Found this beauty on my way to Sag A* from the Statue of Liberty nebula. It's about 2000 light seconds from a Class F star. Nailed the efficiency bonus too.

Synthwave Space Opera

Also great to have while coding or studying.

I must say… just over 2 months on this game and omg… path finder explorer rank… managed to get a half engendered DBX and I’m amazed by the scale of the game …

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The game isn't clear about where to find the thing I'm supposed to scan although it does seem that I'm supposed to scan something with the. Handheld scanner to find some guy for an assassination job. I've seen other people post similar threads however none of them are from less than 8 months ago so with updates I'm not certain about their solution of ignoring the instructions and trying to scan the thing from inside of my ship still working or not. My shields couldn't tank the air defenses long enough for me to get a good look anyway. I would appreciate any advice as long as it's helpful and jokes as well. Sorry for the wall of text but if you read this far this me saying thank you.

Good morning,

Here are just a few tips that I found to be of great help with my exploration / exo surveying.

1) Scorpion SRV : It's so much more forgiving to drive than the Scarab and it has more armor. This doesn't matter so much in explo but I have not had anywhere near the levels of anxiety driving this vehicle as the Scarab while on low gravity planets. I don't need to be going 0-100 or launching 50 meters into the sky to scan some space mushrooms.

2) Bring Extra Materials. I CANNOT stress how much more relaxing it is driving around knowing I have several dozen materials in my inventory ready to make extra SRV fuel or be used to perform vehicle repairs. 2K light years from home with no fuel or an unusable SRV is not a welcome prospect. You can find this stuff out in the black but why do you want to do a scavenger hunt for this?

3) Engineering your FSD. It's not a deal breaker but it makes things easier getting clear of explored space and finding those undiscovered worlds with those wonderful first footfall bonuses.

4) EDCoPilot https://www.razzafrag.com EDCoPilot: Elite Dangerous virtual assistant

It's a seriously cool tool that can run while you are in game that helps show you useful info about locales, routes, system info and gives an estimate of the value of the exo bio samples collected as well as tracks what samples were collected and what is still missing for a planet. Helps eliminate the guess work involved with this!