Unless you want them to turn around, I thinking you are going to need a double connection between themselves and to the core of the ship like some huge framework for a cage. Nothing else will make that solution hold up to what you want it to do. But I might be wrong, so you should test things, just think it through a few more time and thing about how the real world will have consequences for how you want to use it. Asking questions like that is what engineers uses to make things safe, but then they call it other things like material strength and and such.