Interesting idea, a little confusing that you're not the ship at first. I seemed to die for unknown reasons from time to time.
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Ah! I should've put a bit more animations in the intro scene to indicate that you're not the mother ship.
For the random death, hmm... I wonder why that happened since I haven't encountered them myself yet. But I kind of suspect that maybe the player is on the edge of the screen and got stealth attacked by the enemies outside of the border. Or perhaps multiple enemies are stacking on top of/under the player makes it harder to see, and when you move, they trigger tons of damage immediately.