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A combat-focused suit and weapon specialist based at Laszlo's Resolve in Xuane, reached through Wellington Beck.

Uma Laszlo
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ENGINEER
Engineer type
Odyssey Engineer
System
Xuane
Body
Xuane A 3
Facility
Laszlo's Resolve
Specialties
Damage Resistance, Faster Shield Regen, Headshot Damage, Reload Speed, Stowed Reloading
ACCESS
Prerequisite
Wellington Beck
Discovery
Referral from Wellington Beck after providing 5 Insight Entertainment Suites
Invitation
None
Unlock
Reach Unfriendly reputation or lower with Sirius Corporation
MODIFICATIONS
Suit modifications
Damage Resistance, Faster Shield Regen
Weapon modifications
Headshot Damage, Reload Speed, Stowed Reloading

Uma Laszlo is an Odyssey Engineer based at Laszlo's Resolve in the Xuane system. She is reached through Wellington Beck and specialises in combat-oriented suit protection, shield recovery, and handheld-weapon performance.[1]

Uma provides Damage Resistance, Faster Shield Regen, Headshot Damage, Reload Speed, and Stowed Reloading.[1]

Field note

Odyssey Engineering does not use the Grade 1–5 Engineer-reputation progression used by ship Engineers. Suits and weapons have equipment grades and modification slots; Uma installs individual modifications into those slots.

Location

Laszlo's Resolve is a surface Engineer base on Xuane A 3, approximately 310 Ls from the system arrival point.[2]

How to Discover Uma Laszlo

Uma Laszlo is discovered through Wellington Beck.[1]

After unlocking Wellington, provide him with 5 Insight Entertainment Suites to receive the referral to Uma.[3]

Insight Entertainment Suites are Odyssey Goods found at settlements.[4]

Important

Do not confuse Wellington's own unlock requirement with Uma's referral:

  • Unlock Wellington Beck: sell a combined total of 15 Cat Media, Classic Entertainment, and Multimedia Entertainment to bartenders.
  • Discover Uma Laszlo: provide 5 Insight Entertainment Suites directly to Wellington.

See Wellington Beck for the complete preceding Engineer unlock.

How to Receive an Invitation

There is no separate invitation requirement after Wellington Beck has revealed Uma.

Once she has been discovered, her remaining access requirement is to reduce your reputation with Sirius Corporation to Unfriendly or lower.[1]

How to Unlock Uma Laszlo

Reach Unfriendly reputation or lower with Sirius Corporation.[1]

To unlock Uma:

  1. Unlock Hero Ferrari.
  2. Provide Hero with 5 Settlement Defence Plans to discover Wellington Beck.
  3. Complete Wellington's unlock requirement.
  4. Provide Wellington with 5 Insight Entertainment Suites.
  5. Reduce your reputation with Sirius Corporation to Unfriendly or lower.
  6. Travel to Laszlo's Resolve on Xuane A 3.
  7. Access Uma Laszlo's Engineer workshop.

Important

Uma's requirement is unusual because it requires negative faction reputation. Being Neutral, Cordial, Friendly, or Allied with Sirius Corporation does not satisfy it. Your standing must reach Unfriendly or lower.[1]

Lowering Sirius Corporation Reputation

Sirius Corporation is an independent minor faction present in multiple inhabited systems.[5]

To satisfy Uma's requirement, your reputation specifically with Sirius Corporation must fall to Unfriendly or lower.

Actions that negatively affect your standing with the faction can be used to reduce it. Because Sirius Corporation's system presence, missions, and conflicts can change through the Background Simulation, use current faction information when choosing where to work against the faction rather than relying on an old fixed-location guide.

Important

Reducing Sirius Corporation reputation may interfere with other progression that requires good standing with the faction.

In particular, Marco Qwent's access path involves Sirius Corporation reputation and the Sirius Permit. If you still need to complete that progression, consider doing so before deliberately reducing your Sirius Corporation standing for Uma.

Tip

Check your current Sirius Corporation reputation before beginning. Uma does not merely require you to lose some reputation; your final standing must actually reach Unfriendly or lower.

Field note

Current Engineer data notes that station services may not become available immediately after Uma is unlocked. If her expected services do not appear after reaching the required reputation and visiting Laszlo's Resolve, logging out and back in may make them available.[1]

Odyssey Engineering at Uma Laszlo

Odyssey Engineering works differently from ship Engineering.

Suits and handheld weapons have an equipment grade. Higher equipment grades provide additional modification slots.

Uma then installs individual modifications into those slots.

Her modifications do not progress through Grade 1–5 Engineer reputation.

Important

A Grade 5 Dominator Suit does not receive a "Grade 5 Damage Resistance" modification. The Grade 5 equipment has four Engineer modification slots; Damage Resistance occupies one of those slots as a single permanent modification.

See Odyssey Engineering for suit and weapon upgrades, modification slots, material storage, and Engineering mechanics.

Available Engineering

Uma currently provides five Odyssey modifications.[1]

Modification Equipment Primary effect
Damage Resistance Suit Reduces kinetic, thermal, plasma, and explosive damage taken
Faster Shield Regen Suit Increases personal-shield regeneration rate by approximately 25%
Headshot Damage Handheld weapon Increases damage inflicted by headshots
Reload Speed Handheld weapon Reduces weapon reload time
Stowed Reloading Handheld weapon Automatically reloads the weapon while it is stowed

Damage Resistance

Damage Resistance reduces incoming damage from the four principal on-foot weapon damage types.[1]

The current modification provides:

  • +10% kinetic damage reduction
  • +10% thermal damage reduction
  • +10% plasma damage reduction
  • +10% explosive damage reduction[1]

The current recipe is:

Other Engineers currently providing Damage Resistance include:

Tip

EDFM recommendation: Damage Resistance is one of Uma's strongest general-purpose modifications for a combat-oriented Dominator Suit.

It reduces damage across kinetic, thermal, plasma, and explosive attacks rather than protecting against only one weapon family.

The modification is still useful on other suits when improved survivability is worth one of their limited modification slots.

Faster Shield Regen

Faster Shield Regen increases the regeneration rate of the suit's personal shield.[1]

Independent in-game testing measures the modification at approximately +25% shield regeneration rate.[6]

Testing across multiple Dominator Suit grades produced the following regeneration-rate changes:[6]

  • Grade 3: approximately 1.65 → 2.06
  • Grade 4: approximately 2.02 → 2.53
  • Grade 5: approximately 2.48 → 3.10

These results correspond to an increase of roughly 25% at each tested equipment grade.

The current recipe is:

Other Engineers currently providing Faster Shield Regen include:

Tip

EDFM recommendation: Faster Shield Regen is particularly useful on a Dominator Suit intended for sustained ground combat.

Faster shield recovery reduces downtime between engagements and allows the Commander to return to combat sooner after taking shield damage.

Field note

Current Inara data describes Faster Shield Regen as increasing personal-shield regeneration but displays its numerical modifier as Shield health +25%.[1] Independent in-game testing instead shows an approximately 25% increase in shield regeneration rate without supporting a 25% increase in maximum shield capacity.[6] EDFM therefore treats the current "Shield health" label as a database-display discrepancy.

Headshot Damage

Headshot Damage increases the damage inflicted when a handheld weapon strikes an enemy's head.[1]

The required materials depend on the weapon manufacturer.

Kinematic Armaments weapons

The current recipe is:

Manticore weapons

The current recipe is:

Takada weapons

The current recipe is:

Yi Shen also provides Headshot Damage.[1]

Tip

EDFM recommendation: Headshot Damage is strongest on weapons and playstyles where accurate headshots can be landed consistently.

If most of your fire is directed at centre mass during chaotic close-range combat, a modification that improves weapon handling, reload behaviour, or ammunition endurance may produce more consistent value.

Reload Speed

Reload Speed shortens the time required to reload a handheld weapon.[1]

The current recipe is:

Other Engineers currently providing Reload Speed include:

Tip

EDFM recommendation: Reload Speed is one of Uma's most broadly useful weapon modifications.

Unlike Headshot Damage, its benefit does not depend on accuracy against a specific body part. It is particularly useful on weapons whose reload cycle frequently interrupts sustained combat.

Stowed Reloading

Stowed Reloading automatically reloads a weapon while that weapon is stowed.[1]

The current recipe is:

Other Engineers currently providing Stowed Reloading include:

Tip

Stowed Reloading is particularly useful on loadouts that regularly alternate between two weapons.

A weapon can reload while the other weapon is being used, reducing the amount of combat time spent performing manual reload animations.

This makes the modification especially compatible with Odyssey loadouts that frequently switch between weapons suited to shields and weapons suited to unshielded targets.

Engineer Unlock Chain

Uma Laszlo belongs to the Hero Ferrari branch of the Odyssey Engineer network.

The complete branch is: 

Hero Ferrari
└── Wellington Beck
    └── Uma Laszlo

The progression is:

  1. Unlock Hero Ferrari by completing 10 surface conflict zones.
  2. Give Hero 5 Settlement Defence Plans to discover Wellington Beck.
  3. Unlock Wellington by selling a combined total of 15 qualifying entertainment Data items to bartenders.
  4. Give Wellington 5 Insight Entertainment Suites to discover Uma Laszlo.
  5. Reach Unfriendly reputation or lower with Sirius Corporation to unlock Uma.[3][1]

Uma Laszlo does not currently refer the Commander to another Odyssey Engineer.

She is therefore the endpoint of this branch.

Increasing Engineer Reputation

Not applicable to Odyssey Engineers in the same way as ship Engineers.

Uma Laszlo does not use the Grade 1–5 Engineer-reputation progression found at ship Engineer workshops.

Once she has been unlocked, her modifications can be installed provided that:

  • the equipment is compatible;
  • the suit or weapon has an unused modification slot; and
  • you possess the required Odyssey materials and credits.

Equipment itself is upgraded separately through Pioneer Supplies.

See Odyssey Engineering for the complete system.

Experimental Effects

Not applicable.

Odyssey suit and handheld-weapon Engineering does not use the separate ship-module Experimental Effects system.

Uma's five modifications are themselves the permanent modifications installed onto the suit or weapon.

Blueprint Pinning

Not applicable.

Odyssey modifications cannot be pinned for Remote Engineering in the same manner as ship Engineering blueprints.

A suit or weapon must be taken to Uma Laszlo or another Engineer offering the desired modification.

Field note

Unlocking Uma therefore does not make Damage Resistance, Faster Shield Regen, Reload Speed, or her other modifications remotely available from another station.

Uma's modification set is heavily oriented toward ground combat.

Dominator Suit

For a Dominator Suit intended primarily for surface conflict zones or combat missions:

Tip

EDFM recommendation: Damage Resistance and Faster Shield Regen are both strong combat-oriented choices.

Damage Resistance reduces incoming kinetic, thermal, plasma, and explosive damage, while Faster Shield Regen improves recovery between engagements. Together, they improve both survivability while taking fire and the speed at which the suit can recover afterward.

A combat suit fitted with both modifications gains:

  • improved resistance while under fire; and
  • approximately 25% faster shield regeneration between periods of incoming damage.[6]

Field note

Odyssey suit modification slots are limited. A Grade 5 suit has four slots, so even strong combat modifications need to be considered as part of the complete intended suit build.

Combat weapons

Uma offers three weapon modifications:

For a conventional general-purpose combat weapon:

Tip

EDFM recommendation: Reload Speed is generally the safest all-purpose choice of Uma's three weapon modifications.

Its benefit applies whenever the weapon needs to reload and does not depend on consistently landing headshots or regularly switching away from the weapon.

Headshot Damage becomes more attractive for accurate weapons and players deliberately building around precision fire.

Stowed Reloading becomes more attractive for loadouts where two weapons are switched frequently.

What Uma Cannot Modify

Uma currently provides five modification types:

  • Damage Resistance — suit
  • Faster Shield Regen — suit
  • Headshot Damage — weapon
  • Reload Speed — weapon
  • Stowed Reloading — weapon[1]

Other combat modifications require different Engineers.

Examples include:

See Odyssey Engineer Modifications for the complete Engineer-by-modification matrix.

What Next?

Uma Laszlo is the end of her Odyssey Engineer referral branch and does not currently introduce another Engineer.

After unlocking her, further Odyssey Engineering progression requires following one of the other independent Engineer branches.

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 Uma Laszlo — Engineer, Inara.
  2. ↑ Laszlo's Resolve — Station, Inara.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wellington Beck — Engineer, Inara.
  4. ↑ Insight Entertainment Suite — Component, Inara.
  5. ↑ Sirius Corporation — Minor Faction, Inara.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Dominator + Faster Shield Regen (+25.25%), r/EliteDangerous.
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