When I "HONK" a system, can I move on immediately to the next system or do I have to wait for all the system discoveries to list themselves in the middle of the HUD? The HUD only lists one discovery every few seconds and for a system with a lot of bodies that can take quite a while. I ask because when I HONK systems with only a few bodies when it comes to the end of its list I get a message "system scan complete". Thanks.
Discovery Scanner Question
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When you only Honk a system, the HUD does not list the discoveries of the whole system, only the bodies you are within range of that your ship picks up passively. But no, you don't have to wait for it to scroll through on the HUD.
There are 4 levels of discovery in a system. Exploration is like an onion..
1. Passive sensors. You get within sensor range of a body. These show up on your HUD and tend to be asteroid belts and planets close to the primary star. These are what you're referring to.
2. Honk. Detects the number and frequency of objects in the system, but does not determine what they actually are.
3. FSS. After a honk you can enter the spectrum scanner, which allows you to manually scan the frequency spectrum for bodies. This will give you full details of each body scanned.
4. DSS. The detailed surface scanner launches process at a planetary body from supercruise age will locate all surface features like geological or biological sites.
There are also compositional scans of small objects or anomalies, and codex discoveries.
1. Passive sensors. You get within sensor range of a body. These show up on your HUD and tend to be asteroid belts and planets close to the primary star. These are what you're referring to.
2. Honk. Detects the number and frequency of objects in the system, but does not determine what they actually are.
3. FSS. After a honk you can enter the spectrum scanner, which allows you to manually scan the frequency spectrum for bodies. This will give you full details of each body scanned.
4. DSS. The detailed surface scanner launches process at a planetary body from supercruise age will locate all surface features like geological or biological sites.
There are also compositional scans of small objects or anomalies, and codex discoveries.