Any chance of seeing solar panels get built into your Dragon trunk? I should note that the trunk for the manned SpaceX Dragon v2.0 ship has solar-panels built into it. That way, I only need to use the Draco engines for very-late course-correction and landing-burn. and I try to make the second-stage autonomous using the stock 2.5 Remote Guidance System so that it can remain active even after it's no longer needed for propulsive use, so I try to fit it with a couple of the smallest size relay-antennae, and some solar panels and electric storage in the form of batteries, sometimes I also fit it with RCS thrusters too. Preferably enough to get them onto a free-return trajectory 'round the Mün or Minmus and circularize their orbit 'round either satellite, with enough left over to get the capsule-and-loaded-trunk onto a safe return-trajectory back to Kerbin FROM orbit around either the Mün or Minmus. If said payload is the Mk1-2 capsule with your mod's "Dragon" parts, then that second-stage is ALSO fitted with a docking-port so it can serve to provide extra delta-V for the capsule-and-trunk stack, and any cargo that may be in the trunk, too.
Second stage is built to circularize the payload's orbit.
Usually I set up my craft in this mod as follows: First-stage is to get the craft onto a sub-orbital trajectory, and have enough fuel remaining in it after stage-sep to perform boostback, re-entry, and landing burns with a little bit to spare.
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