After engineers, there are many great alternatives to a conda.
Personaly I find the conda an absolute pig to fly, and I am bored out of my mind with the Asp-x, so I am using a Clipper for epxloration \ long distance jumper.
It get's a range of 50Ly with a guardian booster.
The conda, honestly I don't get why people still insist on using a conda, but pretty much anything can get 50+ range with engineering and a booster.
You really don't need a big ship to do exploration, plenty of people have been running around the galaxy in nothing but a Sidewinder.
That said, as an why not for exploration, you can get an Orca upto 65ly range now with a 6a scoop.
As an explorer you actually do more exploration with less range.
Yeah, you can technically go from a-b with less jumps, but are we talking exploration, or neutron boosting your way to Colonia ?