Tails had been up all night. His eyes were red, his glorious tails that were an emblem known all over the galaxy drooped sadly behind him. He slouched, his stomach grumbled, and he hardly had the energy to walk, yet he did. Tails was not happy.
All because of some stupid ball of rock out near the edge of the galaxial rim that somehow attracted and smashed one of his 8 billion mobium deep-space probes.
Now he watched a screen in his office where three captians stood aboard the bridges of their three space cruisers, all looking onto the dark mass of rock. He was now re-directing another probe to the large asteroid.
It was large enough to be classified as a planet, actually. It was 4,000 miles in diameter, and had 50265482.5 square miles of surface area. The entire outer layer of rock was rhyolite, which obviously there was some kind of volcanic activity on the planet and there was a lot of quartz.
Rhyolite is a very hard rock. That and the fact there was some kind of electric wavelength interference with any kind of remote electronic probing that could be performed safely from on board the space vessels. That is why Tails needed to use the other deep-space probe in the vicinity to puncture the outer layer or rock to make an analysis.
The first probe had been initially attracted by the same anomaly, and the large mass of hard rock. Is meant that there could possibly be diamonds somewhere on the planet, which the probe had been programmed to take interest in while taking surveys.
This same interference that messed with the electronic analysis of the small planet was what Tails had believed smashed his probe into the massive annoyance. However, it troubled him to find that the wavelengths performing the interference were very similar to things such as cell phone signals, and brain power such as thoughts. There was something advanced living on or in this planet, and whatever race it was it seemed to not want to be discovered.