The Command Center is the main control screen of Star Wars: Rebellion, where the strategic part of the game takes place.

Reaching the Command Center

A game begins in the Shuttle Cockpit, where the player chooses the parameters of the game. The player picks a side by clicking its icon, and the shuttle then flies to that side's headquarters and delivers the player to the Command Center. The cockpit also offers a galaxy-size selection, a head-to-head option, a way to load a saved game, a credits view and an exit. A Headquarters Only Victory option shortens a game by requiring only the capture or destruction of the opponent's headquarters. Easy, Medium and Hard campaign levels are also set here, with Easy as the default.

Layout

The Galactic Information Display dominates the screen as a map of the galaxy. On the Alliance side the advisor C-3PO gives a briefing, and the message droid R2-D2 collects reports from across the galaxy; the Empire side has IMP-22 and SD-7 in the corresponding roles. These two droids are described in a separate article.

The manual identifies the following information displays:

• the title of the current Galactic Information Display, which explains what the star sizes mean;
• the number of days since the game started, which keeps advancing whether or not the player gives orders;
• a message notification area showing which kinds of unread messages are waiting;
• the resource monitors, which show raw materials, refined materials and maintenance capacity;
• the Window Reference Bar, which holds up to 12 minimized windows in slots;
• the legend for the star sizes, opened by double-clicking its icon.

The galaxy is divided into sectors of ten systems each, and the smallest game has 10 sectors while the largest has 20.

Controls

A Control Panel of buttons around the message droid lets the player focus on one aspect of the galaxy, such as a particular system, character or troop. The manual's labeled screenshot of the Command Center covers the map display, the in-game encyclopedia, game speed, locating systems, saving and loading, and finders for fleets, troops and personnel. See Game options for the speed, finder and save/load controls.

The Command Center has the same features on both sides, though the graphics and droids differ.