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Use the Map hotkey to open a map of all the places the player and player owned ships have visited. The map will only show sectors that have already been visited and unexplored areas of space will appear as grey. while resources will appear as red, purple or blue tiles. Most stations will not be found in the same places each time we restart the game. That station variation has some constraints to support faction viability. Selected objects on the map can be targeted by the player ship using the Target Object In List hotkey. For info about the general layout of sectors and stations in the map, see the Sectors page.
Player assets are coloured green, friendly NPC objects are Blue and hostile objects are red. The outline for sectors and systems is the colour of the faction with local administrative power. The viewing angle of the map can be adjusted by holding the right-mouse button while moving the mouse (or controller equivalents). This helps observe the height of objects relative to the ecliptic represented by a thin grey line pointing from the object to its 2D position on the ecliptic. Since we can center the map on objects, these view rotations can also be used to look station module layouts.
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