Zorg wrote:There are several things that can happen on an expedition:

• Nothing, don't even find alien droppings. Your fleet flies out there and returns home with nothing to show for it’s journey except some good pictures of a super nova
• You find resources on a inhabited planet and bring as much you can carry home.
• Your fleet finds some perfectly good ships floating around and bring them back.
• Your fleet disappears into a black hole never to be seen from again.

The amount expeditions allowed is not the same as your computer tech. which is something that makes this mission different than other missions. It is based on the square root of your Expedition level. For example lvl 1 = 1 fleet, lvl 4 = 2 fleets, lvl 9 = 3 fleets, etc.
You do use fleet a slot for every fleet sent as well.

Sending too few ships out there, will probably be of no use.
It is probably an unwise way to fleet save.
Death stars cannot be found during expeditions.

Thanks to GeneralHaygar for providing the basis for this guide.

Nordzikas wrote:What kind a ships can hold a laboratory?

What's the chance of 1) fleet being sucked in into black hole?
2) finding resourses?
3) finding unused ships? --> Can i find ships beyond my technology level?

Weresloth wrote:It's every three if I'm not mistaken. Level 1 gives you one, 3 two, 6 three, and so forth.