1. Intro: Sight seeing exploration tour to Sagittarius A* aka "Krait Phantom in front of things" picture log
02 Sep 2021Quain Marln
After months of real world time, I finally got my Krait Phantom exploration ship up to the specification I wanted for a journey well away from the bubble. Aside from the lightweight engineering to get 70.5+ly unladen jump range on a ship with 2 SRVs and the usual self-repair outfitting, getting 661MJ of absolute shield strength was also an engineering challenge. This shield design is 5D low power with lo draw and 3 x 0E shield boosters with heavy duty and super capacitors. With this set up and fully engineered dirty drag 4D thrusters I can still run a 3A power plant with low emissions 1 plus thermal spread. Overheating only happens if you are really not paying attention to where you charge the FSD and idle heat can run as low as 18%.3D Power Distributor is grade 5 engine focused with super conduits with max pips to engines and none to weapons, and then powered off most of the time. The only improvement left to do is get up to grade 5 light weight on the life support which I'll get around to in future when I return to the bubble via Colonia.
Ship build link: Krait Phantom - Silver Phoenix
Between the armour engineering and shields a test crash landing on Achenar 3 - a 6G planet resulted in this:
It's as close to indestructible as I can reasonable get without compromising the jump range and heat characteristics.
Enough background, the first picture is in front of "Neverst", a mountain so high it sticks above the planet exclusion zone and it takes time to supercruise past it. It's in the bubble only around 60 to 70ly from Sol.
Next stop, Antares A and some unusual bio signals on a planet bathed in the pink/violet light of it's star...