VB6 Aurora:SpaceMaster Mode

The password for SM mode is always blank, unless you set one yourself

Economics

In the Economics screen you have All Research and SM Mods down at the bottom on all tabs. All Research gives all the research to the current default race that costs less than X value. X is set when you push the button. SM Mods allows the SM to directly modify all the details of a population or colony. Want free infrastructure, construction factories of population just to name a few? Add them here. It goes to the currently selected colony. Seems to default to the capital if none are selected.

- Economics>Industry tab has SM Add. Basically just creates whatever you entered in the create industrial project entries instantly from thin air. Like the create button, but instant and costs nothing.

- Economics>Shipyard Tab has SM SY Mod. It lets you directly modify the details of the currently selected shipyard. Size, number of slipways, and whether it's naval or commercial.

- Economics>Research I mentioned before. Instant gives the race the highlighted technology instantly. Instant RST does the same with all the custom techs made in the design screen.

- Economics> Environment has SM Set Atm. After setting the desired value for a gas like you were doing normal terraforming just hit this button to change the ATM instantly to the value you set.

- Economics> GU Training has Add Units. It creates a number of ground units for free. I haven't used this one yet, but it looks self explanatory.

Class Design

Class Design has the unlock button. As long as a class has been built the class becomes locked. The game uses the values here to determine what a ship has all the time, not just when the ship is first built. So if you change an existing class all ships of that class would 'magically' obtain the new parts for free. Unlock just allows you to edit a current design directly. Good for if you simply make a stupid little mistake that no sensible designer would miss, and already have a few ships out with the flaw. Like missing engines or no reactor on a laser ship. It can also theoretically be used to transform a tiny little scout ship into a 30000 ton behemoth for free. 'SM Mode' is just a convenient button to put you into SM mode without minimizing the screen.

Ships

- The ships screen has repair all and SM refuel. repair all repairs all damage on the selected ship automagically. Sm refuel is supposed to magically fill the selected ship's fuel tank, but in my experience, it dosn't work.

System View

The system view screen is the screen that shows all the information on any body in any system you want. It is normally defaulted to the system you are currently in. All the SM buttons are down in the lower right.

- Create Empire Creates a player race or NPR on the selected planet. Currently the planet needs to have an atmosphere. Oxygen is needed, however Methane may also work. If you try to use methane for the atmosphere, you will get a window asking for conformation. The screen that comes up that actually relates to creating the empire is very similar to some of the start game options.

- Create system creates a randomly generated system, just like if a ship went through a jump point. You would probably have to use this a few times before you find a planet with parameters you are looking for.

- Create Nebula is exactly like create system. It just forces the system to be a nebula type.

- HW materials is used to guarantee all minerals with decent accessibility on the selected planet, similar to when you start a new game on Earth. Good to use right before creating an empire.

- All Minerals runs the random generation for minerals on all bodies in the system again replacing what was on the bodies before.

- Specify Minerals lets you manually place minerals and accessibility on the selected planet. Currently (v5.20) however, there is a bug that results in all areas being blank. However, you can still change minerals; it just doesn't display the current status of the planet.

- JP survey automatically surveys all gravity survey points in the system for the current default race.

- All SB survey, just like JP survey, only for geo surveys of all bodies in the system.

- Star SB survey just like the above, only effecting the bodies orbiting the currently selected star.

- Body Survey instantly does a geological survey for the current default race of the currently selected body.

- No JP survey forces the currently selected default race to have the current system's survey points set to unsurveyed. This does not effect jump point knowledge itself.

- No SB Survey forces the currently selected default race to loose knowledge of all minerals in all bodies in the system.

- Update Atmos seems to just refresh the screen.

- Redo Comets runs the comet generation routine over again, removing existing comets, and forces there to be at least 1 comet generated.

- Random Ruin adds a random precursor site to the selected system body. If added to an already surveyed body, you will have to survey it again to discover the ruins. Does not create any precursor ships.

Task Groups

- If in SM mode, you may teleport the selected Task Group to any body/waypoint in any system known by the current race. It may be found in the top right of the "History / Officers / Misc" section.

- In the same section as above(History / Officers / Misc) at the bottom left, you may check on or off an option named "Select Real Star Destination for Unexplored" which allows you to select the destination star of a Task Group if it explores an unlinked Jump Point in a Real Stars game.

View race

- SM mode View race details makes the race's environmental tolerances and other details editable. Works well with the economics>environment SM mode to customize a race. Remember that if you drastically change a race's tolerances you may need to SM terraform your homeworld at the environment tab of economics to keep it habitable.

Intelligence/Diplomacy

- Intelligence/Diplomacy gives you communicate and Change DR. Communicate just lets your race know the target race's language, which makes it easier to spy, helps diplomacy, and get intel from prisoners. Change DR Changes your race's view of the target race instantly. The values for various things are given in the tooltip. Change DR only effects your race's view of them. It doesn't effect their view of you.

"Create Research Project" window (ctrl+F6)

- with SM mode on, hit the "instant" button to give the custom tech you just created to your race immediately without having to research it.

Credits

Original post credits to Greiger from Bay12