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Exploration and Exobiology
The EXPLORE tab tracks everything you haven't sold yet — cartographic data and biological samples — and tells you what's worth landing for.
Every body with biological signals in your current system, with genus value ranges and the sample-spacing distance (how far apart the three samples of each genus must be taken).
- ◇ community data: when you arrive in a system, genera other commanders have already mapped are pulled from Spansh and shown immediately — before you even honk. Map a body yourself (DSS) to confirm.
- Predictions: where nobody has mapped yet, the app predicts genus candidates from atmosphere, temperature, gravity and body class. Estimates, not fact.
- Your own DSS scans always take precedence over both.
While you're scanning an organism on foot, a live card shows the species, progress (1/3, 2/3…) and the colony spacing you need to walk.
Completed samples with their estimated Vista Genomics payout. First footfall pays a 5× bonus on top of listed values. Cleared when you sell (or die — be careful out there, Commander).
Your unsold cartographic scans with per-body value estimates, including first-discovery (×2.6) and mapping (×3.3) multipliers, plus totals and counts of firsts/mapped.
With voice callouts on (flight panel → 🔊 VOICE):
- First discovery — "…is undiscovered" the moment the primary star's auto-scan shows no previous commander has been there.
- Fuel-scoop warnings along your plotted route — see Flight Panel Mode.
- The Exobiology Route planner builds an itinerary of high-value bio worlds from your position — filterable by genus.
- Road to Riches + Exobiology pair well: map on the way in, sample on the ground.