EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yep, that ship is gone. It's supposed to get you used to loosing ships. Look in your redeemable items, though. There should be a strongbox, that will likely contain a frigate blueprint, so you can rebuild it if you like. Or you can just head over to the Carreer Agents, as the tutorial suggests, and you will likely get a couple new ships there.

There are several ways to get replacement ships, by the way. You can purchase blueprints, gather minerals and build them, or you may find a corporation that will replace any ships you loose out of the corp wallet. It's not uncommon for Corps to have a stock of cheap T1 Frigates to hand out to their members if needed. You can also buy some ships from NPC loyalty point stores, or if you know how, you can steal them from other players. However, the most common way is to just buy them on the free market or on public contracts.

You may be able to get by with the Ibis for alittle while.

Past the newbie career missions I would probably look into a better Frigate though.

A bit of mining may allow you to even buy a new frigate ship as opposed to making it.

Welcome to the game!!!

I don't bother insuring those smaller frigates. Past that though,..yeah,..when you have good fittings and stuff.
Unless you are not pvping,...you probably won't lose too many ships in level 1 missions, if at all.

Scripted events that make your ship pop without any way to avoid it won't occur again. With a bit of experience, you will learn to judge the risk of what you are about to do. More experienced players typically don't lose ships in PvE, although PvP can happen anytime in Eve. If you head out to beat some guys up, the risk is usually very high. If you think you will lose your ship, insure it at platinum rate. If you don't expect to lose your ship ... well, I can't really help you there. I usually don't insure ships for PvE, since 1) I will likely not lose them before the insurance runs out, and if I have to refresh it, it's not worthwhile anymore, 2) They are usually T2/T3 or Faction ships, and the insurance rates for those aren't as good and 3) the fitting usually is a big part of the price tag, and I cannot insure fitted modules anyway. PvP ships I typically insure, and then see to it that I get rid of them in a timely fashion.

But your situation is likely very different, so you'll probably have to figure out yourself when insuring your ship is worth the money.

Ah, Indeed, Iria is right. I forgot about the carreer agents. In any case, though - scripted death is not something that occurs in the game beyond the new player experience. There are some Epic arc missions that give you a shuttle to suicide into things, but that's about it. Normal missions, NPC Incursions, Exploration sites and so on don't do that. That doesn't mean you won't lose your ship, though. You likely will, but you can technically avoid it in most cases.

If your willing to pick it up I will give you a bpc to make that ship, eve mail me if you want that bpc.