1. First you will need the Artemis suit so that you can scan life. Each life form needs to be scanned 3 times and they need to be a certain distance away from each other so between most scans I will just jump back in my ship and fly for a few seconds and look for more of the life I am trying to scan

2. Second you want a fast and small ship. I use the Imperial Courier for these reasons and because its sleek and has a nice view from the cockpit.

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This is the build I use it boosts to 851m/s and can fly at over 300m/s with the landing gear down so you can quickly land scan and take off and repeat 2 more times quickly per organism. If you don't choose the Courier I would still make sure to choose a small ship so that you can land to scan life easier. Small ships with level 3 thrusters can also be equipped with performance enhanced thrusters which make these ships crazy fast which is what you want to speed up your scanning.

3. If you want to do this to make money I would recommend getting the Elite Observatory program and the Bioinsights plugin. These will give you in game overlays for how much an organism is worth and you can set a price minimum for the app to notify you if a planet you scan with the FSS scanner has life that meets your minimum threshold. I set my minimum threshold to about 7 million credits.

4. If you want to make the most amount of credits you need to scan life that no one else has scanned before meaning you need to go to systems that no one has been to before or make sure that you will be the one to make first footfall which you can check for in the system map. If you are the first to turn in a bio scan you get 5X the payout. Stratum Tectonicas is the highest paying bio scan at around 19 million credits so when you are the first to scan it and turn it in you get almost 100 million from one bio scan.

5. To find less traveled space go around 1000 ly from the bubble BUT do not fly towards the center of the galaxy or you will need to fly more like 3000ly away. Once you get about 1000 ly away in your route planner in the galaxy map switch to economical route plotting and then just choose a system a few hundred light years away and slowly make your way there honking and FSS scanning every undiscovered system and wait for your bioinsights to tell you a planet meets your criteria.

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