Ah if only. If only people could accept that fate has placed them in a situation where they must now reap the rewards of their mis-deeds.
Maybe folks could try to roleplay jumping into a pod and developing their character's story in a new direction. Maybe one could try not flying that same ship for a bit.
Maybe rename the replacement.
Maybe add the encounter to a character's story as a development.
Maybe do what many people do and start a new character. Accept you are dead. Others do it. They still get to play.
If you are going to pretend to roleplay, at least pretend that there are things which happen over which you have no control. Such is life.
In short, maybe people could avoid pretending that when they got caught and/or shot down that it had no consequences for them. Generally, players treat it as a mild inconvenience. And when you have four or five other ships who capture you and try to rp capturing you or disabling your ship, all I've encountered, and this is from players who regard themselves as good rp'ers, is ooc pm chat in which they throw a hissy fit and people ridiculously continuing a fight they know they must lose and then pretending it didn't happen. And these are the serious roleplayers.