AspX Exploration build - advice and comments needed and welcome

[Jarsil]

Why not get the best of both worlds and just do some short trips in the meantime? I noted that I always start missing the action in the bubble after roughly a week. So what I do now is use neutron boosts to get into uncharted regions fast, then quench my exploration desire, and when I am satisfied, I go back the same way.
That is not to say I will never go on a long expedition ever, just not for now, as I am still not done with all the cool stuff you can do in the bubble. Eventually I will certainly also set off on one!

That's a nice advice. I always forget about the Neutron Jumps or the Jumponium... this is because I lived for years on my own and I'm still not accustomed to all the technology discovered while I was out far far away

 

[Ander_Wand]

Yes, it is pretty insane... you can get out several thousand light years in an hour or so. Just make sure to go well below or above the galactic plane, so that you have an abundance of neutron stars to use.
We have discussed this phenomenon here.
What I found is also to only use the neutron plotter in the very beginning of your trip, say the first 2000 ly or so. The reason being, that it only uses known (thus discovered) neutrons to route you through. Once you are in the neutron layer, the neutron routing of the galaxy map works just fine, with the added benefit that it uses all available stars. So more first discoveries for you!
Dont forget to take a big AFMU though, or lots of synthesis mats for a smaller one.

 

[Jarsil]

Yes, it is pretty insane... you can get out several thousand light years in an hour or so. Just make sure to go well below or above the galactic plane, so that you have an abundance of neutron stars to use.
We have discussed this phenomenon here.
What I found is also to only use the neutron plotter in the very beginning of your trip, say the first 2000 ly or so. The reason being, that it only uses known (thus discovered) neutrons to route you through. Once you are in the neutron layer, the neutron routing of the galaxy map works just fine, with the added benefit that it uses all available stars. So more first discoveries for you!
Dont forget to take a big AFMU though, or lots of synthesis mats for a smaller one.

Oh yes, I've already been in the Neutron Fields during my first trip. There a bunch of them with my name on Codex
Last time I went as much as 1000LY down the plane during while heading out, I've been a bit closer to the plane in the return trip.
But I wasted a ton of LY simply because I didn't know nothing about Neutron Jumps

 

[Jarsil]

So, when are you heading out?

A little 7Kly trip to stretch Millennium Phantom legs (Yes, the name sounds preposterous ).
The trip will be made with this build:

Millennium Phantom

Using Neutron/Dwarves boosting to increase jump range when the occasion present itself.
Wish me a good journey, I'll be leaving (I think) tonight, I'll get back in a few weeks, hopefully with a bunch of interesting sightseeing pictures to share

 

[Ander_Wand]

A little 7Kly trip to stretch Millennium Phantom legs (Yes, the name sounds preposterous ).
The trip will be made with this build:
Millennium Phantom
Using Neutron/Dwarves boosting to increase jump range when the occasion present itself.
Wish me a good journey, I'll be leaving (I think) tonight, I'll get back in a few weeks, hopefully with a bunch of interesting sightseeing pictures to share

Very nice, safe travels cmdr!
Oh, I see you are feeling brave and want to use dwarf-boosting... I didn't dare to try that yet, let me know how it went.

Just arrived at Explorers Anchorage and turned my data in. Next jump is Sag A* and then I am off towards Colonia. Also have a little detour to Evelyn's Light planned. Then back homewards. Had a magical trip so far, and the galactic core truly is magnificent!

 

[Ander_Wand]

I bet you are not the first to see a resemblance of the Phantom with the Millenium Falcon.

 

[Jarsil]

Very nice, safe travels cmdr!
Oh, I see you are feeling brave and want to use dwarf-boosting... I didn't dare to try that yet, let me know how it went.

Just arrived at Explorers Anchorage and turned my data in. Next jump is Sag A* and then I am off towards Colonia. Also have a little detour to Evelyn's Light planned. Then back homewards. Had a magical trip so far, and the galactic core truly is absolutely magnificent!

The second jump was a dwarf boost. Nothing special, really. The cone is bigger than a neutron and it seems easier to catch the tail without being too close to the star. The second one was a neutron, and it was a bit trickier for me. Temp went a bit too high for comfort (but still well in the safe zone, but I'm used to run in the low twenties).

The Galaxy Core... what a magnificent place. I've wandered in the core for months without really willing to get out. Every time I looked from my Asp Explorer windows, I thougth, exactly as the main character from 2001: A space Odissey "My God, it's full of stars!". The huge number of close stars is incredible. When you are approaching the end of galaxy core towards the norma arm, you can dinstinctly see the difference between looking towards the core, with it's billions of stars amassed, and looking towards the bubble, where you see more black than white. Astonishing.
Send some postcard from Colonia Cmdr, It's my next destination, but I want to arrive there via the loooooong way. Want to get there by going counter clockwise around the core. It should be a 50+ KLy trip from my calculations.

 

[Max Bothin]

This is my "BigMaec"-Phantom Build. It has about 900MJ shields, does more than 60 LJ, can drop fullspeed without a problem. Makes a good feeling to explore in open and in critical surroundings. You can build an ASP X like that but it has less shields and less space for extras. It always depends on what you want to do: grind lightyears, really explore, land often, enter every star phenomena, do research on lifeforms...collect probes...

 

[Jarsil]

I bet you are not the first to see a resemblance of the Phantom with the Millenium Falcon.

I bet it too, not only the resemblance is evident, but also the sound of Millennium Phantom has a ring about THE ship

Initially I was thinking about naming all my ships with some Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis name and I'm still deciding. I already have a name for my Fleet Carrier when I'll have money to buy it, and it definitely will have a SG-1 or Stargate Atlantis name on her

 

[Ander_Wand]

I bet it too, not only the resemblance is evident, but also the sound of Millennium Phantom has a ring about THE ship
Initially I was thinking about naming all my ships with some Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis name and I'm still deciding. I already have a name for my Fleet Carrier when I'll have money to buy it, and it definitely will have a SG-1 or Stargate Atlantis name on her

Ah the naming.... I always tend to just type the first thing that crosses my mind and suits the intended use, thinking I will change it to something cooler eventually. But then never get around to do it, because I somehow consider renaming a ship to be a bad omen.

 

[Jarsil]

Ah the naming.... I always tend to just type the first thing that crosses my mind and suits the intended use, thinking I will change it to something cooler eventually. But then never get around to do it, because I somehow consider renaming a ship to be a bad omen.

I'll probably end up buying another Phantom the day I decide to change her name

 

[iain666]

Ah the naming.... I always tend to just type the first thing that crosses my mind and suits the intended use, thinking I will change it to something cooler eventually. But then never get around to do it, because I somehow consider renaming a ship to be a bad omen.

Mine are mostly named after songs, a mix of picked in the shipyard and thinking while listening to something that it would be a good ship name and finally using it months later.

Can't rename though, that's would just be wrong. If you want a new name you need a new ship.

 

[Jarsil]

A little postcard from a beautiful Biological site

 

[Maelstrom5K]

Roastbeef III

Roastbeef IV

Burning Station Rescue Type-7: Beef Olive
Mining Python: Triangle Tip
Cheap learn-to-fly Combat Viper IV: Rib-Eye (Actually, I noticed the pun only months after naming the ship )

I guess you get the pattern...

(Just started cross-prosting, but my random Asp-in-front-of-things image fit so well in here.)

 

[Ander_Wand]

(Just started cross-prosting, but my random Asp-in-front-of-things image fit so well in here.)

I guess the Phantom-in-front-of-things is quite a runner-up.

Greetings from Sag A*

Those never get old. This is Wanderer III btw, think it is easy to guess why.

Planetary Nebula en route to Colonia

 

[Ander_Wand]

Postcard from the "Lithobreaker"

11 G landing..... surely gets your pulse rate up!

 

[Jarsil]

213.96 LY.
That's how freaking awesome are Neutron Boosts.
I'm still shocked

Besides, I almost arrived at Heart Nebula, And since space exploration exhilaration kicked in, I'll probably go a bit further, I want to visit the four Formidine Exodus expedition Stations tht are just a few jumps away from there.

I'm trying to keep a diary on Inara and on EDSM, just because I like to write

 

[Jarsil]

Hello cmdrs, greetings from the Heart Nebula Black Hole.

See you in a couple of weeks at Jameson's Memorial starport. Beer's on me.

 

[Ander_Wand]

Hello cmdrs, greetings from the Heart Nebula Black Hole.
See you in a couple of weeks at Jameson's Memorial starport. Beer's on me.

I see no black hole there... did you already fly through it?

Agree on the neutron boosts, they are pretty awesome and an impressive experience to say the least.
My Phantom can do 270ly using them.

safe travels cmdr!

 

[Jarsil]

I see no black hole there... did you already fly through it?

Agree on the neutron boosts, they are pretty awesome and an impressive experience to say the least.
My Phantom can do 270ly using them.

safe travels cmdr!

Yeah... you can figure the disappointment when I found it was so tiny it was almos invisible. Jump landed at less than 6Mm from the hole. I've been in Maia B, In Sag. A* and in countless other black holes in the core, never found one so tiny. It was right in front of my hud. It should have been more visible, but...