Most people will say that it's drag caused by friction, but that is meaningless drivel, since there is very little in space to cause drag.
The real cause is, of course:
Space Gerbils.
As we all know, most ships are powered by these mighty little rodents kept in specially made gerbil balls.
Most types of gerbils are happy to live out their days in a glass box with little tubes, and a running wheel, but not space-gerbils. They resent it.
Space gerbils are also hateful, vindictive little suckers, and will begin to run backward out of spite as soon as you let up on the throttle.
That's why your ship decelerates as if flying through the noxious emissions of the bug-blatter beast of tral, or maybe the atmosphere of 21'th century Earth.
it's not the cold of space causing it, it's the cold little hearts of your space gerbils.
The real cause is, of course:
Space Gerbils.
As we all know, most ships are powered by these mighty little rodents kept in specially made gerbil balls.
Most types of gerbils are happy to live out their days in a glass box with little tubes, and a running wheel, but not space-gerbils. They resent it.
Space gerbils are also hateful, vindictive little suckers, and will begin to run backward out of spite as soon as you let up on the throttle.
That's why your ship decelerates as if flying through the noxious emissions of the bug-blatter beast of tral, or maybe the atmosphere of 21'th century Earth.
it's not the cold of space causing it, it's the cold little hearts of your space gerbils.
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