I always thought the easiest way to slow down a ship was to simply shut off thrusters one at a time, treating your number of thrusters as a binary expression of your ships maximum speed. sure its hard to spit out a 1-100% value, but if you have 5 thrusters on a ship navigating to and beyond aquilo ...

I dont know about other people but when i go out exploring and make remote stations, i like to set up solar+ accumulators so its off grid and working on its own then later when i can, or once i expand my territory, i hook it up to the grid.

Problem is, when the main grid goes down, so do these ones ...