How to Enter Ice Rings?

[CMDR Hagglebeard]

I've seen pictures of explorers flying through ice rings, and they look stunning. However, since they're unminable, they don't get RES's, right?

Do I need to crash into the rings to enter them?

Thanks.

 

[Nyito]

Basically. Though if you 'crash' at less than 1Mm, it's just a 'drop', not an 'emergency drop', so you take no damage, no overheat, no super-long FSD cooldown.

 

[Surly_Badger]

Just blast straight at them, then slow down and drop out of supercruise. Or, if you don't mind the repair bills, trust your computer to stop you before you make a little spot of plasma on the side of a chunk of ice.

 

[CMDR Hagglebeard]

Thanks






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[Thomas Jefferson Jones]

I've seen pictures of explorers flying through ice rings, and they look stunning. However, since they're unminable, they don't get RES's, right?

Do I need to crash into the rings to enter them?

Thanks.

If you want to do it gracefully, for what its worth, - fly toward the ring at a reasonable SC speed, then start slowing when you see the ring resolve into clouds. Get down to 30km/s as the ring resolves into tiny dots, then keep going a little further until you can see the 'clumps' of bitmapped bodies, then a bit further for good measure and hit your manual disengage before the auto cutoff triggers. You'll be ~30-40km from the ring and can fly in with your sublights in 2 or 3 minutes.

I prefer to switch off flight assist on the entry vector and turn to admire the planet while sliding straight down with drives at 0 in pristine silence...you'll also get a much smoother visual transition while doing it this way.

But yeah crashing into them is the most expedient method.

 

[Kzak]

A controlled "crash" (supercruise speed below 1,000 km/s) is the best method, as others have said, it's like dropping out of supercruise normally, no damage to the ship. Faster than that does risk damage, though.