rkralik: So, I thought that the game only saved when you entered or exited a base. But yesterday when I took a rescue the merchant mission he got blown up right as I exited warp in an asteroid belt. The mission was marked as average, but the threat level pinged Red. I exited, figuring I would come back and try again but I reappeared in the same asteroid belt, having failed the mission but without the pirates around. Is that supposed to occur?