Bug related to the Ancient Drons in Devron

Hi all,
since I had some trouble with the Drones in Devron, I left the system to purchase better equipment.
On my way through New London, I saw a Drone for a couple of seconds from the Trade Lane and considered it a curiousity, but didn't think much of it.

Now that I came back to Devron, I couldn't fiond any drones there. I looked for them in New London too, but without success. Trying to reset the mission, I committed suicide in Devron, but still can't find any Drones there afterwards.

I appreciate any ideas and suggestions here, since I'm stuck and don't have a clue on how to continue my campaign.

Well, that leaves me with to choices: try to take on the drones without the right equipment and be mowed down or no drones at all to continue. Kinda disappointing, don't you agree?

Yeah, but I still will be blown to pieces without being able to upgrade my hardware.

Anyway, it's reproducible: I leave with the objective "Fly to the waypoint" and a couple of jumps away (NL initially, now Inner Core) it suddenly spawns the Drones and switches to "Destroy the Incoming Drones"

I can't really figure out how I accidentally hit the trigger there. I'm lightyears away from the waypoint!

Ah, mixed up the systems. My bad.

So it is save to leave Utopia during the "Explore" part in Utopia?