Afterburners/Thrusters

This could work two different ways. These would be a reloadable, such as chaff, pulses, rockets, etc. The effects could be one of two things. Option 1.) it jumps you 100 units for each unit of afterburner you used. eg "afterburn 5" = 500 units jumped. Option 2.) These would boost your sublight speed to double or triple its normal maximum. Say 5 seconds per unit. so a 100 speed ship goes 300 speed for 5 seconds. This would mostly be useful for eliminating in-system hyper jumps, which make no sense to me. Thoughts?

I’m going to have to pass… triple the speed seems a little rediculous to me, and it would just make it rediculously simple for people to run away from chasing ships, me thinks.

Perhaps, going with option and making something like… 1.25 the speed would be more reasonable.
OR, alternatively, limit this skill/component for use on fighters… which would make sense in any case, really.

There’s no EU precedence for "afterburners." It’s only some fanboy’s dream of taking yet another IRL concept and shoving it into Star Wars.
On top of it, stats are already made to reflect fighters being faster.

Actually there is. Missile boats had SLAM (Sublight Acceleration Motors) systems which could increase their speed to double their normal at the expense of their ability to fire weapons.

You don’t hold the turbo, its for quick bursts!

Also think of the X-wings. Opened up in their battle config (hence thier origin of name) They actually slowed down. But in thier travel config (wings closed) Thier was a speed boost.

Well there you go. You could add the SLAM to a ship via upgradeship, or take it away, and while it would double your speed, it would take away the ability to use your weapons. Answered your own questions and concerns. Good job guys!