View source for File:Sol to Colonia Speed Record (36m 48s)

With ship mass reductions come new speed records. This speed run reaches Jaques Station in Colonia from Sol (22,000 Ly) in 36.8 minutes.

Total jumps: 42. Longest single jump: 603 Ly. Total fuel: 280T. Total hull damage from reckless piloting: 3%.

Route was computed with a homegrown, heavily optimized variant of A* search adapted to Elite's jump and fuel equations. Computation time on the galactic star chart graph of 1.24x10^13 edges: ~1 minute.