diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Behaviors/Thruster.cs b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Behaviors/Thruster.cs
index a349ad744..f101fadff 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Behaviors/Thruster.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Behaviors/Thruster.cs
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ public class ThrusterData : BehaviorData
 public class Thruster : Behavior, IPowerConsumer
 {
     // Live: heat, quality, durability and power move this stat after construction, so it is read, never cached.
-    public float Thrust => Evaluate(_data.Thrust);
+    public float Thrust => Evaluate(_data.Thrust) * ItemManager.GameplaySettings.ThrustScale;
     // Thrust at a full grant, the same stat read without the power-supply term: what a column promises. Live, like Thrust.
-    public float NominalThrust => EvaluateNominalPower(_data.Thrust);
+    public float NominalThrust => EvaluateNominalPower(_data.Thrust) * ItemManager.GameplaySettings.ThrustScale;
     public float Torque { get; }
 
     // This thruster's effect per unit throttle at the given thrust, in the body frame: xy is the push (x starboard, y
diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Settings.cs b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Settings.cs
index c92fdbf63..62fdb93bf 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Settings.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Settings.cs
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ public class GameplaySettings
     public float ThermalQualityMin = 2;
     public float ThermalQualityMax = .25f;
     public float DefaultShutdownPerformance = .25f;
+    // Global flight tuning over every thruster's authored Thrust and every hull's authored Drag. Thrust is a tenth, the
+    // ratio gravity fell by in the honest-wells cut (aetheria-gravity:field-strength-ruled, 5 to 0.5 u/s^2): most ships
+    // cannot climb straight out of a well and use orbits instead; an overspecced hull still can.
+    public float ThrustScale = .1f;
+    public float DragScale = 1f;
     // Free-floating bodies (floating items, mines): drag on a launch velocity, drag on the force-driven drift, and
     // how strongly the zone force accelerates it.
     public float FloatingBodyDrag = .05f;
diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Ship.cs b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Ship.cs
index 4174aec90..e151ed3d7 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Ship.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Ship.cs
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ public class Ship : Entity
     {
         var velocityMagnitude = length(Velocity);
         if(velocityMagnitude > .01f)
-            Velocity = normalize(Velocity) * decay(velocityMagnitude, HullData.Drag, delta);
+            Velocity = normalize(Velocity) * decay(velocityMagnitude, HullData.Drag * ItemManager.GameplaySettings.DragScale, delta);
         
         Position.xz += Velocity * delta;