Xai Corporation: Research Station Alpha

The Explorer Software is a cheap software upgrade available from Teladi Equipment docks. Once installed on a ship the upgrade provides 3 new commands.

1 Navigation -> Fly Through gate...

• This command allows you to specify a gate to fly through. In difference to the fly to sector command, this allows you to fly through gates where the destination sector has not previously been visited.
  

2 Navigation -> explore sector...

• This command causes the ship to fly in circles round the sector, revealing stations, gates and asteroids as they pass within scanner range.
  
• To use the command you select a central point around which to explore, set a maximum range from that point to explore and set a "ecliptic variance".
  
• This can be used to reveal a new sector or to locate a hard to find gate.
  

3 Special -> scan asteroid(s)

• This command will scan asteroids in the sector.
  
• Select the first asteroid to scan, then set the maximum number of asteroids to scan.
  

The explore sector command flys a square around the central point. This is only 2 dimentional, parallel to the ecliptic plane of the sector. The aditional input of "ecliptic variance" allows a random fluctuation within the 3rd dimention between points, allowing you to scan a slightly larger area. Values for this are typically between 0 and 10.

The fly through gate command was written by Xenon_Slayer