I want escape pods!

Escape pods kick butt!

In addition to allowing you to escape a nearly destroyed capital ship, in GC I frequently used them to board enemy capital ships

Is there any way to add a feature like fuel to a craft?  In other words, you get to use the engines for a certain amount of time (you could use a countdown timer after initialy firing the engines), but if you turn the engines off (0 thrust), the time doesn't decrease.  So you can fire the engines to escape the burning wreckage of the ship you were just on, and then turn them off and float in space until someone can come near enough to pick you up.  What do ya think?  Is it possible?

Edit: Once someone gets close enough with a capital ship, you could use what's left of the remaining engine time to fire the engines and board the capital ship.

I think it would also be really cool to make escape pods visible to both sides on the mini map, but with an icon that shows which side's pod it is.  i.e. if a rebel pod shoots out of a corvette, the imps can see it on their minimap, and there will be an icon that denotes it as being a rebel pod.

Its a good idea escape pods a lot more star warsy feel no?

fuel look to me to be easy seeing as bf has a x-amount of sprint time in its coding (not a coder, dont flame me)
escape pod are always handy and you dont know what there good for untill the time is there

Beta: Latin for "still doesn't work".