Is there any possibility that we could have an artifact that would be between common and uncommon that does a quick charge of energy in small amounts (like 25 - 50 - 100). Or possibly an ability that becomes available after a mission change or killing a certain number of NPC ships that would allow you to add a small amount of energy every few hours.

I always seem to find myself at the very brink of Ranking up and I have run out of energy. I would be really nice to open up ship view and either use an artifact that would give me like 50 energy or an ability that taps a reserve energy that would need 8 - 12 hours to be recharged.

Or maybe even something like an artifact called like Solar Sails that when deployed cuts the time for energy recharge in half for up to 30 minutes. So instead of having 3:00 to recharge 1 energy, while deployed, you would have 1:30.

Wow if we would use that last one I would be getting an energy timer of 29 sec. lol I do like the short burst ones however that could be handy. If they are made thou I think that they need to be droped by a rare NPC because that could be abused by the high ranks who go through an average of 100 NPC's a day. (At least that I what I average)

I don't know about that but I was thinking things like 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 energy cubes would be a worthwhile addition to the artifact line up. They would fill up that amount of your bar. I guess things like 200 energy single use battery or things like that would work.

A number of times I've found myself wanting to level up but needing so little experience but not worth using an energy cube. (IE, 200 experience to level up, an energy cube gives me 1200 at the moment. The best I could do is use about 250 energy and the rest would go to waste so not worth using, just have to wait.)

Huge fan of this. Mini-Energy Cubes. Excellent idea.

Yeah, this is a very good idea. They could be called batteries like ODragon said.

+1 from me.

I like the idea of 1/4 and 1/2 energy cubes but they should come as x 4 for the 1/4 and x 2 for the 1/2.

Dan you can even sell them in the Artifact shop the full recharge option is great but when your like 100-300 exp to go and you have an NPC boss alert in the Ship log. buying into the full energy is way over kill specially if you only need 100 energy for the 300 exp (exotic innovation FTW)

Must also voice support for this since i found myself in a very similar position last night. Was doing my thing and got an alert on a vortul and was just shy of being able to kill him since I ran out of energy I was also nearish to leveling so a full recharge wasn't really necessary just a quick 100 pts would have been excellent.