You can't directly, but you can turn off the "auto-leveling". As you might have understood, the universe is mapped out to just a 2D plan, much like our own Solar system is like a disc.

If you turn off the auto-leveling, your ship will not anymore try to turn itself correctly to the right "up" position. Normally in the game you have destinct feel (even if a tad unrealistic) for what is up and what is down... Closest comparison I can make here is Descent, where the game was in 3D, but you also there had a feeling for where up is.

So sometimes in combat I turn auto-leveling off, since I'm in a "fur-ball" of enemies, and I don't want to wait for the ship to roll to the right direction before heading for the next enemy. After combat I often turn it on again to not loose my orientation.

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Christian "Bargib" Koerner
Editor in Chief, The Lancers Reactor

Errr... not sure if I like the comparison to Decent there. My inablitiy to find "up" is the main reason I could never get very far in that game. Well to be honest, that combined with the close quarters environment gave me major disorientation and I always felt queezy after 5 minutes of play. It was the only game I can recall that gave me serious motion sickness.

I'm guessing that the lack flying in a virtually enclosed environment will not make this an issue.

I expect so. It was the walls of descent that gave me motion sickness. With the lack of references to tell your brain that you're tumbling in odd ways, space should be OK.