Capturing a Sector

To capture a Sector you must have an Administrative Center in that Sector and there must be no Administrative Center present which is owned by another Faction (including Xenon).

The Admin Center is in the Defence section when building any Station, along with Defense Discs etc. The Blueprint can be bought but it can also be obtained using an EMP Bomb just like any other Module.

Within your station the Administrative Center must be the first Module that is built. To be sure of that start a new Station, place the Admin Center and nothing else, when it is finished and the Construction Vessel is leaving add whatever else you want to build. I go for a Defense Platform, it is fast to build and obviously it is well defended which is of paramount importance because you will probably be building in a hostile Sector.

Building in a hostile Sector is not easy of course. I save the game, design the station, write down the materials needed then load that save. Next I gather all of the materials in one of my other stations and move them to the new construction site myself to speed things up. Tip, you have infinite storage at every one of your stations, the building platform (sorry I forget the exact name). If you just hand a lot of money over to the Construction Vessel you will probably have your station it might never be built but it will be destroyed.

You will have to destroy all other Administrative Centers belonging to any/all races. Spacesuit Bombs were nerfed ages ago so they will not do it. You can try messing about with normal mines but I never have. I would just attack the station and take the drop in reputation. If you destroy a friendly station your rep will drop from +30 to about -15.

Note that as soon as you destroy a station it is likely that the game will start to replace it. You will have to stop that happening until the Sector is yours. Just go to the construction site and keep destroying whatever appears on the Construction Platform or kill the Construction Ship. There will probably only be traders at the site so they wont shoot at you.

The time between becoming the owner of the only Administrative Center and you taking ownership of the sector can be up to 30 minutes.

If the loss of Reputation bothers you there is a mod called "Cheat Menu" at the Steam Workshop that can fix that for you as of 22dn October 2021.