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Most items are information only and self explanatory while some are clickable for more info or actions


Auto pilot-

will bring up more clickable button that make you ship move to selected locations

clicking on a destination will move you to the starbase or gate, clicking a second time will dock at the starbase or jump through the gate


Comms-

will hide/unhide chat panel


Player Info-

clicking your the character button will bring up another menu with 4 options


Skills-

clicking Skills will show your skill levels


Appearance-

Clicking Appearance will bring up another menu with options to select different head, hair, eyes, nose and mouth on your avatar


Assets-

Clicking assets will bring up another menu initially showing you credits and stellar credits

Clicking 'select locations' will bring up a list of all current storage locations

Clicking a location will show items at that locations which is scrollable


Contracts-

The scrollable contracts menu will give a much more detailed information on the contracts in the top right corner


Map-

Clicking the Map button will bring up the galactic map


The Galactic map Shows the main 9 planet systems linked with green to show jump gate routes

It also shows outer systems and names that can be jumped to with a ship that has a hyperdrive installed


The galactic map menu has 6 buttons-


"Emergency Jump" button will return you to Ceres space

"Close map" will do just that... close the map

"Home" will center the map on the system that you are currently at

"Stock Market Search" will allow you to search player operated markets

"Search for system" will allow you to search for a player discovered system by name

"Bookmarks" will open a drop-down list of bookmarked planets


The map can be moved around rotating about your current system by click and hold left mouse button and dragging the display around


The scroll wheel or +/- will zoom in and out


Right clicking on a system will center in that system and give another button to "Jump" to that system and information about that system including distance to jump in light years


Options-

Clicking Options button will bring up the Options menu


Buy Premium Access-

This button will take you to the a selections menu that will then take you a Paypal page for purchasing premium access


Quality Level-

clicking quality level will drop down a menu to select video quality


Music Off/On-

Clicking here will toggle the music off or on

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
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Travelling
Trading
Character Skills
Player Built Star Bases
Exploration
Settlements and Colonies
Politics
PVE Combat
Tools