Tirish and I both found out tonight that attempting to REP a player with our rep guns causes them to be booted from the game. It happened multiple times in Latos I-8.

I bet it seemed like you were hitting me with "Trident-Be-Gone" nanites. Did it happen repping other ships too? Patrizio couldn't get it to happen to a moth. It was repeatable on the trident out of i8 also (J-9).

if it was just the trident, then perhaps this is linked to the damage update fix?

It should be fixed shortly. Thanks for the report.
It was actually related to the update from a couple of weeks ago where healing no longer increases your healing stat when you heal a capship.

There is a healing stat? Give the medics a badge series!