Scan View

## Map Scanning

When viewing the Galaxy Map, System Map, or individual Planets, you can press Space to bring up the Scan View, offering an alternate view of what's currently on screen that allows different data to be presented. This is also how you interact with the Hacking subsystem.

The information shown depends on the zoom level.

### Diplomacy View

At the furthest zoom out on the Galaxy, the Scan View shows Diplomacy View. This shows the starlanes of the galaxy, and places labels at the rough position of each empire you've discovered, with an icon indicating your diplomatic status with them. If an empire's area is somewhat split apart, they may have multiple labels. At the very furthest zoom level, a faint outline of each faction's culture reach is shown as well, but this disappears if you zoom in slightly. This level also shows icons for battles that are occurring or have already occurred this turn.

There are also lines connecting your home system to various other systems: curvy orange lines connecting to each of your colonized systems, and straight yellow lines connecting to major systems of other empires. (TODO: Generally, these seem to be the home systems of each empire, but it sometimes points to other systems for unclear reasons.)

There are also faint reddish orange specks around some systems. (TODO: It's not entirely clear what these mean, but it might indicate battle debris; at least on my map, some systems that I know had a lot of battles around them are covered in specks.)

### Trade View

Zooming slightly further in shows Trade View. This labels all of your colonies with their name and some trade-relevant information, as well as the home systems of other empires you know of. These nameplates are color-coded according to friendliness, with white for your systems, teal for friendly empires, and red for unfriendly empires.

For your colonies, each nameplate has an icon above it summarizing the "Trade Efficiency" of the system. Hovering the icon gives more information about what factors into this. Systems with Company Subsidiaries or Company Headquarters have a box icon above the nameplate as well, and HQs will have a large infobox to their side displaying the company name and how much Dust, Science, and luxury resources that Company is producing.

Trade routes are also shown on this level, as solid, wiggly white lines overlaying the starlanes they travel along. A broken, slightly yellowish line instead indicates a blockaded trade route.

### Economy View

Further zooming shows Economy View. This is identical to Trade View, except it shows nameplates above *all* systems, and Company HQs no longer display their infobox.

### System View

The final zoom level for most systems is System View. This shows a visual summary of each system's production, as colored rings emanating from the center and split into five quadrants, corresponding to the five FIDSI values. More rings means more production of that resource: the first several rings indicate increments of 20 production, then they start jumping up faster:

If you look at your own systems, or those of another empire that you have Sleepers in, each quadrant is also labeled with the exact production value.

Additionally, the center of the system lists what % of population slots in the system are filled with population. This is also depicted visually with a thick ring in varying white-black tones: one or more white or light-gray segments shows how much space is taken up by each species (the segments are unlabeled, but at least give you an idea of whether the system is all one species or an even mix of several); a thinner medium-gray segment shows the unfilled space in the system; and a black segment fills the remainder of the ring, indicating how far you are from the theoretical maximum population of the system (14 pops per planet).

### System Management

For systems you own or have Sleepers in, you can zoom in further, to System Management View. Along the top are Trade Factors and Trade Efficiency, which are the same as what was shown in Trade View. (TODO: There is also an "Output" pane that some, but not all, planets have. I have no idea what it's trying to show. All of my planets just show it as a pie chart with that's half red and half green, with seemingly-arbitrary equal numbers displayed next to each.)

Each planet is also displayed, with an overlay showing the base FIDSI output of the planet. (This is the same as what's displayed in the planet's info pane under "Planet Base Output" in normal view.) The center of the overlay also shows an icon depicting the planet's specialization, if any.

Below each planet, if you have any pops in your empire whose bonus would activate on the planet (such as bonus Happiness on Fertile, or bonus Science on Anomaly), an abbreviated summary is listed.

If you have a Hero installed as a Governor in the system, they're displayed along the bottom, with a Skill Efficiency graph (TODO: what does this indicate?) and a summary of the resources they're adding to the system as a result of their skills.

### Planet

Finally, if you zoom all the way into a single planet you reach the Planet View. This gives various bits of physical information about the planet, such as average temperature, element composition of the atmosphere, or rotation period. This information has no in-game effect, it's just for fun.

## Combat Scanning

   While watching a combat, pressing Space also brings up a Scan View, with more detailed information about each ship.

In this view, players can see the movement paths of ships on both sides, as well as their health, defense, and shield effectiveness. The blue circle in the center of the ship displays its current health, which turns red as it takes damage, and then fades to gray. The red and green bars on the side of the ship show the current effectiveness of shields and deflectors. As the ship takes enemy fire, these bars indicate how much damage is being mitigated