SWTOR Update 7.9 brings “Legacy Reborn”, the final chapter of the Legacy of the Sith storyline. This guide explains all steps and requirements to access the new story content.
This article does NOT contain spoilers from Legacy Reborn, it contains minor spoilers for previous story content.
Requirements to Unlock Legacy Reborn
To be able to play Legacy Reborn, you need a character level 80. You do not need an active subscription. If you have been a subscriber for at least a month between now and the release of Legacy of the Sith expansion (February 2022), you will be able to play the new storyline.
To access the new story, you need to complete the following main story progression requirements:
- Unlock the Legacy of the Sith expansion and story
The Legacy of the Sith Expansion released with Update 7.0. To access it, you need to complete the story content from Onslaught all the way up to and including the mission Whispers in the Force. A subscription is required to play the expansion for the first time. After that, it is forever unlocked for all your other characters.
- Complete the Manaan Storyline
The first part of Legacy of the Sith takes you to a new area on Manaan, called the Invasion Zone. The Empire and Republic have different goals. You don’t need to complete the Manaan Daily Area missions to be able to continue with the main story.
- Complete the Ruins of Nul Flashpoint
The second part of Legacy of the Sith’s expansion story requires you to complete the solo story version of the Flashpoint on Elom: Ruins of Nul.
- Complete Digging Deeper Mission
The Digging Deeper mission was released in Update 7.1 and serves as a bridge between the story from the expansion and the next chapter, which takes you to Ruhnuk. The mission is mostly cinematic conversations.
- Complete Showdown on Ruhnuk Storyline
You have tracked Heta Kol and the Hidden Chain to Ruhnuk. This is a brand new planet, added with Update 7.2. The mission chain starts with A Rock and a Hard Place and ends with Showdown on Ruhnuk. You don’t need to complete the Ruhnuk Daily Area missions to progress the main story.
- Complete the Old Wounds Mission
You will visit a new area on Voss, called Interpreter’s Retreat, released with Update 7.3. You will assist the Voss with some menial labor while looking to uncover more information about a secret vision the Voss leaders have involving Darth Malgus. The Shrine of Silence Flashpoint is optional.
- Complete the Road to Nowhere Mission
The first part of the Chains in the Dark storyline, released with Update 7.4, is a mission that takes you to Port Nowhere. You are chasing a lead trying to find Heta Kol’s whereabouts, when you are attacked by Hidden Chain.
- Complete the Chains in the Dark Storyline
In the second part of Chains in the Dark, you will travel to Kessan’s Landing, a new daily area on Ord Mantell. It is accessible to both factions, but you are not required to complete the Daily Missions to progress the main storyline.
- Complete the Desperate Defiance Storyline
Desperate Defiance, was added with Update 7.5, and takes you to a new area on Hutta, Minboosa District. This story was released shortly before the SAG-AFTRA Video Game Voice Actors Strike started. Since then, we have not seen any new main story content up until now, with Update 7.8. Minboosa District is accessible to both factions.
- Complete the Galactic Threads Storyline
Released as part of Update 7.8 at the end of 2025, Galactic Threads takes you to Elom, Tatooine, Hoth and Ilum in pursuit of information about Darth Malgus and Shae Vizla.
- Complete the Master’s Enigma Storyline
Released with Update 7.8.1 in March 2026, Master’s Enigma starts on Odessen and details the events immediately following the escape of Darth Malgus. Amidst the chaos, Darth Jadus makes contact and offers guidance in the conflict to come.
- (Optional) Read the Last Road to Khar Shian
Last Road to Khar Shian is a short story Broadsword published shortly prior to the release of Game Update 7.9. It doesn’t contain critical information about the events about to unfold, but is an interesting and enjoyable read, although a bit flat.
- Start the Legacy Reborn Storyline
After you complete all required missions listed above, you will gain access to the new storyline, Legacy Reborn. It will be automatically placed in your mission log. Enjoy!
How to start Legacy Reborn
If you have completed all requirements, there will be a play button to click on to start the “Legacy Reborn” storyline. You can do that from either the Mission Log, or from the Mission Tracker. The mission will be automatically placed and waiting for you to start it.
With the help of a traitorous ally (revealed in Master’s Enigma), Darth Jadus has stolen Darth Nul’s holocron from you, the key to her masterworks involving the Force. Jadus is now is on his way to Khar Shian, where Heta Kol and the Hidden Chain have reconstructed Darth Nul’s ultimate machine. Malgus and Shae Vizla are also on their way to the Sith moon, each with their own goals.
The battle at Khar Shian involves multiple perspectives, featuring unique gameplay allowing you to control other characters.
We are working on a full walkthrough for the mission explaining all steps, choices and variations. Stay tuned.
Missing Languages and Motion Sickness Warning
Legacy Reborn was supposed to be released more than a year ago. Due to the SAG-AFTRA Video Game Voice Actors Strike, the developers were unable to finish and release it in time.
Non-SAG-AFTRA voice actors around the world struck in solidarity. Currently, different negotiations taking longer to resolve, result in only the English voices are still available with 7.9. This includes both the Master’s Enigma storyline and the Date Night Missions with Kira and Torian.
In the meantime, if you use French or German clients, the game will offer subtitles, but the voices are in English only.
Motion sickness caution:
There is a brief gameplay segment that may cause discomfort in some players. This section can be skipped without missing any critical story moments. Please pay careful attention to in-game notifications
Legacy Reborn FAQ
Below you can read the answers to some of the most popular questions you may have about the new story, especially if you have been away from the game for a while.
No. As of Update 7.9, the game only allows you to use a token to create a new character from the start of the Onslaught Expansion. You will have to play through all of the main story content released in the 6.0 era and up to 7.8.1, which was the most recent game update with new story.
You do not need an active subscription to access the new story content. You need to have been a subscriber at least for a month since the release of the expansion, Legacy of the Sith. If you have been a subscriber between February 2022 and today, all you have to do is make sure you have completed all story mission prerequisites to unlock Legacy Reborn.
The Legacy of the Sith expansion and all of the story content from it, including the most recent chapter, Legacy Reborn, requires you to subscribe to SWTOR for at least a month to play it. If you have been a subscriber between the release of the expansion and now, you have all of this content already unlocked for your account.
Manaan, Ruhnuk, Voss, and Ord Mantell feature Daily Missions, new vendors and unique rewards. To progress through the main storyline, you are not required to complete the daily area starter mission or any of the dailies and weeklies.
There are a few choices that may result in you witnessing or causing unique events and outcomes, but the main plot moves in the same direction regardless of your reactions and decisions.
No. All story content in the game is designed to be doable comfortably with the gear you receive as rewards from the main missions and as loot drops while playing them. Using Endgame Gear will increase your speed and make some of the encounters look trivial, but is by no means a requirement at all.
The Legacy of the Sith Story So Far
It has been four years since the release of the expansion and it is understandable if you have played through the story content and have the memory of the events fading already.
The following is a very high level bullet-point style outline of some of the key notes that you should keep in mind going forward.
- Jedi Padawan Sa’har obtains a holocron with mysterious power and meaning. She took it right from the hands of Darth Malgus, who killed her Master.
- Alliance Commander learns that Nul worked with Vitiate and made Children of the Emperor.
- Sa’har finds her brother as the right hand to Heta Kol, who is unsatisfied with Shae Vizla’s leadership and wants to reunite all Mandalorians under her own banner.
- The Alliance Commander learns of the location of the Hidden Chain’s base on Rohnuk where the Commander witnesses Shae dueling Heta Kol.
- Shae is injured, Heta gets away but has lost their hidden base. Ri’kan brings up the holocron as a tool for the Hidden Chain to win.
- Shae realizes Sith are involved and Sah’ar has a holocron. Malgus gets under her skin when they visit the prison and try to extract more information from him.
- At the Interpreter’s Retreat on Voss, the Alliance Commander learns that Nul used to be a Jedi named Master Raniah, gifted with the ability to make mental connections with people who could feel the Force and awaken that connection.
- Raniah left the Jedi. She kept reaching out and found the Sith Emperor, who took over her.
- The Voss share their secret vision with the Alliance Commander where not much is clear, except that the Commander will have a big role to play in events to come.
- At Kessan’s Landing on Ord Mantell and the Minboosa District on Hutta, Sa’har enlists the help of the Alliance Commander after she realized Heta’s true nature.
- Heta thinks she can use the holocron to awaken an army of force-sensitives trained by Sa’har. The machine does what Nul can do, presumably built with schematics inside the holocron.
- Ri’kan is furious about betrayal and there’s another showdown. Player gets to pick what happens in Nul’s holocron, but then Shae breaks Malgus out of prison.
- The Alliance Commander is sent on a galaxy-wide chase with a dash of puzzle-solving in the mix to gather more information about Malgus, Shae and Darth Nul.
- The Alliance Commander receives a cryptic communication from Darth Jadus, who disappeared roughly 10 years ago (in-game years) in the middle of the Imperial Agent origin story.
- Following a meeting on Odessen, the Alliance Commander is confined to Odessen by their respective faction (Republic or Empire), but escapes and meets with Jadus on board of Darth Nul’s Ship, the Enigma.
- After a confrontation with Jadus, the Commander is forced to find a path through the ship’s various biomes while learning about Darth Nul’s experiments.
- Shortly after the Alliance Commander is betrayed by a close ally who sides with Jadus, the Commander escapes the ship and returns to Odessen to prepare for the final confrontation on Khar Shian.
