Suppose:

You find an enemy character on, say, a sundue uprising mission... You send some of your own characters to kidnap/kill the enemy character... However, in the meantime the enemy character in question has changed his mission from subdue uprising to diplomacy because the uprising has stopped...

 

Hypothesis:

The characters you sent on a kidnap mission foil their mission because the target wasn't found at that location...

 

Well? What do you guys think?

The engine tends to be stupid so probably it foils the mission. I wouldn't know.

Good question, not sure what the answer would be but, I think if the char is still on the planet it should work. Usually, when a mission fails, the message states that the target was not at the location...

actually your hypothesis is correct Scath this happends to me all the time, I send one of my men to capture the general of Coruscant, but in the meantime a new general has been appointed and the mission fails, the old character is still on the planet just not general anymore... the only exceptions I have had when the mission still "succeds" is when I try to capture Vader or Palpatine using Luke (or Leia after getting the force) but thats only because they use the force to detect each other

I see. The reason I had for supposing such is that I've had an enemy character on a mission wounded, but still listed the character as being on that mission.... until I set out an abduction mission: only then the enemy character is listed as being incapacitated on the planet.

It will foil the mission, I had it myself when I was playin a multiplayer game with my cousin.

The same by us with my brother. It will be foiled.

Good question, not sure what the answer would be but, I think if the char is still on the planet it should work. Usually, when a mission fails, the message states that the target was not at the location...

I think the same because I captured one time the emperor from a recruitment mission wherever although I gave the abduction order while emperor was idle on planet (between missions)