Broadcast controller causing absurd timeouts

Hey! Faction of mine, around 6 people online in Steam US 7 at the time who all were on a single carrier ship with their fighters doing unidentified signal runs. As we were jumping away, the carrier ship's AI defense lost sight of enemy grids, and told the broadcast controller to send an "all clear" message, which for some reason gave all of my guys a sort of.. chat timeout spam, without any of us saying anything.

As shown in the images above, basically all of my guys had this exact chat flood.

We had to either rejoin, or wait a rather long time before it stopped spamming timeout messages every time we tried to chat. And yes, because this was in an official server, I opened a ticket with the official game server admins first, and was told to make a support ticket.

I don't know if there's a way to properly reproduce the issue, but I would start with getting a few people, do some factorum raids with a carrier ship, and wait for it to start bugging out with the AI defense + broadcast controller. I have experienced the issue on my own quite often, but didn't think it did it to everyone, goodness!