The Frightened Engineer

is a side quest in the Outer Worlds.
==Synopsis==
Thomas Kemp, one of the deserters living with Adelaide in the Botanical Labs, is trying to teach himself engineering. He asks the Stranger to bring him any volumes of "A Young Spacer's Guide to Mechanical Engineering" that they find in Emerald Vale.
==Walkthrough==
Thomas knows one volume is in the Emerald Vale Community Center and another is somewhere in Edgewater, but he has no idea where the third may be. These are the exact locations of the three volumes:
* Guide to Mechanical Engineering Volume 1 is in the 2nd floor offices of the Emerald Vale Community Center. 
* Guide to Mechanical Engineering Volume 2 is in an office on the 2nd floor of the Saltuna Cannery. A note on Parvati's father's old terminal indicates that he took a volume into the cannery and left it in an unused office.
* Guide to Mechanical Engineering Volume 3 is located in the Geothermal Power Plant to the left of Chester Higgins. A note in the receptionist's desk terminal of the plant mentions that someone borrowed a copy and took it to the repair bay. Follow the quest marker to the repair bay to find a note written by Chester that says he took it down to "the pit" because he needs something to read.
==Quest Stages==
==Notes==
*If the Stranger meets Thomas before starting Comes Now the Power, he will give no clue where to find the third volume of the Guide.
Frightened Engineer
ru:Напуганный инженер