Last Updated: Thursday, July 20, 2023 18:31:24 (UTC)

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Officers List & explanation

Officers in Homeworld Mobile give various buffs depending on the location they are placed in, what stats they have and if they have passive perks or active abilities.

Stats

There are three stats that officer have, are [Physical](#physical), [Mind](#mind) and [Aerospace](#aerospace). These affect various items or actions in Homeworld Mobile at a rate of 0.05% per point (5% per 100 points) in a stat related to what it is being used in.

Stats do ***NOT*** apply from the Bridge.

Physical

• **Kinetic weapons** (e.g. K-A3 Turret, Twin Javelin Cannon, Karos-8 Battery) - gives a damage buff to both hull and armour damage when slotted into a kinetic turret.
• **Ion weapons** (e.g. Crimson-4 Array, Fleet Model X2 Battery) - gives a damage buff to both hull and armour damage.
• **Pulsar weapons** (e.g. LT-4 MAG Pointer, Yaot SSL Pointer, DR-3 MAG Repeater, Yaot SSV Repeater) - gives a damage buff to both hull and armour damage when slotted into a pulsar turret.
• **Resource collectors** - mining yield increase for collectors when slotted into a resource collectors slot.
• **Resource controller** - remote mining yield increase for controllers when slotted into a resource controller slot.
• **Escort** - damage increase for escort ships when slotted into the escort slot but the buff type depends on the type of escort.

Mind

• **Fabricator** - fabrication time reduction
• **Refinery** - refinery time reduction
• **Laboratory** - research time reduction

Aerospace

• **Missile weapons** (e.g. Type-5 Launch Pads, Colchis Launch Clusters, Thundercloud Launch Complex) - increases the range of the turret.
• **Repair turrets** (e.g. REL-12, REL-12DX Twin, REL-14F Mohaava, REL-14XF Matter Projector) - increases the range of the turret.
• **Engine** - increases speed and acceleration.
• **Sensor array** - increases the scan strength for both system and galaxy scans.
• **Strike craft** - increases both hull and armour damage of a (combat) strike craft.

Active Abilities

Operator officers also can have active abilities. If an officer has a symbol underneath the stats, it indicates an active ability. For this to be used, a player needs to place the officer on the bridge and have the right turret equipped on their flagship. The use of these in battle then costs energy to activate. Active abilities do not stack.

***Cooldowns on active abilities currently do not appear to work***

EMP Round


Fires an EMP capsule, disabling the target ship or squad.

Requires at least one **kinetic** turret to be equipped.

Energy use: 16 Energy use:

Ability base cooldown: 13 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -0.26s (2%) every tenth level, as follows:

Fusion Missile


Launches a single missile with a heavier than normal payload. Effective agains capital ships. Requires at lease one missile turret.

Requires at least one **missile** turret to be equipped.

Energy use: 26

Ability base cooldown: 19 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -0.38s (2%) seconds every tenth level, as follows:

Heavy Torpedo


Fires a single torpedo with a heavier than normal payload.

Requires at least one **torpedo launcher** turret to be equipped.

Energy use: 27

Ability base cooldown: 20 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -0.4s (2%) seconds every tenth level, as follows:

Ion Cannon Shot


Triggers a focused ion cannon shot that cripples the targets weapon systems, slowing down rate of fire for a few seconds.

Requires at least one **ion** turret to be equipped.

Energy use: 18

Ability base cooldown: 13 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -0.26s (2%) every tenth level, as follows:

Kinetic Burst


Overclocks the ship's kinetic turrets, increasing firerate. Requires at least one equipped kinetic / mass driver turret.

Requires at least one **pulsar** turret to be equipped.

Energy use: 17

Turret cooldown: -75%

Ability duration: 5 seconds

Ability base cooldown: 10 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -0.2s (2%) every tenth level, as follows:

Missile Barrage


Fires a volley of missiles at one target, dealing massive damage.

Requires at least one equipped **missile** turret.

Energy use: 16

Ability base cooldown: 13 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -0.26s (2%) every tenth level, as follows:

Pulsar Burst


Overclocks the ship's pulsar turrets, increasing firerate. Requires at least one equipped pulsar turret.

Requires at least one **pulsar** turret to be equipped.

Energy use: 16

Turret cooldown: -75%

Ability duration: 5 seconds

Ability base cooldown: 10 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -0.2s (2%) every tenth level, as follows:

Repair Burst


Controlled overload of repair module restores armor of nearby ships.

Requires at least one equipped repair turret.

Energy use: 50

Armour Repair: 2500

Ability base cooldown: 50 seconds

Ability cooldown progression: -1.0s (2%) every tenth level, as follows:

Perks

• Officers with perks will generally outperform a higher stat officer for a slotted position
• If you do not have an officer for a certain slot, placing a high stat officer in that slot will suffice. For example, placing miners with a high physical stat on your turrets is a good alternative if you do not have a gunner with the right perk.
• You can stack perks on your bridge slots, for example, 4 officers with Fabrication Cost Reduction will work to reduce the costs of all blueprints.
• Although you can place officers in the hanger slot nothing (no stats or perks) is currently applied from this slot.
• On a side note, it seems that kinetic / mass driver officers also buff the damage for destroyer escorts.

When levelling up officers, you should be aware of the possibility of [split perks](#split-perks), where the officer gains a second perk.

Comms Officer Perks

Sensor: Scan Cooldown (Star System)

Reduces the cooldown time of your scanner.

Abbreviation: **SCD-S**

Sensor Crit Chance (Star System)

Each time you scan, there is a chance to roll a "critical scan" which reveals the object for which the crit was rolled immediately (every object gets its own scanning role when scanning). Increasing your crit chance means there is a higher likelihood you get these crit rolls.

Abbreviation: **SCS-S**

Sensor: Flagship Sensor Range

Increases the sensor range of your flagship. This is the blue bubble on the sensor view, and not the yellow circle.

Abbreviation: **S-RG**

Sensor: Scan Reliability (Star System)

Increases the floor strength of your scanner, increasing the chance to scan something.

Abbreviation: **SRL-S**

Sensor: Scan Strength (Star System)

Raises the scan ceiling, allowing harder to scan items to be scanned by increasing the chance to scan something.

Abbreviation: **SST-S**

Scientist Perks

Laboratory: Resarch Point Production

Increases amount of research points that can be generated before they need to be collected. Must be placed on the Bridge or in a Laboratory before Research Points are collected.

Abbreviation: **PRD**

Bridge: Resarch Time

Reduces the amount of time taken to complete research. Must be placed on the bridge prior to starting research.

Abbreviation: **TME**

Operator perks

See [Active Abilities](#active-abilities) for details of most of the perks that Operator Officers have. Perks that are not Active Abilities are covered below.

Escort Ship: Escort Armour Damage per Hit

Increases armour damage per hit from escorts.

Abbreviation: **DMG-A**

Escort Ship: Escort Hull Damage per Hit

Increases hull damage per hit from escorts.

Abbreviation: **DMG-H**

Escort Ship: Escort Targeting Range

Increases escort targeting range.

Abbreviation: **T-RG**

Quartermaster Perks

Fabricator: Fabrication Cost

Decreases the amount of resources and parts required to fabricate an item. Place on the bridge or in fabricators prior to starting the fabrication job.

Abbreviation: **⊿ CST**

Fabricator: Fabrication Time

Decreases the amount of time required to fabricate something. Place into a refinery or onto the bridge before starting the refinery job.

Abbreviation: **⊿ TME**

Refinery: Refining Time

Decreases the amount of time required to refine resources. Place into a refinery or onto the bridge before starting the refinery job.

Abbreviation: **TME**

Pilot Perks

Corvette Squadron: Corvette Agility

Increases the turning speed of covette squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **🞏 AGY**

Corvette Squadron: Corvette Armour Damage per Hit

Increases the per hit damage to armour of corvette squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **🞏 DMG-A**

Corvette Squadron: Corvette Hull Damage per Hit

Increases the per hit damage to hull of corvette squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **🞏 DMG-H**

Corvette Squadron: Corvette Chance to be Hit

Decreases the chance to be hit for corvette squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **🞏 HIT**

Corvette Squadron: Corvette Speed

Increases the speed of corvette squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **🞏 SPD**

Fighter Squadron: Fighter Agility

Increases the turning speed of fighter squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **⨞ AGY**

Fighter Squadron: Fighter Armour Damage per Hit

Increases the per hit damage to armour of fighter squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **⨞ DMG-A**

Fighter Squadron: Fighter Hull Damage per Hit

Increases the per hit damage to hull of fighter squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **⨞ DMG-H**

Fighter Squadron: Fighter Chance to be Hit

Decreases the chance to be hit for corvette fighter the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **⨞ HIT**

Fighter Squadron: Fighter Speed

Increases the speed of fighter squadrons the pilot is commanding.

Abbreviation: **⨞ SPD**

Medic Perks

Refinery: Refining Time (yes really)

As with the same quarteraster perk, decreases the amount of time required to refine resources. Place into a refinery or onto the bridge before starting the refinery job.

Abbreviation: **TME**

Refinery: Refining Yield

Increases the amount of products recieved from a refining job. Place on the bridge or in a refinery before collecting your refinery job.

Abbreviation: **YLD**

Gunner Perks

Capital Mass Driver: Flagship Mass Driver Damage to Armour

Increases the amount of damage that kinetic turrets do to the **armour** of other ships. Place on the bridge to affect all kinetic turrets or place in a specific turret to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-A** (prefixed by the "kinetic" icon)

Capital Mass Driver: Flagship Mass Driver Damage to Hull

Increases the amount of damage that kinetic turrets do to the **hull** of other ships. Place on the bridge to affect all kinetic turrets or place in a specific turret to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-H** (prefixed by the "kinetic" icon)

Capital Mass Driver: Flagship Mass Driver Weapon Range

Increases the range of your kintic turrets. Place on the bridge to affect all kinetic turrets or place in a specific turret to affect just that one

Abbreviation: **WR-G** (prefixed by the "beam" icon)

Ion Cannon: Flagship Ion Cannon Damage to Armour

Increases the amount of damage that ion cannons do to the **armour** of other ships. Place on the bridge to affect all ion turrets or place in a specific turret to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-A** (prefixed by the "beam" icon)

Ion Cannon: Flagship Ion Cannon Damage to Hull

Increases the amount of damage that ion cannons do to the **hull** of other ships. Place on the bridge to affect all ion turrets or place in a specific turret to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-H** (prefixed by the "beam" icon)

Ion Cannon: Flagship Ion Cannon Weapon Range

Increases the range of your ion cannons. Place on the bridge to affect all ion turrets or place in a specific turret to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **WR-G** (prefixed by the "beam" icon)

Missile Launcher: Flagship Missile Launcher Damage to Armour

Increases the damage that your missiles do to the **armour** of other vessels. Place on the bridge to affect all missile launchers or place in a specific missile launcher to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-A** (prefixed by a "missile" icon - this might change to the "explosives" icon in a future update)

Missile Launcher: Flagship Missile Launcher Damage to Hull

Increases the damage that your missiles do to the **hull** of other vessels. Place on the bridge to affect all missile launchers or place in a specific missile launcher to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-H** (prefixed by a "missile" icon - this might change to the "explosives" icon in a future update)

Missile Launcher: Flagship Missile Launcher Weapon Range

Increases the range of your missile launchers. Place on the bridge to affect all missile launchers or place in a specific missile launcher to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **WR-G** (prefixed by a "missile" icon - this might change to the "explosives" icon in a future update)

Pulsar Beam: Flagship Pulsar Damage to Armour

Increases the damage that your pulsar turrets do to the **armour** of other vessels. Place on the bridge to affect all pulsar turrets or place in a specific pulsar to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-A** (prefixed by the "beam" icon)

Pulsar Beam: Flagship Pulsar Damage to Hull

Increases the damage that your pulsar turrets do to the **hull** of other vessels. Place on the bridge to affect all pulsar turrets or place in a specific pulsar to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **DMG-H** (prefixed by the "beam" icon)

Pulsar Beam: Flagship Pulsar Weapon Range

Increases the range of your pulsar turrets. Place on the bridge to affect all pulsar turrets or place in a specific pulsar to affect just that one.

Abbreviation: **WR-G** (prefixed by the "beam" icon)

Miner Perks

Resource Controller: Remote Mining Yield

Increases the amount of all ores collected by a Resource when it returns from remote mining. Priority for placement is: Flagship > Collector. If on the flagship bridge, ensure officer is placed before the resource controller returns.

Abbreviation: **RMY**

Asteroid Mining Ship: RU Type A Ore Mining Yield

Increases the amount of **A** ore mined by the collector or controller this miner is commanding. Priority for placement is: Flagship > Controller > Collector.

Abbreviation: **RUY(A)**

Asteroid Mining Ship: RU Type B Ore Mining Yield

Increases the amount of **B** ore mined by the collector or controller this miner is commanding. Priority for placement is: Flagship > Controller > Collector.

Abbreviation: **RUY(B)**

Asteroid Mining Ship: RU Type C Ore Mining Yield

Increases the amount of **C** ore mined by the collector or controller this miner is commanding. Priority for placement is: Flagship > Controller > Collector.

Abbreviation: **RUY(C)**

Asteroid Mining Ship: RU Type D Ore Mining Yield

Increases the amount of **D** ore mined by the collector or controller this miner is commanding. Priority for placement is: Flagship > Controller > Collector.

Abbreviation: **RUY(D)**

Engineer Perks

Engine: Flagship Engine Acceleration

Increases the acceleration of your flagship.

Abbreviation: **ACC**

Engine: Flagship Engine Agility

Increases the turning speed of your flagship.

Abbreviation: **AGY**

Engine: Flagship Engine Speed

Increases the speed of your flagship.

Abbreviation: **SPD**

Fabricator: Fabrication Time (again)

Decreases the amount of time required to fabricate something. Place into a refinery or onto the bridge before starting the refinery job.

Abbreviation: **⊿ TME**

Leveling Up

Every time you upgrade an officer, their stats increase. Every 10th upgrade, increases their perk (Ability cooldown reduction, perk buff increase), or has the possibility of adding an addition perk. See [Split Perks](#split-perks) for details.

Down below is the insignia and credit costs of leveling your officers based on their rarity.

Cumulative insignia and credit costs to reach each tenth level:

Split Perks

When levelling up officers, there is a small possibility that instead of increasing the stats of the perk, the officer will gain a second perk.

When officers do gain a second perk (referred to as a "split"), it is always from the same pool of perks in that officer's category. For instance, a gunner will only ever gain other gunner perks, and miners will only ever gain other miner perks. Some pools of perks are larger than others (gunners, miners and pilots have way more perks than Scientists, for instance) and the larger pools help to ensure that there are more useless perk combinations.

In most cases this splittng to a second perk is undesirable as it effectively ruins the officer and nullifies the insignia and credits spent on them; the officer gains a second perk at a mediocre level and leaves the primary perk at the previous level. In addition, any future levelling becomes a further gamble becasue which perk is levelled is random.

Officers with two perks **never** develop a third perk and operator officers **never** gain another active ability. Named market and event officers with two perks **should** always level the same way for everyone (i.e., not randomly).

There are good combinations of perks to be had but these are not common, for instance:

• Pulsar/kinetic hull damage officer gaining the pulsar/pinetic armour damage perk.
• An operator officer gaining an escort hull damage / armour damage / range perk.

There are also debatable combinations of perks that might be useful in some situations, for example:

• Refinery time officer gaining refinery cost.
• A/B/C ore mining officers gaining perks for other ore types.
• Research production officers gaining research time perks.

While there are some combinations that will want to make you give up, such as:

• Missile hull damage officer gaining the missile armour damage perk.
• Pulsar/Kinetic/Ion hull/armour damage officer gaining missile armour damage perk.
• Almost any gunnery officer gaining a perk from a different weapon type.
• Fabrication time officers gaining refinery time perks.
• Fighter squadron hull damage officers gaining corvette based perks (and vice-versa).
• Flagship acceleration/speed officers gaining fabrication time perks.

Officer list

All officers obtained in the game, except for the named market legendary officers and the named event officers are now randomly generated, with random names, random pictures, random stats, and the ability to randonly gain (split) to a different perk every 10 levels. Due to this, it is no longer possible to maintain fixed officer lists for any officers other than event and market officers.

Named Event Officers

Ada Hraal

Portrait to follow

> Former lead scientist of the second expedition to Nimbus. Veteran research specialist.

Rarity: **Rare**

Perk: [Bridge: Research Time](#bridge-resarch-time)

Ada Hraal was available as part of the "Tanoch Winter Celebrations" event.

Elise Liirhra

Portrait to follow

> Bio to follow

Rarity: **Epic**

Perk: [Pulsar Burst](#pulsar-burst)

Elise Liirhra was available as part of the "Yaot Stories: Astral Conjunctions" event.

Hector Soban


> A rising star within the Hiigaran fleet, Hector Soban is leading the cause to require fleet gunners to cross train on exotic and foreign weapons systems.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Hector Soban was available as part of the "Amassari Stories: Rise of the Kiithless" event.

Named Market Officers

Agnes Manaan


> Heiress to a Manaani fortune. A formidable woman with a commanding presence.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Amaala Magann


> A capable strike officer and leader. Veteran of several conflicts, banished to Nimbus to draw her sister Esentra into exile.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Sister of [Esentra Magaan](#esentra-magaan).

Esentra Magaan


> A formidable commander and a significant figure in Kiith politics. Searches Nimbus for her sister, Amaala.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Sister of [Amaala Magaan](#amaala-magann).

Jassiah Soban


> Between the two Shades, she is the more administrative and diplomatic. She finds the targets and is a relentless tracker.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Sister of [Thaed Soban](#thaed-soban).

Makhaab Somtaaw


> An expert on captured Vaygr technology. Makhaab's improvisation skills are a thing of legend. His biggest boast is claiming to send interstallar signals with a plasma bomb launcher and a coat rack.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Mehemit Matarra


> Stately authoritarian commander with little patience for fools. Low opinion of other Kiithid.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Brother of [Pagraan Matara](#pagraan-matara).

Pagraan Matara


> Brave and headstrong hero of the front lines. Noted contempt for aloof flag officers.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Note that the "Refinery: Rare Earth Chance" perk add the given amount to the expected RE amount rather than a percentage.

Brother of [Mehemit Matara](#mehemit-matarra).

Thaed Soban


> Between the Shades, Thaed has no sense of mercy. He will allow his target to run his mouth but never changes his judgement - death.

Rarity: **Legendary**

Brother of [Jassiah Soban](#jassiah-soban).

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