Backscatter Sequencing

Description
Helps your Telemetry Director to plot the safest route back to earth for the frozen volunteers by allowing them to scan an additional sector adjacent to their target sector for free.

Cost
- One MINOR MATERIALS and on MINOR ALGORITHMS breakthrough

Impact
Once researched the Telemetry Director can request information on a scan's 'backscatter' (which is to say, request a scan on an adjacent sector for free). If another agency has either scanned or backscatter scanned the sector requested, your Telemetry Director will be sent the spectrum for that sector.

The text of the request to be sent to the referees is "Scan Sector B3, Backscatter B4"

Future Research
The ability to manipulate backscattering information could lead to enormous developments in the field of static manipulation on a communicator; Spectrum Control becomes a possibility if this research is paid for