Unable to issue movement commands to real robot without simulator node.

[MrVolans]

After hours of testing I've realized I am unable to issue commands to the robot without running the simulator node. I am issuing commands to moveit using python and planning succeeds just fine without the simulator, but the move command ends up stranded on the joint_path_command topic (That's what I've been able to gather). Please help me out by providing some insight to why this might be needed, when I don't see that reflected when using a UR cobot.