Missions & Complexes

I have a total of 3 accounts, that have skills good enough to survive in null.

Account 1 can fly a proteus, or a helios or astero, great combat and scanning skills

Account 2 is quite similar, combat skills are a bit less

Account 3 can fly a helios as well, but would need to train all the scanning/hacking from scratch.

I'm not planning on moving to null, just some exploration, I'm ok with long term exploration as well. My questions are, should I take all 3 out there for some reason? If I do, I dont want to be running around 3 different systems at once trying to multibox the hacking game. What sort of ship should I take out there? This is NPC null I plan on going to by the way.

3 accounts is great for extended stays.

Account one: Scout / Explorer
Account two: Combat capable
Account three: Cloaky hauler

if you're new to nullsec combat sites, I'll let you know its a bit easier to learn them when people aren't trying to kill you, which will happen a bit more often in NPC null. You may find npc nullsec a great place to base from while you actually go a bit deeper for the exploration part. Timezone matters though. Best is if you're just living in the area you're exploring, be that in npc nullsec with a corp, or in sov null with intel channels. However then you gotta deal with not exploring in certain places.

If your combat main flies a proteus, then be in guristas/serp space. Ishtar is generally superior to the proteus once you're in a site, although plenty of the sites are doable in a blaster proteus, its just less efficient. Definitely put your ship in a proper combat fit though. Covops t3's can scrape by in lowsec but don't waste your time in null. Ishtar can get around easily enough with mwd/cloak trick and mobile depot refits, even better if you have a scout. Ishtar aslo has about twice the cargobay of a prot, which matters now that mobile depots are a thing.

Combat skills take longer to train than scanning skills. Better to train a second toon for scanning than for combat. T3's make excellent scouts/scanners/hackers as well, because they generally won't die ever, and they can pitch in on dps within a site.

Research the sites. Evelopedia is generally pretty good.

Know how to d-scan, watch local, and be vigilant. Once you've past the first room of the plex, you should never get surprised by someone warping in on you, you should always have plenty of warning. If you have the luxury of a spare account, you can leave someone outside the gate as a visual warning as well.

Overloading is incredibly useful in difficult explo sites.

I don't know what your ideal setup is for the 3 accounts, but dual proteus with a blockade runner sounds quite good. In drone config, proteus has worse dps and projection than ishtar, but is far tankier ( a weakness of the ishtar). With two drone proteuses, you should get quite respectable performance. Also, in blaster config, they do hella dps, and the mwd sub means you really aren't hurting your tankiness mwding to the next target. Keep in mind that in some plexes, the ability to snipe dangerous threats is required. A blockade runner gives you the versatility to do all kinds of things, spare drones, all kinds of subs, and be out nearly indefinitely away from a station.

Wormholes are good for travel, although with nullifier sub it may be faster to just take gates straight back to empire.

Lastly, if you do opt for the dual proteus route, don't gimp the scanner by putting scanning rigs on it (because you will be needing it for combat). use a faction expanded launcher with faction probes, train the subsystem to 5, and astrometrics to 5, leave everything else at 4 and call it good.

Then you really don't need 3 accounts, you can easily do it with 1, 2 would be better just to have a scout to avoid gatecamps. All you need is a CovOps (Stratios/T3 for Ghost sites) to run the sites and a scout (fast aligning interceptors with bubble immunity are great null scouts) to do those sites. This is actually a good way to start out while you familiarize yourself with the space: routes to take, commonly camped systems, the locals, busy times and down times etc. and also allows you to setup bookmarks for future use. Eventually you want to upgrade to combat sites though because the income from relic/data/ghost sites are not really great and you're trying to support 3 accounts so you'll need quite abit.

wow. take proteus, fit mods, go to null. Not complicated.

for a carebear a first run to null is something that is a pretty big step.

Anyway I was thinking, tell me what you guys think about this, A scout cloaky astero on one pilot, with a stratios fit for exploration on the second pilot.

I could even fit the astero with one type of analyzer, and the strat with the other if needed. I was thinking of training scanning and stuff on the astero pilot, they could be the one with the probe launcher, that would leave an additional high open on the strat for a remote rep for my drones. I am also thinking I could bring a mobile depot if needed for refitting.

Thoughts? Fit recommendations for this pair? (I'm noob at fitting)

The only shooting I'd be doing this particular run would be ad the rats in ghost sites, or not even shooting and just tanking them and the explosion. I'd guess a properly fit proteus can tank a ghost site explosion?

If going to null is a big step, try out lowsec first. Also start with data/relic sites if you just want to go straight for null and like mentioned above, use a covert ops. Once you get a feel for an area and how to move around then try out your t3. You can also look for wormholes that connect through chains or direct to null from highsec too. If you have no experience with pvp or how it is done it is good to learn even for just simply knowing how to avoid or escape it.