====== Hyperspace Tracking Vessels ======
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Image [image]          : rules:hyperspace_tracking_vessels.png
Description [wiki]     : 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 [wiki]            :  2000 (:tax) + 200 (:hyperspace-nodes) + 200 (:capital-ships) + 300 (:ict)
Prerequisites [rule]*  : Active Hyperspace Signature Tracking
Forum [forum]: 2199
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//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 [[rules: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 (:tax) per (:turn) if patrolling a single (:sector), or +80 (:tax) per (:turn) when patrolling 2 (:sector), while executing the operation


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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.
