Since it is broken and won't be fixed any time soon, how about trying to remove it. I still see folks going into the Spike, and can only assume a whole lot of folks this weekend will try and access it with the "cookie crumb" starter mission clickable.
Easier to answer folks that wonder what happened to event, instead of dealing with folks that travel to the planet and get kicked back to fleet.
(Would think devs want to keep more people from feeling upset.)