Dark Sense

Dark Sense is a mission available to all Empire ships, giving them information about planets occupied by other players within a 200 ly radius. The information detected about enemy planets includes:

• Number of Megacredits on planet.
• Who the planet's owner is.
• Whether the planet has a starbase.
• The amount of minerals on planet (it does not distinguish between mined minerals on the surface and those underground).

Rebel planets are immune to Dark Sense, and will not show up on the scan.

Only planets owned by a player will show up (e.g. unoccupied planets in a nebula will remain invisible).

Dark Sense will not tell you: the number of clans on the planet, the number of natives, its temperature or number of supplies.

Dark Sense happens early in the host order, before movement. This means that the scanned planets will be within 200 ly of your original location, before movement.

Campaign Abilities

Dark Detection is a campaign add-on at Planets.nu. While using the Dark Sense mission; you only receive a notification if at least 1 cloaked ship is present at the same location. You cannot see the cloaked ships. Dark Detection happens after movement in the host order.

Planets owned by the Evil Empire

The Dark Sense racial ability also causes Empire planets to send back false information to any ships performing the bio-scan mission. Any native life on the Empire planet will be seen as Amorphous to enemy bioscanners.