Beginner's Guide

Welcome Commander! If you're here is because you have started to play Stellaris: Galaxy Command, and you've probably felt a bit overwhelmed with the many options that this game has. Don't' worry, it's normal, it's a complicated game, but with a bit of tips, you will find this game awesome!

Before entering into the subject, let's explain a bit of the history. In the game you play as human colonists trying to re-establish their presence in a galaxy ravaged by war. As such, resources play a huge part in the game, as does the management of your own space station. There are also tonnes of other features such as ship combat, building upkeep, exploration, alliances and governance, that make a 360 degrees view of have to manage your own space colony.

## User's Interface

Let's start with the first view that you will face every time you enter the game:

In the middle of the image, you can see a beautiful view of your space station, it'll be your home during the game and you'll see it grow with new buildings on it.

On the edges of the image, you can see different groups of icons (the coloured squares):

1. This part shows the commander's avatar, commander's name and the current progress points. Clicking on it you will enter into the Commander info section. The red star of the right is the icon for the advisors that come from the Cabinet. This icon can be green or red, depending on how much critical are the cabinet messages. The icon below your name offers the option to take a look to your current missions.
2. The upper menu shows a summary of 4 different aspects of your colony: Population, Electric Credits (EC), Resources, and Galactic Common Credits (GCC).
3. This icons represents different types of things, such us the events access, the daily missions description, the shop, etc...
4. The square is the right menu, it expands to show the current processes the players has run (ships building, facility constructing, investigations in progress, fleet status...). The blue alert icon below only appears when there's an alliance mission in progress.
5. Navigation icons. If the player clicks to the left icon, will jump to star system's view. The right icon makes the player jump to galaxy view.
6. This is the chat widget, shows the latest messages in the chat. If the player clicks on it, will open the chat window.
7. The left menú. The "+" icon expands to several options such as Trade, Alliance, Objects, Leader management, etc... Also, here is where the Mailbox icon is, in addition to the Buildings icon. The gift icon at the bottom right shows a cooldown that will give you a gift regularly.

Now, let's jump to the system view:

As you can see, the menus in this view don't have big changes, except the bottom right icons. Now, the "Station" icon appears instead of the Star System icon.

In this image you see a lot of icons, but for now, just focus on the following:

* Green icons in the system represents your space station and your fleets.
* Another player's station and fleets are represented by white icons with the same design as yours.
* If the player is part of your alliance, their icons are blue.
* If the player is an enemy, their icons are red.
* The orange icons in the system represents the Pirate fleets. Be careful!
* Each system has several circles in it's boundaries with names in it. These are links to other star systems. You can send your fleets to these systems if you want, but takes some time.
* The pink icons with 4 lines are wreckage, generated by a fight between fleets. They contain some valuable resources, you can send a workship to gather them.
* Sometimes you will find other pink icons with special symbols. These are asteriods with a rich deposit of the resource indicated by the icon, such as minerals, electricity, gas, gold... You can also gather these resources sending a workship.