If the sensors can find a dude floating in deep space, you can certainly use them to find that expensive piece of kit that's floating out there too - and hunting for recently destroyed ships or derelicts are going to be pretty similar signals, just a matter of time passing.
It depends how you "find" something. If you're using active radar, you can pick up any object of sufficient size, but you can't tell a rock from a person from a ship except for their size. This will not help you at all if the person is floating amongst asteroids, for example.
Well one would hope that as a dedicated search and rescue ship, the sensors would be able to find disabled ships, ejected pilots, human life forms that have made it to asteroids/planets (planets May be a stretch), as well as the bodies of fallen comrades or enemies (recover that flash drive from Joe Blows body now that you've extinguished him).
Yes, it will be interesting to see what CIG uses for a "life-signs detector". If we'll have the ability to distinguish between various life forms, the only plausible explanation I can think of is an exceedingly sensitive EM scan, meaning you're receiving broadband RF from a highly directional antennae. You're "focused" on a small area and can pick up very feint signatures and discriminate based upon their spectral analysis. If that is the case, we should hope to see better scan of this sort by use of a parabolic dish antenna on some craft. I for one would love to see this as an option on the Sentinel. I would pull that top turret off in a heartbeat if I could put a very long range directional scanner aboard.
Sick. I don't own a reliant, but I almost wish I'd grabbed one. It's one of those ships that didn't at all interest me...
I'm starting to thing, good sir, that you are in "the know" when it comes to radar, EM, IR, etc etc. Are you perhaps air force? Or former air force?
I have one :) 3 guesses which variant ;)
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I have a SEN!
Thanks @marcsand2. I really appreciate it. The wants goes in reverse if course. What's mine is yours to borrow.
I'll borrow them all. Haha.
I work in development of these kinds of radar and communications systems, intended for use in deep space. It is very cool stuff, but CIG is going to be relying upon some game dynamics we don't yet have the technology for. My company is developing that technology now, so you'll see it in the next couple decades, along with a ton of really cool space stuff. Some of what CIG portrays is actually behind what we're building; and I can tell you about it, but then I'd have to kill you. P-)
Know what I need more then ever? A bunch of pilots to man
That explains your expertise!!! That's no theorycrafting, that is putting real knowledge in a game. My job is Industrial Automation, no R&D there, biggest challenge is to find out how somebody else wrote a piece of software, doesn't matter which sw language, basically reverse engineering, to get changes implemented or simply to solve problems.
