Players should be able to buy and place Nav Beacons

So far one of the only major annoyances of the game is that some of the places you need to go are a long way from the nav beacon you jump to. For example, last night I jumped from Sol to Alpha Centari, but I needed to get to a station orbiting Proxima Centari, which is a quarter of a light year away. There's no way to jump to Proxima Centari, so I had to supercruise there from Alpha Centari; it took over an hour of real time... I was up to over 1800c for most of the journey, but it was still boring as hell. I certainly won't be doing it again.

Now, I see and appreciate the value of maintaining the real distances, and making some places difficult to get to. I don't want to get rid of that. However, it would be very nice if you could buy a Nav Beacon (especially one you could 'tune' to a specific frequency that you'd be able to share or sell to others), and place it in orbit around a specific star (or even planet/moon), and then have that become a valid jump destination).

So that's my "suggestion number one"
 
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