Inventing the Hyperdrive; The Starscape Mod

[Taz-in-Space]

The closest I ever got to this was to create a map that had a 'Hyperspace' system between every normal system on the map. I used the 'ship is pulled to center X squares / turn' attribute. Then I had the systems link to the center of the Hyperspace system and the links out of Hyperspace at the edges. Speed set to pull 4 squares / turn to center will delay most ships several turns.
Note: I noticed the AI had some difficulty with this setup.