[Suicide Junkie]

For those who want a B5 style "Hyperspace" or any type of FTL drives, try adding one more system, called Hyperspace. Fill it with a nebula, and build a grid of warp points inside it that correspond to the locations of systems on the galaxy map.

For most maps, chain together a few hyperspace systems by pasting the connected walls together with a line of WPs.

Thus, you get a map where it takes 1 movement to enter FTL hyperspace, plus one movement per galaxy map square, plus one movement to return to normal space. If you disable Wormhole manipulation technology, then your FTL system will be stable.

You can have a ring of warp points at the edge of each system which go directly to one square in hyperspace, which gives a "No FTL near a gravity well" rule.

The lev 5 cloaking nebula in hyperspace prevents combat while FTL, and if you place a 1-square-pull black hole effect, you can have the occasional ship drift off and be lost in hyperspace while at the same time, prevent players from building bases in Hyperspace.

This works with normal, system-to-system warppoints, since you could spend a turn to travel 5 squares through hyperspace, or use a WP to go directly to the system. With WPs, FTL is just a "back-door" way to sneak past minefields & skip past dangerous systems (eg. black hole or nasty aliens).