As the title says. I tried using the base ID on the wikia, and the ref ID in-game. I can't set them as essential, and I really want to. Anyone know how to do this? I'm assuming the issue is that each AFT has it's own base ID and it's randomly generated when it spawns, or something like that.

Open command console, Click on them, type in "set essential". Done.

That uh.. doesn't work like that.