LEX ASTRA ACADEMY CS 180 / Search and rescue coordination Lex Astra · School of Civil Practice Teaching edition 2956.3 / Hybrid ———————————————————————————————————————————————— LEARNER WORKSHEET For search coordinators allocating search crews from incomplete reports. This is a private working copy. Downloading submits nothing and records no completion. Use exercise identifiers, not private player information. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SESSION DETAILS Learner identifier: ____________________________________________________________ Instructor / assessor: ____________________________________________________________ Session date / agreed role or variant: ____________________________________________________________ Vessel, configuration and equipment: ____________________________________________________________ LIVE build / capability test date / tested by (if practical): ____________________________________________________________ Stop signal / recovery contact / communication arrangement: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PURPOSE Give search crews useful assignments when a request for help has an uncertain location. COURSE CONTEXT Civil Practice uses observation time to prevent a whole response following a repeated but stale location report. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— ENTRY Complete: CS 115 Equipment: Volunteer locations or a tabletop map, two search roles and communications. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CASE: The newest message contains the older position 1. At case time 09:10, a direct caller confirms Search Point A. 2. At 09:14, a second caller reports Point B but says the information was heard at 08:55. 3. Two crews are available. Neither report alone establishes current casualty status. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND GAME SKILLS Search patterns and reproducible location reports Practical instruction revision 1 / 9 October 2026 Turn a distress report into a search origin Ask for system, body, named facility or nearest quantum marker, time of last movement and whether the caller can share a beacon or party location. Have them describe a visible landmark if possible. A marker may show the right horizontal position while the casualty is underground or inside a different floor. Establish the likely access route as well as the coordinates. Search a defined area Fly parallel visual search legs using named endpoints or reproducible landmarks, keeping speed low enough to inspect the terrain. Choose spacing from actual visibility rather than an invented universal scanner radius. Record which side and altitude band were examined. Ship scanning can help locate some objects; do not claim it will reliably detect every downed player through terrain. Refine and transfer the find When a clue appears, report what was actually observed before moving the entire response. Confirm the casualty’s identity, access and local hazards by contact or direct inspection. Give the recovery team a usable approach and an alternate if the nearest landing point is unsuitable. A negative search report identifies the area and visibility, not “nobody is there.” PRACTICAL DRILL Locate a consenting, stationary participant from a deliberately incomplete surface report. Log two search legs, refine the location with one new clue and guide another crew to the correct access point. OBSERVED-SKILL CHECKS Another crew can reproduce the search origin and leg boundaries. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Search speed and spacing match observed visibility. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ The final report distinguishes finding the marker from reaching the person. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Apply the technical checks in the agreed role. Discussion and simulation do not certify live handling; Crew Support evidence does not confer Pilot qualification. GAME REFERENCES The linked pages were read for this revision. Community references mix release eras; each source note identifies what is used and what is excluded. Technical explanations below are an Academy synthesis, and drills and performance checks are Academy-designed. Before practice, compare the named actions with the installed LIVE build and actual equipment. Bind actions by name rather than copying old default keys. Research is not an in-game validation. Star Citizen Wiki — Quantum drive https://starcitizen.tools/Quantum_travel Spooling, calibration, obstructions, orbital markers and interdiction. Its proposed quantum-boosting section is not used as a live procedure. Star Citizen Wiki — Controls https://starcitizen.tools/Guide:Controls Control categories, movement axes and targeting concepts. The page contains legacy bindings and flight-system descriptions; use the installed game’s bindings, not its key table. Star Citizen Wiki — Medical https://starcitizen.tools/Medical Body-part injuries, Hemozal, symptom medication, BDL, bed tiers and regeneration. Ship tables, resource costs and ranges change; inspect the actual bed and tool. Official LIVE release check: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/patch-notes ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 1: Establish the last confirmed report Ask who observed the location, when they observed it and how the search team can make contact. Separate the caller’s estimate from a confirmed position. The wording of the first note will influence every search assignment that follows. Make the location report usable to the search crew: named body or facility, a reproducible reference, last observed time and a contact method. Ask whether the caller is describing their own location or relaying someone else’s. Do not present a shared marker as confirmed access until the assigned crew can actually use it. Practise: Take a location and status report. Ready when: The intake identifies source, observation time, confirmed facts and estimates. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 2: Divide the search deliberately Give each resource a task, reporting point and withdrawal condition. Check that the assignments cover different work rather than duplicating the same unverified lead. Keep capacity for a new report or recovery need. Allocate by search hypothesis, not simply by dividing the available ships. One crew might verify the last confirmed position while another checks the reported access route. Specify what counts as a completed check and when silence triggers contact. A negative report has meaning only if the crew describes what it examined and under what conditions. Practise: Prepare a search board for two available crews. Ready when: Each crew has a distinct task and knows when to report or withdraw. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 3: Change the search when the evidence changes Compare a new report’s source and observation time with the current plan. Record why you move a crew or keep it in place. Keep the earlier report so the next coordinator can understand the decision. An updated search board should preserve the evidence behind each hypothesis. A later message that repeats an old estimate adds no new location observation. Retask a crew when the new evidence changes the best use of its effort, and explain what area or lead will become uncovered as a result. Practise: Respond to a conflicting location report. Ready when: The update traces the change to evidence and assigns the next verification task. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— WORKED DECISION A later caller repeats an older guess. The coordinator checks the source rather than moving both search crews away from the last confirmed position. 1. Record message time and observation time separately. Keep the direct 09:10 observation distinguishable from the second-hand 08:55 report. 2. Assign one crew to verify A and a second a distinct supporting or verification task, with report and withdrawal conditions. 3. Do not send both crews to B merely because that message arrived later. Ask for its source and revise only when the evidence warrants it. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR EXERCISE Take both calls, prepare the search board and explain which observation drives the first assignment. Issue a status update that preserves uncertainty. WHAT CHANGES A second caller gives a different location. My decision and reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR WORKING RECORD Caller / message time / observation time / location certainty ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Crew / search task / report condition / withdrawal limit ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ New evidence / changed allocation / next verification ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CHECK YOUR REASONING Which matters more: when a message arrived or when the location was observed? My answer before consulting the explanation: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— EVIDENCE TO KEEP An intake note, search allocation and individual decision log. Criterion 1: The intake identifies source, observation time, confirmed facts and estimates. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 2: Each crew has a distinct task and knows when to report or withdraw. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 3: The update traces the change to evidence and assigns the next verification task. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— FINDINGS AND NEXT ATTEMPT Demonstrated: observed work meets the criterion. Further practice required: an observed gap needs a specific practice task. Interrupted: conditions prevented valid assessment; not a failure. Not assessed: enough evidence has not yet been collected. All three criteria need individual evidence. A team result or quiz cannot replace an unobserved practical. Practice variant for a fresh attempt: Give the newer message a fresh direct observation. The learner must change the decision when source quality genuinely changes. My next practice task: ____________________________________________________________ Review contact: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— COMPARE AFTER ANSWERING Both matter, but message time is not observation time. A new message can contain old information. Establish the observation and source before moving scarce search resources. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SOURCE AND EDITION Case CS–3: one berth remaining /academy/archives/reception-case Civil Practice case issued by CDR Yuki Tanaka-Reis in 2956. These variants use present-day service responsibilities and new training lists; they are not transcripts of the Pyro Station Alpha response. The lessons are current Academy teaching, not newly discovered historical records. Lex Astra opened in 2891. Historical sources keep their original issuer and date; all case callsigns, quantities, times and conditions are supplied for practice. Course text revised 8 October 2026; fictional teaching edition 2956.3. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Instruction revised 9 October 2026. Lex Astra cases supply the teaching situations. Professional references inform communication, decision-making and instructional design; they do not confer external qualifications. LIVE capabilities remain subject to the recorded session check. AHRQ · structured team communication https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/index.html Sphere · accountability and continuity in relief cases https://www.spherestandards.org/handbook/ RSI · verify release notes before live delivery https://robertsspaceindustries.com/patch-notes ———————————————————————————————————————————————— INSTRUCTOR CHECK Try the exercise with the ship and equipment you will use. Brief station assignments, callsigns, channel and recovery point. Explain the command “Stop exercise” before starting. If a bug prevents completion, repeat the affected task when it works. Ask before recording the session; use player handles in your notes. Review rules: /academy/archives/academy-ordinance Teaching basis: /academy/framework#research