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Rather than having a massivly power hungery impractical drive, or a warp gate that limits travel, have a warp drive that is small, with low poer requirements, say, a 1x3x3 engine stack. This drive would take 5 seconds to warm up, 5 seconds to travel, and when it arrives it will have no power, jsut like when you first get into a ship once the server starts. the drive can jump across entire systems, 16x16x16, with no side effects. The only limit is beacons, for the drive to be able to jump it requires a beacon in the sector that is powered, no blind jumps. The beacon will require massive amounts of power, but unlike warp gates there is no size limit, and a beacon cannot send you to another. If a beacon runs out of power it will have different effects based on when you are in the jump, if you are in the 5 second warmup it will cancel the warmup cold and yank half your power. Once you have jumped if ther is another beacon within a sector of your original target you will be directed there, if not it will drop you in a random sector between your jump point and the beacon. The beacon will have massive power requirements, the output of a 10x10x10 block of generators, and it will have to be on a station, planet or asteroid, no moving, for balance.