Gekli Escort - the lost Gekli accolade

I wouldn't write about it here but I really don't know what to do anymore and it is frustrating as hell!
I'm hunting for accolades and the last one from Viscious Cycle I want to get is the Gekli Escort acco. I approach the bloody little Gekli and... it doesn't follow. I read (yup, did my reserach before) I should remain in a short distance like 3km. I do, but the little brat isn't moving.
Can anyone help me out?

Have you tried all the spatial planes? X,Y, and Z for the 3km rule and done so with the minimap fully zoomed in and then been within the middle green circle (mission circle)? Have you retried the mission?

Any chance this is a bugged mission? Also, have you tried getting right on top of it or next to it? If bugged you could have to be anywhere for it to work right. :/

Well just a few hours after I posted this I got in a mission, we got the Gekli and I just let someone else do it and now I have all the accolades I need :)
I tried flying on top of it, didn't work either.
What do you mean by spatial planes?

I got this one pre-DR and I remember seeing it a few times in the patch notes in 2015 but not really thinking much about it. I found this thread and apparently this was a problem pre-DR too, just sometimes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/2f2pe9/vicious_cycle_lost_gekli_help/

Usually when something appears as "fixed" multiple times it means that it's permanently broken. I'm guessing this is just something buried somewhere in the spaghetti code* that STO runs on that can't be completely fixed without breaking a bunch of other things, like the loot critter bug.

*A term I've seen thrown around enough to get an idea of what it means without actually knowing the technical limits of it.