to scan

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:23 pm

My brain is just not working today.

In the IMG mission to spy on the capital ship what is the equipment needed to do the scan?

Do you have to have the mining beam/tractor beam plus a scanner?

Could this kind of a "scan' be done with a deployed scanner?

Cargo · Post by **Cargo** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:37 pm

You don't need any equipment to scan a ship, just target the ship and get close.

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:52 pm

Thanks!

I wondered if that might be the case.

How is that supposed to work? Do all of the ships have some kind of auto spy scan ability?

Does this ability have other uses?

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:35 pm

Big ships emit a big EM signal. It's that signal you're picking up.

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:41 pm

So, ...what on my ship is picking up the signal and doing the spying?

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:41 pm

Passively monitoring and recording electromagnetic energy really isn't that difficult. The equipment is built into your sensors. (Active scanning, on the other hand, is more complex.)

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:44 am

You do not need a scanner but I remember that with a Class 5 Scanner you did not need to get very close, at least iirc that was the case in Renegades and Legends. I'm not sure if it has changed in EM at all!.....