SWTOR live event: Chevin Grand Acquisitions Race coverage

Hey everyone, the new world event called Grand Acquisitions Race is live in SWTOR right now. it is hosted by Chevins and starts in Nar Shaddda promenade.  This page has a very comprehensive coverage of the event. Huge thanks to everyone that contributed in the comments section below or submitted pictures!

Navigation

• What is new (check to see what quests unlocked today)
• Introduction
• Where to start the event
• Quest walkthroughs
• Rewards (including screenshots of the outfit, weapons from the vendor & final event rewards)

What is New

• August 17 – Another Lead is now available
• August 16 – A New Lead is now available.
• August 15 Senior Community Coordinator Allison Berryman informs us that the sand people outfit will be Bind to Legacy in the future, rejoice!
• August 15 – Community Manager Joveth Gonzalez updates us on the bugs w/ Lead quests and reveal plan for the event
• August 15 – A Lead quest unlocked. Other two lead quests still locked.

Introduction

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.

Codex Entry: Governing the Chevin homeworld of Vinsoth, the Chevin Conglomerate is a pervasive presence in the galactic underworld, with connections to mercenary groups, Hutts, slavers and other undesirables. However, unlike the Hutts, the businesslike Chevin remain at a distance from the conflict between the Republic and the Sith Empire, as their military might is negligible. The announcement of their Grand Acquisitions Race brought the Chevin into the spotlight, as they offered unmatched riches and power in return for a number of strange items their own agents had been unable to find. As fortune-seekers and adventurers across the galaxy sought these curiosities, both the Republic and the Empire became curious about the Chevin Conglomerate’s motives. Soon the truth was revealed: the items being gathered were intended as a tribute to buy the favor of the Gree, one of the most ancient species in the galaxy. Through their contacts, the Chevin learned that a Gree fleet is returning to known space, bringing not only the normally isolationist aliens but their legendary technology. Although believed to be non-hostile, the Gree discovered hyperspace travel untold ages ago; a single piece of Gree technology is considered an irreplaceable treasure. For centuries, their influence has been felt only through their emissaries. The reason for their fleet’s return is unknown.

Currency: Currency earned during this event are called Token of Enrichment

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.

Quest Navigation

Having issues with quests?

Hi there! If you ever get frustrated and delete a bonus mission during the Grand Acquisitions Race’s main mission, the easiest way to get it back is to reset the main mission for this event. You’ll still retain all of your previous items and you will only lose the progress that you’ve made towards the current item that you’re pursuing. Hope that helps!

– Joveth Gonzalez

Joveth Gonzalez elaborates on Lead quest bug & plans for the event

Hi folks,
We wanted to inform you all that there is currently an issue with the missions A Lead, A New Lead, and Another Lead. The way the Chevin Event works is that players can find the first six items of the mission The Grand Acquisitions Race whenever at their leisure. The next three items will unlock on a daily basis for everyone, regardless of what step players are on in the main event quest. (item #7 unlocks today, item #8 tomorrow, and item #9 unlocks on Friday).

Players are currently running into an issue that when they complete the mission, A Lead (item #7), the UI marks Another Lead (item #9) as complete with no item given to the player.

DO NOT WORRY. These three missions are merely hints. You DO NOT need this mission to appear in your Mission Log in order to activate it. It will unlock on a daily basis as I outlined earlier.
To be clear, you can STILL play these missions even if they are marked as complete. You just have to wait for their specific daily unlock.

For your convenience, I have posted the text for each mission below:

A Lead (Item #7 – Akar Kesh Meditation mask): A Sniffer droid is available to aid you in your search for the Akar Kesh Meditation mask, but is still undergoing programming. [unlocks today]
A New Lead (Item #8 – Black-and-Orange Sphere): Sapaaga the Hutt is refusing to speak to anyone at this time. Check back with the Hutt observation droid at the Lower Promenade on Nar Shaddaa later, when the Hutt’s string of losses may have made him more inclined to negotiate. [unlocks tomorrow]
Another Lead (Item #9 – Plasma-Sealed Jar): A Republic Slicing Droid is tapping into the Transportation Network Terminal in Shadowtown in Nar Shaddaa to locate information leading the Plasma-Sealed Jar. [unlocks Friday]

Joveth Gonzalez | Online Community Manager

Empire/Republic or the Chevins?

Once you are done with the Grand Acquisitions Race, you will be faced with a choice, hand them to the Chevins or the Empire/Republic? You get a different title and Dark/Light side points depending on the choice you made. Rest of the rewards are all identical (20 Tokens of Enrichment + Pet, see Reward section below for pet screenshot).

Empire Rewards

Republic Rewards

Chevin Rewards

Another Lead (August 17)

This is the last quest of the event to be unlocked and it is kind of fun. Go to Network Access (Empire) /Shadow Town (Republic)  and follow the quest marker.

Apparently some of you don’t have the quest marker, so here is the location of the droids. (thanks to Cryzio for the republic screenshot)

Empire

Republic

After you talk to the droid, you will be asked to take a Dilapidated Speeder Bike. They look like these

Empire

Republic

After you get on this slowwwwww speeder (it is only 90% speeder) you have about 3 minutes to make it to the location marked on the map.

Once you are at the designated location, you see nothing but a platform leading to a long drop. Are they crazy!?

Take a deep breath, hop on the platform and run off the end of it, you won’t die, I promise!

DO NOT use the spacebar to jump off the edge of the platform, just run off the edge. Some players have missed the trigger point by jumping off and fell to their deaths!

Empire

Republic

After the trip, remember to grab the Plasma-Sealed Jar from the crate and then click on the Emergency Shuttle Transponder to go back.

A New Lead (August 16)

Go to Nar Shaddaa Lower Promenade and talk to the little droid there next to the race track.

Now you need to head to the track nearby, and locate the race controls. The issue you might be having is that there might be too many people doing it and whoever click the control the fastest when it becomes clickable get to do it. (Consider grouping up to do it)

You have 30 seconds when you sucessfully click the controls (you will get a message on your screen) to do some preparation..

First, you need to move one of the mines to the left of the controls to the middle (green) lane.

Next, follow the track a bit and at the other side of the hologram tree you will see an Electro-zapper you can reprogram.

Once you have done both, wait for the race to start and then Hutt’s droid should be the only one remaining at the end to win the race.

A Lead (August 15)

This is a new quest activated on August 15 that will give you the Akar Mediation Mask

Republic players – This quest is bugged right now and can also completing Another Lead for you without giving out any rewards for that quest. This will not affect your ability to obtain the item tomorrow though, see the explanation posted by Joveth Gonzalez above.

This quest is obtained via the mail once you have started on the quest: A Questionable Motive (Empire) or Dubious Motive (Republic)

Empire: Go to Dromund Kaas, take the speeder to either Outpost Warden or Kaas City Expansion. Go to the location indicated by your quest marker. You will see a crate there. If you see an opened crate, you will need to wait for the previous player to finish before the crate closes and become clickable again. Tip: Form an group and have everyone do it together to avoid the wait times.

If you somehow lost track of the droid, he makes two stops marked on the map.

Anyways, once the droid makes the second stop, you should be able to get the Akar Mediation Mask.

Republic: Go to Coruscant, take speeder/Quick travel to The Works Sector. Go to the location indicated by your quest marker. You will see a crate there. If you see an opened crate, you will need to wait for the previous player to finish before the crate closes and become clickable again. Tip: Form a group and have everyone do it together to avoid the wait times.

If you somehow lost track of the droid, he makes two stops marked on the map.

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.

Note that you must stand on the green circle each time 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.

Shards 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.

Perserved 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.

You will see a Secure Container, which will start the quest.

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.

Empire

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.

Vandrayk’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 (Empire) was it was right next to the Rakata Eating Utensils. Republic players can go to Lower Industrial Sector if they like to do it the quest in this sector as well.

Take the speeder to Upper Industrial Sector, go to the Republic Research Division.

You are looking for smuggler crates. They are pretty much on every level in the bonus area. 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.

Network Security

Lower Office Atrium

Upper Office Atrium

Imperial Gadget Warehouse

Imperial Re-education center

Rewards: 5 Token of Enrichment

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.

You will then be given this quest.

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!

The next point of interest is directly up top.

Clicking it will spawn the bounty hunter, who you must defeat to complete this bonus quest!

Completing it will give you 5 Token of Enrichment

Rewards

Vendor rewards

There is a vendor not far from the Hutt statue in Lower Promenade of Nar Shaddaa that sell you items in exchange for Token of Enrichments.

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).

Sandpeople outfit from the event will become Bind to Legacy in the future!

I asked Systems Designer David Hunt why the Sand People Bloodguard outfit is currently bind on pickup instead of bind on Legacy, and he let me know that it will be changed to bind on Legacy in the future – this will also affect the Imperial and Republic Containment Officer outfits from the Rakghoul event.

Allison Berryman | Senior Community Coordinator

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

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

If you chose to side with the Chevins, you get

Special thanks to Skarn of Harbinger  for the pet and title screenshots. Norek for the Republic title.

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