From the tactics panel you get a complete radar view of the battlefield.
Select ships with (LEFT CLICK ) and issue attack and move orders with (RIGHT CLICK).
You can drag select multiple ships to give group orders.
You can also customize various autopilot functions from the tactics panel.
When you are not directly controlling your ships, the AI kicks in to navigate, fight, harvest Rez and do basically everything a human pilot would.
At any time you can see the state of all your ships in the hangar view to the left side of the screen.
You can select different ships by pressing the (NUMBER KEY) associated with their hanger.
If that hangar is empty, you can prompt it to quickly build a new ship by pressing the (NUMBER KEY) of a hangar with no active ship.
