Editing Scanning (section)

=Safety while Scanning down Signatures=
As soon you launch your probes everyone within 14.7 AU knows that you’re in system, and as soon you start scanning the range you'll be seen in will increase as your scanner probes moves away from you to another part of the Solar System/Wormhole.

==D-Scan==
see also [[Directional Scanner and Overview]]
==Cloaking==

To be able to launch your probes you need to be uncloaked but as soon as they are launched you are free to cloak again and remain cloaked as you scan. Its recommended that you warp to a Safe spot (or jump between Safes) when you scan. If you are able, use a Covops Cloak so you are able to move under cloak. Otherwise a regular cloak and a safe spot is a good idea.

==Safes==
[[File:Safes.png|thumb|right|Alingend and Unaligned Safes]]
A "Safe" is a spot somewhere in the system that is not easily warpable to (the Sun at 0 or 100km is a bad safe spot). There are two main types of safes; aligned and unaligned. An aligned safe is on a line between two warpable points (often celestials or gates). To create aligned Safes, warp between two objects and drop bookmarks (Shortcut Ctrl+B) along the way. Another player may find you in an aligned Safe by warping between the same objects and using D-scan (if you are not cloaked).

A unaligned Safe is made by warping from an aligned Safe towards a celestial and dropping a bookmark so its not on the line between two warpable objects.

There is another way for explorers to create good Safes in a system. Everytime you scan down a site, bookmark it. Sites spawn randomly in the system and are often unaligned with celestials (but often within 4AU)