[sgqwonkian]

I really like your idea of a 1-year recharge on the Hyperdrive. That would totally change the way it's used. You'd just punch to deep corners of the map, switch to a normal drive and slowly "island hop" your way back home. If you hit a big empty space, intervening nebula, or if Major Brass gave you the two year warning, you'd swap it back in and jump across the sector again. That's got some potential.

Haven't gotten the hyperdrive in version 2 yet, so I can't comment on whether a half-year achieves the same effect or not.