Free slave mission bug/softlock

[lordvetinari]

An interesting thing happened: I got a free slave mission from the Merchant Federation. Accepted it, freed the slave, made them a refugee, then while en route to the questgiver, what turned out to be a different Merchant Federation ship sropped in the system I was recharging my hyperdrive in, and asked me to hand over the refugee.

To be honest I thought they were the questgivers, so I gave them the refugee without thinking about it too much, but then the mission remained active, and now I can't complete it when i reach the right fleet.

I can see why not giving the refugee to the correct ship does not count as completing the mission, but on the other hand it feels very silly that in order to complete it I have to refuse to free the guy and take the relationship hit.

I'd suggest that either handing the refugee to any ship of their faction counts as completion, or that other ships don't ask for them, or that if there is a mission open, a second, neutral, refusal option becomes available (something like, "they are on board, but I was requested to bring them to such-and-such ship").