How to capture asteroids in a plasma system?

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One of the "planetary systems" in my game is a plasma storm, with no planet. But it has 3 asteroids. The asteroids have extractors that say they are Invulnerable and can be captured. But ... how do I capture them? Moving ships to them doesn't do anything.

Thanks if you can help!

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
certain ships can capture them (dependant on the race)
vasari scouts, advent and TEC colonizers will do the trick.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
The Vasari scout has an ability to capture these neutral extractors, and the other two races use their colony frigates :)
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Sweet - that'll do it. Thanks, folks!!
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I started capturing them completely by accident when playing as TEC. I had a capital ship battling NPC's one system over and left a colonizing frigate sitting in a dead system that had capture-able resource asteroids. While it was waiting for the all-clear to join the capital ship, it started capturing the resource asteroids automatically. Pretty neat. =)
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
i play advent and they can only be capped by the advents missonary vessels which are not sheilded but nice HP :)
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
They also act as wicked scouts, letting you know what's going on in a system for free and removed from danger. I have very rarely seen the AI take one of my extractors.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
The specific ability is "crew extractor," just in case you are curious. I figured it'd be the colonize ability, but my mothership wouldn't make them work.