Hey everyone, the newest world event in SWTOR, titled the Grand Acquisitions Race, is alive right now in Nar Shaddaa. This is the second world event since SWTOR's launch and comes about 4 months after the first popular world event: Rakghoul Outbreak. This guide will attempt to walk you through the quests and rewards of this event.

What is this event about?

The shady and mysterious Chevin Conglomerate has declared the Grand Acquisitions Race, an interstellar scavenger hunt for a list of rare and unusual items. Great rewards have been promised to anyone who can provide a complete set of the required objects to the Conglomerate.

Where to start the event:

Head to Nar Shadda Lower Promenade. Next to the Hutt statue, you will see this hologram. Note that you DO NOT need to head to the fleet to grab anything, you can start right away in Nar Shaddaa. Click on the Chevin Conglomerate Message Center will start the quest.

What quests are available?

There are 7 quests available on the first day of the event (Aug 14). There are also three additional quests that are locked and cannot be completed on the first day.

Quests locked for day 1

What rewards are available?

Vendor rewards

Doing the quests themselves will reward you with a currency called Token of Enrichment. There is a vendor in lower promenade of Nar Shaddaa that will exchange these currency for items. Currently the event items are a bit lackluster but hopefully Bioware will add in new rewards as the event progress along.

Currently it sells 6 weapons (all blaster rifles/sniper rifles) for 40-60 Tokens each. A mount (only 90% speed) for 120 tokens, a pet for 250 tokens and Sand People orange gear for 15-25 tokens per piece.The weapons are all Bind on Legacy (yes, that is correct).

Here is the mount – Hyrotii Scrapper – modeled by Reyexa of Harbinger

Here is what the Sand People Bloodguard outfit looks like on a female

Lobelot pet – submitted by AokijiKuzan & Aunt-jemima

Assassin's Touch- modeled by Niccolo (Sniper rifle)

Precision Bowcaster – modeled by Laedeth (Sniper rifle)

Hypersonic Shredder - submitted by Thesituasian (Blaster Rifle)

Light Bowcaster – submitted by Thesituasian (Blaster Rifle)

Kashyyk’s Legacy – submitted by Justcae (Blaster Rifle)

Event Completion rewards

There is a way currently for Empire players to complete the entire Grand Acquisitions Race quest via a bug/exploit. This bug currently does not work for Republic players and I do not recommend anyone using it as you will miss out on the event. However, there are some people who were able to obtain their final quest rewards this way.

What you get in the end is 1) a pet and 2) a title, depending on the choice you made at the end.

Hagnoffarl is the pet and it is really just a uncolored version of the Gannifari pet.

The title you get depends on the choice you make, if chose to side with the Empire/Republic, you get

Imperial Loyalist for Empire players

If you chose to side with the Chevins, you get Capable Sentient

Quest walkthroughs

A Questionable Motive (Empire)

This is a fairly straightforward quest with some twists at the end. It rewards 40 Tokens of Enrichment so it is definitely worth doing.

You will receive this quest in the mail after you received the Grand Acquisitions Race quest in Nar Shaddaa. The quest will be initially called A Mysterious Contact and send you to Dromund Kaas. Most of it is fairly straight forward so I will just skip to the harder parts at the end.

Fight with Fallaxen - Fallaxen have a 100% absorb shield that can be only destroyed by destroying the four capacitors that becomes clickable when you spawn him.

When it is time to mess with the ventilation system at the casino, go up the platform to activate Emergency Vent Power, and then stand on this grate here to be propelled to the next area.

Dubious Motives (Republic)

This is a fairly straightforward quest with some twists at the end. It rewards 40 Tokens of Enrichment so it is definitely worth doing. You will receive this quest in the mail after you received the Grand Acquisitions Race quest in Nar Shaddaa.

Mostly of this has quest markers so it should be fairly simple to follow. You first head to Dealer’s Den Cantina in Old Galactic market to meet with a hologram contact. He will tell you to plant some bugs in Senate Plaza and finally send you off to Nar Shaddaa.

Go to Nikto Sector, kill Derester (make sure to kill the Guardian Probe first so that he takes damage).

The rest of the walkthrough is pretty much identical to the Empire version. Just read the above!

Shard of Harterra (Empire)

Super simple mission. Go to Dromund Kaas expansion district. Cross the bridge to the other side and take a left, you will see a single turret with a box behind it (Smuggler’s Crate)

Clicking on the crate will allow you to climb on the turret. You will get waves of mercenaries that you need to use the turret to defeat. Note that to shoot using the turret, just point it at the mobs. Don’t use WSAD keys, just hold down the right mouse button and rotate the turret to shoot.

Collected Writings of Tiethiagg (Empire)

Head to Dromund Kaas, go to Lord Grathan’s Estate and go to this big building all the way in the back

Once you are there, look for a tiny door to the compound.

Once inside, find an elevator that will take you down. Once you arrive in the bottom floor, go to this room

There is a switch at the door with a laser that you can turn on/off and rotate and two reflectors. Play around with them until you get them to this setting and the quest should update

Preserved Colicoid Queen Egg (Empire)

Head to Dromund Kaas, go to Revanite Compound either by speeder or quick travel. Go to this location, where the statue is.

Click on the Half-eaten crate next to the statue, fight a couple waves of mobs, and then loot the Colicoid egg.

Shard of Harterra (Republic)

Head to Coruscant, go to Justicar territory via speeder. Head to this location on the map where you will find a crate and a turret.

Clicking on the crate will allow you to climb on the turret. You will get waves of mercenaries that you need to use the turret to defeat. Note that to shoot using the turret, just point it at the mobs. Don’t use WSAD keys, just hold down the right mouse button and rotate the turret to shoot.

Collected Writings of Tiethiagg (Republic)

Head to Coruscant, go to Black Sun Territory via speeder, then head to Silent Sun Cantina

Once inside, you should see this body, with the following order: yellow –> purple –> green. Click on the little pad on the ground next to the body. If it says your escort is waiting, it usually means that you need to wait for someone to finish before you can click it.

What you need to do is head next to the holodancer, make the inner ring all yellow, middle ring all purple, and outer ring all green by clicking the buttons . You can see an example here, although the outer ring is not all purple yet.

Preserved Colicoid Queen Egg (Republic)

Head to Coruscant, go to Old Galactic Market via speeder. Get off the taxipad to the concourse. Then head to Old Galactic Market proper.Once you are there, head southeast corner where you will find a broken Smuggler’s crate

Defeat a couple waves of mobs and a strong mob at the end will drop the piece you need.

Fossilized Krayt Dragon Pearl (Both factions)

Ok, we are going to the Red Light Sector (also known as Duros sector for Empire players) for this one!

Empire Take the speeder to Duros sector. Once you are there, travel to this location.

Republic: Take the speeder to Red Light Sector, once you are there, travel to this location.

There are three Sliced Terminals you need to find to access the container.

There is the first terminal you will encounter, will will actually give you sequence 2 of the code. If it works correctly it will give you a buff. If you don’t get a buff when you kill the spawned mobs, then click it again and kill the mobs again.

Empire

Republic

This is the second terminal, which give you sequence 3 of the code.

Republic

This is the third terminal, which will give you sequence 1 of the code.

Empire

Republic

Once you have all 3 buffs – double check. Each buff has a 10m timer, run back to the Secure Container and click the sequence on your buffs to complete the quest.

For me it was the fourth one from the top.

Vandraky's Tuning Apparatus (Both factions)

Note: the crates has a very small chance to give out a Lobelot pet to those lucky enough – the crates can still be used even if you already completed the quest!

Note: for this quest, all sectors of Nar Shaddaa will probably work. I did it in the Upper Industrial Sector was it was right next to the Rakata Eating Utensils.

You are looking for smuggler crates. They are pretty much on every level in the sector. Some of them will contain Vandrayk’s depolarizer, some of them will only contain Token of Enrichment. If you get say 10 boxes in a row with just Token of Enrichment, don’t be discourage, it is just RNG. 

If you loot a Vandrayk’s Depolarizer, which will start the quest – Vandrayk’s Tuning Apparatus (bonus)

Note that the smuggler crates seem to respawn after a certain time (10 minutes?) but it is usually faster to keep running around to look for them.Here are some locations where I found them. 

Rakata Eating Utensils (Both factions)

For this quest, you need to go to Network Security District (Industrial Sector). How do you get to Network Security District? 

Empire

Take the speeder to Upper Industrial Sector and then head to Republic Research Division to take the elevator down to Network Security District.

Republic

Take speeder to Lower Industrial Sector, once there, head to Imperial Intelligence Gadget warehouse

BOTH FACTIONS

Once you are there, go to this area in Network Security District

Here, you will see a little Disturbed Crate, click it will start up a cut scene with the bounty hunter.

Remember this sign from the cut scene? Jump over the ledge!

Look to your left, see that tunnel leading to High Security Lockdown? Follow it

You won’t need to go far before you see this circle on the ground called Point of Interest, which will start another cutscene.

Remember this tunnel in the cutscene? Go through it and look at the group of NPCs gathered under the pillar/support thingie.

Watch the cut scene, then go up the ramp.

Once you go up the ramp, head straight across the room and then look for a circle near the door.

This will trigger the next cutscene. Recall this tunnel in the cut scene?

Follow it until you are out in the open.

So the bounty hunter climbed up..See those crates there? Take a climb!