[#3665] Maybe bug? Utmost Gravity mission + claimed ship - workaround.

[Stoo42]

Version 7.5
No mods whatsoever.

Doing the Utmost Gravity mission, and up to part 13, where you have to kill all the paranid representatives.
During this fight, one of the Nemesis had the pilot bail - I killed the pod that came out of it, and quickly sent a claiming party to grab the ship, who wouldn't want a bonus Nemesis?
Sent this ship off to be safe and get repaired, got back to killing paranid.

Ended up klilling them all in the area, BUC are just hanging around now, but the mission isn't complete, and its telling me that I need to go to the other sector and destroy my own newly claimed ship as even tho it is mine and I killed the pilot, it seems like its still flagged as a paranid rep as far as the mission is concerned.

I dont really want to drop the mission, its a main storyline mission.

I'm guessing I have to re-abandon the ship and destroy it, but just wanted to check that this is the intended behaviour, or if this is a bug/feature request that needs to be implemented?
I would have thought that any ship an enemy abandons would be considered "taken off the field of battle" and basically then the same state as destroyed as far as it being an enemy ship is concerned.

Do I have another potential way out of this where I can keep the ship still? Not a huge loss to lose a Nemesis, but I'm fairly early in the game where an extra M class ship helps quite a bit...

[CBJ]

Please provide a link to a savegame, along with the other information requested in the very first thread at the top of the forum. Without it we cannot do any kind of investigation.

[Stoo42]

Please provide a link to a savegame, along with the other information requested in the very first thread at the top of the forum. Without it we cannot do any kind of investigation.

Apologies - I thought this one was probably well known and probably just expected behaviour that was quickly explained.

Link to save file: http://public.neatolab.com/save_003.xml.gz

I think I left myself parked at the same station as my ship its telling me to destroy.
Thanks muchly!

[Stoo42]

This would still be good to confirm if its a bug, or a behaviour that needs fixing, but for now I've "solved" it kinda.

I ended up stripping the ship down to minimum, and then selling it.
Once I sold it to HOP, it was briefly a HOP ship that took off and did a lap of the station, and still said I need to kill it.
But once it finished its lap of the station and docked again, it was disassembled, and so ceased to exist and the quest completed and moved to the next stage.
So all is well in the end, I get a reasonable amount of cash from it in the end, and managed to progress