Asteroid Field

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[edit] Overview

An asteroid field is the remnant of a planet.

• Asteroid fields can be mined (have their minerals extracted) by orbital miners. Devices such as the Laser Mining Drill are required.
• Adjusting the Hyperdimensional Stress of an asteroid field has no affects on the asteroid field.
• Only certain races can create bases on asteroid fields. Those are:
  • The Privateer Bands
  • The Solorian Unity
  • The Interstellar Master Traders

[edit] Creation

There are 3 ways to create an asteroid field:

1. Natural: When a planet's Hyperdimensional Stress exceeds 1000 then it has a chance of exploding. That explosion causes all bases on the planet to be destroyed and changes the planet into an asteroid field.
2. Zapped: A Super Laser can also explode a planet and thus change it into an asteroid field.
3. Designed: A map designer can choose to have star systems begin the game as asteroid fields.

[edit] Changing Back

An asteroid field can change into a planet by use of the super weapon Protomatter Cannon. A Base on an Asteroid Field will destroy due this process. (Thanks to Drayath for the research).

 A Protomatter Cannon was fired at asteroid field #196 causing it to mutate back into a planet. 
 Our base was destroyed in the process! 

Asteroids also have a low 0.5% chance to become a planet again, by it self. This process is called planet genesis.

Drayath simmed this with the IMT: "500 IMT bases on 500 asteroid fields. On planet genesis the base remains. Between 1-4 planets formed a turn would suggest a 0.5% (i.e. 1 in 200) conversion rate." "Just ran the game though another 20 turns [..]: 46 in 9890 (0.47%)"

 An asteroid field # 2 has mutated back into a planet.
 The planet is located at: 
 ( 1374 , 1302 )