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# The map

Travel time 🚀

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### Map properties

The map, split into solar systems, is quite big at the beginning, mostly due to spaceship speed.&#x20;

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Each solar system is either **owned by a faction** or is **free**.
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Free areas can be [colonized](/game-features/planets.md), but are harder to defend. The story says that the brave soldiers have much to earn from these areas.

### Traveling

Based on your spaceship speed, it can take quite some time to reach your destination. The speed can be improved with items. During this time, you cannot do something else.

### Exploring

You can start an expedition in various areas of the map.  If you find a new planet, you have the option to colonize it. \
**For a faction to win a newly discovered territory, the faction needs to have with a minimum of 15 spaceships more than the enemy spaceships in the solar system, over the course of 24h.**