#Comets

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open stone
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It’d be cool to see Comets hurling across the Solar systems at high speeds, occasionally obliterating ships caught in their path.

When moving at high speeds they would deal massive, wide, railgun style damage to ships, but if they impact they shatter into pieces, become inert, and slow to a stop.

Would be made of pure solid tritanium (or a mix of high value resources) and if you can slow one down with a tractor beam (or survive “catching” it) then the dense ore would be yours for the taking. (Not an asteroid)

To ease simulation, they could fly in a straight line across the galaxy and just turn around somewhere far out, or they could actually have elliptical orbits so they don’t just hit asteroids (and so players have a chance to catch them at low speed)

gilded lynx
open stone
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By “catch” I meant survive getting hit by it LUL

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But yea

gilded lynx
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I mean like follow it real close and mine it maybe a special block that sucks up ore only

open stone
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I doubt that would be more viable than just soaking it on a shield and mining the pieces, or stopping the whole thing with tractors, but it’d be funny to see someone try

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I imagine them moving at like 150-200 m/s

dense pulsar
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In reality they move MUCH faster.

open stone
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Yea exactly

dense pulsar
open stone
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Imagine a comet moving at 100,000 mph hitting your ship LUL deadman

outer gust
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doesn't seem fun that you can just die randomly from a stray asteroid

polar hull
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With how small your sensor rage is, yea would be annoying

open stone
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Maybe they only orbit around the outer solar system then

polar hull
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Not really a comet then lol

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Maybe if the "?" Moved with it

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So you don't confuse it for a ship and run into it lol

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That or give it the hostile blip

dense pulsar
open stone
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Or some unique symbol for comets

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Perhaps once you discover them you can see their flight path??

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If the flight path was visible I don’t see an issue, if you get hit and die that’s on you
If people are really worried I suppose they’re could be an indicator of comets in a system before you jump there

polar hull