Acolyte Incident
An asteroid named "Trent-653087" was predicted to pass by Yata within a week, with many anticipating the pass-by as a beautiful spectacle on the night sky, with the CSIS tracking its movements. Once the asteroid reached its closest point to Yata, shooting stars filled the night sky as small fragments (too small to be harmful) were pulled into Yata's gravity well, with these streaks of light filling up the night-sky with minimal incidents regarding collision avoidance systems in satellites, with the only notable occurrence being the communication satellite "Atlanta-3" going offline which was suspected to be because of an impact with one of the smaller meteorites. Suddenly, a large gas explosion ejected significant amounts of debris from the side of the asteroid, with scanners previously showing normal minerals now showing refined metals as the asteroid's trajectory changed to put it on a collision course with an uninhabited part of Luna's surface where it could damage no bases. The CSIS decided to go in and mine the iron detected in the asteroid, only for them to discover a unnatural belt of irradiated terrain extending over a 300 kilometre radius around the asteroid with the radiation (which was later marked as an exclusion zone) while the radiation levels beyond this radius jarringly cut off without any clear explanation, with their geiger counters reporting values jumping from already absurd numbers to higher and higher values to the point that travel deeper inwards became completely unbearable, prompting them to attempt using specially-protected robots to move in, only for these to also mysteriously lose contact when they began to near the impact site. As they were unable to approach closer than 270 kilometres to the impact site, the CSIS resorted to using high-power telescopes to view the site from afar, seeing the construct of refined alloys that was previously reported shattered on the ground. CSIS decided to try moving further by strapping a fusion reactor from a retired battlecruiser onto 3 remote-controlled rovers (with many others also being prepared) in order to advance further, which successfully advanced further than before until their visual feed cut off at a range of 240 kilometres from the impact site which forced them to use radar and other sensors. When they reached 220 kilometres away their radiation sensors began to shut down, when they reached 200 kilometres away their magnetic sensors began reporting odd readings, when they reached 190 kilometres away one of the robots shut off with another also shutting off at 160 kilometres away. When it reached 120 kilometres away the final robot made contact with the first set of debris, finding it to be consisting of seemingly normal iron and nickel which appeared not to have been radioactive prior to the impact, with the robot shortly afterwards having its arms malfunction before later shutting off as well, with attempts at using drop-pods from above also failing as the belt of radiation appeared to extend upwards from the impact site. Observatories on Yata's surface also began looking up at the impact site after a brief communications and sensor outage unfocused everything observing the impact site, discovering the deactivated rovers and drop pod approaching a damaged cylindrical structure roughly 100 metres long and 50 metres wide laying on its side.
The CSIS deployed the battlecruiser 'CSS Jupiter' which was used by the Department of Containing Anomalous Entities as a forward-operation-base in the study of the impact. The next major change was detected as 'spots' of abnormal radiation readings when compared to their surroundings which were gradually growing, which the CSIS tried to stop by dropping lead on the spots to absorb radiation which didn't do much initially other than kick up dust into the sky, which surprisingly managed to eventually start lowering radiation levels (especially chunks dropped at the impact site). The peripheral scanners began detecting increasing levels of radiation in their own area, predicting that the belt would slowly expand by 10 kilometres every day. A strange communication was detected by the CSIS which took 3 days to descrypt, reading;
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The CIS was puzzled and attempted to monitor for more messages to no avail, until all of the sudden all surveillance systems around Luna paused completely and became inoperable for a second until they reactivated, revealing a large black, metallic, cylindrical shape arriving on the far-side of Luna on a course towards the impact-site which issued the a now unencrypted message;
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The vessel began nearing the various CSIS ships parked in orbit observing the site and issued a message stating "Clear Area", repeating the message once the CSS Jupiter moved to intercept the vessel.
