Engineers
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Directory of every Engineer currently available in Elite Dangerous, including where to find them, how to unlock them, and the Engineering they provide.
Engineers are specialists who modify ship modules, suits, and handheld weapons beyond their standard specifications. Each Engineer has a fixed location, access requirements, and a defined set of modifications they can perform.
Ship Engineering and Odyssey Engineering are separate systems. Ship Engineers modify ship modules and are available in both Live and Legacy. Odyssey Engineers modify suits and handheld weapons and are available only in Live.
This page is intended as a quick-reference directory. For step-by-step routes, material sourcing, reputation guidance, and other practical details, open the individual Engineer's article or see the Engineer Unlock Guide.
How Engineer access works
Ship Engineers generally use three separate access stages:
- Discovery
- Determines when the Engineer becomes visible to the commander. Some Engineers are known without a referral, while others are introduced by another Engineer after sufficient reputation has been earned.
- Meeting requirement
- A condition that must be completed before the Engineer will permit access. This may involve rank, faction reputation, travel distance, trading, mining, combat, or another activity.
- Unlock requirement
- The final payment, commodity delivery, material delivery, voucher hand-in, or other task required to use the Engineer's workshop.
Unlocking an Engineer does not automatically provide access to every grade they offer. Reputation with that Engineer must then be increased to reach higher Engineering grades.
Ship Engineers
There are 25 ship Engineers: 20 in the core inhabited regions, four in the Colonia region, and Chloe Sedesi in the Witch Head Nebula.[1]
The grade shown below is the maximum grade that Engineer can apply to that module. A module listed as G3, for example, can be modified through Grades 1–3 at that Engineer but not Grades 4–5.
| Engineer | Location | How to unlock | | | | | ---------------------- | ------------------------- | --------------------- | |  Felicity Farseer |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Elvira Martuuk |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Marco Qwent |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Elvira Martuuk. Meet: Obtain an invitation from Sirius Corporation; access to Sirius is also required. Unlock: Deliver 25 Modular Terminals. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Professor Palin |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Marco Qwent. Meet: Reach a maximum distance of at least 5,000 Ly from your career start location. Unlock: Deliver 25 Sensor Fragments. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Chloe Sedesi |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Marco Qwent. Meet: Reach a maximum distance of at least 5,000 Ly from your career start location. Unlock: Deliver 25 Sensor Fragments. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Lori Jameson |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Marco Qwent. Meet: Reach Combat rank Dangerous or higher. A Shinrarta Dezhra permit is also required. Unlock: Deliver 25 Kongga Ale. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  The Dweller |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Marsha Hicks |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with The Dweller. Meet: Reach Exploration rank Surveyor or higher. Unlock: Deliver 10 units of mined Osmium. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Lei Cheung |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with The Dweller. Meet: Trade at more than 50 markets. Unlock: Deliver 200 Gold. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Ram Tah |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Lei Cheung. Meet: Reach Exploration rank Surveyor or higher. Unlock: Deliver 50 Classified Scan Databanks. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Tod "The Blaster" McQuinn |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Petra Olmanova |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Tod "The Blaster" McQuinn. Meet: Reach Combat rank Expert or higher. Unlock: Deliver 200 Progenitor Cells. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Selene Jean |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Tod "The Blaster" McQuinn. Meet: Mine at least 500 tonnes of ore. Unlock: Deliver 10 units of mined Painite. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Bill Turner |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Selene Jean. Meet: Reach Friendly standing with the Alliance and Allied standing with Alioth Independents to obtain access to Alioth. Unlock: Deliver 50 Bromellite. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Didi Vatermann |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Selene Jean. Meet: Reach Trade rank Merchant or higher. Unlock: Deliver 50 Lavian Brandy. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Liz Ryder |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Etienne Dorn portrait Etienne Dorn | | | | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Liz Ryder. Meet: Reach Trade rank Dealer or higher. Unlock: Deliver 25 Occupied Escape Pods. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Hera Tani portrait Hera Tani | | | | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Liz Ryder. Meet: Reach Imperial rank Outsider or higher. Unlock: Deliver 50 Kamitra Cigars. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Broo Tarquin portrait Broo Tarquin | | | | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Hera Tani. Meet: Reach Combat rank Competent or higher. Unlock: Deliver 50 Fujin Tea. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Tiana Fortune portrait Tiana Fortune | | | | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Hera Tani. Meet: Reach Friendly standing with the Empire. Access to Achenar is also required. Unlock: Deliver 50 Decoded Emission Data. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Juri Ishmaak |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Felicity Farseer. Meet: Claim more than 50 Federal Combat Bonds. Unlock: Deliver the value of Federal Combat Bonds shown in the Engineer invitation. The current game can require 100,000 CR or 1,000,000 CR. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  The Sarge |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Juri Ishmaak. Meet: Reach Federal Navy rank Midshipman or higher. Unlock: Deliver 50 Aberrant Shield Pattern Analysis. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Colonel Bris Dekker |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Juri Ishmaak. Meet: Reach Friendly standing with the Federation. Access to Sol is also required. Unlock: Deliver the value of Federal Combat Bonds shown in the Engineer invitation. The current game can require 1,000,000 CR or 10,000,000 CR. | | | | |
| | | | | | | |  Mel Brandon |
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| | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Elvira Martuuk. Meet: Receive an invitation from the Colonia Council. Unlock: Deliver 100,000 CR worth of bounty vouchers. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Zacariah Nemo portrait Zacariah Nemo | | | | | | Referral: Reach approximately Grade 3–4 access with Elvira Martuuk. Meet: Receive an invitation from the Party of Yoru. Unlock: Deliver 25 Xihe Companions. | | | | |
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Ship Engineer locations, access requirements, and maximum Engineering grades are based on the current Engineer roster.[1] Odyssey EngineersThere are 13 Odyssey Engineers: nine in the core inhabited regions and four in Colonia.[1] Odyssey Engineers modify suits and handheld weapons and are available only in Live. Unlike ship Engineering, Odyssey modifications do not use separate Grade 1–5 blueprint levels. Suits and weapons are upgraded separately, while Engineers install individual modifications onto available modification slots. Several Odyssey Engineer requirements were reduced in Update 18.08. The requirements below reflect the current values rather than the original Odyssey launch requirements.[2] Core-region Odyssey EngineersThree Engineers — Hero Ferrari, Jude Navarro, and Domino Green — form the starting points of the three core-region Odyssey Engineer chains.
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