Tson
...silence...
...several Solaric patrol ships followed their daily routine, scanning the systems outer parts for anomalies, checking on the defense installments...
...as a small dot appeared and moved into the sensor range at the borders of the system, from the shape and size it seemed to be an asteroid, and even while it´s size was considerable, it was nothing out of the ordinary...
...that is, until it changed direction, now directly heading towards one of the systems mining planets, despite the fact that it was utterly unhabitable, the mining planet was quite resource-rich and had only been recently been opened up for mining and the asteroid would probably do considerable structural damage to anything on the surface and below if left unchecked, even if that would still be in a few months or even years from now as the thing didn´t move too fast...
(On a sidenote, it´s in a border-system, not anywhere near the core.)