E:D Black Box
Scan the cluster with your SRV turret, relog on "storage full," repeat — then trade that one abundant data type for the entire encoded grid. A 2025 overhaul expanded the site from 4 scan points to nine and boosted the yield, so you can fill the headline drops in a single session.
On planet 1 B in HIP 12099 lies the wreck of the Cobra Mk III flown by the ill-fated CMDR John Jameson (ship ID JJ-386). Surrounding it is a cluster of data points you scan with your SRV turret for encoded materials — the third material type, used heavily in FSD, sensor, shield and core-internal engineering.
A 2025 overhaul expanded the site from 4 scan points to nine and boosted the yield, so you can now fill the headline drops in a single session. The strategy mirrors the HGE play: farm the one data type that fills fastest — Adaptive Encryptors Capture (G5) — and cross-trade it for everything else. It's reportedly about twice as fast to trade these for, say, Datamined Wake Exceptions than to gather those directly.
This is the encoded counterpart to your HGE (manufactured G5) and Crystalline Shard (raw G4) runs. Together the three cover all three material types.
Same low bar as the other surface runs — an exploration-capable ship (e.g. an Asp Explorer) already has it all:
No weapons, shields, or combat fit required — the wreck is abandoned and non-hostile. Land, drop the SRV, scan.
After your first visit, "Jameson Crash Site" appears in your left Nav panel, so you never coordinate-hunt again.
Arrive in HIP 12099, discovery-scan, and head to planet 1 B.
Drop a DSS probe on 1 B, then fly to -54.37, -50.35. Later visits: just select "Jameson Crash Site" in the Nav panel.
Park right behind the crashed Cobra — from there your turret reaches the main cluster of data points without repositioning.
Sweep the turret across the data points. After the overhaul there are 9 — you may need to nudge forward for the farthest few.
When you hit "unable to receive data — storage full," exit to the main menu, switch game mode (Open / Private / Solo), and scan again.
Scanning it plays Jameson's final logs. Worth doing once for the story.
Max out Atypical Encryption Archives (G4) and Adaptive Encryptors Capture (G5), then head to Ray Gateway.
Scanning hands you four encoded types. The two Encryption Files are your trade currency — fill them to the cap:
| Material | Grade | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Encryptors Capture | G5 | Encryption · fuel |
| Atypical Encryption Archives | G4 | Encryption · fuel |
| Cracked Industrial Firmware | G3 | Firmware |
| Modified Consumer Firmware | G2 | Firmware |
Carry your Encryption Files ~2 jumps to the Encoded Material Trader and convert them into whatever you're short on. Two mechanics drive the math:
Trading down a grade within a category yields more units; trading sideways (same grade, different category) costs at a worse ratio. Since you don't need more Encryption, you'll mostly do sideways-then-down hops out of your Encryption fuel into the categories you actually want.
Adaptive Encryptors Capture — G5 · your fuel
Modified Embedded Firmware — G5
Datamined Wake Exceptions — G5 · FSD
Peculiar Shield Frequency Data — G5
Abnormal Compact Emissions — G5
Classified Scan Fragment — G5
Fit a Frame Shift Wake Scanner and scan ship wakes at any busy station or RES as you fly around — the whole Wake Scans category stockpiles passively, so you never have to spend Encryption fuel on it.
Three or four 30-minute sessions comfortably max everything out. It's repetitive — stop the moment it stops being fun rather than grinding it in one sitting.
Figures on this page are verified against the sources below.
Note: a 2025 overhaul expanded the site to nine data points and boosted yields; the Live coordinate (-54.37, -50.35) supersedes the older pre-4.0 figure.