Why are missions changing without choice?

[Monsoon]

I started doing missions last night and the last 3 I picked up CHANGED as soon as I was about to do them.
Each of them was about killing pirates...I got some done then I got close to a named pirate who automatically changed my mission to instead go kill security

I really don t want that, I did not make the choice to go kill the police and won t do it

Now I have wasted a mission and fuel and need to find somewhere to get another mission

If the missions were all accessible in space from anywhere I wouldn t mind but this is really really annoying
NPCs should NOT be able to change you missions...only add to your missions so you can play double agen

 

[spacescrub]

It's giving you an alternative mission to carry out. You should be able to carry on with the original mission or take the new alternative mission.
The Feds always hijack your missions, they hack intel from somewhere and interrupt your mission this way.

However, it's not working properly on all missions.

 

[Monsoon]

yeah for me I lost the original mission on my last attempt as the only mission that I had now was to kill whoever gave me the mission
Its annoying

 

[spacescrub]

The assasination missions are annoying as hell. Try stay away from them, both pirate and bounty hunter one's.
However there is a way to trick the mission. It used to work for me but I think the last mission overhaul has fixed it to broken again
I used to pick the assasin mission before logging off.
I never dropped into any USS's(Unidentified Signal Source) so no alternative misson was given.
Log in next day and usualy 1st or 2nd USS gave me the original target and I could complete mission.

The other missions are working most of the time. Sometimes they bug out but their alot better than they used to be.