Valid points but for outer edges or places i know will be difficult (solo without my FC) i wouldn't take the Beluga, it would defo be my AspEx.Maybe. You're also talking to a guy who has 1A Prismatics on an exploration built Sidewinder, so....there's that.
My thing would be the edge cases and reaching otherwise inaccessible places. With neutron boosting and synthesis, that .73ly can turn into almost 3 and that's significant. Of course, now with carriers, it's a largely irrelevant point, but back before them, I would nail bite over ever decimal because I couldn't imagine myself being on the outer rim and missing out on a system because I was some decimal of a light year short on range.
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