I've went through the plot just fine up until the last mission to wipe out the Pirates in Wasteland.
What I've encountered is that I've wiped the Pirate base out and blew it to space dust with my Split M8. I mean it is gone now. Along with all the Pirates that were flying around.
Then I got the message from the Teladi to meet him back at NMMC HQ. Thought things were good, like all the other times I've done this plot. So I go there and there is no Blue Icon.... and the Mission direction is still in Wastelands.
I can't for the life of me find this guy, and there is not a single Pirate left in Wastelands...
Has anyone run into this before?
Did you blow away the station using the so-called "orphan missiles" approach? If so, I wonder whether that may have caused problems (although by your account, the mission DID register progress after you... pacified that base - also, I once had a case where I left that station for later, as I didn't have the hardware to take it out in a non-tedious way, and it got taken out presumably by Argon forces, and the mission continued for me, so it seems that the mission doesn't really care WHO kills that base, as long as it happens...)