Engineers PSA: Here are some patterns in how to find specific engineering materials

Dear CMDRs,

after doing a bit of research, collecting all data available in the community, and checking the in game descriptions of materials known to me, here are some patterns I could deduct from that data:

#1: It is more efficient getting the rarer materials through mission rewards. Some stuff seems to be available through missions only.
#2: For data packages/materials drops, the game seems to differentiate between haulage/combat oriented/military ships. So pick the right ones
#3: In special cases, the state the controlling faction is in seems to count. Imperial, outbreak and boom are confirmed so far

More details can be found in the document (google doc link). Please don't mess with it, and please help me filling the gaps and keeping this file up to date.
This will be aligned with the team around Qohen Leth.

Happy hunting!

ps: if somebody could write a good guide on scanning settlement data points without aggroing them, please share!
 
I'm fairly sure Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories is also a mission reward as are Polymer Capacitors, also some planetary data sites (crashed nav beacons) will drop several data "materials" instead of the usual sellable data package.
 
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