ExploreIn the game
Exploration
Launch probes, narrow hidden signatures to a point, and hack derelicts for what the Reach forgot.
- kinds of signature
Every system hides signatures that no one has found yet, and there are more of them the further out you fly. Probe them down, slip in, and crack what you find.
Vela
What you do
- 01
Probes
Launch four probes and shrink the search. A signal reads as a sphere, then a ring, then a point. At a quarter strength you know what kind of site it is; by the end, exactly where.
- 02
Hacking
Analyzers open a node grid. Read the distance numbers, route around firewalls and antivirus, and reach the System Core before your virus runs out.
- 03
Sites
Derelict data caches pay in lumen and schematics. Choir relic sites hold Span residue, and the Choir doesn’t like visitors.
- 04
The Span Archive
Lore fragments you recover fill your Codex, piece by piece: who crossed first, and what the rings were for.
Read the Handbookthe same guides the game opens
ExplorationScanningLaunch scan probes, read the sphere, ring and point results, and tighten your formation until a hidden signature becomes a site you can slip to.- ExplorationHackingCrack data caches and Choir reliquaries by spreading a virus across the node grid, beating its defences and breaking the System Core.
- ExplorationData and relic sitesWhat waits at derelict data caches and Choir relic sites, who guards them, and what the chips, relics and fragments inside are worth.
- ExplorationThe Span ArchiveRecover lore fragments from hacked containers to piece together who built the Span gates, and claim each completed entry's reward.