Exploration

How many scouts to find your next planet. Every turn you spend exploring adds your whole fleet's scanner, and the planet drops the moment the total clears the bar — which climbs 20% per planet you already own. Nothing carries over between finds, so each one starts from zero. Scouts aren't consumed, though, so you buy the fleet once and it keeps exploring.

Your empire

Race Sets which scouts you can build

Planets owned Sets the bar — captured planets count

Colonies owned Sets the ceiling — Terran stops at 16

Scanner you already have Warships count too — every hull with a scanner

Seek targets Advanced Exploration — raises the bar

Build

52 Viator II

26,000 scanner · 1,300 PR

Turns

1 build · 1 explore

Bar to clear

25,799

for planet 11

Scouts vs turns — Viator II

Fewer turns exploring costs more hulls

Explore turns	Scanner needed	Viator II	Build turns	Total turns	PR added
1	26,000	52	1	2	1,300
2	13,000	26	1	3	650
5	5,500	11	1	6	275
9	3,000	6	1	10	150
18	1,500	3	1	19	75
26	1,000	2	1	27	50
52	500	1	1	53	25

Highlighted row is the fewest turns overall. Buying past it just moves turns from the explore column into the build column.

Scouts

Terran · ranked by total turns

Ship	Scanner	Built / turn	Scanner / build turn	Units	Turns	PR
Viator II	500	160	80,000	52	2	1,300
Viator	9	80	720	478	12	478	Use

Next planets

Holding 26,000 scanner

Planet	Bar	Explore turns
11	25,799	1
12	30,959	2
13	37,150	2
14	44,581	2
15	53,497	3
16	64,196	3

13 explore turns to take all 6 — each find starts from zero, so nothing carries between them. Stops at 16 colonies, where Terran can no longer explore.