The Cnidarian Defender is a literal circle when in ship mode and is hard to tell its front from its back so the ship team added Lukari style engine trails to it at launch but now those visuals have disappeared and I have no special engine vanity overwriting it so that's not the issue
I'm a dummy, apparently at some point my graphics settings were lowered and that disabled some VFX like the engine trails, I pumped the graphic options up and now everything is back to normal
I've always found the Bozeman Hyper-Impulse Engines helped the most for keeping my orientation. Even when you are stopped you have a visual. Here's my big Peppermint ship.
When I removed all the visual items the ship did have the trail you mentioned.
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When I removed all the visual items the ship did have the trail you mentioned.