I was flying towards a planet today when I noticed an unusually large amount o Asteroids in a very close orbit to the planet.
Then it hit me. Why not have a mission that randomly generates (much like the Thargoid base attack missions) where you're called out to assist the planet in clearing up a meteor storm that would otherwise wreak havoc on the defenseless population living on the planet?
The pay would be commensurate with the planet's economic status but if possible also by the amount of asteroids blasted. It would be nice to be appealing enough to risk high speed atmospheric entry for the sake of the sizeable loot to be made.... I mean humanitarian reasons of course.
This is actually a standard mission in most versions of Elite, although generally you just shoot any asteroid that comes onto your scanner as they spawn, you don't get to travel about tracking down and cleaning up, as you would in a persistent system such as Oolite.
