                           Empire : Command Summary

 This is a partial list containing one-line descriptions of some  Empire  com-
mands;  further information on a particular command may be obtained by running
info on that command (e.g. info attack). For a complete list of commands,  see
the "list of commands" command.

In the "list of commands" command, a $ before a command means that your  coun-
try  must be non-broke to use it. A c before a command means that your country
must have a capital to use it.

EMPIRE COMMANDS

     Accept  Find out who's accepting what communications from whom
   Announce  Send an announcement to all players
        Arm  Load nuclear weapons onto planes or missiles
       Army  Designate members of an army
    Assault  Attack coastal sector from ship
     Attack  Attempt to seize a sector from another country
       Bdes  Manually change your bmap
       Bmap  Big map of all your worldly knowledge

                           Empire : Command Summary

      Board  Board enemy ship
       Bomb  Dispose of inconvenient enemy assets with airpower.
      Break  Break sanctuary and begin to play
     Budget  Look at a national balance sheet & set priorities
      Build  Build ships, planes, bridges, or  nuclear  weapons  in  specified
             sectors
        Buy  Purchase commodities from the world market
        Bye  Log out of Empire
    Capitol  Change the location of your capital
      Cargo  List the commodities on board your ships
       Cede  Give a ship or sector to a friend
     Census  Report contents of sectors
     Change  Change country name or representative's name
 Coastwatch  Check from sectors for nearby ships
    Collect  Foreclose an overdue loan
   Commands  Print out all Empire commands
  Commodity  Report commodities in sectors
   Consider  Accept, decline or postpone consideration of a loan or treaty
    Convert  Change conquered civilians into uncompensated workers
    Country  Find out information about deity countries

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     Cutoff  List delivery thresholds
    Declare  Formally declare alliance, neutrality or war
    Deliver  Establish delivery routes for shells, ore, etc
 Demobilize  Change military into civilians
  Designate  Specify sector utilization
   Dissolve  Dissolve your government and country (suicide)
 Distribute  Establish distribution destination sector
       Drop  Use planes to drop commodities in your own sectors
       Dump  Dump raw sector information
     Enlist  Turn civilians into military
    Execute  Execute a batch file
    Explore  Claim unowned land
  Financial  Show all the outstanding loans in the world
       Fire  Fire artillery from sector/ship/unit on sector/ship
   Fleetadd  Designate members of a fleet
        Fly  Fly planes from sector/ship to sector/ship and bomb or snoop
     Follow  Cause one ship to automatically follow another
    Fortify  Fortify a land unit
       Fuel  Give fuel to a ship/unit
      Grind  Grind bars back into dust

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     Harden  Place missiles into protective silos
  Headlines  Summarize the weeks events (part of news)
       Info  Provide information on various topics
       Land  Report status of unit, army or units in a given area
     Launch  Launch nuclear missiles or satellites from silos or nuclear  sub-
             marines
     Lcargo  List the commodities on board your units
     Ledger  Report on outstanding loans
      Level  List distribution thresholds
      Lload  Load things onto land units
   LLookout  Check from units for other units, planes and/or sector types
       Lmap  Map around a land unit
      Lmine  Mine a sector with an engineering unit
       List  Brief command list
       Load  Load goods, people, etc onto a ship
    Lookout  Check from ships for other ships and/or sector types
     Lradar  Use a radar unit's radar
     Lrange  Edit the reaction range of a unit
   Lretreat  Set retreat conditions/paths for units or armies
      Ltend  Transfer things between a unit and the ship carrying it

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    Lunload  Unload things from land units
        Map  Generate a map showing sector types, seas, etc
     Market  Report current selling prices in the world market
      March  Move a land unit or units
       Mine  Drop mines from destroyer
       Miss  Assign a mission to a ship/plane/unit
     Morale  Change the retreat percentage of a unit
       Move  Transport ore, civilians, guns, etc
     Mquota  Change the mobility quota of a ship with SAIL orders
       Mult  Set price multipliers of goods
       Name  Give a name to a ship
     Nation  The state of your nation
   Navigate  Move ship or fleet around
     Neweff  Find out what the efficiency of a sector will be after  the  next
             update
       News  The yellow press
       Nuke  List all nuclear devices in a given area
      Offer  Offer a loan or treaty to another country
      Order  Cause a ship to auto-navigate
     Origin  Change the origin of your country's co-ordinate system

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   Paradrop  Attack a sector from the air
       Path  Show the distribution path of a sector
     Payoff  Find out the current payoff of a trade ship
      Plane  Report status of plane, wing or planes in a give area
       Pmap  Get a map around a plane
      Power  Display arbitrarily measured strengths of all countries
    Produce  Predicts production of sectors at the next update
     Qorder  Query the auto-navigation orders of a ship
      Qsail  Query the sailing orders of a ship
       Quit  Log out of Empire
      Radar  Perform radar scan from ship or sector
      Range  Edit the range of a plane
       Read  Read your telegrams
      Realm  Print out or modify one of your four realms
      Recon  Use planes to take a look around
     Reject  Stop/start listening to other countries
      Repay  Repay a loan (all or part)
     Report  List all countries and their status
   Resource  Show the resources of sectors
    Retreat  Set retreat conditions/paths for ships or fleets

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      Route  Display delivery routes
       Sail  Give sailing orders to a ship
  Satellite  Download data from a reconnaissance satellite
      Scrap  Scrap a ship, plane, or unit
    Scuttle  Destroy a ship, plane, or unit
       Sect  Show only sectors owned by you in map form
       Sell  Sell commodities on the world market
        Set  Establish price for a ship
       Ship  Report status of ship, fleet or ships in a given area
      Shoot  Dispose of enemy civilians or uncompensated workers
       Show  Describes current potentials for building ships,  planes,  units,
             bridges, or nuclear weapons
       Smap  Get a map around a ship
      Sonar  Use sonar to look for ships
        Spy  Snoop on adjacent enemy sectors
      Start  Turn sector production on
 Starvation  Find out who's going to starve
       Stop  Stop sector production
     Supply  Cause a unit to draw supplies
     Survey  Show distributions in map form

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   Telegram  Send diplomatic communique to another country
       Tend  Supply ships with guns and/or shells
  Territory  Assign various sectors to a specific territory
       Test  Check the effect of a proposed move
  Threshold  Set commodity distribution thresholds
    Torpedo  Slip a torpedo to some poor sucker (from a sub or ship)
      Trade  Generate a report on ships for sale and perhaps buy some
  Transport  Move a nuclear device around
     Treaty  Listing of all current and pending treaties
     Unload  Inverse of load (above)
     Unsail  Stop a ship from sailing
     Update  Find out when the next update will be
    Upgrade  Update the tech of a ship to the current tech level
    Version  Display parameters of this world
       Wait  Wait for a telegram
    Wingadd  Designate members of a wing
       Wipe  Remove all distribution thresholds
       Wire  Read announcements
       Work  Use engineers to raise sector efficiency
      Zdone  Indicate willingness to have an update

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See also : list, bugs

