As the last active Red Squad tester to knowledge- I felt it was my duty to return to the forums and express my feelings about this sun-setting; my goal being to hopefully put some thoughts to rest on both sides of this occurrence. I've been around quite a long time, going all the way back to the closed beta days of…
Thank you for posting! I was pretty sure it was in fact Fed-only. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't going crazy! Kinda nuts that I/We all gotta perform such a workaround, but our teamspeak members came up with the same solution.
The only "bug" in the mission is you get the notification to look for the Iconian objective 1 freighter late. If you retrieve the objective from the 2nd freighter (Before the mission gives you the actual objective), you will stilll get credit for it as a Delta Recruit at the end of the mission.