How to change the view

I have a simple question I believe.   I have just started playing Sins of a Solar Empire and I saved my game.  When i went to load it, it loaded fine but the view had changed.  Instead of looking top down over my empire, my view had changed to a straight on view  more like a poor mans first person view.  My question is how do I change my view in the game back to the top like view.  I looked through the interfaces and manual and this website but couldn't find anything that addresses my issue.  Thanks in advance for your help.