X3:Reunion Manual - Steam

aces but you will have to have a good reputation with the Boron or Paranid to get Triplexscanners.How to Find Distant GatesTo complicate the navigation, many Gates are not positioned in exact North, East, West andSouth (NEWS) locations and can also be positioned well outside the sector grid, with as muchas 200 km or more between them. Additionally some sectors have dust and nebula fog thatmake many objects and factories almost invisible until you are almost on top of them.Most but not all gates, where the opposing gate is also well outside the sector range, can benavigated by continuing in the same direction as you entered the sector.If you detect ships in your scanner range, you will sometimes see long lines of ships, whichseem to be coming from far out of the sector. Heading in the direction they are coming fromwill reveal the gate that they entered the sector by.Alternatively in some very large sectors where gates are in difficult to find locations, you canfind Navigation Beacons that you can follow to find the main ship traffic lane.The complications of navigation in large sectors has resulted in some abandoned ships andcargo drifting well outside the normal traffic lanes and never being recovered or discovered, iffound these can then be claimed.Object MenusThe right hand side of the sector display has “ALL”, “STATIONS” and “SHIPS”. “ALL” showsboth stations and ships. A busy sector can contain hundreds of objects so the “STATIONS”and “SHIPS” tabs can be filtered respectively.From any menu you can highlight the object and select it. This will open that object’sproperties screens, from which all further options will become available, these are dependenton the object type and ownership. All your owned objects appear in green in the sector mapsand menus and the shield strength of owned property is updated dynamically.Universe Map -This is a visual impression of all thesystems in the Universe that you havevisited so far. Like the system display,the Universe map is updatedautomatically for all areas you havevisited so far or have Satellites in.32You can use the arrow keys to move themap view from system to system orpress the first letter of a system name tojump straight there, repeat to go to thenext system that begins with the letter.Information and the history of theselected Sector is displayed on the right."The journey is the reward.” - Taoist Saying