Like an idiot, early on in the game I flew over to Delta Gorno ore scavenging and killed off the Shofixti ship when it attacked me out of the blue. Since then i've progressed through about 2/3rds of the game, and am now at the point where the Yihat are the next thing on my "to do" list.

Since i've blown up the last remaining shofixti and no more of them show up in Delta Gorno, does that mean I need to start the game over from scratch?

I just wish there was a hex edit I could do to a save game file that would reset the shofixti to "not blown up."

Am I screwed or am I screwed?