IFF System

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Overview

The IFF (Identification, friend or foe) system, a flight grid scanner, comes fitted with every craft deemed space-worthy as it is integral to both navigation and combat. It is a sophisticated instrument that displays a 3D view of space in the immediate vicinity of your ship as seen from a point above it, and all other objects within.

If a ship within the scan range should broadcast a message, the IFF system will translate this as a ripple effect that will surround the flag of the communicating ship.

Legend

  • OoIFF-white.png Unpowered objects unable to mass-lock the in-system jump drive.
  • OoIFF-yella.png Powered craft.
  • OoIFF-red.png Powered craft identified as hostile.
  • OoIFF-sysblue.png Police.
  • OoIFF-green.png Space stations.
  • OoIFF-liteblue.png Missile.
  • OoIFF-sysblue.png*OoIFF-syspink.png Police on intercept.
  • OoIFF-green.png*OoIFF-yella.png Navigation buoys.
  • OoIFF-red.png*OoIFF-green.png Thargoids.
  • OoIFF-red.png*OoIFF-yella.png Active Q bomb (about to detonate).
  • OoIFF-wormblue.png*OoIFF-liteblue.png Wormhole.

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