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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 first tab is where you can review and alter the general settings about your faction. It has 5 areas.
This part is fairly straightforward. It displays relevant statistics about your empire: Military strength, money, ship parts, sector held, number of ship and so on. The only part needing more explanation here is the war weariness which is explained in the part of this documentation about wars.
Below your flag there's a button to declare your independence. It is how you transition from a simple pilot to the leader of an emerging empire. Right now, the mechanism is fairly simple and relatively artificial, it will be improved upon during development. You are free to declare your independence whenever you want. All sectors containing a shipyard, a military base or a trading station you built will be given to you. However, if those docks were built in territories belonging to other factions, they will automatically declare war on you.
If you play as an empire, you can also toggle on and off the following managers
If you keep everything automated, your empire will run itself automatically without your input. The only part you still fully control is the diplomacy.
This small panel is used to select the sectors you want to invade. To invade you must be at war with its owner and have a border in common. Notice that this menu works also when your military manager is enabled, and as such can be used to give orders to your automated military fleet.
This is where you handle your money. Each account has a specific role. We use separate accounts to make sure the AI (and by extension your managers) is able to spend credits efficiently.
You can set an upper limit for each account, and set what percentage of your income will go into each one of them. You can also move money around freely between accounts.
===== Asset List =====
===== 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.
===== Journal =====
===== 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.