Editing Orders (section)

==Parts of an Order==
An order has two essential parts - what do you want the fleet to do, and where do you want the fleet to do it? You choose the "where" first, in the left section of the Movement Orders window. By default, this will show the major [[body|celestial bodies]] of the current solar system, plus any [[jump point]]s you have discovered. The buttons at the top left allow you to instead pick "Autoroute by System", which means you simply choose a system and go there by an automatic route, or "Order Templates", which let you pick from orders you've set up as templates (see below). The checkboxes beside that let you choose which items appear in the targets list when you're in the default "System Locations" view. 

Once you've determined where you want to go, you then pick what you want to do in the middle window. Click on a target (a [[body]], a [[jump point]], etc.), and a list of actions will appear. For most orders, you can simply double-click to add the order to the list. Or, if you want the default order for a given target (moving through a jump point, resupplying at a [[colony]], etc.), you can just double-click the target and skip this step entirely. 

However, orders can have additional parts which can be set. For some orders (especially ones that involve loading things from a colony), these can be mandatory. For example, if you are ordering a fleet with freighters and pick the Load Installation order, a list of available installations at that planet will be displayed on the right part of the Movement Orders tab. You must pick which installation you wish to load before you can issue the order. You can optionally put a value in the "Maximum Items" field at the bottom of the tab, which will limit the amount of that installation you're picking up (with the default value of "0" meaning unlimited). Similarly, you can set an order delay on any order, which is the number of seconds before the fleet will begin executing that order. (Note: Once the order is issued, the time will display as days:hours:minutes.)