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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 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.
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List of all known stations and ships within radar range of player owned assets within the viewed area of the map. As the map is zoomed out more objects will show until smaller ones start being filtered out by the micro to macro transition. Left clicking player assets will select them and enable orders to be given by right clicking objects in the Object List or map and locations in the map. Stations have a + next to them to expand them to allow individual station modules to be selected. Station modules which have not been scanned appear as "???" icons.
Property Owned
A list of all player owned assets. Double click an object to centre the map on the object. Left click objects to select them and right click on the map or other player assets to give them orders. Right clicking an asset has the Information option at the top which shortcuts to the Information tab for that asset
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