Are all modules available in and around Colonia?
Mostly. A few superpower-aligned ships are unavailable, and if you want 7B, 7A, 8B or 8A sensors you'll need to find a carrier offering them, but everything else is available at least some of the time.
Summary of what can be obtained with a bit of patience -
https://cdb.sotl.org.uk/outfitting - and what's available right now -
https://cdb.sotl.org.uk/outfitting/current
For engineers: there are four engineers capable of all modules at either G4 or G5 (the more commonly used modules at G5). You need to make sure that Elvira Martuuk, The Dweller, Liz Ryder and Tod McQuinn are unlocked and at least at rep level 4 before you depart to be able to unlock the Colonia engineers. All are easy to unlock when you get here. See the cogs on the outfitting pages above for which modules are at G4 and which are at G5 - if you really want a G5 module of one of the blueprints we've only got at G4 then you'll either need to be patient while the research is completed [1], or pin a blueprint from the appropriate bubble engineer.
We have both sorts of tech broker out here but getting the materials for most tech broker unlocks is tricky to impossible - unlock what you want before you leave and you can then buy it here.
[1] Colonia engineers get higher blueprint grades the more people use that type of blueprint. The remaining blueprints will eventually reach G5 as a result ... if you use one of the G4 ones to get your rep with the engineer when you get here, that will be appreciated as it'll help them get there
I eas wondering about That. My best ships are all engineered.Should i take the fastest just to get there. My orca has the highest jump range right now. Do that and transfer the other ships later?Or a combat ship like my krait, vette.
Transfer costs from the bubble to Colonia are ~1.3x the price of the ship and its modules.
So you've got four options:
1) Fly out in the Vette, as by far the most expensive of your ships, transfer the other three.
2) Fly out in the Orca, as the fastest of your ships, take the billion+ cost of transferring the Vette.
3) Fly out in the Orca, find a Fleet Carrier going this way who is willing to bring your other ships along, in exchange for less than a billion credits worth of Tritium.
4) Find a Fleet Carrier going this way and travel out with them and all your ships.
I'd also like to hear what Colonia is like.
Less anonymous than the bubble. Every system has some importance, some history, some meaningful part to play in the wider region. Lots more megaships, installations, interesting sites, mysterious beacons, etc. than you'd get in the bubble (at least, per-system - the bubble, being 300 times bigger, has more in total). And it's all small enough that it's not a major inconvenience if something is happening over the other side of it.
So for example, rather than deciding that you need to trade some raw materials, opening the map, hoping to find a material trader, etc. ... you go to
the raw material trader in Kojeara, because that's where they are and after you've been here a couple of weeks you'll know that.
Around half the systems and stations were named by player groups, and about half by Frontier, so there's a bit more variety in naming than there is in the bubble - which also helps with getting your bearings and telling bits of the region apart. If you're the sort to join player groups then there'll be plenty who'll be interested ... if you're not (I'm not), it's entirely optional and you can still have a lot of fun out here as an independent pilot just flying from system to system and seeing what shows up.
If you play on PC in Open there are quite a lot of other players around, and a lot of them are long-term residents, so you see the same people again and again, as well as lots of short-term visitors passing through because it's a good place for exploration, which I like.
I'am not sure yet. If i use the neutron stars it would fast enough even with a 35-40 ly jump ship?
You can get to Colonia, without neutron boosting, with probably about a 15LY jump range - the stars get denser the closer you get to the core, so if you can get to Lagoon Nebula you can get to Colonia. It just takes longer with a shorter range. I came out here initially in a 25LY Python, before neutron-boosting, and that only took a week or so.
Neutron boosting is more effective with a longer starting range but you'll get some benefit with 35-40 LY.
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