Bounty Contract Week
Bounty Brokers Association · Cartel Bazaar
October 13–20, 2026 · Level 15+
Take a Henchman contract every day, track your target through a planet's underworld and bring them in dead or alive. Five completed contracts unlock a Kingpin: a tougher crime lord with a bigger reputation reward.
- 1Carbonite intro
- 2Bazaar terminal
- 3Daily Henchman
- 4Dead or alive
- 5Weekly Kingpins
- 6Spend contracts
How to start
- On the Republic Fleet, find the carbonite-frozen bounties by the northern elevator and use the glowing carbonite to start the introduction.
- Ride the nearby elevator up to the Cartel Bazaar and speak to the bounty hunter droid to finish it.
- Use the Bounty Brokers Association terminal to choose the planet for your contract.
- From Activities → Solo, add the weekly Event: Bounty Contract Week; any finished Kingpin contract completes it.
Daily and weekly limits
Each character can run one Henchman contract and one Kingpin contract per day, on different planets. Each planet's Kingpin mission resets weekly.
A Henchman contract pays a Completed Bounty Contract, credits and a reputation item. Contracts and Bounty Brokers Association reputation are legacy-wide, so every alt counts.
Henchman contract, step by step
- Travel to the planet with the travel icon in your mission tracker, then meet the client who posted the bounty.
- In the local cantina, question Shady Characters for Underworld Information. Some refuse and some attack: loot the attackers, as they can carry information too.
- Friendly Drink Probes and Interrogation Probes speed this up. The BBA Mobile Supply Droid in the Cartel Bazaar sells them, and the introduction gives you a few.
- With four pieces of Underworld Information, talk to the underworld contact at the glowing blue table to learn where the target is hiding.
- At the marked location, use the target's rendezvous beacon to lure them out.
- Defeat the target, or capture them with the Carbonite Grenade from your mission tracker once they drop below 10% health.
- Report back to the client, use the complimentary fleet pass, and turn the contract in at the Cartel Bazaar.
Kingpin contracts
- Buy a Kingpin Contract Authorization for 5 Completed Bounty Contracts from a Bounty Contract Broker in the Cartel Bazaar. Each unlock covers one planet on one character.
- There is no cantina step: at the target area, use the Macrobinoculars in your mission tracker to find five hidden seeker probes.
- Crime lords hit much harder than henchmen and only freeze below 5% health. Bring a friend, and set a strong companion to passive if you want the capture.
- Each Kingpin pays a Completed Bounty Contract and a purple reputation item, plus the weekly mission's blue one.
Republic contract planets
- Coruscant
- Level 15+
- Kingpin: Samovan Bann
- Ord Mantell
- Level 15+
- Kingpin: Brogon
- Nar Shaddaa
- Level 18+
- Kingpin: Arkan
- Tatooine
- Level 23+
- Kingpin: Kreegan Ramar
- Alderaan
- Level 28+
- Kingpin: Claw
- Voss
- Level 42+
- Kingpin: Eryn Talosa
Hutta and Dromund Kaas contracts are for Imperial characters only.
Capture or kill?
Either one completes the contract. Achievement hunters need both: Take 'em All Down for killing all 16 targets, Bring 'em All In for capturing them, and Wanted: Dead or Alive for doing both, which also awards that legacy title.
Unlocking all eight Kingpin contracts earns Death Mark in Seven Systems, and climbing to the sniper hidden above the Cartel Bazaar earns Cartel Security. Two crime lords live on Imperial planets, so the full sets need an Imperial character as well.
Reputation and rewards
The reward vendors stand on the platform in the Cartel Bazaar: the BBA Acquisition Officer sells the armor sets and the Freelance Gear Merchant sells everything else. Each item needs a Bounty Brokers Association rank and costs Completed Bounty Contracts.
- Bounty Tracker's armor
- Newcomer
- 1–2 per piece
- Contract Hunter's armor
- Hero
- 2–4 per piece
- BH-7X Custom Hunter speeder
- Champion
- 25 contracts
- Assassin's or Tracker's Bowcaster
- Newcomer
- 12 contracts
- Elite Assassin's or Tracker's Bowcaster
- Hero
- 38 contracts
- Drink Server Probe pet
- Legend
- 38 contracts
Chasing reputation? Spend contracts on Kingpin unlocks, because each Kingpin pays a bigger reputation item. Shopping for a set or the mount? Save them. Friend rank adds the For Hire title and Legend rank adds The Professional.
Next to the turn-in, the Ambassador vendor sells retired armor and weapons for Completed Bounty Contracts plus Rakghoul DNA Canisters from Rakghoul Resurgence and Gray Helix Components from Relics of the Gree.
Fast daily route
- Take one Henchman and one Kingpin contract at the terminal, on different planets.
- Alderaan is a quick Republic Henchman pick, and the Ord Mantell Kingpin is short.
- Travel with Legacy, Heroic or Stronghold travel. Nar Shaddaa is fastest if you own its Stronghold.
- Use Quick Travel on the planet, then the complimentary fleet pass once both are done.
- Spread Kingpin unlocks across your alts so each character clears a different planet.
Guild plan: one Henchman a day on every character you play, Kingpins spread across your alts, and a guildmate for the toughest crime lords.
Sources
- Official August 2026 event schedule — requirement, daily contract structure and featured rewards.
- Official Bounty Contract Week developer blog — how contracts work, level scaling and the official screenshots.
- Swtorista Bounty Contract Event Guide — starting point, mission steps, Kingpin tips, reward costs, expected October dates and screenshots.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic Wiki — planets, minimum levels, crime lords, capture thresholds, vendors and achievements.
Verified 23 September 2026. The October dates follow Swtorista's expected event calendar until the official October schedule is published. Reward prices can change, so check the vendor in game. Third-party screenshots are reproduced with attribution.