[Taera]

The idea is good overall, but this will only be useful for single/hotseat games. I dont see it any good because SE is popular mostly because of its multiplayer.

Still, it could be good to have a "be on alert" order for ships, meaning that whevener something friendly in their range/2 (this to make the extra-speed jump to location) is attacked they would join the battle after, say, 5 or 10 turns.

That would be cool indeed. Much like aircraft scrambling in Civilizations