@Nooop Yeah, that seems like the best route! Make a small ship that's mostly engine and avoids baddies. Tell it to scout, and it goes to that sector (or goes to every sector in its working area), and then investigates that sector. It has a Mining scanner? It reports on that. It has a C43? It reports on that. ..etc, etc. Runs into conflict? Runs away, and reports "23 pirates in sector 423,-444"