Main Screen

A guide to Interstellar Space: Genesis begins with getting familiar with the main screen which displays and allows control of all the main elements of your empire. More information can be found under Empire Basics, and the central area is covered under the Galactic Map Guide.



Info Bar
The Info Bar shows basic information about your empire and allows you to adjust the tax rate and distribution. Hovering over any element will display additional information.

 Treasury  Main Article:  Format: Current BC in Treasury [BC per turn]. +/- adjust tax rate--higher rates increase income but lowers throughout the empire. BC is needed to maintain colony, construct ships, and hire and pay .

Research  Main Article:  Format: Research per turn [% of income allocated to research]. +/- adjust percent of income diverted to research at a rate of 2 BC to 1 Research. This is in addition to research produced by colonies, leaders, etc. The bar shows the progress towards discovery of the current tech.

Culture  Main Article:  Format: Culture per turn [% of income allocated to culture]. +/- adjust percent of income diverted to research at a rate of 4 BC to 1 Culture. This is in addition to culture produced by colonies, leaders, etc. The bar shows the progress towards the next .

Ship Support Points  Main Article:  Format: Unused Ship Support Points [Used Support Points]. Each ship requires 1 or more points--going over your maximum results in penalties to income and ship attack and defense. Points are gained from colony, , and </dd>

Strategic Resources </dt> Main Article:  Format: Amount of each resource being produced by the empire. These resources can be found on and  and unlock new technologies for research providing empire-wide bonuses scaling with resource amount.</dt>

Freighters </dt> Main Articles: Freighters,  Format: Unused freighters [Used freighters]. Freighters are constructed at colonies and are required to carry asteroid production from to colonies.</dd> </dl>

Special Abilities
Each race has 2 special abilities that can be used once every 40 turns after their initial conditions are met. The number of turns until the ability can be used again is displayed. Hovering will show more details.

Menus
The icons bring up screens for managing various aspects of the empire which are covered in more detail in the links below.

Overview Panel
At the left of the is the Overview Panel. It has 2 rows of icons that can look at bit intimidating at first but are very useful once you play around with them for a bit. Here you can see the usual list of and fleets--which are definitely the best way to keep track of them--but also lists of all the, , and  you have discovered but not yet settled or exploited, which you can apply filter and sorting criteria to find the best place for your next Colony or  without trying to remember where you found what. Play around with it.

Overlays
The overlay icons control what is displayed on the Galactic Map and are covered in detail there.