Looks like someone else loves this concept. The first thing I considered back when the jump drives were announced was this type of thing. I typically use a ship on survival that is literally a jump drive with engines, a cockpit, reactor, gyro, and merge block strapped on. Great for salvaging cargo ships. Yours looks a lot better than my approach.

With this type of module, you can capture a ship, and jump it back to your base / salvage yard rather than tug it home. Of course you'll want to disarm it before jumping it home. Might consider a remote control and antenna so you can jump it seperate from your capturing ship.

@Action Hank:
Thanks! Im almost done with a much more compact, more feasable version :D

Looking good, a nice solution for ships too small to upgrade properly. Could also be dropped off by other ships to rescue a vessel whos jump drive has been damaged. Well done!

ok :(

I put the extra solar panels for redundancy, and no I do not use mods aside from a skybox :P

btw do you use mods in your singleplayer world

because the way they are layed out on that 1 is inefficent

could mount the solar panels on (DX11) Conveyor Hinges so that you could set it fold away when in proximity to a ship

Yeah! I'm working on a smaller version with solar panels :)
Screenshot :)

Just thinkin since its a jump pod maybe some solar panels would help recharge after the jump since it may be hrs till you need the pod agian
or the ship you are jumping is small and needs a lil extra lil power to jump

@hadesoil: I hope that is a good "holy hell" :D

@Q_meets_the_doctor: Yes, it has a beacon :)

ok does this have a beacon\ antena to find the WMI Warp Jump Module JD-2

holy hell