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.
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).
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).
Passives Skills:
Drone Power, Shield HP
Skill Unlocks: 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.
Passives Skills:
None For now.
Skill Unlocks: 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%.
Unique officers that join through various missions in the game have unique skills that cannot be obtained any other way. Unique skills are noted by an asterisk (*) next to their name.
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.
Stella Chion
Icon
Skill
Effect
Optimized Drone Tools
Increases Drone Power by 2%.
Rapid Assault
Increases Attack Speed by 3%.
Hangar Extension *
Increases the hangar bay slots by 1.
Instant Reload
2% chance to instantly reload a turret.
Turret Rotation
Boosts your turret rotation speed by 5%.
-
Passive
Attack Speed.
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
