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====== Empire Manager ======
The Empire Manager allows you to manage your empire, conduct diplomacy, read the galactic news and to keep in touch with what happened recently. This also where you can keep track of your assets and of the missions you have accepted.
===== Empire Settings =====
This is where you can see the stats of your empire: military strength, money, ship parts, sector held and number of ship.
If you play as an empire, you can also toggle on and off the following managers:
- Automated expansion and station building: Your manager will automatically expand your borders into unoccupied territory and build the appropriate stations and factories for your empire. It is advised to keep that one enabled as it automatize several things that you can't do yet in the current version.
- Uses Shipyards to build military fleet: If checked your manager will automatically use the ship parts you have and produce to build new war ships. Those ships will automatically defend your territory against threats.
- Automatically send fleets against targeted sectors: When at war, granted you have set a target sector in the menu on the right, military fleets will be automatically pulled from your current defensive pool of combat ships and used to invade said sectors. Those fleets are displayed in the Fleet Panel in red.
- Automatically select which sector to invade: When selected and at war, this manager will automatically select the sector to invade based on how valuable it is.
When at war with other empires, you can also tell your manager to target a specific sector from this tab. Be advised that you can only target sectors that are hostile and next to your empire.
===== Asset List =====
From this tab you can see all your ships, factories and stations. It offers various filtering options. Right clicking an item in the list will open a popup menu with additional options (center camera, take control and open settings).
===== Missions =====
You can review the missions you have accepted here. Clicking a mission will set it as your current one which result in highlighting (with a red square) the mission's target(s).
===== Diplomacy =====
This is the diplomacy screen, it list all the different factions, their military strength and their attitude toward you. You can either use the 'contact' button or double click the list to contact a faction. So far you can only declare war and peace, but here again much more options will be unlocked gradually during development.
===== Galactic News =====
That's self explanatory. This page lists the major news in the galaxy: Declaration of war/peace, sectors changing hand and so on.
===== Journal =====
This is where you can track news relevant to your ships and empire. Content can be customized in the last tab.
===== Event Logging =====
This tab allows you to set how events relevant to your empire / fleet / lone ship will be handled. For each type of event (ship killed, station built, and so on), you can log in your journal, on screen, both or none. And for some relevant ones you have the ability to center the camera on it, giving you a (slim) chance to save this poor transport choke-full of weapons from nasty pirate raiders.
