The Sisters of EVE offer a small selection of exploration focused ships with strong innate bonuses to hacking and scanning which allow even inexperienced pilots to scan and hack with great efficiency; the bonuses can bring unskilled pilots to the same level as veterans with hacking and archaeology skills at level V with a T1 exploration frigate. The Astero and Stratios can also use Covert Ops Cloaking Devices, making them the only non-T2 ships able to warp while cloaked. Due to these bonuses many players see the Astero as a shortcut to exploration, but an unskilled Astero pilot is still an unskilled pilot who will be preyed upon (often by other Astero or Stratios pilots flying as hunters).