yeah, make sure you don't warp out while in combat....

No I mean don't warp out while in "Red Alert" status. A lot of time the game will give you the option to warp out by clicking the dialogue button, but if you do that while in Red Alert it seems to confuse the game.

This happened to me a few nights ago, but when I retired it the following day I had no problem.

don't click the prompt in the text window while at red alert. It's the only thing I know of that fixes it.

weah, but.... since the mission usually completes during combat the window sometimes pops up while your ship is in red alert status. OTHER space combat oriented missions don't let windows like this one pop up during Red Alert, but for some reason this one does.