honking

I'm heading to Colonia with my fleet carrier. Sometimes my carrier jumps ahead of my survey ship into unknown systems. The carrier arriving in such a system should "honk" it and reveal all the bodies in the system.

As polls seems to be so successful, I'd like to see one on the need to scan at all. I propose we fly into a system, but during the witchspace jump, our scanner module is already scanning the system we're jumping to. When we enter the system, we'll see a popup showing all ELW's, and using...

My first question relates to this chart: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=117129&d=1490523708 In the chart above, what is the difference between "honk (red)" and "ads (yellow)". I thought honking was using the advanced discovery scanner than jumping away, what's the...

I think it'd be interesting to hear about your reasons for supporting your faction of choice (or for going independent). I'm particularly interested in reasons based on faction ideology, politics, and history, as I'm still relatively new to the Elite setting and enjoy learning about the factions...