Would we be able to share that [scan] information out with other ships in our group? For example, if one of them is a Terrapin responsible for the scanning, can it feed that information to the other ships?

Yeah, there's no reason why we can't. Like I mentioned, the other team, the gameplay feature team, is working on the group system. So there is no reason why once you populate your object data bank with some info that you can't share it to other members, including other members that aren't in the same ship, that are part of the same party.

Right now for 3.2, we're just getting the base core stuff in, but we're designing it with all these ideas in mind that we could try out this stuff. It's like, all right, the information that we're storing, all the scan data, is so lightweight and tiny that we could transfer it to other players. Then the question becomes, how do we do that? And then that's when we start playing with it. Oh, we have this fleet system now. Let's start using that to send information. It opens up... Yeah, I can't wait.

Plus, getting this information and encapsulating it into this item that's in your object data bank allows us to do gameplay like what does selling of information mean? What does data actually mean as far as a commodity? And so a mission could be go find out precisely what the coordinates of this target are, and then come back to me with that info and I'll give you some UEC for it.

Then once we have it working, we find out how we break it. How could someone drop the packets? How could someone change the data?