by thechris01
What do you mean by "claim" it? Apart from the Saar (with their racial tech), you aren't allowed to activate Asteroids. Even with Antimass deflectors, you can move THROUGH asteroids, but you can't stop in them.
I was using the same language from the Shattered Empire Rulebook, Page 13. Simulated Early Turns, step 1. Claim Territory
This is not the same as activating a system, You just put a command counter on (ANY?) system adjacent to your home system, then you put a second counter adjacent to either your home system or the first system you claimed.
So I was wondering if there is a system you want to claim, but it is on the other side of an asteroid field, supernova, or wormhole could you claim that as your first system to be adjacent to the second system you really want?