By the way, it just blows me away how many people here seem to know soooo much about every ship and it's special abilities.
If you play long enough you'll eventually get to know them all, but anyways on to your main question...
The issue here is that you're playing on "unlocked teams" settings. The AIs tend to make alliances amongst each other early and often, but expect you to complete missions for the right to be considered for such a privilege. As a result, especially in multi-system scenarios, this can turn into everyone against the player. The easiest way to prevent this is to turn on locked teams, which will prevent the AI's from allying with each other and will make them treat you the same as anyone else.