Too many scanners.....

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what are all the different scanners for?
tried to find out for myself and with chatGPT.
chatGPT surrenderd as it couldn´t figure it out and messed it all up.
is there a nice clean overview anywere?

[Agony_Aunt]

Discovery scanner - used to "pinging" systems, which allows you to know roughly what a system contains.

Full Spectrum System (FSS) scanner - used to properly scan the system after a discovery scan to see exactly what is there.

Detailed surface scanner (DSS) - used to discover life and signals on planets.

Manifest scanner - used to scan ships to see what cargo they are carrying

Kill Warrant Scanner - used to see if a ship has bounties in jurisdictions other than the one you are in (just targeting the ship will only reveal any bounties in your current jurisdiction).

[SirGusto]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Discovery scanner - used to "pinging" systems, which allows you to know roughly what a system contains.

Full Spectrum System (FSS) scanner - used to properly scan the system after a discovery scan to see exactly what is there.

Detailed surface scanner (DSS) - used to discover life and signals on planets.

Manifest scanner - used to scan ships to see what cargo they are carrying

Kill Warrant Scanner - used to see if a ship has bounties in jurisdictions other than the one you are in (just targeting the ship will only reveal any bounties in your current jurisdiction).

You left out data link scanner and comp scanner.
Data scanner is for scanning mega ships and settlements/poi on planet surfaces.
haven't found a use for the comp scanner yet, so not sure what that's for.

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there is also Frame Shift Wake Scanner

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by SirGusto:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Discovery scanner - used to "pinging" systems, which allows you to know roughly what a system contains.

Full Spectrum System (FSS) scanner - used to properly scan the system after a discovery scan to see exactly what is there.

Detailed surface scanner (DSS) - used to discover life and signals on planets.

Manifest scanner - used to scan ships to see what cargo they are carrying

Kill Warrant Scanner - used to see if a ship has bounties in jurisdictions other than the one you are in (just targeting the ship will only reveal any bounties in your current jurisdiction).

You left out data link scanner and comp scanner.
Data scanner is for scanning mega ships and settlements/poi on planet surfaces.
haven't found a use for the comp scanner yet, so not sure what that's for.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! Knew it probably missed at least one, but turns out i missed at least 3.

There are certainly lots of scanners! :D