Officer Skills

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Officer Skills are the passive bonuses that hired officers contribute to your ship. Every officer is generated with a fixed set of skills drawn from their profession (see below), and those skills switch on as the crew member gains levels — each unlocked skill adds one rank to the matching node in your captain's skill trees.

Higher quality officers can utilize more skills:

Rarity	Skill slots
Standard	2
Enhanced	3
High-Grade	5
Exotic	6

Note: Legendary officers don't exist yet. For info how to train officers, see Personnel Center.

How Officer Skills work

• Profession skills: A crew member only rolls skills flagged for their profession, such as Mining, Salvaging, Combat, Engineering or Industrial. A single skill can belong to more than one profession.
• Skill slots by officer quality: Higher quality officers can use more skills.
• Minor vs. major skills: Skills in slots 1-2 and 4-5 are minor skills. Skills in slots 3 and 6 are major skills which usually grant a powerful ability or effect.
• Level gates: A skill unlocks once the crew member reaches its required level. For skills in slots 1/2/3/4/5/6, officer needs to be level 1/15/30/40/50/60 to utilize them.
• Officer skills stack with Captain's skills: Each unlocked officer skills adds +1 rank to that node in your own skill trees, on top of any points you invested. Several crew members carrying the same skill stack their ranks together, so you can have a skill at rank 8/3 - 8 points total out of 3 possible, since 5 officers contribute +1, and the captain contributes +3.

Skill list

Pick a profession tab below to see every skill a crew member of that profession can roll, grouped by the slot pool that unlocks it. Skills shared by more than one profession appear under each. Minor pools (slots 1–2 and 4–5) hold stacking multi-rank passives; major pools (slots 3 and 6) hold a single skill, usually an ability or threshold effect.

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Slots 1–2 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Annihilator	Increases Critical Damage by 5%.
	Assault Doctrine	Increases the boarding power of all your crew by 10%, making them more effective in ship-to-ship boarding combat.
	Composite Drone Armor	Drones will receive a 3% increase to Damage Reduction.
	Drone Agility	Boosts the engine thrust of all drones by 10%.
	Excavation Actuators	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 4%.
	Optimized Drone Tools	Increases Drone Power by 2%.
	Precise Targeting	Improves Critical Chance by 1%.
	Range Amplifier	Increases turret Range by 5%.
	Rapid Assault	Increases Attack Speed by 3%.
	Veteran's Might	Increases Combat Power by 1% (minimum of +3 Combat Power).

Slot 3 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Drone Handler	Increases Drone Power by 5%.
	Fire Control Officer	Increases Attack Speed by 12%.
	Reactor Technician	Increases Energy Capacity by10%.
	Targeting Specialist	Increases Critical Chance by 2%, and Critical Damage by 5%.

Slots 4–5 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Critical Recursion	Critical Hits can trigger 1 additional times. Critical hit chance is halved each time.
	Instant Reload	2% chance to instantly reload a turret.
	Redline	Critical hits have a 5% chance to grant a Rage stack for 15s (max 25 stacks). Each stack grants +0.5% Combat Power. (Cooldown: 1s).
	Target Weak Spots	Increase Critical Chance by 1% & Critical Damage by 2.5%.
	Turret Rotation	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 5%.

Slot 6 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Iron Rage	When your hull takes a hit, increase Combat Power by 25% for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 60s).
	Shock Assault	While boarding, enemy defenders have their Boarding Power reduced by 5%.
	Warpath	Each kill grants +3% Attack Speed for 2 minutes. Stacks up to 5 times.
	Weapons Free	On arriving at a combat zone, gain +10% Attack Speed for 30 seconds. (Cooldown: 180s).

Slots 1–2 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Armor Repair Bot	When you take armor damage, deploy 1 repair bot(s) that each restore 1% of your armor every 2 seconds. Each bot lasts 20 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds).
	Drone Agility	Boosts the engine thrust of all drones by 10%.
	Excavation Actuators	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 4%.
	Miner's Edge	Increases Mining Power by 1% +0.8 (minimum of +3 Mining Power).
	Ore Hold Retrofit	Increase your ship's cargo capacity by 30.
	Range Amplifier	Increases turret Range by 5%.
	Resource Maximizer	Improves yield by 2%.

Slot 3 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Efficient Miner	Increases Mining Power by 5%.
	Harvester	Increases Yield by 2.5%.
	Loadmaster	Increases Cargo Capacity by 5%.
	Lode Sense	Each ore drop has a 5% chance to be upgraded to its next quality tier (if possible).
	Reactor Rest	-50% reactor energy usage for 30 seconds after hitting an asteroid. (Cooldown: 60s).

Slots 4–5 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Equipment Bonus	Bonus when extracting equipment (10% per rank). (In-game tooltip is currently a placeholder.)
	Hazard Leech	There is a 25% chance when taking damage from a hazard you increase Yield by 5% for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 20s).
	Precision Module	Increases mining power by 1%, and a bonus to Yield by 1%.
	Smugglers Stash	You have a 1% chance each extraction to find a Locked Container hidden within an asteroid.
	Turret Rotation	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 5%.

Slot 6 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Fault Line	Critical hits on asteroids have a 25% chance to grant +10% Yield for 8 seconds.
	Field Focus	On arriving at an asteroid field, gain +12.5% Mining Power for 60 seconds. (Cooldown: 180s).

Slots 1–2 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Drone Agility	Boosts the engine thrust of all drones by 10%.
	Enhanced Beams	Increases Salvage Power by 1% (minimum of +3 Salvage Power).
	Excavation Actuators	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 4%.
	Precision Scraping	Increases Yield by 2%.
	Range Amplifier	Increases turret Range by 5%.
	Salvage Racks	Increases Cargo Capacity by 25.

Slot 3 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Clean Sweep	Destroying a wreck grants +20% Salvage Power for 2 minutes. (Cooldown: 5 min).
	Harvester	Increases Yield by 2.5%.
	Loadmaster	Increases Cargo Capacity by 5%.
	Lucky Haul	Each salvage hit has a 1% chance to instantly drop an item from the wreck. (Cooldown: 1s).
	Salvage Surge	On arriving at a salvage field, gain +12.5% Salvage Power for 60 seconds. (Cooldown: 180s).
	Scavenger	Increases Salvage Power by 5%.

Slots 4–5 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Hazard Leech	There is a 25% chance when taking damage from a hazard you increase Yield by 5% for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 20s).
	Turret Rotation	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 5%.

Slot 6 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Sharp Eye	Critical hits on wrecks grant +5% Yield for 10 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times. (Cooldown: 2s).
	Strip Focus	Each salvage hit grants +5% Salvage Power for 60 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times. (Cooldown: 1s).

Slots 1–2 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Annihilator	Increases Critical Damage by 5%.
	Armor Repair Bot	When you take armor damage, deploy 1 repair bot(s) that each restore 1% of your armor every 2 seconds. Each bot lasts 20 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds).
	Assault Doctrine	Increases the boarding power of all your crew by 10%, making them more effective in ship-to-ship boarding combat.
	Crew Conditioning	Increases crew resistance by 10%, reducing the chance of casualties from hull damage and boosting HP in boarding combat.
	Excavation Actuators	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 4%.
	Experience Penalty Reducer	Reduces the experience penalty by 2%.
	Extended Brig	Increases the brig capacity of your ships by 10%, allowing you to hold more prisoners.
	Faster Production I	Increases refinery and forge production speed by 8%.
	Fieldwork Power Efficiency	Reduces the penalty reduction to Mining and Salvage Power by 2%.
	Overwhelming Resolve	When 3 or more enemies are within range, gain 2% damage reduction.
	Quick Rebuild	Drone rebuild time is reduced by 7.5%.
	Range Amplifier	Increases turret Range by 5%.
	Rapid Deployment	Drone deployment accelerated by 40%.
	Resource Maximizer	Improves yield by 2%.
	Smart Extraction	Reduces the penalty reduction to Mining and Salvage yields by 2%.

Slot 3 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Armor Plating	Increases Armor HP by 10%.
	Drone Handler	Increases Drone Power by 5%.
	Loadmaster	Increases Cargo Capacity by 5%.
	Shield Boost	Increases Shield HP by 10%.
	Sustained Operator	Every 10 minutes of continuous Autopilot grants +1% efficiency (max 10%).

Slots 4–5 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Armor Leech	Dealing damage restores armor equal to 0.5% of the damage dealt.
	ECHO The Conqueror	Idle Conquest missions grant 20% more Fleet Strength.
	Faster Production II	Increases refinery and forge production speed by 15%.
	Hazard Leech	There is a 25% chance when taking damage from a hazard you increase Yield by 5% for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 20s).
	Hidden Crystals	When refining ore, there is a 0.3% chance to attain a random crystal.
	Power Tools	Increases drone power by 1%.
	Shield Leech	Dealing damage restores shields equal to 0.5% of the damage dealt.
	Turret Rotation	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 5%.

Slot 6 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Drone	Increases all Drone Power by 2.5% and drone Attack Speed by 5%.
	System Optimizer	Reduces Autopilot activity delay by 0.5 seconds.

Slots 1–2 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Excavation Actuators	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 4%.
	Faster Production I	Increases refinery and forge production speed by 8%.
	Ore Hold Retrofit	Increase your ship's cargo capacity by 30.
	Overwhelming Resolve	When 3 or more enemies are within range, gain 2% damage reduction.
	Quick Rebuild	Drone rebuild time is reduced by 7.5%.
	Rapid Deployment	Drone deployment accelerated by 40%.

Slot 3 — major skill

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Harvester	Increases Yield by 2.5%.
	Loadmaster	Increases Cargo Capacity by 5%.

Slots 4–5 — minor passives

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Armor Leech	Dealing damage restores armor equal to 0.5% of the damage dealt.
	ECHO The Conqueror	Idle Conquest missions grant 20% more Fleet Strength.
	Faster Production II	Increases refinery and forge production speed by 15%.
	Hazard Leech	There is a 25% chance when taking damage from a hazard you increase Yield by 5% for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 20s).
	Hidden Crystals	When refining ore, there is a 0.3% chance to attain a random crystal.
	Power Tools	Increases drone power by 1%.
	Shield Leech	Dealing damage restores shields equal to 0.5% of the damage dealt.
	Turret Rotation	Boosts your turret rotation speed by 5%.

Melloy

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Annihilator	Increases Critical Damage by 5%.
	Rapid Deployment	Drone deployment accelerated by 40%.
	From Memory	Melloy's engineering instincts increase warp travel speed by 5%.
	Power Tools	Increases drone power by 1%.
	Drone	Increases all Drone Power by 2.5% and drone Attack Speed by 5%.
-	Passive	Shield HP.

See also

• Crew — recruiting and managing crew members and officers
• Skills — the captain's skill trees these ranks feed into
• Leadership — the tree that strengthens crew and officers