Sooooooooo... Today I found the smugglers again and decided to do the quest.
I pick up the cargo, deliver it to Bottan, he beams out, I get a mail from "A Friend".
So far so good.
I go to "A Friend", Talk to him to learn some fluff, accept the quest, complete his shopping list, come back, get the disruptor.
Now the quest doesn't advance even though I got the Module, and I figure since the smugglers are still there, I guess I have to do the smuggle run again.
I go there, grab the mission, beam back to Bottan and disable his hyperdrive. Then I attempt to give him the stolen goods and he tells me I don't have them.
So I check my cargo and, Hey! I don't!
So again, I figure eh, I probably have to kill him.
I shoot his ship, he starts saying "Oh shit, I can't beam away like a coward!" or something.
I wreck his ship. Grab all his stuff, including the artifact and...
Still no quest update!
That's when I start to believe that I maaaay have a case of quest bug.
But "A Friend" Said that he can attune the artifact to my ship, so I went Hey, let's go see him, and that's when...
http://imgur.com/a/9NX6C
Uuuhm... Help? ;D
Edit : For clarifications, I now have two "A Friend" ships floating about. And they are at different stages of the quest. But I have the quest once, and the -Prequel Quest- as well.
Edit2: Oh, and they both are "Abhorrent" to me, since I killed Bottan. Cause same faction. :-[