Elite Dangerous Scanning Nav Beacon

Nav Beacons are devices placed in orbit effectually the master stars of inhabited systems that provide local navigation information for pilots. Information can be downloaded from a Nav Beacon by targeting and scanning it.

Functions

Scanning a Nav Buoy will permanently reveal and place any unexplored destinations inside the same system, including planets and stations, likewise as provide import and export information for all local ports and Armada Carriers. Nav Beacons can besides be used to identify the location of certain mission objectives, such as bump-off targets or salvage sites. This can be dangerous in the former example, equally simply arriving at a Nav Beacon can draw the target out of hiding to make the showtime strike, but whatsoever security forces that are already on site volition likely motion confronting the target for attacking.

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

Compromised Nav Beacons

In that location are some systems where the local Nav Buoy has been compromised by hacking or an assail. The message "System Link Mistake: Security response unavailable" will announced on the HUD upon entering the site, meaning no security forces will enter the Nav Beacon zone even if a ship with the "Report Crimes Against Me" office active is attacked. Many wanted vessels with high bounties tin be institute around Compromised Nav Beacons, and they tin be destroyed with relative dispensation.

Notes

Nav Beacons broadcast the proper name of their system in Morse lawmaking.
If shut to a Nav Buoy in normal infinite, it will appear in the Contacts panel and can exist targeted. Destroying a Nav Beacon is non 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 call up a Data Indicate Intel Package. They may also generate a random mission offering when scanned, and are occasionally guarded past Skimmers.
Prior to Elite Dangerous: Beyond Chapter 4 (3.3), Nav Beacons were an culling ways for pilots to uncover inhabited system data without needing to set up aside an internal compartment for a Discovery Scanner. Since 3.3 converted the Discovery Scanner into an integrated office inside all ships, the original purpose of Nav Beacons was rendered obsolete.

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v•d•e Organization Signal Sources
Spontaneous	Formalism Comms Gainsay Backwash Convoy Dispersal Blueprint Cruise Ship Degraded Emissions Distress Phone call Encoded Emissions High Form Emissions Mission Target Non-Human Bespeak Source Search and Rescue Patrol Weapons Fire
Issue-driven	AX Conflict Zone Conflict Zone Convoy Buoy Checkpoint Pirate Action Detected Salvageable Wreckage
Powerplay	Armed Revolt Crime Sweep Military Strike Resistance Pocket Violent Protest
Persistent	Droppings Field Experimental Habitat Hotspot Listening Post Nav Buoy Notable Stellar Phenomena Resource Extraction Site Tourist Beacon Unregistered Comms Buoy