Does it have mechanics that support things like ninjaing, ganking, and can flipping, or spiritually similar activities?
As far as I'm aware, no. There was a PvP consent flag for anything that involved direct combat.
Cans are privately protected, it is possible to grief miners by strip mining their mission locations (which never change in the game world), but I think that griefing behavior can be banned.
Edit: I do not think the game heavily works on factional loyalty, despite the fact the game has three factions opposing each other. Could be wrong. If they did, there may be open world pvp - again something I never saw.