Trip to Colonia with some sight seeing - 238 jumps

TheChosen

TheChosen
So I finally decided to treat myself to a nice road trip with some sight seeing along the way. Equipped/Engineered my Phantom with a decent 72 Ly (Full tank range with the CG FSD 5) and used a nice route in EDDiscovery someone had made with few detours based on my own interests.

Here are some of the best places I visited. Got lucky and also discovered two ELW along the way :)
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TheChosen

TheChosen
Gregorio Cortez said:
Beautiful sights. Congratulations.
Can you please share your build - how did you manage to squeeze 72Ly jump range out of your ship?
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Basically using the least possible class of modules, engineering everything for light weight / stripped down and using the special community goal FSD

EDSY

EDSY is a ship outfitting tool for Elite Dangerous
edsy.org edsy.org

I don't recommend switching the tank for 16T though as the build above (unless for bubble hopping) as it is less effective for neutron star travelling (the optimal tank size on the Phantom for neutron travel is actually 40T). But if you do switch it then the range jumps to 75.

You can further improve the range by getting only 4D thrusters.. but the extra thrust is really great for quickly escaping mass locks / landing on high g planets.
 
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TheChosen

TheChosen
Darkman Returns said:
What is that?
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An awesome (and very dangerous) triple neutron system with a black hole to welcome you for good measure.

www.edsm.net

EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map

The Galactic Positioning System of Elite: Dangerous at your service.
www.edsm.net www.edsm.net

I docked at the nearest outpost, sold my exploration data and went there to really push it. Dropped out of supercruise few hundred km from the Neutron star and then pushed further in normal space until I hit the exclusion zone (resulting in the great screenshot) ... I survived as I managed not to hit the neutron jets.
 
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Darkman Returns

Darkman Returns
TheChosen said:
I don't recommend switching the tank for 16T though as the build above (unless for bubble hopping) as it is less effective for neutron star travelling (the optimal tank size on the Phantom for neutron travel is actually 40T).
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Good to know (y) I've not done any sustained neutron boosting yet, though I'm teetering on the edge of pulling the trigger on a Colonia trip.

TheChosen said:
An awesome (and very dangerous) triple neutron system.
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I didn't even realise they existed. A really impressive sight I'm sure when you get up that close 🤩
 

CMDR SleepyDelegate

CMDR SleepyDelegate
TheChosen said:
An awesome (and very dangerous) triple neutron system with a black hole to welcome you for good measure.

www.edsm.net

EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map

The Galactic Positioning System of Elite: Dangerous at your service.
www.edsm.net www.edsm.net

I docked at the nearest outpost, sold my exploration data and went there to really push it. Dropped out of supercruise few hundred km from the Neutron star and then pushed further in normal space until I hit the exclusion zone (resulting in the great screenshot) ... I survived as I managed not to hit the neutron jets.
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I have never seen a system with triple NS and a BH, but I have met a NS and a WD close to each other before... At the time of making the video below, I did not even know how dangerous the WD is... When I look at my video today, i think I got lucky not hitting the exclusion zone of the WD... :)

Source: https://youtu.be/rzM_FX_NYAI
 
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