I'm not even sure if it's possible but...I'd like to see them used to chart an entire system.
EX: You activate the survey module and log every item in the system. As you fly and discover things on your navmap, FLHook pops up and says something like "Planet Manhattan Charted at sector ##!" After you've charted the entire star system, you get a notification that says "New York System fully charted!" and the module deactivates, giving you an item in your hold. You can then sell this item to another player, who when using it then has that entire star system charted as well. When the item is used, it is consumed so that it can't be passed around to a bunch of other players.
This generally only makes the modules an RP prop as most players can just use the Interactive Nav-Map to find items which kind of takes away from it's use outside of a strictly RP environment though. I could see how this could be used for scouting wrecks, logging items on those wrecks, logging one-off mining locations, moving jump holes (which are planned with the deep omegas in the next patch), etc. I could also see how they could be tied to an API on the forums that when someone discovers something with a survey module equipped and on will tell you the location of moving JH's for that day before reset.
All of this to say, there is no guarantee that any of this is even possible in the current mod landscape but...Aingar is a practitioner of Black Magic, so who knows what is possible.
You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark. Roleplay is dead. Long live Powertraders and PvP I guess.
