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

[Haxus]

this is good for a new player

I agree. It should be easy if you get to the point of having a spacecraft with weapons and a crew in that first week. That was the point after all, to give new players a reason to get into space quickly.

The biggest asteroid only has 4,000hp. It doesn't take much gunfire to crack it.

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.