Scan Nav Beacon Elite Dangerous

Nav Beacons are devices placed in orbit around the main stars of inhabited systems that provide local navigation data for pilots. Data can be downloaded from a Nav Beacon by targeting and scanning it.

Functions

Scanning a Nav Beacon volition permanently reveal and identify any unexplored destinations inside the same arrangement, including planets and stations, as well as provide import and export information for all local ports and Fleet Carriers. Nav Beacons tin as well exist used to identify the location of certain mission objectives, such as assassination targets or relieve sites. This can exist dangerous in the former case, as merely arriving at a Nav Buoy can describe the target out of hiding to make the first strike, just any security forces that are already on site will likely move against the target for attacking.

Nav Beacon sites are often humming hubs of activeness, with traders, freighter convoys, smugglers, bounty hunters, security ships, pirates, and criminals jumping in and out constantly. Similarly to Resource Extraction Sites, this makes them convenient places to hunt for bounties.

Compromised Nav Beacons

There are some systems where the local Nav Beacon has been compromised by hacking or an attack. The bulletin "Arrangement Link Error: Security response unavailable" volition appear on the HUD upon inbound the site, pregnant no security forces will enter the Nav Beacon zone even if a ship with the "Report Crimes Against Me" function agile is attacked. Many wanted vessels with high bounties can be found around Compromised Nav Beacons, and they tin can be destroyed with relative impunity.

Notes

Nav Beacons broadcast the proper noun of their organization in Morse lawmaking.
If shut to a Nav Beacon in normal space, it will appear in the Contacts panel and tin be targeted. Destroying a Nav Beacon is not possible.
Crashed Nav Beacons appear in some Points of Interest on the surfaces of planets and moons, and can be scanned with a Data Link Scanner to retrieve a Data Bespeak Intel Bundle. They may besides generate a random mission offering when scanned, and are occasionally guarded by Skimmers.
Prior to Elite Dangerous: Across Affiliate Four (iii.3), Nav Beacons were an culling ways for pilots to uncover inhabited system data without needing to ready aside an internal compartment for a Discovery Scanner. Since 3.3 converted the Discovery Scanner into an integrated function within all ships, the original purpose of Nav Beacons was rendered obsolete.

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Spontaneous	Ceremonial Comms Combat Aftermath Convoy Dispersal Pattern Prowl Ship Degraded Emissions Distress Call Encoded Emissions High Course Emissions Mission Target Not-Human Signal Source Search and Rescue Patrol Weapons Burn
Upshot-driven	AX Disharmonize Zone Conflict Zone Convoy Beacon Checkpoint Pirate Activity Detected Salvageable Wreckage
Powerplay	Armed Revolt Crime Sweep Military Strike Resistance Pocket Violent Protestation
Persistent	Debris Field Experimental Habitat Hotspot Listening Post Nav Beacon Notable Stellar Phenomena Resource Extraction Site Tourist Beacon Unregistered Comms Beacon