2019-12-18 Asteroid, Harvester, System Resource Search, Morale Penalty

[Snowmantis]

relying on a military weapon system on the ground
That will always prove to be a failed strategy.

I think that no ground based weapon system developed in the first week could possibly have enough range to do more than crack the asteroid at the last minute. Then it is simply reduced from a world ending event to an extinction event.

Sounds good...   even having a Weapon system on the ground to perhaps take out a chunk should be a consideration for the new player.

I (Grimwald) watched the Asteroid pass my spacecraft and hit my planet, I did see 3 shots fired from ground based weapons before the server thread crash.   So they do something, albeit much too late.