Will local gravity in a system ever affect the performance of a ship, like when a ship gets closer to a planetary body, a star, a planet, or maybe just a really big asteroid?

We all want this. What it'll be is... I can't believe I'm calling this a smaller scale, but it will be on a planetary scale originally. So as you approach a planet, that's when it's going to do something. The ranges I couldn't even begin to tell you about. Likely what you'll see is that when you start doing the atmosphere entries, that's when you'll be affected by that planet's gravity. Now, are you going to be affected as you just approach it? Is there going to be a station orbiting? Not out of the gate. There's a lot of problems to solve in there, and one of the biggest ones is just relative velocities. Because if you've got a space station orbiting a planet, the space station's moving at whatever, 13,000 miles an hour, and your ship only really moves at 300, how do you ever get to the station? It will always outrun you. Things like this. Unless you then have some level of gravity that will give you a gravity assist, give you the velocity to actually catch up to that and be in that same frame of reference. But it opens up so many problems. So originally, out of the gate, you can look forward to the planets, yes, having some gravity that will affect you as you get close. And I'm talking pretty close, not when you're super far away or anything like that. Now, I said that we've got all sorts of tech online for gravity wells, gravity streams. So whether there's a nebula that has weird gravity within it, whether there's a black hole that sucks you in, there's all sorts of different things that we can do with gravity right now. We just don't have the designs really solidified for what they all need to do, is the thing. But we've got all the tech online to do that stuff with.