F6 page (galactic chart "1")

This page is accessible both while docked and in flight. This is where you select the star-system you wish to jump to (using Witchspace/Hyperspace Drive). It shows one of two versions of the Galactic Map.

• If you have accepted any missions (delivery or other) the relevant systems will be marked on the chart.

Key-commands

This screen is primarily an information screen, but also where you select the target system for your Witchspace/Hyperspace Drive.

• The circle shows the range of your jump (changes with fuel available - the circle will grow while scooping fuel, for example).
• The "Arrow keys" move the marker between the systems shown. The "Home" key returns the marker to your current (home) system.

The "home system" is shown with a green cross, the "target system" with a smaller red cross.

• Pressing the F7 button takes you to information on the selected system.
• This chart is zoomable! Use the "page up" & "page down" buttons (or the mouse).

Changing the displayed information

• The "i" key toggles between the names of the systems - and icons giving essential data on them (economy type, government type & TL).
• The "?" key toggles the display of the colour of each system between four possibilities:

Sun Colour (important for OXPs such as Hard Way & Star Fuel where the star category impacts on the game)

Economic system (from deep green for poor agricultural to deep yellow for rich industrial)

Political system (white: corporate state; grey: democracy; blue: confederate; red: communist; yellow: dictatorship; green: multi-gov; brown: Feudal System; purple: anarchy)

TL (from red for low TL to blue-white for high TL)

ANA (Advanced Navigational Array)

Purchasing ANA allows jump routes to be shown on the map, and one to select routes to destinations beyond the 7ly limit.

• The "^" key toggles between the regular F6 chart, a second variant showing the shortest route to the target (destination) system and a third variant showing the fastest route to the target system.

See Advanced Navigational Array for more detail.

Changing the page

• XenonUI provides an on-screen reference list of key commands for this and the other F4-F8 pages
• Some OXPs change the details of systems from those shown in the Vanilla game

Famous Planets changes the details of Sori (bottom right-hand corner: TL9 dictatorship) to Ascension (TL16 anarchy)

Lave OXP increases Lave's TL from 5 to 8

• OXPs which allot missions will mark the relevant systems accordingly (eg Long Way Round, GalCop Missions etc).
• Explorers' Club OXP will identify visited systems according to your selected parameters (arrive in system, visit orbital station, land on planet...).
• Smugglers will mark systems with trade embargoes.

Diplomancy citizenship shown? Home system shown?

• Docked HUDs removes your HUD from the bottom of the page, leaving only the fuel bar & missile display. Some of the more recent HUDs do this automatically.

Links

• Short Range Chart

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F6F6

This page is accessible both while docked and in flight. This shows the second version of the Galactic Map: the entire galaxy.

Note that when the F6 chart is fully zoomed out that it looks identical to the F6F6 chart. In such cases the F6 chart remains zoomable!