I assume Artefacts will still be in the game and still require the player to hold the planet they are on to exploit them.
So my question is this:
If the Vasari loyalist faction have the ability to extract all resources from a planet, reducing it to a dead asteroid, then what happens to an Artefact that was on it?
Is it destroyed? Transferred to a Vasari ship or will it somehow be the sole surviving thing on the planet (now dead asteroid)?