Overview Screen

From the overview screen you can see the Top Frame showing your current planet and resources available. Also shown are buildings, research, and shipyard production in progress.

In the middle are the stats for your selected planet, showing Diameter, Temperature, and Position. Below is your Empire's Score and Rank.

Events
The events portion is particularly useful as it is the only place where you can see all Fleets moving to and from your planets. Your fleets are shown in Green, friendly fleets in Yellow/Brown and hostile fleets are shown in Red. It shows timers counting down until your fleets reach their destinations. Note that your fleets are often shown twice, once for their destination times and again for their return times. Expeditions may show three times, since they also must show time in Deep Space. Deployment missions of course only show once, as well as incoming fleets (friendly or hostile) only showing once.

Enemy fleets heading towards your own planets are also (only) shown on this screen. They are shown in red text, with arrival times counting down on the left side of the screen. This information allows you to do things like Fleetsave or other maneuvers to lessen the effect of the attack.

By hovering your cursor above the fleet or mission you can get information about the fleet and its cargo. Friendly fleets will always show you the number and types of each ship, as well as cargo load (if any). Enemy fleets will show you information in the tool tip depending on your level of Espionage Technology.

If you have the Commander officer, then you can also see the cargo (resources) loaded on friendly fleets. Without it you can only see cargo loaded on your own fleets.

Planet list
On the right side of the overview is your planet list, which also shows moons. Clicking on any of these pictures will select that planet.