Anomaly

Massive Impact

Terrible impact

Level 2

Description

A colossal impact crater hints that something big collided with the surface of this … once.

Where to find it

Game conditions on the surveyed body.

Possible outcomes

Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.

50% of the time

Asteroid Collision

Console: event anomaly.600

Description

A large mineral-rich asteroid collided with … at some point during the previous thousand years in what must have been a major impact event. An abundance of minerals can now be found on the … in the vicinity of the impact crater.

« A fortuitous event. »

  • Modifier: « Asteroid Collision »
  • Deposit: Minerals +3

50% of the time

FTL Impact

Console: event anomaly.605

Description

A massive crater on … appears to be the result of a collision with a starship. From the size of the crater, we suspect that a ship exiting a hyperlane at maximum velocity rammed the … for reasons unknown roughly 10,000 years ago.

The … has picked up residual subspace echoes near the crash site reminiscent of a collapsed hyperparticulate field, but as the ship itself disintegrated on impact the theory cannot be verified.

« Remarkable. »

  • 12 months of Physics Research income