Are there any plants to include a navigator's role, for setting waypoints, plotting courses through space or on planets, charting locations of discovered resources and the like?
TL;DRYes, a navigator role is planned, scaling with ship size: not needed on single-seaters, but a full-time job on large ships, where it involves plotting suitable points for that ship.
Yeah, so I'm not gonna go through all of those things, but at a high level, yes, the navigator role is gonna be a thing, and the day-to-day duties of doing that is what it is. It's not gonna be something people on single-seater ships have to do all the time to get anywhere. It's a role that scales up with the size of the ship, as you have to split up the functioning of the ship between multiple people. The navigator role becomes more and more important. So by the time you're getting to Idris, Javelin-size stuff, that is a full-time role of plotting those points, making sure what you've plotted is suitable for that ship to do. Would it even fit? You're plotting these points with the size of your ship in mind, rather than, I'm in a small Gladius, I'm just going to fly there and just do it anyway.