I completed an NPC taxi mission to a Paranid station a while ago, but the yellow mission NPC icon has remained on my map at the destination station ever since. The taxi mission itself is long gone and I have no mission guidance if I land on the station in question. It seems like the game did not remove the mission NPC on mission completion, for whatever reason.
I opened my uncompressed save file in a text editor and I think I found the relevant entry for the stuck mission NPC; removing it and subsequently loading the save removed the misleading yellow icon on my map. Of course it also flags the save as modified, and I don't really want to mess with save editing- I have almost no idea what I'm doing in there.
I can post an unmodified save if needed. This is the relevant NPC entry from the XML, as best I can determine:
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<connections>
<connection connection="entities">
<component class="npc" macro="character_paranid_generic_01_macro" connection="parentconnection" name="Ebmanckettiks" code="FLJ-077" owner="holyorder" known="1" read="0" page="10307" id="[0x15f1e]">
<movement class="crowdagent">
<target refobject="[0x15f10]">
<offset>
<position x="17.268" y="-2.489" z="19.662"/>
<rotation yaw="-90.00002"/>
</offset>
</target>
<time start="374516.455"/>
<offset>
<position x="-58.025" y="60" z="54.904"/>
<rotation yaw="-179.08066"/>
</offset>
</movement>
<offset>
<position x="-58.025" y="60" z="54.904"/>
<rotation yaw="-179.08066"/>
</offset>
<traits flags="mission|skillsvisible|customconversation|intransit">
<skill type="engineering" value="5"/>
<skill type="morale" value="10"/>
<skill type="piloting" value="8"/>
</traits>
<entity type="crowd"/>
<blackboard>
<value name="$StateMachine" type="cue" value="208995"/>
<value name="$state_machine_critical" type="integer"/>
</blackboard>
<npcseed seed="3571241049"/>
<connections>
<connection connection="roomtarget" id="[0x15f1f]">
<connected connection="[0x15f11]"/>
</connection>
</connections>
</component>
</connection>
</connections>