Arrival

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Arrival was the first phase of the four phase of the Release Roadmap. It was released on April 17th, 2021.

New Features

 * Browse the Adalia star system’s quarter million procedural generated asteroids independently orbiting in real time.
 * Acquire asteroids as collectible ERC-721 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum blockchain.
 * Scan your asteroids for stackable yield bonuses or rare features like natural satellites and rings.
 * Name your asteroids with names that appear both in game and on external sites. Each name can only be used once in the entire asteroid belt.

Lore
In 2246, a pioneering group of several thousand set off from Earth, on a generational ship, bound for a system 14 light years away with an identified, habitable planet waiting for them. A dying Earth, and the only slightly more palatable prospect of a difficult life on an overcrowded Mars, had left their journey as one of the only remaining options.

On the way out of the Solar System, while passing through the extreme outer reaches of the Oort Cloud, and in an incredibly poor stroke of luck, their ship passed within 100,000 kilometers of a previously unidentified dark and icy exoplanet. The significant gravitational perturbation pushed them well off-course, and with limited excess fuel to re-adjust, eliminated their prospects of reaching their initial destination.

An emergency meeting was called, and the decision made to target a new system within their reduced range. It had five planets, and although there was no certainty any of them were habitable, it was their only chance to avoid effectively drifting until their reactors gave out.

Nearly 150 years later, the pioneers' grandchildren completed their long deceleration burn and arrived in their system of refuge, Adalia. However, initial jubilation was rapidly tempered as each of their five scan probes returned from surveying the planets, Adalia A through E, reporting hostile, uninhabitable environments on each.

As a last resort, they turned towards the asteroid belt situated between Adalia B and C. After a quick scan there appeared to be roughly a quarter million asteroids over 1km in diameter. The pioneers placed themselves in orbit around a large asteroid, TG-29980, and decided to allow the pioneers to purchase mineral rights to the individual asteroids.

Additionally, to encourage rapid development and exploitation, all scan probes on-board were to be made available to the new prospectors.