A similar idea would be a drive that lets you do instantaneous in-system jumps without the need of a Lagrange point.
However, you first mentioned the absurd travel time needed for massive systems. There used to be a hyperdrive which worked in the edges of a system giving much faster speeds. But it hasn't been ingame for many versions. It would be nice for hyperdrives to make a return.
I'm a rather new player to Aurora so I've only read about hyperdrives.
Could civilian ships use it, too?
Your idea of in-system jump drives comes with a few problems, which are difficult to balance.
On one hand it replaces Lagrange points and makes them obsolete.
There would be no point in having them.
On the other hand you could make range advantages of some weapon systems completely disappear, if you were to use that drive in combat situations.
It's absolutely OP xD
Although it sounds cool to just teleport anywhere you want.
I would simply like to see a component that scales launch times. As it stands, I can launch a hole carrier wing in a 5 sec pulse. This allows craziness like having all your fighters abandon a carrier as soon as it comes under fire.
I see, I didn't consider that.
Then it should only be able to launch 1HS or 50ton per second.
Would this take care of the problem?