Engineering Guide

1️⃣ Manufactured materials — by ship

High Grade Emissions can be found using the FSS, or by scanning the Nav Beacon (recommended and faster).

To be collected using limpets.

Prioritize systems with a large population (several billion inhabitants).

Use this list to find Grade 5 manufactured materials:

• Federation: Core Dynamics Composites INARA
• Alliance / Independent in War or Civil War: Military Alliances & Military Supercapacitors INARA & INARA
• Alliance / Independent in Riot: Improvised ComponentsINARA
• Imperial in Election: Imperial ShieldingINARA
• Alliance / Independent in Outbreak: Pharmaceutical Isolants INARA
• Alliance / Independent in Economic Boom: Proto Heat RadiatorsINARA
• Alliance / Independent in Economic Boom: Radiological Proto-AlloysINARA

2️⃣ Manufactured and encoded materials — optional, as High Grade Emissions are much more efficient. Bring an SRV and Detailed Surface Scanner to locate the settlement.

Dav’s Hope (Grades 1–4)

System: HYADES SECTOR DR-V C2-23
Body: A 5

3️⃣ Encoded materials — with an SRV and Detailed Surface Scanner to locate the crash site

Jameson crash site

Stock up on data: (Adaptive Encryptors Capture, Atypical Encryption Archives, Cracked Industrial Firmware, Modified Consumer Firmware)

Cobra crash site:
System: HIP 12099
Body: 1 B

4️⃣ Raw materials — with an SRV and Detailed Surface Scanner at biological sites

At Brain Trees:

- System: HR 3230 Body: 3 A A - Selenium

On Crystalline Shards:

- System: OUTOTZ LS-K D8-3 Body: B 5 A - Yttrium

- System: OUTOTZ LS-K D8-3 Body: B 5 C - Antimony

- System: OUTOTZ LS-K D8-3 Body: B 7 B - Ruthenium

- System: HIP 36601 Body: C 1 A - Polonium

- System: HIP 36601 Body: C 3 B - Tellurium

- System: HIP 36601 Body: C 5 A - Technetium

5️⃣ Thargoid materials (Sensor Fragments and Meta-Alloys) — with an SRV

To unlock Professor Palin, you will need 25 Sensor Fragments, which can be found at this Thargoid crash site:

System: HIP 17403
Body: A 4 A

Use your SRV ’s cannon to destroy the Thargoid Sensors on site to release fragments, then collect them using the SRV ’s cargo hold.

Another, less effective method for farming Sensor Fragments is to visit active Thargoid Surface Sites; you can view the list of these sites here: (TS) - Canonn - Thargoid Structures - Old Code: US - Google Sheets.

You can also find Meta-Alloy around these locations. It will be particularly useful for unlocking “Felicity Farseer.”

Example of an active site:

System: HIP 14909
Body: 2 A

Active Thargoid structures are teeming with Scavengers, floating limpets that maintain the site.

When you deploy your SRV and destroy these Scavengers with your weapons, they have a chance to drop Sensor Fragments upon death.

The Scorpion SRV is useful for this task.