Hyperspace Tracking Vessels
This upgrade allows a military fleet to perfom the Informed Piracy Patrol strategic fleet operation and allows the sensor vessels to form a real-time model of the battle during fleet battle. +1 bonus to all Direct Combat Actions that take advantage of knowing the positions and flight paths of all friendlies in the battle.
| Cost | 2000  + 200  + 200  + 300  |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | Active Hyperspace Signature Tracking |
[ Special Projects ]
Specialised transponder recognition droids, highly trained hyperspace trajectory analysts and a bank of data fusion processors allow detailed real-time starmap and data-stream integration and holographic visualisation. A team of military operators dispatches anti-piracy patrols whenever transponder and hyperspace event data suggests pirate activity.
This upgrade enhances a military fleet in two ways. The military fleet gains the Informed Piracy Patrol strategic fleet operation:
Informed Piracy Patrol
Available in all levels of activity
Informed Piracy Patrol keeps the pirates at bay by targeted deployment of anti-piracy patrols.
- Reduces Piracy in the sector that the fleet is in. Optionally, a single adjacent sector can be patrolled as well.
- Keeps the patrolled sectors free of Piracy for the next turn
- The upkeep of the fleet is increased by +50 per
if patrolling a single 
, or +80 per when patrolling 2 , while executing the operation
Secondly, during battles the military fleet can use its highly specialised sensor vessels to form a real-time model of the battle. This gives the fleet a +1 bonus to all Direct Combat Actions that take advantage of knowing the positions and flight paths of all friendlies in the battle.