Should I gather all 50 chron shifter parts and do the mission at one time with a NI on or should I do it individually after killing each chron shifter carrier?

EDIT (cause I didn't feel like making another thread)
I am a level 105 Vygoid Hacker
I am thinking of colonizing more artifact planets ( I have 3 spots open)


I am thinking this: Finish the conduit, then finish one level of AI, for those times when I am so close to leveling, and I have a lot of extra energy I don't want to go to waste (and so I can get rid of my EM) Then finish my current scanning tier, and maybe the next one and then go on a 500 energy+ scan blitz with all the buffs I can use. And then defense, which I need.

And any suggestions on my ship?



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DO NOT END THE MISSION!!!!
killing chron shifter carriers have a 4 exp return at max not buffed.
I made the mistake of ending the mission because I somehow couldn't find the scrap button.

I'm rank 130 zolazin sab, use my ship as a comparison:
Production: 1029 MP, 1386 AP, 1944 RP

Research:
1 weapons ahead (and 1/3 antimatter)
Same energy (have transconduits)
2 shields ahead (have 1/3 Stasis)
1 cloak ahead
1 hull ahead
same defences
2 scanners ahead
2 planets ahead
Finished AI logistics

My ship's changing a lot now, as I'm focussing on PvP before it's too late. Here's my raw stats though:
653 decks
690 cargo (still not enough )
275 engineers
20 tac officers
103 helmsmen
354 scientists
I have 3x your shields (no shield modules), and the same hull. Only difference is I run 1 Overcharged Q-phased plating and 1 vortul plating.
Also, I have twice the energy.

I'm on rank 132, w/ 1645 rp/hr.
Well, my research stands at:

Weapons: 1/3 Antimatter
Energy: 1/2 of Transconduit done
Shields: 1 tier ahead
Cloak: 2 tiers ahead
Hull: On neutronium plating
Defence: 2 tiers ahead
Scanners: 1/3 of the next tier done
Planetary structures: On to +10's
Base: Xeno-diplomacy

Don't EVER complete the Dark Thief mission

Rank 134: research 1747
0/3 null rays
0/1 trans conduits
0/3 stasis fields
0/3 quantum jamming
0/3 nexus grids
0/3 phase shifting
1/3 sub dimensional sensors (15765 remaining)
0/3 stellar engineering
1/3 sub quantum logistics
combined hull/shields: roughly 2k
attack: roughly 1k
defense: roughly 700

0/3 anti-protons
0/1 transconduits
1/3 rift fields
0/3 EM adaptive panels
0/3 neutronium plating
0/3 quantum overlays
0/3 x-manifold sensors
0/1 astrocore habitat
0/1 hybrid theory dynamics (Points Remaining: 144305)
Hull/Shields: 3.1k
Energy: (without relays) 830.
Attack: 1705
Defense: 618
Scan: 196
Cloak: 250

Rank 131 konqul excavator

Trust me as someone who got to rank 1700 and had completed this mission, you want these spawns forever. It has among the highest XP threshold of any fixed ranked mission npc.

Yeah, all my sheilds are either from special mods or x charge cells....
My energy without conduits is 710. Right now, I'm going to focus all rescued prisoners and all daily reward RP towards egineers, and maybe some rank up RP too to get me closer to an auto-ranker.
So should i take the 12:1 xp ratio to 49/50 completed then for as muc of the 12:1 as I can get plus the 4 xp/energy NPC kills?