Engineers search uss for trade data? i dont get this

[rparker1866]

im on a mission to get trade data. i found it . its says to take it a station in an other system. but a planet in the system im in has the quest marker. so does that mean i need to get a buggy and search the surface?

my cargo is market illicit so if i try to take to a station and get scanned ill get blown up right?

thanks for helping

 

[thorn-]

im on a mission to get trade data. i found it . its says to take it a station in an other system. but a planet in the system im in has the quest marker. so does that mean i need to get a buggy and search the surface?

If you already have the data, the marker is where you need to deliver it.

 

[rparker1866]

yea thats just it. the game told me witch uss to drop to. i got the data. the contacts tab says take to a different system . but the quest icon is on a planet in the system im in.

 

[Faded Glory]

yea thats just it. the game told me witch uss to drop to. i got the data. the contacts tab says take to a different system . but the quest icon is on a planet in the system im in.

If you've already picked up the data, take it back to the station where you took the mission, unless the update tells you take it somewhere else.

If it's marked as illicit, you will have to get into the station where you will finish the mission without being scanned. Either boost in, or enable silent running (or both).

I'd ignore the quest icon if you've already picked up what the mission has asked for.

 

[Bomba Luigi]

If you got a destination change and the marker is now on a planet then that probably means you have to deliver it to a surface port.

 

[Kizbot]

my cargo is market illicit so if i try to take to a station and get scanned ill get blown up right?

This is not a kill on sight offence, but you will incur a fine if you get scanned. Depending on the mission, getting scanned can also fail the mission.
Often the fine will be equivalent to value of the cargo sale price, (pretty sure trade data is not high value.) Missions that want you to smuggle high value goods can be costly if scanned. Since the 2.1 update I found that smuggling to planetary outposts (with security) to be a lot harder than space stations now.