Scan Strength

The strategic map is slowly revealed as your explore, but in order to have accurate information about a sector you must have a certain Scan Strength applied to the sector.

Increase Scan Strength

• Ship sensors
• Outposts or Starbases
• System-based scanners
• Allied empire's resources

Decrease Scan Strength

• Black Hole
• Nebula
• Neutron Star
• Radio Pulsar
• X-ray Pulsar

Strength Values

• A strength of +1 is necessary to detect uncloaked ships in a sector.
• A strength of +30 is necessary to detect cloaked ships in a sector.
• A strength of ? is necessary to detect system values from nearby sectors.

References

Stealth and Cloak