Even before receiving orders from Fleet Headquarters, they actively initiated this planetary exploration work, providing some technical reserves ahead of the landing for Fleet Headquarters.
Unfortunately, the merchant fleet has always been crazily squeezed for profit and has never experienced technological innovation. As a result, the structure of small exploration spacecraft is fragile, unable to land in advance, and the detection equipment's performance is low, only able to use remote sensing technology for terrain modeling and basic element analysis.
Among thousands of exploration ships and over a hundred Annulus Merchant Ships, no one noticed that inconspicuous meteorite.
Perhaps some scanning devices briefly captured it, but it was regarded as a secondary target and removed from the reporting list.
