Console command to make Erick hireable again

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For some unknown reason, Bethesda decided to make Erick Von Price a "missable" companion, if you don't pick certain dialogue options after the Start-up Stopped quest. Missing him is easy to do as you may have spoken to Erick while on the ship and assumed he had nothing else to say later when back at Cydonia. Either that or it's just another bug and they never actually intended him to be missable, which would make sense as you can tell him you're not interested in hiring him right now, and that's still enough to come back for him hundreds of hours later if you wanted to — but only if you already spoke to him about joining your crew.

Re-enabling Erick's hire dialogue is pretty simple, just enter the following in the console. You should only do this after Start-up Stopped is complete, and only if you missed your chance to get the hire dialogue previously (obviously!) 

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Erick is also supposed to have a time-locked piloting perk that activates after you've asked him about various things in his dialogue tree. I have not yet tested if the above allows that progression to happen. If it doesn't, you can manually advance his personal quest to the point where he gets his piloting perk by entering the following in the console

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