Gravity well (or black hole) caught my ship?

[AllegedlyLuca]

I literally cannot think of a better title. I don't know where this should go either because I'm not sure if it's a bug.

The backstory, so effectively how I came across this unique situation

Okay, so this story needs some background. Strap in (quite literally if you're a passenger on this ship I was piloting too, because you'll need it). For reference, map was Easy Start Earth.

I was exploring deep space somewhere between Mars and another planet (I don't know its name yet). I was actually trying to get to this other planet, but my single jump drive can only go so far per jump especially as I was tugging with me a small mining vessel in a hanger as part of the ship.

Casually racing through space at 100m/s and I notice a little glint amongst the asteriods. Thought "just another asteriod" at first and it turns out to be a ship. I get closer, park beside it, investigate it (after aligning my gravity field so I could walk in the thing). It's a GM/2-411 Combat Destroyer according to its ship info, and it's pretty intact. Even has ammo in the turrets/guns and fuel in the reactor(s). I didn't count how many of each there were.

Great! Literally need one of these to defeat those space pirates. Might rob a business shipment with this. I construst a landing gear on the bottom of my original ship so that I may attach this ship and bring it back to base (a platform orbiting above Mars). My jumpdrive can only do 500KM now so it's five separate jumps to get back home. Painful, I know. I wish I got two of them now.

Here's the fun part

Anyway. Happily flying through space between recharges ar 40m/s (carrying this thing is slow, I'll need the 1KM after the final jump to slow down), I suddenly start turning. I've no idea what's going on, I'm certainly not turning. My thrusters are trying to counteract the turn, and still respond perfectly to user input. I'm not sure what's happening but I just go with trying to stabilise my ship.

That doesn't happen. I keep spiraling sideways, so I turn the engines off. Suddenly my velocity skyrockets to atmospheric terminal (104.38m/s). Nothing I do has any influence on what's actually happening except minor changes that don't slow me down or reduce the rotation.

It passed after about four or five minutes. I go to the Combat Destroyer to make sure everything's off and suddenly there's a hole where some of the interior pathways were. Not sure what happened there, me and my friend believe it was an explosion of some sort (he was watching through Skype).

After ensuring EVERYTHING in the Combat Destroyer is definitely switched off, I return to my ship and prepare for another jump. I remain completely stationary to ensure I'm not causing it and even turn my engines off. I jump, and less than a second after the jump finishes the same thing happens. My ship begins rotating rapidly, and my velocity increases far faster than my engines can push to that same 104.38m/s. I noticed that every time it happened there is absolutely no gravity anywhere (no horizon indicator, no level indicator). I turned all gravity generators off to ensure clear readings.

I wait for my speed to start dropping before turning things on and trying to slow down. Doesn't work the first time so I shut the ship off again and wait some more. Still takes about five minutes. I'm nowhere near a planet, moon, and the nearest asteroid is still about 2km away. It's taken me in the direction of some pretty big ones but it decided to change direction pretty quickly. I've absolutely no idea what's happening.

Anyone know what's happening with my ship(s) here? At the moment I'm flying home full power using the destroyer's engines (it's a bigger ship) because I don't trust travelling with the jump drive in fear of this invisible gravity well throwing me into an asteroid.

Any knowledge of this would be pretty helpful. I've tried searching everywhere but I can't find any reports of this sort of problem. The best I can describe it is as if a planet has sucked me ship into its gravity but there's no planet there.

Thanks, and have fun everyone. If you need more info, ask.
~Xy

[GameGibu]

This is an issue I've had before. It involves using a jump drive while attached to other grids (mining ship and towed wreck). In my experience the only way to stop it is to either wait a good long time with your dampers on, hoping you don't ram into anything while the game tries to figure out where you should be, or to release all attached grids and pray that nothing is too destroyed (this is, in fact, a terribly bad idea most of the time, but it "works").

Your detailed description was mighty helpful, by the way. Thank you for posting responsibly!

-GameGibu

[DarthSandpaper]

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