The [scanners] command

Learn all about the scanners management program.

Description of the 'Scanners' window

The scanners management program is an internal Supercomputer program that allows to control and verify the status of the 3 boxes used to virtualize/rematerialize a person on/from the virtual world.

Free scanner

A so-called 'Free' scanner is an activated scanner that does not have anyone scanned in memory. The rectangle representing the box is colored in blue.

Loaded scanner

A so-called 'Loaded' scanner is an activated scanner that has a person in memory scanned via the [scan] command or dematerialized via the [devirt] command. The rectangle representing the box is filled with green bars.

Disabled scanner

A disabled scanner is an unusable scanner for a virtualization or a devirtualization. The box displayed in red in the 'Scanners' window.

Sub-commands related to the [scanners] command

Initialization

Opens the 'Scanners' window.

scanners

Scanners.002 — The status of the scanners is updated in real time in the window

Selecting a scanner

Select a scanner (1, 2 or 3) with the management program.

All 3 scanners can be selected at the same time with the scanners.all command.

scanners.<ScannerNum>

Scanners.003 — The selected scanner will blink slightly when selected

Activating a scanner

Activates the selected scanner(s).

Keeping a scanner active will cost you 1,000 units of energy.

scanners.on

Scanners.004 — You can hear activated scanners open from the lab

Deactivating a scanner

Deactivates the selected scanner(s).

If a lyoko warrior is devirtualized and no scanner is free to rematerialize him, he will be sent in the frontier.
If a loaded scanner is deactivated, the character inside will be stuck in the box.

scanners.off