After a bit of exploring I have met the first Gazurtoid ship and found that I can´t fire the ships weapons.

The pdf manual states that the weapons are fired by pressing the SPACE bar, but whenever I hit SPACE I´m simply back to the menu as if I had hit ENTER.

I haven't tried to play this for quite a long time, but make sure you have the combat option checked first.

That´s it. I had armed the weapons and raised the shields and completely forgotten to click COMBAT instead of MANEUVER in the fight. Thankyou