I was using the Ferrian Warship mod.
Somehow I still did not manage to fail the mission. But I DID manage to die trying. So, as the saying goes, I did both: succeed AND die trying.
Afterwards I looted the wreaks of some tasty BM stations, taking all of the legal equipment and selling it to the CW. Actually I kept the one segment of heavy orthosteel

With the money I got the NX reactor and a patch spider which somehow could repair my armor even when the CW station couldn't and bought some more insurance for next time.