Beyond scanning for salvage, are scanning mechanics in the work?

Okay, yeah. Beyond salvage, absolutely. Scanning is in the process at the moment; we're getting the baseline of what scanning is. Kirk's team in LA are doing great work and just kind of getting that delivered. But if you don't want to know about how we scan other ships just in general... Well, no, I mean, we've got salvage, but that's different to just normal scanning anyway. So we've got your normal scanning, which is: see a ship, I don't know who that is, I'm going to see what's inside kind of thing. Which pirates will be using and which everyone will be using. And all scanning is made up of two parts. We've got location and then we've got analysis. So you'll ping and you'll identify with the radar that something's over there and that's worth my interest, and so I'm going to go over there. And then when you get the thing that you want to know about, you'll scan it and you'll analyze it and you'll get a readout of what's inside. And so that's kind of the fundamental of how all scanning is going to be. You locate and you analyze. So for salvage, even though you don't want to know about it, for salvage, you will locate derelicts and you'll scan it and you'll find out what metals it's made up of and how I can use this to strip it for parts. And so other things we're looking at in the near future will be mining that's coming through. And so for mining, we will be locating deposits of resources. I want to go over there to break up these asteroids or that field or whatever. And then when you get there, you can analyze these rocks, analyze the ground, analyze the asteroids and see, okay, this has got crud that I don't need, there's too much waste in here. Ah, this is a thick vein of gold or something like that. So again, taking the same phrase, location and analysis. And that's what we're looking at. But I can't really say when that's coming through, but that's where our heads are at the moment with both salvage and mining.

And just to tack on to the when question, I know we're having a little fun here. It's because the people who are developing these features are not responsible for the scheduling and stuff. They do their work. The people that can tell us about a thing are usually not the people that can tell us the when of a thing; that's different departments. So I figured the thing that you want to know more about is how it's going to work anyway, because the answer to almost every when question is when it's ready.

Yeah, these will be the first implementations of the system.