Pre-FTL Civilization Faces ‘Once-In-A-Millennium’ Asteroid Impact For Fifth Time This Month
Early space-age pops on the planet of Aldarax are bracing for yet another ‘once-in-a-millennium’ asteroid impact, the fifth occurrence in as many weeks.
The asteroid, named OR-9376E, was spotted tracking towards the home-world of the pre-spaceflight civilization early this morning. This comes only hours after another asteroid which had been tracking towards Aldarax, OR-9376D, was accidentally engaged and destroyed by a passing voidworm troika.
“This is completely unprecedented,” Dr Crystal Fernandez, a Blorg researcher stationed in orbit above Aldarax told Xenonion. “Our forecast models suggest this kind of event should only happen once every 40,000 years, not every 168 hours.”
OR-9376E is one of sixteen asteroids across the local cluster that are currently hurtling exclusively towards the home-worlds of species that have not yet attained faster-than-light (FTL) spaceflight.
“It’s really unusual that not a single asteroid has struck or even tracked towards a planet belonging to a post-FTL civilization in the last 200 years,” Dr Fernandez continued, before joking: “There’s an asteroid belt somewhere out there in deep space holding a serious grudge against primitive species.”
Several galactic powers that have survived the transition to spaceflight have called on the Galactic Community to launch an asteroid defense initiative for pre-FTL species. When pressed for comment, Galactic Community representative Glaxor simply shrugged, sighed and stated “it must be Wednesday.”
