Inertial dampening system

The inertial dampening system (or IDS) is used on almost all starships to counter the affects of rapid acceleration/deceleration of a starship by sustaining and absorbing the natural inertia of a vessel as it either moves through space or if it is under attack from another vessel.

A starship cannot jump to warp speed without inertial dampers, as the rapid acceleration would smash the crew into the walls, killing them instantly.

Although the inertial dampers are activated by default, the crew can enable/disable and configure the strength of them manually. If the inertial dampers are disabled, they can be reactivated by resetting the inertial dampening field base at three-zero-zero and re-initializing the dampers. This use of them can exaggerate the damage sustained by a starship in a battle as the ship rocks more violently when its inertial dampers are disabled.