Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Add "cheat" to the end of your desktop shortcut and run the game from there.

then:

Ctrl +

V- United planets meeting

B- Adds battleship

C- Clones selected ship

0-9(NOT on Num Pad)- Hail's major races

J- Completes social projects

R- Research current tech (Hold Shift for ALL techs)

H- Heals selected ship

T- Teleports selected ship to cursor

L- Assigns remaining planets to major races

S- Saves

W-???( 1st time I hit it, it deleted all my ships. 2nd time, it crashed the game)

A- Upgrades selected ship

M- Adds 10,000bc

N- Restart on a new map with new race

P- Adds 1 to planet class
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, I guess any shortcut can work. If you don't have room on your desktop, just create a shortcut where the game exe is.

However, I do not recommend using the cheats. It ruins the experience .

This comes from a gamer that usually cheats in games.