In most of the screens in the game, you will see a status bar at the top that shows the most important figures. This is the main source of information of your Empire�s resources situation.
If you forget what resource pictures represent, you may hold your mouse pointer over it to get a hint label with the resource name.
Metals
Produced in Cyber Mine from raw minerals. It is used for Y-Units production and unit maintenance.
Energy
Produced by a Cyber Energy Complex from raw crystals (when CEC is landed) or from a star's radiation when orbiting it. In the same way as Metal, Energy is used for Y-Units production and maintenance.
Y-Units
Produced by Cyber Factories from Energy and Metals. Used in the morphing process - all other Krong units consists from Y-Units.
Galactic time
A universal galactic time. Its format was provided by Traders race, wich controls all trading exchanges in the Galaxy.
Crystals
Crystals are raw material on a planet. It is extracted in Cyber Mines and then refined for Energy production in Cyber Energy Complexes. The quantity of extracted Crystals depends directly on its quantity on the planet.