Once in the Contagion Zone, unlock the nearby quick travel point and then speak to the THORN Crisis Specialist to complete the quest.

They'll tell you to travel to the Rakghoul Tunnels via a giant drill called The Spike in the Dune Sea. Before you go, you can examine the nearby mission datapad to pick up the daily quest Quarantine: Anchorhead or Quarantine: Mos Ila . When you are ready, you can head to The Spike using the nearby THORN speeder and enter the Rakghoul Tunnels.

Once in the Contagion Zone, unlock the nearby quick travel point and then speak to the THORN Crisis Specialist to complete the quest.

They'll tell you to travel to the Rakghoul Tunnels via a giant drill called The Spike near the Stardrive Construction Quarter of Labor Valley. Before you go, you can examine the nearby mission datapad to pick up the daily quest Quarantine: Blastfield Shipyards or Quarantine: Incorporation Islands . When you are ready, you can head to The Spike using the nearby THORN speeder and enter the Rakghoul Tunnels.

Once in the Contagion Zone, unlock the nearby quick travel point and then speak to the THORN Crisis Specialist to complete the quest.

They'll tell you to travel to the Rakghoul Tunnels via a giant drill called The Spike near the House Trader's Circle in the King's Pass. Before you go, you can examine the nearby mission datapad to pick up the daily quest Quarantine: House Organa or Quarantine: House Thul . When you are ready, you can head to The Spike using the nearby THORN speeder and enter the Rakghoul Tunnels.

This quest may only be completed during the Rakghoul Resurgence Event. To complete this quest on another planet, you must first reset the quest.

News terminals can be found around the outer ring on The Fleet. Interact with one of these terminals to begin the Rakghoul Event. After interacting with the terminal, you will recieve one of the following missions. To Fight Infection / Combating the Plague

Click on the highlighted Fungal Growth on the ground to spawn a Rakghoul Blight champion. Each Rakghoul Blight will drop one Fungal Sample, so you will need to kill a total of three of them. Also nearby are Fungal Rakghouls, 25 of which you will need to kill as well to complete the quest.

THORN researchers would like to investigate the fungal growths that consistently recur in tunnels burrowed out by rakghouls, believing the fungi may shed some light into the rakghoul plague's makeup and propagation.

Look for piles of skulls stacked up in containers scattered around the tunnels. You will need to scan 5 of them, and then kill 25 of the nearby Rakghouls. When you attack a Rakghoul, several more will spawn.

THORN researchers are looking to determine why rakghouls consistently hoard skeletal remains in their makeshift tunnels, and what commonality these remains hold--if any.

Go to one of the marked navigation beacon areas on your map, then use your Navigational Beacon Scanner in your mission inventory to scan the navigation beacons on the ceiling. Note: The exact locations of the navigation beacons within the search area varies.

The Spike has fired navigational beacons into the rakghoul tunnels so that THORN volunteers can find their way through the complex network. However, manual scans of these beacons must be made to connect them to THORN data services.

THORN hopes to find a way to revert those turned into rakghouls to their original state by studying a mutagen found in the recently infected and turning.

Note: After clicking the first group of eggs, you will have 5 minutes to locate two other eggs and return the mission terminal

Look for three bulbous "Fungal Flora" to inject to summon three Alderaan Rakling followers. Once you have three, return to Crisis Command or Operations Hub and put them in the specimen container.

THORN wishes to study the small "raklings" found in the rakghoul tunnels, and have sent out a request for volunteers to lure and secure live specimens.

This daily is obtained when you get infected, reach Stage 3 of the Rakghoul Infection, and then blow up next to a healthy player, infecting him or her. You will need to repeat this 3 times to complete the daily.

Denizens of the Blastfield Shipyards and Shipwright Auxiliary Spaceport are displaying symptoms of early-stage rakghoul infection, and THORN relief workers are too overwhelmed to assist them.

Jeelvic can be found in the heroic area of the Rakghoul Tunnels (The Epicenter) moving around the cliff walls in the middle of the map. Visit the Rewards section of the guide for a list of items available to purchase from Jeelvic.

There is a one-time quest you can complete on each of your characters to find Jeelvic, the Jawa vendor from previous iterations of the Rakghoul event. You can pick up the quest by examining Jeelvic's Datapad in the Contagion Zone of the Rakghoul Tunnels.

The Tunnel Lurker has a chance of dropping a Crimson Rakling pet. Killing the Tunnel Lurker while having a Rakling pet summoned will grant one of the pet achievements.

The Midnight Rakghoul can be found in the Transit District of the Kaon Under Siege flashpoint. It is a level 60 champion that has a 100% chance of dropping a Midnight Rakling pet on both story mode and hard mode.

Plaguebearers will sometimes spawn and attack you when you exit the spaceports on Alderaan and when you are walking around the Rakhoul event area near House Organa and House Thul. On rare occasions, an elite Frenzied Plaguebearer will spawn instead, which has a chance of dropping a Pale Rakling pet.

The same strategy can be used for both Story Mode and Hard Mode. Only one tank is needed, as there are no required tank swap mechanics.

The Eyeless is a raid boss located within an instanced section of the rakghoul tunnels. He can be found on an 8 Man and 16 Man Normal and Hard mode difficulty. The loot he drops is noted below.

The Catalyst is a champion level rare spawn that will randomly replace one of the Fungus Rakghoul spawns. It has a higher chance of dropping a Symbiotic Fungal Bloom .

Plaguehorn is the Rakghoul Resurgence world boss for Tatooine and has a 100% chance of dropping a Plaguehorn Reek pet and an Exotic Plague Specimen . Plaguehorn is located in Jundland (X: 1200, Y: -1350).

Toxxun is the Rakghoul Resurgence world boss for Corellia and has a 100% chance of dropping a Plaguetooth Sleen pet and an Exotic Plague Specimen . Toxxun is located in Axial Park (X: 1218, Y: -1855).

All of the vendor items can be obtained from Jeelvic and vendors at the main camp for each faction.

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The Eyeless The exploration of subterranean rakghoul tunnels by THORN personnel has led to many chilling revelations about rakghoul biology and behavior--none more horrifying than the gargantuan creature known as "the Eyeless". Far larger than any rakghoul ever previously recorded, these creatures make their home near the very heart of the outbreak. Sensor probes and scouts have never found more than one such creature in each tunnel network. No two THORN scientists can seem to agree on the role of the Eyeless in the rakghoul heirarchy. Some theorize that they are actually the source of the outbreaks, where others believe them to be a mere byproduct of the plague's progression. Until more detailed scans are made available, definitive answers on the nature of the Eyeless will likely remain out of reach.

THORN Whenever an outbreak of the rakghoul virus surfaces anywhere in the galaxy, one of the first distress calls is made to The Hyland Organization for Rakghoul Neutralization (THORN). With its vast resources and singular mission--the permanent eradication of the rakghoul threat--THORN is a planet's best chance of avoiding a global pandemic. To most citizens of the galaxy, this philanthropic organization created by entrepreneur Addalar Hyland is a welcome force for good. Few, however, are aware of the reason for Hyland's support of THORN as opposed to any other charitable cause. While he would never discuss it in public, it is a matter of record that Hyland lost two of his children to an outbreak of the rakghoul plague on Tatooine. Ever since that fateful day, he has diverted a great deal of his wealth earned from Galactic Solutions Industries to personally finance THORN.

The Spike When a mining crew drilled into what they had thought was a prothium gas pocket, the first underground network of rakghoul tunnels was discovered. Since then, direct routes have not been found into these densely populated tunnels that happen to correspond with rakghoul outbreaks. To access such networks in an efficient and timely manner, THORN founder Addalar Hyland introduced The Spike: a massive, cylindrical pulse hammer that quickly displaces soil and rock to form a temporary turbolift shaft leading directly into the rakghouls' subterranean lairs. Originally developed by Galactic Solutions Industries to fire troop deployments deep into sub-crustal enemy bunkers, the effects of The Spike's ground-busting payload were deemed too violent for those within to survive the turbulence, making the costly apparatus less than desirable to prospective buyers. In its new role as a facilitator between rakghouls and those who wish to dispose of them, The Spike has found great success.

Rakghoul Propagation It has long been thought that the only way for the rakghoul virus to spread was by turning other beings into rakghouls through infection, but close studies of underground rakghoul habitats now point to a more complicated and unsettling reality: that rakghouls can propagate without the need for turning. Located deep below the surface of infected planets, small rakghouls have been found roaming together in packs. These "raklings" appear to have been formed from luminescent spore sacs strung along the rakghoul tunnels, though it is not yet clear to biologists how this process works. They have learned, however, that the raklings are attracted to a particular pheromone emitted from certain flora found within the tunnels. Researchers have long wished to use this pheromone to lure raklings into captivity, but strict antiviral protocols enacted by THORN do not allow these proto-rakghouls to be taken aboveground. Until they can be tested in a proper laboratory setting, the truth of how rakghouls self-multiply may not be fully understood.

The Rakghoul Tunnels While it's clear that the rakghoul virus initially spreads across the surface of a given planet, it has been difficult to determine the point of origin because the greatest density of rakghouls is not aboveground, but rather deep underground. Researchers attempting to understand why rakghouls congregate below a given planet's surface rather than above have developed a theory: that the subterranean tunnels in which the rakghouls gather are not found, but are actually created by the rakghouls themselves. Careful study of the tunnels has revealed striking similarities in contour and dimension reminiscent of the natural algorithmic optimizations witnessed in the configuration of killik hives of Alderaan and in the formation of blood-ant mounds on Tatooine. Furthermore, the familiar distribution of spore sacs and unique flora suggest not only an attempt to create an environment conducive to their habitation, but also a robust fungal signature stored within the virus's genetic code. It is the hope of THORN researchers that unlocking the key to the creation of these tunnels will also provide insight into stopping the rakghoul menace for good.

Rakghouls on Alderaan In the war for the hearts and minds of the masses, propaganda can be a powerful weapon. Since the rakghoul plague surfaced on Alderaan, theories surrounding its point of orign have spread wider and faster than the plague itself. House Organa immediately cited the outbreak's epicenter near King's Pass as proof that House Thul and the Empire were conspiring to use the plague as a biological weapon, while House Thul countered that House Organa implemented the outbreak themselves so they could place the blame on their rivals to stir up sympathy. Yet another premise suggests that House Ulgo nurtured the plague in order to ratchet up hostilities between Organa and Thul and further weaken the rival houses for Ulgo's eventualy conquest. While none of these accusations are likely to be revealed as true, one fact remains: Alderaan stands perilously close to the brink of a global rakghoul pandemic.

Rakghouls on Tatooine The first time rakghouls threw Tatooine into Pandemonium, they came from the sky, spewing out from a wrecked ship called the Stardream. After the epidemic was believed to be contained, no one thought to check below the dunes of the desert planet for signs of the diseased beasts. When a seasoned clan of Jawa scavengers stripping the Stardream's interior for parts found a hull breach, they uncovered a network of rakghoul-infested tunnels deep underground. Cobbling spare parts into traps, the clan methodically captured and exterminated every remaining rakghoul and then used detonate charges to collapse the tunnels. Since that day, the clan have made the Stardream's husk into their home, seeing it as their solemn duty to keep watch over the hull breach, ever wary the rakghoul plague might return. Not having anticipated an entirely new infestation to rise up elsewhere in the DUne Sea, they are quite relieved for THORN's intervention and are more than content to let the organization's aid workers deal with the problem this time.