>>5522662You take a moment to look past the empty command stations and railing of your raised bridge section to the observation deck below. Where once there were standing security officers and off duty observers there are only floating unconscious bodies. Beyond that, the starfield (or what you can see of it between the ever present holes in space) is static.
<span class="mu-b">[Engineering] You realise the ship must have diverted some emergency power to the manoeuvring jets or 'mavs' to arrest what would have been a violent spin otherwise. This is not an automatic process, the order must have come from CIC or engineering decks.</span>
Inertia is indeed a thing, those bodies are floating inside the observation deck. Sorry if that was unclear, the observation bridge where you and your training crew perform your simulations is located above and behind the main observation deck (the OP image is of you standing down there on the deck looking out the central viewport). Picrel for location and scale of your family's voidship. 