The rules are a guide but if you spend military tonnage on civvie tonnage then you have no issues around overhauls, or maintenance which in itself it apart of the challenge, if not the major part. I would say as long as it is a military classed ship then what you load on that ship is up to you.

But again this challenge is about enjoyment so you play how you wish.

Meh, even if I do "win", winning in 2 jumps feels like cheating.  

I'll rather try the no-military version.  
Currently, I'm leaning towards:
Inertial Confinement
Power increase 50%
Fuel Efficiency 6
Hyper Multiplier 1.3

Which gives me a hypercapable fleet with a civilian speed of ~11-12kkm/s, with my scout going 14kkm/s.  
Grav survey I chose to use commercial engines to save fuel and so they go at 13 kkm/s.  

Amazing what kind of RP you can spare if you have no weapons.  

I intend to deal with enemies by simply running past them or drawing them to the outer system where I can hyper my way around them (in the case of swarm or wormhole aliens).  
I strongly doubt anything can catch me.  Wormhole aliens have 10kkm/s speed on warships and no hyper right?  Coz if that's right, I can simply ignore them totally.  


A rules question:
I can spend military tonnage on civilian ships right?  =P
Yes, I have spare military tonnage... ^^

Well, I've done the calculations.  My colony ships can reach there if I bring my sorium harvestors along.  But nothing else gets there, most especially not military ships. 

I've checked the star system by giving myself tracking stations on one of the moons, it's empty, so that's not a problem either. 
I'm not about to go press next turn for 4 years in-game time for a formality. 

I'd rather try my no military version.  XD

Getting freighters to go zoom at 10kkm/s will be a pain. 

Figure out how long it will take your freighters to reach there and use the auto turns with min increment filled in so you press it once and let it run.  Come back in the morning and see how you have done.

Brian

Well I lost I ran out of Fuel.

Had a couple of minor precursor battles that I won, but in the end 10 jumps without one sorium gas giant, what are the odds at that.

Well done Brian, so far you are the only one to accomplish it. I wonder if anyone will do better the 3 jumps.

Jseah: You complete it if you are able to setup a colony and equipment from your freighters. You have to complete that to complete the challenge, you have to make that long trip first <grin>. If there is precursors on the other side you may be in trouble.

If you want to try to complete it save a copy of the database before you head out there.  If it doesn't work you can restore and go a different route.  I meant to save my game after doing all the prep work but before actually starting, but it got corrupted somehow so if I want to try again I have to go back to the beginning.

Brian

Going to try this challenge.  

Combat ships will be a uniform 10ktons, to ease maintenance and provide uniform design templates.  
14 inertial confinement engines on 10ktons, with -50% eff, give 14kkm/s.  
 - Spent just under half my RP getting this.  
Pure laser fleet, no missiles.  Resolution class Destroyers with 5 dual-role 15cm lasers each

Military OOB

Invincible x2 (res 1 size 20 active, size 50 thermal, 14 kkm/s speed)
Broadsword x1 (res 120 size 50 active sensor, 19kkm/s speed)
Resolution x35 (5x dual role single 15cm laser turret, 25kkm/s tracking; 102-300 shields, 4 layers armour, 14 kkm/s speed)
ResolutionF x1 (As Resolution but -1 laser, flag bridge)
Illustrious x10 (grav survey, 10kkm/s speed)

Tonnage = 395 000

Civilian OOB

Agincourt x10 = 324 500 (Maintenance)
Ark Royal x1 = 37 500 (jumpship)
King George x2 = 20 000 (military jumpship)
IllustriousGeo x6 = 12 300 (geo survey)
Tribal x6 = 217 200 (freighter)
Victory x3 = 31 800 (colonyship - goal is for this to reach a 0.00 colony cost planet - I also forgot to load colonists before abandoning >.<)
Trafalgar x10 = 355 000 (sorium harvesters)

Tonnage = 998 300

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And I run into a colony cost 0.00 moon 2 jumps into the game.  =(
But it's on a secondary star system that's 800 billion km away!  Even the Broadsword has a 512 days one-way trip.  
I wish I bought hyperdrives now.  >.<

I can get my colony ships there if I escort them with my sorium harvesters though.  I didn't bother to actually try sending them, but SMing in 10 tracking stations on a nearby moon tells me there's nothing in the secondary star system.  (I've left this there in the database)
Does this mean I win?  =P

DB: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10120644/Stevefire%20%282%29.mdb
Details: http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh47/jon_seah/Battlestar1.jpg


Now that that's done, I've a radically different idea of how I might try to win this.  

No military.  

Just giant sensor scouts and tons of grav survey ships.  Might even get away with jump efficiency 3.  
Even more interesting is that you don't need EM or Active sensor tech.  

Saving all that RP that went into weapons?  Unfortunately you still can't get SCAM drives (you can but that leaves you with a bare 35k RP left and still no jumppoint theory) but you can get inertial confinement with insane power boost and fuel efficiency.  
Screw shields and armour, just speed your way past everything.  Might even be able to afford decent thermal reduction.  

Grav survey everything, probe points like you're going mad, and hope, just hope.  
Knowledge of star types would be useful as well, since you can try to predict which systems have more jumppoints.  

Well after grav surveying 8 systems I lost.  I was forced into a system with an open wormhole and they spotted me.

Any success by anyone I gone 8 jumps, and fuel is very short not found one sorium planet, to refuel from. If I don't find it in another 2 jumps I am afraid my fleet with run out of fuel.