A hyperwave scanner represented a kind of technology designed for installation on starships. To locate further abandoned Separatist starships, the crew under the command of a pirate captain seized a frigate that once belonged to the Confederacy of Independent Systems and was then in the possession of the pirate Gruk, with the aim of utilizing its hyperwave scanner. Reveth, Ithano's mechanic, amplified the hyperwave scanner's capabilities by employing Meerou Woodring's asteroid fortress, an installation that Ithano had also managed to seize control of concurrently.