Personally, I think that hyperspace is the lynch pin to this story.

Oh, great, we are going to have to watch another spotty 80's teenage flick, of kids fanatically playing Asteroids to protect their dignity (almost sounds like some of the latest transformers sub themes)? As, if you blow up an asteroid in front of you in real life, you are likely to head into a shower of deadly fragments (actually, that sounds like a nice variation for an asteroid game, but in the end you will have a cloud of deadly sand like particles, but a pet pacman to eat them all might cure that, and we could. use him as an end of level boos once he gets full...).