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=== Ship Control ===
Thrust (Up for forward, Down for reverse) and rotation (Left for counter-clockwise, Right for clockwise) make up the basic movement of the ship.  Ships maintain inertia once they are set in motion and cannot be brought to a complete stop except when in a safe zone.  In addition, ships experience [[inelastic collision]]s with walls and asteroids but do not take damage from them.  Ships do not collide with each other.

Players achieve their ship's top speed by maintaining thrust.  Each ship is also equipped with afterburners (Shift+Up/Down) which allow the ship to exceed its typical top speed; however, this gradually drains the ship's energy.  When afterburners are disengaged, the ship's inertia returns to its normal top speed, not its speed with afterburners.

Ships can instantly warp (Ins) to a random location on the map.  This action requires the ship to be at full energy, and its energy is totally drained once the warp is complete, although the ship will begin recharging its energy immediately.

Ships may also attach to other friendly ships.  In this scenario, the attaching ship loses thrust control and becomes a weapons turret on the back of another ship.  This is technically achieved by performing a warp, thus requiring full energy to attach and draining energy in the process.  A turret ship takes damage like a normal ship and may detach at any time.  In addition, a ship carrying turrets may detach one or all of them at any time.