Database

The Database is an encyclopedic archive of all assets in the galaxy. However, access to the information included within is restricted by a player's faction:


 * A character may access up-to-date information about any same-faction asset that is not missing.


 * A character may access information about other-faction assets, but the information is only as recent as that asset's last contact with the character's faction (the information will be time-stamped to indicate when this last contact occurred).

Information gained from coming into contact with an asset is not total. For instance, when two vessels meet, little more will be recorded into the respective starships' databases than the other vessel's name, and type. If long-range communication is opened between the two vessels, the Captains' names will now be entered into the databases. If weapons are fired, the specific weapon types will be entered into the opposing starships' databases, as they are fired. All of this information becomes available to the ship's entire faction immediately (except, again, in the case of the Yellow faction; these ships' databases are not 'networked' - a Yellow-faction captain can look up only what he has experienced himself).
 * A character of the Yellow faction may access information about any other asset in the game only if they themselves have encountered it before, and the information is only as current as their last contact with it.