kind of debriefing from one of the organizers posted on the Xbox side of the forum.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/348829-The-Event-from-an-Organiser-s-POV/?page=1
I feel like that would have gotten mentioned unless it's a "WHAT ARE THEY NOT TELLING US? WAKE UP SHEEPLE" type situation.
As an xbox player and last minute (and hungover) event participant, schroedingers NPC has now officially piqued my interest. Hope you carry on the investigation and I look forward to your full report. If there's another event like this one (and I sincerely hope there are more frequently) we're positively going to need a well rounded press corps embedded across the defensive effort. The amount of misinformation and conflicting reports has been positively staggering (and awesome too, but at some point I'd like to know the truth).