Balmorra Bonus Series (Empire) – Quest by Quest Story Guide

Summary: You recover a stolen Imperial bioweapon from a toxic dump.

Captain Jaggard at the Remote Markaran Outpost in the Sunstruck Grasslands tells you that a spy has infiltrated an Imperial Capital ship, killed 16 officers and stolen a sample of a deadly Imperial bioweapon years in the making before crash landing in the nearby swamps. He asks you to deal with the local wildlife, find the spy and retrieve the bioweapon, carefully, before the spy can sell it to the Republic.

In the toxic Spire Swamp in the Makaran Wastes, you find the spy’s crashed shuttle near the Traken Waste Processing plant and learn from its datalog that he was critically injured and fled on foot with the bioweapon canister. Killing tainted Zeldrate Marshwalkers and a Zeldrate Mother (Clean up the Wastes | Bonus Quest), you slog through the toxins until you find the dead spy.

A datapad left for the Republic near his body tells you he hid the canister under space debris in the swamp. After a brief search you fish it out and report back. Captain Jaggard thanks you and assures you that he will see the weapon transported off-world.

Summary: You recover a high-security Imperial datacard from the Resistance.

In the toxic Makaran Wastes, you discover the body of Imperial Lieutenant Xak Herra of the Eighty-third Platoon. He explains in a recording left on his body that he and his squad had orders to recover a stolen high-security Imperial data card that can open any security door on Balmorra from resistance forces. They succeeded, but were ambushed by a Republic patrol. Not willing to leave his injured squad members behind, Lieutenant Herra passed up the opportunity to escape. The Republic killed him and his squad and recovered the data card.

He overheard the rebels mention decrypting the card at a computer in their outpost and asks anyone who finds the recording to recover the card and report to Captain Labe at Vanguard Outpost. You eventually find the card in the decryption computer inside a tent in the resistance-held Traken-4 Outpost.

When you speak to Captain Labe, he is incensed by Lieutenant Herra’s death, a man with whom he served for six years. He tells you the Eighty-third Platoon will embark on a mission of vengeance against the resistance. You can goad him on or tell him to be cautious with his plan of attack. Depending which, he thanks you for either inspiring his men, or helping him keep his head, in which case he ensures you he is requesting reinforcements before launching any attacks.

Summary: You use the Resistance’s own bombs against them, and destroy turrets, fuel barrel and ammunition caches in Ghost Town.

At the Remote Markaran Outpost, you speak to the very tired Intelligence Officer Kytoma who has been on watch for four days straight. She’s been following up on a confession from a captured resistance member. Apparently the rebels, operating out of the abandoned bunkers in the cliffs above Ghost Town, are scavenging unexploded thermal detonators from the battlefields of Balmorra and using the thermite to build their own improvised bombs. She suggests stealing the bombs and using them against the rebels.

You head down into Ghost Town, where you retrieve some of the makeshift bombs from inside the Rebel cliffside bunkers. You use them to destroy rebel turrets, fuel barrels and ammunition caches in a wide area before reporting back to Officer Kytoma heard the blasts from her locations.

Summary: You help a Balmorran businessman take revenge on the Republic squad that murdered his family.

At Vanguard Outpost in the Markaran Plains you come across a corporate security captain arguing with Maverse Pontilo, a Balmorran businessman who supports the Empire. Republic troops of Lancer Squad tried to assassinate him but managed to kill his wife and daughter instead. His hired mercenaries from Corporate Security lured them out of their base with a fake distress call, but Lancer Squad came prepared. Not wanting to lose any more men, Corporate Security refuse to take Maverse’s revenge for him and now he wants you to try, offering a handsome reward.

You head to the toxic Glowwater Swamp and eliminate Lancer Squad. When you return to Maverse with their dog tags as proof, he muses that revenge wasn’t as satisfying as he hoped and wonders if he should hunt down their families as well. You can encourage him to do this, or try to dissuade him from continuing the cycle of vengeance.

Summary: You take on the mission of a fallen Imperial Squad and destroy some Resistance food crops.

While travelling through the resistance-controlled Stillwater farms, you find a holo-communicator next to the body of Imperial Lieutenant Torsin. You intercept a call to the Lieutenant from his superior, Captain Ardmore, to whom you relay news of his death.

Ardmore tells you that the nearby Stillwater farmsteads are providing vital food production for the hungry resistance, who are gathering the crops. His squad having failed to recapture them, he now wants you to take a set of RK-9 soil devastators carried by Torsin’s squad and poison the fields.

You collect five of the soil devastators from the nearby dead Imperial troops and use them to render the nearby fields barren. While doing this, you defeat many resistance raiders and spotters, along with a resistance patron in one of the homesteads (Eliminate the Rebel Scum | Bonus Quest).

You return to the communicator and relay your success to Ardmore, who thanks you for completing his mission and arranges a reward.

Summary: You accept a bribe from, or bring to justice, an Imperial Captain guilty of slaughtering a village.

You find a datapad inside a homestead on one of the Stillwater Farms. Apparently a member of the village had an arrangement with a Colonel Adun to send supplies to Sobrik via dewback. However, a Captain Varmett with whom he had a petty feud, intercepted and killed him and his entire village, both committing an atrocity and depriving the Empire of its supplies. The message ends with a request for vengeance against Varmett.

You confront Captain Varmett at Vanguard Outpost. He lies about his reasons and offers you a bribe to keep quiet. You can accept or force him to contact Colonel Adun and come clean.

Summary: You mark some colicoid nests for Imperial bombardment.

In Bugtown you speak to Captain Augatta. He tells you Imperial forces are setting up a new base of operations and the colicoids need to be driven out. Orbital bombers can deliver toxic bomb payloads but need infrared markers to aim at. You move through the colicoid nesting grounds and plant the markers in the Sol Nest, Matriarch’s Nest and Patriarch’s Nest, leaving them in ruins. Augatta confirms the colicoids are fleeing in all directions and rewards you for your efforts.