It’s a dangerous galaxy. There are thargoids, gankers, and even NPC pirates. Build your ship to survive!

Every day there is a post about a ganker. Or about how someone was doing rescues in a thargoid invaded system and got blown up. Or even how they get chased by NPCs for some juicy cargo.

Most often it's followed by "I don't want to do any engineering" and my response to that is that some basic engineering is easy to do – read this and this

But if you absolutely insist on no engineering, fine, I can't convince you if you're stubborn and you will sacrifice something for the same strength (probably cargo capacity).

Military Grade Armor, and Hull Reinforcements.

Non-engineered python cargo ship that can survive

The fully engineered version is twice as strong but even a grade 3 engineered version gets you 70% of the way here for much less time/effort.

Passenger version

Even a lowly Asp Explorer can survive

Those lovely things called military armor and hull reinforcements and shield boosters are there to make your ship stronger. Use them.

Do not fly around in a ship that can explode if a piece of dust gets dislodged, then complain you got blown up.

Then watch this legendary video – it's 13 minutes filled with juicy information that every pilot needs to see. Not just the ship build, but the escape technique.