I had a rather random thought today ingame.
I know that sector space was meant to be analogous to flying your ship in the stellar cartography maps that you see in star trek occasionally.
With the interiors being put into the game for season 2 I though it would help immersion if we could get a room in our interiors like the various astrometric labs that we see in star trek cannon and use it to "jump" into sector space from our interior.
I don't think this should be a forced feature, but I think you should have to do it at least once after the tutorial phase of the game/ leaving ESD and the first time that you leave Qo'nos on the Klingon side.
What would happen is that after going to warp instead of reappearing in sector space you would appear on your bridge with a message along the lines of your taking a tour of the ship before you head to patrol/to battle. You would take a general tour of your ship with an explanation of what sector space at stellar cartography. You would get a prompt telling you that you can either set to automatically go to sector space after leaving a system or instead "jump" back into your interior. Accessing sector space should work from both a wall map/holographic display in this room or your chair on the bridge like it works now.
This would give a good chance to allow newbies a chance to be aware of the interior of their ship exist, since at this time i think the only ways to realize that they are their are to try to change the bridge layout and randomly go to your bridge.
I also think this addresses one of my gripes with this game, and thats poorly documented features with an inuniverse and fun way to go about it. I don't know how many new players I had to explain that you can adjust your power levels too..
I could also see stellar cartography becoming another hub for a minigame that the devs have been talking about adding. It would also be another nice touch to ship interiors, i think a lotta fans would get a kick outta it, and i think the current tech in this game could handle it so i don't see a downside.
Thoughts, Opinions, Ideas?
Edit:Pictures!
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