Your ship cannot stop unless you spend a resource - fuel, cargo, or damage to your own ship. I like this because it creates some fun scenarios:
You miscalculated how much fuel you had left, and now find yourself slowly drifting away from the shop. With nothing but hard asteroids to catch you, the only safe option is to jettison some of your precious ore. After the bitter loss of much of your cargo, you seem to be on course to just barely miss the shop. But, you thread the needle and refuel.
Of course, sometimes you really are stranded in the middle of nowhere without a means of gaining velocity. In that case, you may simply hold left-click on your own ship to get back to base the hard way...
You miscalculated how much fuel you had left, and now find yourself slowly drifting away from the shop. With nothing but hard asteroids to catch you, the only safe option is to jettison some of your precious ore. After the bitter loss of much of your cargo, you seem to be on course to just barely miss the shop. But, you thread the needle and refuel.
Of course, sometimes you really are stranded in the middle of nowhere without a means of gaining velocity. In that case, you may simply hold left-click on your own ship to get back to base the hard way...
