Anyone else had this problem? I got the message critically successful, i get an artifact. I had to read it ten times because i was in disbelief. when i checked my artifact inventory i didnt get anything. Did it just go into artifact points instead of a real artifact?

If the raid was successful, it will have indicated the name of the artifact that you stole. What was it?

oh boy is there any way to go back and look. I dont know what it was, thought i would just check it out in the trade window.

I think I may have found the issue. Was it a low level player? There was a bug if you critically stole from someone who ONLY had artifacts that were not stealable (such as the Planetary Aegis that you start with).

This is fixed now. You will instead see the message "Raid Unsuccessful. Could not find anything of value in cargo." in that situation going forward.

Bummer, makes sense though. Ya im only level 26 think he was a few below me. Thanks for the quick response.