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Exploration

exploration / reconnaissance

Scan-and-discover loop across Stanton, Pyro, and Nyx — ping and scan for wrecks and resources, jump between systems, and work a dedicated explorer ship's sensor suite.

Best for

Minimum equipment

Steps

  1. Enter Scan Mode and Ping to sweep the area — pinging marks objects and keeps them on radar, but also exposes your own ship's presence, so weigh detection range against staying stealthy.
  2. Zoom and charge the scan for a stronger, wider pulse at the cost of a bigger, more detectable signature; a lower-charge scan is quieter but shorter-ranged.
  3. Approach any wreckage, resource signature, or point of interest cautiously — sites can be contested by other players or NPCs.
  4. At a derelict wreck, find the access panel and take the pilot or engineer seat, then use the unlock-ports interaction to open cargo doors for extraction; larger wrecks need interior traversal to reach further containers.
  5. Recover loose loot, raw and refined materials, salvageable ship components, and any mission data pads found at the site.
  6. To travel between systems, align with your destination marker in NAV mode so the quantum drive auto-calibrates — misalignment increases calibration time even with full fuel and power.
  7. At a jump point, complete calibration then actively steer to stay inside the stable tunnel during transit; straying from the path risks damage.
  8. Use jump points to move between the three currently traversable systems — Stanton, Pyro, and Nyx — refueling at a gateway station such as Pyro Gateway as needed.
  9. In Nyx, treat the Glaciem Ring asteroid belt as high-risk rather than a conventional mining stop, and check in at Levski for local contracts and intel.
  10. Log discoveries yourself or with your org — there is no confirmed in-game data-sale or discovery-credit economy yet, so treat detailed charting as a manual record, not a mechanical reward.

Avoid

Explorer ships

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