I hate the asteroid.

[SpaceGeek]

A half newbie here, to share some curious experience.

So i started a new game, did derp some, and now almost a month later still no asteroids. Here's what went wrong:

- My starting village consisted of ugly bushes in my face, noises of spooky human insect that tried to eat me, and annoying spam of targoss messages. I never seen the stargazer and found out about his role only much later from wiki. Ran for my life and sanity to another continent.
- Targoss still found me there after i made the flag, and started instructing how to build a mine and a lumber yard. Then he got stuck next to the mine and never spoke to me again, i've continued building by guess without his help.
- A few days later i realized that my species is a bit too annoying to interact with most things due to their design and how this game handles players character control. I made adjustments and as only known to me way, created that as new avatar, joined my own empire and transferred all the rights from original emperor to the new guy, then deleted original avatar.

I think some of those events may have broken the asteroid so it never appeared. You may try to test this out if you will, and use it if it's reliable.

Sounds like changing your avatar and transferring ownership before you triggered the asteroid story prevented it. Also there is a "yeet bug" that I have encountered which throws the asteroid out of the sector, so far away that you will never have to worry about it but I think that is less likely in your case.

Yay for new science! Thanks for posting this.