Yeah the ship didn't technically leave, it was like a server / instance restart so the rescue ship name and all is there still at it's same location but my ship was inside the damaged station for some reason. When I went to turn in the quests the mission board acted as if I had nothing. A full re-log did nothing either and even when I hit abandon quest to remove it from the log it doesn't go away.
Hmmmmmmmm.
This sounds like at the Thursday tick, when stations go from damaged-repairing (if the Thargoid presence is cleared out)... if the presence isn't cleared, maybe the station transitions damaged-repairing-damaged, or just "transitions" to the damaged state, and so has to replace the rescue ship all over again. Weird, and clunky :/
And because there's usually knock-ons like negative rep and stuff for abandoning missions, without knowing how the mission does the lookup to get that info, if it's failing some lookup behind the scenes because the originating megaship isn't the same megaship, that might be causing issues.
Maybe chuck in a
support request, since they're usually pretty responsive?