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At the beginning of most campaigns, that’s all you see in the galaxy, but as
you explore your stellar neighborhood, other things gradually show up on
the map. These include:

Fleets: Any ship or group of ships you have control of is indicated on the

map by a tiny ship icon in your imperial color. If you somehow know
the current location of another race’s fleet, it’s shown, too, but in that
empire’s color. You can click on any displayed fleet to get information
about it or—in the case of your ships at certain times—give orders.
The details are below, in The Fleet Window.

The location of each icon tells you something about it. If it’s between
star systems, then it is en route to somewhere. Icons sitting above
and to the right of a star are in orbit around a planet in that system.
Tiny ships above and to the left of a star have been given orders to
leave that system for another and are just about to go.

Monsters: From time to time, explorers discover immense, hostile

creatures living in a star system. At other times, similar monsters
“invade” the galaxy. The space monsters, when their location is
known, appear on the map. For tracking and combat purposes, they’re
treated as fleets.

Travel Lines: When any of your fleets are between stars, the space

between the ships and their destination is marked by a solid line.
Near the fleet is a tiny number—the remaining flight time. If you
somehow know the destination of another race’s fleet, that is
displayed as well.

Wormholes: These bizarre spatial anomalies are thought to be created

when two black holes collide at unimaginably high velocity and turn
each other inside-out. Somehow, the interaction of the singularity
regions “pinches” two distant points in hyperspace together.
Regardless of the cause, the effect is clear; any ship can travel from
one end of a stable wormhole to the other in only 1 turn, no matter
what the distance. Wormholes are marked on the map as grey lines
connecting two points.

Structures: Scientific advancement eventually leads to the possibility of

controlling some of the more esoteric forces of the galaxy. When an
empire builds a Dimensional Portal or an Artemis System Net (see
Research and Development for details), it shows up on the map near
the system in which it was built.

Along the bottom of the Galaxy Map is a button bar. All of these buttons
except the ones in the center open windows in which you manage some
aspect of your empire. That’s why they’re called the Management
buttons. There’s also an important button down in the lower right-hand
corner. We’ll cover the two non-management buttons here and the rest a
little further on.