Had an interesting encounter last night. I'm flying through a system which is frankly shit (all the planets sucked and there were lots of instances of pirates). I'm in deep space, 30+ seconds of pulse jump from anything, when I get a message: hostile sub space scan. Shit. I'm still in the starter ship, there's no way I can fend off half a dozen pirates. I tried to bribe them, which I guess was insulting because they told me to prepare to die. I see ships start to warp in on my left. Shit shit shit. OK, fine.... maybe I can outrun them. So I just step on my pulse engines and act like I'm Vice Admiral Holdo, keeping just out of range of their fire. And then we hit the asteroid field. I really like how they've increased the density of asteroid fields as a general rule. But that shit is treacherous if you're running from space pirates. I'm not risking a head-on engagement though; let's do this. I jackknife between asteroids without laying off the afterburners, assuming at any minute I'm going to smash into one head-on and die. But lo and behold, it works! 30 seconds of intense asteroid dodging later, I get my ability to pulse jump back and I warp out of there like my hair was on fire. Jesus God.
Artemis finally got back in touch with me, and I ended up trading out for his/her busted-ass ship. Rather than repairing the extensive damage, I did enough to get myself airborne and then swapped it out for a ship with a couple fewer slots but no damage at my frigate. And I realized that another crashed ship I had claimed earlier but never repaired had mysteriously made its way to the frigate as well, so I sold that broken piece of shit for another, slightly improved, spacecraft. Suddenly I own two working spaceships. They're both hot garbage as far as upgrades go, and I'm not thrilled with their looks, but it's better than nothing.
I also got the Scanner-A upgrade for a new multitool, then found a Scanner-S upgrade and installed that too. Do the bonuses stack? If so, I'm on 14,000+% fauna scanning bonus.