The Orion Nebula

In the current ship combat initiative system, the game selects which ship you use first. But I often want to use ships on the flanks first: in a medium-sized battle I want to keep the middle ships in reserve to attack starbases and ground defences if the outer ships kill all the enemy ships; in a large battle I can minimise losses by outflanking, so that some of the enemy ships are out of range or firing at max range.

So I'd like an initiative system where I can move any ship at my highest initiative level, and so on. Is that possible?