well now I know why nobody answered some of these very same questions in my older post
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I had asked many other questions first but then in a reply asked (since I was thinking of the wormholes only connecting to a single other worm hole as a way to pretend to travel dirctly between earth and mars; each planet has two wormholes at the edge of the systems so you have to go all the way to the edge of the system and pass over a beacon (WH) leading you to another planet and on the opposite end of the system another WH leads only to the next planet in the chain.) if it was possible to eliminate the Jkey jumps. It's now answered, as well as the ability to actually use WH like this no longer being just an assumption on my part. If you have a chance check out my thread it's got other thought on different ideas too.

P.S. Luck, I also thought of the orbiting planets idea too, but it's a systems gobbler and I'm still not sure if I want to include other star systems later in first contact situations.
As far as the ionisations you might be able to make special npcs carry weapons that do mostly this to your ship so you can hold off a major battle with them until later when you make a protective outfit against the weapon (not sure it's possible). The escourt idea might not work but you could try to make an oufit that makes a weapon like a mine or something that might deploy almost exactly ontop of you that ionises the ship only and link it to your bit that allows yourship to fire your superlaser (very much like the B5 Excalibur series had a ship that lost power to all systems when fireing three beams that coalessed (spelling?) at the ships front and became a one shot superweapon).

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