Personnel Center

The Personnel Center is a station facility where you recruit and manage your Crew — both rank-and-file crew members and named officers. It is the home base for building out the people who serve aboard your ships.

The Personnel Center is found on most stations, regardless of faction.

Not to be confused with the Mercenary Guild. The Personnel Center recruits permanent crew and officers for your own ships. The Mercenary Guild hires a temporary AI wingman who flies their own ship. They are separate facilities.

Crew

The Crew tab sells generic crew members by type. Buy crew into your reserve or directly onto a ship; sell unwanted crew back for 25% of their cost.

The available pool is generated per station and refreshes hourly.
Which crew types a station stocks depends on its controlling faction.
Larger, higher-level stations offer a much deeper pool.

Officers

The Officers tab offers a small selection of named, levelled officers for hire.

Typically 2–4 officers are available at a time.
The selection refreshes every couple of hours.
Officer level and rarity scale with the station's level — higher-tier stations offer stronger officers.
The professions on offer are heavily biased toward the station faction's specialty.

Training

The Training service upgrades an officer's rarity. Rather than costing credits or time, training consumes a single implant item:

Neural Patch
Synaptic Implant
Cortex Augment
Neuro Core

Each implant raises an officer one rarity tier, and training is the only way to reach Legendary.

Availability: the Training service is only offered at Omnitac Agency stations. (Omnitac Agency is also the faction that runs the Mercenary Guild, so its stations are where you find both training and wingman hire.)

Crew

Officers

Training

See also