mod idea: hidden stars

[Shadowcat]

Oh, but you'll still have the wormhole effect, which might be a show-stopper unless you want to explain it with some new fiction. (Maybe some ultra high-tech race once lived on those stars, and left some kind of stargate-style transportation devices behind.)

[Fingers]

It's possible to make a ship hull have the anti-gravity property without requiring the gizmo. Simply include the flag in the hull's ini file:

FLAG antigravity

You could also make the gizmo structural and non-sabotageable as well as installed by default so you'll always have it. (I guess at that point you might indeed make a new item and call it the ship's power plant)