Will a coms officer be able to scan for and listen to other players' / NPCs' ship to ship or EVA communications over various frequencies? Will it be possible to encrypt and hack communication signals?asked by Rex

Yes, we're planning on comms officers be able to hail, and break protocol and perhaps hack another player or groups comms to eavesdrop on what's going back and forth between them, so there would be, say, a mini-game to allow the comms officer to have challenging things to do other than just opening communication channels etc. There will be different levels of encryption, signal strength etc, that depends on the comms array and say the computer you have etc. This is another example of some of the more interesting things players / NPCs have to do on bigger ships besides flying or manning turrets.