Scanning and Cloaking

Playing Stars!

Scanners tell you about:

♦ planetary environments

♦ enemy fleets

♦ minefields

♦ mineral packets in transit

♦ salvage

♦ wormholes

Both planets and ships can have scanners. You create a planet-based scanner by adding it to your production queue. Ship-based scanners must be included in the hull design.

All fleets detected by your scanners appear in the Scanner. Fleets can use cloaking devices to reduce a scanner's range and thus increase the chances of escaping detection. You can display your scanner coverage at different levels and determine any weak areas using the Scanner pane's Radar Overlay.