Nimrod

Yeah, sadly NQ don't have a great track-record keeping promises.
 
(31:58) "Whatever you do after beta starts is going to stay in one way or another... You will get what we call for the moment 'magic blueprints'... blueprints with everything included in it so you will be able to respawn the things as soon as we restart the server. So we don't like to call it 'wipe'... The key thing is the beta is really the start... You can start to invest yourself in the game. We guarantee that you're not going to be losing everything at some point... the universe is blank again, and you have to start from scratch."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syku-NmSg4s&t=1918s
 
"With future wipes, as much of your assets as possible will be kept between before and after the wipe, in particular constructs will always be preserved, if necessary with special one-time-use blueprints ("Packaged Blueprints") that do not require ingredients..." ⬇

If concern about equaling the playing field with a wipe consider this.  If you leave territories with same minerals then veteran players won't need a scanner after wipe.  Players will just go to the previous scanned locations and reclaim.  No need to make the territory scanner.

If concern about equaling the playing field with a wipe consider this.  If you leave territories with same minerals then veteran players won't need a scanner after wipe.  Players will just go to the previous scanned locations and reclaim.  No need to make the territory scanner.