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NAME

   endless-sky - a space exploration and combat game.

SYNOPSIS

   endless-sky  [-h]  [--help]  [-v]  [--version] [-s] [--ships] [-r] [-w]
   [--weapons] [-t] [--talk] [-r] [--resources] [-c] [--config]

DESCRIPTION

   Endless Sky is a space exploration and combat game combining action and
   role playing elements.

   Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers,
   or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better  ship  or  to
   upgrade  the  weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates.
   Take sides in a civil war. Or leave human space behind and hope to find
   some friendly aliens whose culture is more civilized than your own.

   For  keyboard  controls,  click  the  "Preferences" button on the title
   screen. You can pause and return to the title screen at  any  point  in
   the game by pressing <escape>.

   Most  of  the  controls  should  be  self-explanatory. Your ship has no
   reverse thrusters, so as with a real spacecraft, the only way  to  slow
   down  is  to  turn  your  ship  around  and  accelerate in the opposite
   direction from  your  current  heading.  To  assist  with  some  tricky
   maneuvers,  your ship has an autopilot which engages when you press 'L'
   to land or 'J' to enter hyperspace; the  autopilot  disengages  if  you
   press  any  of the movement keys. The autopilot will also automatically
   aim your ship if you are firing a weapon and have a target selected.

   For a manual and other information, visit https://endless-sky.github.io

   When run from  the  command  line,  if  a  resource  directory  is  not
   specified,  the  program  will  check  to  see if the current directory
   contains  directories  named  "data"  and  "images"  and  files   named
   "keys.txt"  and  "credits.txt";  if  so it will read resources from the
   current       directory.       Otherwise       it       will        use
   /usr/local/share/games/endless-sky      if      it      exists,      or
   /usr/share/games/endless-sky/ otherwise.

OPTIONS

   -h, --help
          prints a short help message.

   -v, --version
          prints the software version.

   -s, --ships
          prints (to STDOUT) a table showing  primary  characteristics  of
          all ships in the game, to aid in balancing.

   -w, --weapons
          prints  (to  STDOUT)  a  table  of  characteristics  of  all the
          available weapons.

   -t, --talk
          reads a data file from STDIN and looks for a "conversation" node
          at  the  root level (i.e. not indentated). If it finds one, that
          conversation is displayed  in  a  pop-up  dialog.  This  is  for
          testing conversations in a new mission you are developing.

   -r, --resources <directory>
          sets the directory from which game resources (images, etc.) will
          be loaded.

   -c, --config <directory>
          sets the directory where preferences and  saved  games  will  be
          stored.

AUTHOR

   Michael Zahniser (mzahniser@gmail.com)

   This  is  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
   the terms of the GPL.



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