Dying with Europa's scanner augment locks you out of the DSC repository for the week?
I decided to do a DSC repository tonight. As I was looking for the final set of drones in Eternity, I fell to my death, and when I respawned, my scanner buff with [i]one charge left[/i] disappeared. My BrayTech transponder also disappeared, meaning I can't pick up another scanner until the next weekly reset. Is this user error, or do I just have to be extremely careful when holding a scanner so it doesn't take longer to get the splintered title?
I had this issue, and I think I found a workaround. I had gone back like you to try and get it again, and the guy never spawned and no one came to make him either. What I did was switch characters to see if by some miracle I could buy it on them (doesn't work) and logged back in on my character I was doing it with and went back to try and get it one last time, and it worked! It even kept my progress, I had done one of them already. I think the key is to log off or switch characters then trying to get scanner again.