“A Lay of the Land” is a Spaceport quest from Shani that sets you hunting LiDAR scanners to track escalating tremors. It’s a short, three-step route, but a couple of easy-to-miss rooms and a known progression hiccup can stall your run if you’re not prepared. Here’s the cleanest line through it — plus how to avoid the bug that can block turn‑in.

Quest basics (what to expect)

  • Trader: Shani
  • Map: Spaceport
  • Objectives are simple interactions; look for the yellow glow on key items and terminals.
  • Team play helps: quest progress is shared, so a squadmate’s interaction counts for everyone.
  • Some objective spawns can be slightly irregular, so your marker may nudge you to adjacent doors or floors.

Objectives and where to complete them

Step Location What to do Directions that matter
1 Jiangsu Warehouse Reach the building to trigger the first objective. Follow your objective marker into the warehouse area; the trigger is near the main interior.
2 Foreman’s office (inside Jiangsu Warehouse) Find and interact with the shipping notes. Scan for a small office room; the notes are a yellow‑highlighted document on a desk or board.
3 Control Tower A6 (upper floor) Locate the LiDAR scanners and interact to secure them. Head to the smaller, square A6 building (not the tall tower). Go up stairs or elevator, make a right, then another right. The scanners are tucked into a corner cubicle.
Tip: If your marker seems to point at empty space in A6, you’re probably in the tall tower or the wrong floor. The scanners sit in an office‑like cubicle on the upper level of the shorter building.

Route notes for Control Tower A6

  • A6 is a pair of structures. You want the compact, square building with an office floor — not the tall air‑traffic tower silhouette.
  • From the entrance, take the first available way up. At the top, turn right, then right again into a bank of cubicles.
  • The scanner set isn’t center stage; look into the corner workspace for the yellow glow.

Known issues that can block completion

There’s an active quirk with this quest where progress can carry over incorrectly into a new round, which can prevent completion. Two other interaction‑related problems can also crop up in edge cases.

  • Progress may roll into the next session in a broken state, blocking turn‑in.
  • Idling too long after interacting with a quest prompt can cause the required item to disappear.
  • Reconnecting to a round can make interaction prompts vanish for objectives.

How to avoid these:

  • Complete all three objectives in a single round before extracting.
  • Don’t idle after an interaction; move to the next step promptly.
  • Avoid disconnect/reconnect during this quest. If you do reconnect and a prompt is gone, extract and start a fresh round to re-run the step.

Rewards

Item Type
Dam Testing Annex Key Key
Zipline Quick use
Smoke Grenade Quick use

Quick checklist

  • Hit Jiangsu Warehouse to start.
  • Search the foreman’s office for yellow‑highlighted shipping notes.
  • Travel to Control Tower A6 — enter the smaller square building.
  • Go up, right, then right into the corner cubicle; interact with the LiDAR scanners.
  • Extract in the same round to lock progress and avoid the carryover bug.

Finish it in one clean loop and you’ll walk away with a useful key and a couple of mobility and concealment tools for your next run.