Edward

Edward is a researcher in Pikmin Forever who crash-lands on PNF-404 and who sets Captain Olimar on a rescue mission. He is Koppai's top Pikminologist and technology specialist, who actually joined the research community because he was such a fan of Olimar's work. He is also a certified tester of the KHA explorer-technology relations program, studying how well research can progress between space explorers and robots. His first mission is on a research vessel, the KHA Lander, with a robot partner DELTA, to aid the space rover SOGNO in terraforming and colonizing PNF-404. This is the mission whose signal mysteriously falters, catalyzing the story of Pikmin Forever. Because Edward must be rescued, he is not a playable leader, but he is playable in Challenge Mode and Sandbox.

Edward never saw himself as a field researcher, and certainly never imagined venturing out and meeting Pikmin in person. He is quite afraid of the rumors of gigantic creatures on PNF-404 as he ventures out, but finds comfort and fascination in the helpful Pikmin.