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Edit: Thank you to everyone who replied. In retrospect, bit of a silly question, but I wanted to be sure

As the title says, would a space station or settlement or whatever (let's say an O'Neill cylinder or similar) need to orbit around a planet/moon/other celestial body or could it just be free floating in interstellar/deep space?

If it were just floating around on its own in space, how would that work exactly? Would it just kinda drift around, slowing floating in an arbitrary direction?

Thanks :3
(I'm asking for the sake of a sci-fi thing I'm writing)