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.
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Unpowered objects unable to mass-lock the in-system jump drive.
Powered craft.
Powered craft identified as hostile.
Police.
Space stations.
Missile.
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Police on intercept.
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Navigation buoys.
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Thargoids.
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Active Q bomb (about to detonate).
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Wormhole.
* blinking