question on nebula creation/destruction

[bearclaw]

Situation: a dead system. Nothing but asteroid fields. Someone comes along and creates a nebula in the system.

Question: if I were to destroy the nebula, will the system return to its pre-nebula state? Or will all the asteroid fields be gone?

Not at my computer to try this out...

[douglas]

The asteroid fields will still be there. The only way to completely destroy all traces of a planet or asteroid field is to create a black hole.

[Suicide Junkie]

IIRC, You can even remote mine the asteroids if you remember where they were (or have a sufficiently powerful anti-cloak sensor.)

[bearclaw]

does that mean that a planet could still be created there? Or would there have to be a sun in the system still?

[douglas]

Planet creation requires a sun, and sun creation can't be done in a nebula as far as I know. So, the only way intact planets can be in nebulas is if they are generated that way at the start, which only happens in non-custom-edited stock maps if the game runs out of places to put homeworlds.