Plot deadend error

[Matz05]

I got a plot deadend error after repeatedly failing 'help a spinner' missions where I track down the antagonist person, find their location from minions, discover them attacking a cruiser, and fail to protect the cruiser from enemy mecha.

I couldn't figure out how to copy out of Gearhead2 (and for some reason my window manager won't give it a panel button for window switching, which is a pain), but I've made every effort to reproduce this verbatim (I figure here is a better place for it than an email, despite the prompt). It took me a long time to find the History (V) key.
Plot deadend in Core Story: *CORE_R_EQP C:CRAFT +Bpd +Gkn
:R_MEK:INTRO !Ne E:++ E:REDMA E:LABOR E:GOOD_ E:M.mer E:A.ant
E:ENEMY F:++ F:REDMA F:CRIME F:P.art F:ENEMY P:++ P:MAQUI P:POLIT
P:PCFAC P:P.--- P:ALLY L:perm L:++ L:WAGSP L:FCOMS L:ALLY I:++
I:TL_Ex I:NOFAC

Attached are: A screenshot of the history window (in case I transcribed that wrong), a savegame that I think is from before the error occured, but I'm not sure (I found it and copied it out of the folder while searching for some kind of message history, before finding the ingame feature), and a savegame that I made (shift-x) after the error.
Screenshot: (sorry for fumbling around with all the keys trying to find the history)

Before:
RPGJonathan.txt

After:
RPGJonathan.txt

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