Cool story, feels like this story could be a chapter or two to start a larger tale (which I think most good short stories should). My only note is that the asteroids seem inconsistent in sizing - big enough to destroy a whole settlement but not create major ecological events feels like a mismatch, but I’m also not a meteor-impact-scientist so that may be on me!
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Totally understood. I didn't want to spend so much time on the precision. There was a novel some years ago about humanity gaining spaceflight and aliens then taking us as a threat, and they wiped out all but a few "specimens" by accelerating rocks the size of a car to a high percentage of light speed, aiming them at earth, and theoretically, it's plausible.
Either way, this is a "setup" story and I'm grateful for the c&c!