Built Different

Not a museum piece. The SWG sandbox you love — with ships you fly straight off the ground, world bosses worth rallying for, and quality of life that respects your time.

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Overview

The Galaxy, Upgraded

Ancient Empire · feature overviewStar Wars Galaxies · NGE

Every planet, every cantina and every sandbox system that made Star Wars Galaxies legendary is still here. What has changed is everything around it: ships you call down and fly straight off the ground, world bosses that pull the whole server together, new species, new stories, and a long list of fixes that keep you playing instead of commuting.

Everything on this page is live on the server unless it is marked Coming soon. The roadmap at the bottom covers what is in development.

Atmospheric flight

Your Ship. Your Sky.

Call your ship down, walk aboard and fly it straight off the planet. The ground is where the flight begins.

Flight recorder · Naboo · YT-1300
In-game capture
SpaceFlight ceilingGround
Real in-game footage from the server. Pick a step to jump to it./callship · /land · /exitship
Instant travel

Every Ship Is an ITV

Instant Travel Vehicles are built in now. Choose Use on your parked ship, pick a destination on the travel map, and you are there — no shuttleport, no ticket.

Use → travel map
Mobile player house

Your Ship Is Your House

Ships you can walk inside act as a player house that goes wherever you do. Land it by the dig site, the city or the boss fight, and home is a short walk away.

Walk-in shipsParks anywhere
Ground to orbit

Fly Straight to Space

Take the controls and fly low over the planet. Keep climbing past the flight ceiling and you break atmosphere into that planet’s space zone.

Launch ShipLand ShipStore Ship
New stories & systems

New Ways to Play

Conversation
Quest giver hologram
Imperial defector

Example conversation. Try the replies.
The new quest system

Quest Givers, Face to Face

Conversations now happen in one holographic window — the speaker, their words and your replies together — instead of chat bubbles and stacked pop-ups.

It is the foundation every new Ancient Empire story is built on, with a cleaner quest journal to match.

Unified conversation windowImproved quest journal
Class stories · in development

Every Class. Its Own Story.

Eleven classes, each with its own storyline woven into the Ancient Empire saga. The gold pads are brand-new classes on the way.

Jedi
JediClass story
Sith
SithComing soon
Commando
CommandoClass story
Bounty Hunter
Bounty HunterClass story
Officer
OfficerClass story
Medic
MedicClass story
Spy
SpyClass story
Smuggler
SmugglerClass story
Mandalorian
MandalorianComing soon
Squad Leader
Squad LeaderComing soon
Nightsister / Nightbrother
Nightsister / NightbrotherComing soon

Class Story QuestsComing soon

Every class gets its own storyline tied into the Ancient Empire saga, in the spirit of the Old Republic’s class stories — with exclusive rewards and account perks for finishing every chapter.

Named CompanionsComing soon

Build your crew. Recruit characters who follow you across the stars, wear the gear you give them, support you with buffs and fight directly at your side.

World bosses

Rally the Server

Heroics are instanced and every NGE server has them. World bosses are different: they spawn out in the open galaxy, and everyone who answers the call gets a piece of the fight.

World boss tracker
Bosses spawn on a timer at one of several sites. Answer the call when one appears.
Threat

Corrupt Gorax

Endor · level 95
Encounter
A giant of Endor’s forests, twisted by the corrupt multiverse — half again to twice the size of any gorax you have seen.
Watch for
It shrugs off root, snare, stun, mesmerise and taunt, and its hide turns aside blasters and slugthrowers. Bring electricity and stun damage — that is where it is weak.
Drops
Corrupt Kyber Fragments by the handful, boss-grade armor and clothing, high-end components — and the rare Gorax Ear trophy.
Open to everyoneNo instance, no lockout. Anyone who answers the call joins the fight.
No griefingEntering a boss arena clears temporary PvP flags. Fight the boss, not each other.
Field campA camp springs up nearby with a cloning tube, a bacta tank and a shuttle beacon.
Everyone earnsEvery participant is rewarded on the kill, not just the killing blow.
Boss currency

The Corrupt Kyber Loop

A shard of kyber twisted by the corrupt multiverse — and the currency every boss hunter on the server is chasing.

1

Hunt the bosses

The Corrupt Gorax sheds fragments by the handful, and every named boss inside a Heroic instance drops one too.

2

No loot rolls

Heroic fragments land straight in every participant’s inventory. No rolling, no arguing.

3

Trade with Vora

Vora the Shard-Weaver, a Nightsister Elder, sells exclusive rewards for fragments — she will not take credits. Find her with /way or the planet map.

Dathomir

The Witches of Dathomir

The Nightsisters run through Ancient Empire — as a merchant, a world boss, and soon a class and species of your own.

Vora the Shard-Weaver
Vora the Shard-WeaverNightsister Elder · trades rewards for Corrupt Kyber
Ara’vara Jedune
Ara’vara JeduneWorld boss · raises two undead rancors
Coming soonNightsister / Nightbrother
Nightsister / NightbrotherNew playable class
Coming soonNightsister species
Nightsister speciesArrives with the new class
Your character

Make It Yours

Three new species join the eight classics, right from character creation. Pick one to take a closer look.

Character creation · new species
A Nautolan, a Chiss and a Togruta in game

Chiss

Homeworld
Csilla, Unknown Regions
Playable as
Male and female

Blue-skinned and red-eyed, from a disciplined military culture that stayed hidden from the wider galaxy for centuries — the people of Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Meditate · choose your focus
Jedi hologram

Seated in meditation, the Force waits for your choice.

> Select a focus.

Force Sensitives

Meditate: Your Choice

Sit, meditate, and after a short trance a choice window lets you pick the buff you want — instead of rolling the dice.

Try it: choose a focus in the window.

/sit then /meditate~30 seconds

Level 90 Holocrons

New players receive a one-time Level 90 Boost Holocron with a suite of starter rewards, and veteran Holocrons are claimed through the veteran reward system.

/claimOnce per account
Quality of life

Less Commuting. More Playing.

Banking, shopping, restyling and buffs come to you. Pick a terminal to see what it does.

Terminals · the essentials come to you
Your house

Home Bank Terminal

Full banking from your living room: credits, your safety deposit box and the Galactic Reserve, from a terminal placed in your home.

Bank terminal
Cash18,450
Bank1,250,000
Safety deposit boxOpen
Galactic ReserveOpen

Buffs That Last

Terminal buffs run for three hours, so one stop covers a full session.

3:00:003:00:003:00:003:00:003:00:003:00:003:00:003:00:00
Live timers, counting down.

Third-Row Toolbar

An opt-in third row of slots for abilities, items and macros — or keep the cleaner default look.

Foraging, Fixed

/forage anywhere, once every 30 seconds — no walk-around macros.

30s
Roadmap

What’s Coming

In development now. None of this has a release date yet, and details may change before it ships.

Guild progression · major feature
Coming soon

The Guild Leveling System

Everything your members already do — missions, quests, the Galactic Civil War, space combat — earns Guild Favor. Each week it converts into Guild XP and levels the whole guild, one rank at a time, all the way to 25.

Rank 1FoundedRank 6Space stationRank 25Flagship
Space station
Imperial Star Destroyer in orbit
Flagship
Guild Space StationsBuy your guild its own station at any of eleven planetary space stations, then dock by comm.
Guild FlagshipsA CR90 corvette or an Imperial Star Destroyer, summoned into orbit over your guild and boarded from the ground.
Missions & LeaderboardsGuild missions, and a weekly leaderboard that crowns your top contributors.
New Guild CurrencyA currency your guild earns together and spends together.
New RewardsUnlocks that open up as your guild climbs the ranks.
New BuffsGuild buffs for every member.
Planetary ControlGuilds fight to hold territory across the planets.
Guild Wars RevampedGuild-versus-guild warfare, rebuilt from the ground up.

New Secondary Professions

Learn alongside any class
Coming soon
Secondary profession

Archaeology

Help the Galactic Antiquities guild find and source rare artifacts and relics to earn unique rewards: schematics, speeders and mounts, creature DNA, decorations, deeds, droids and more.

Coming soon
Secondary profession

Scavenging

Join the Jawa tribes in finding and selling scrap ships, speeders and other salvage from around the galaxy. Earn schematics, speeders and mounts, creature DNA, decorations, deeds, droids and more.

Revamp
Secondary profession

Politician

Leveling returns to politics. Earn new ranks by completing new Civic Missions, and unlock new city perks, civic structures, decorations and more.

Revamp
Secondary profession

Beast Mastery

New skills and multiple pets. Beast crafting expertise moves to a new crafting profession of its own.

Coming soon
Secondary profession

Droid Commander

Like Beast Mastery, but for machines: an expertise focused on droid combat and controlling several droids at once.

New Primary Professions

Three new ways to fight
Coming soon
Primary profession

Sith

Sith and Jedi split into separate classes, each drawing on its own connection to the Force. Jedi specialize in DPS, Tank and — new — Healer. Sith specialize in DPS, Tank and a passive group heal and DPS path.

Coming soon
Primary profession

Mandalorian

The most feared warriors in the galaxy, mixing melee and ranged combat styles.

Coming soon
Primary profession

Squad Leader

Fight at range or up close while you command a squad into battle. Choose droids, soldiers, or mercenaries such as pirates and thugs.

Follow development in SWG News.

Dig deeper

Every System, Documented

Step-by-step guides for everything on this page live in the SWG Database. New features land in News first.

The Ancient Empire Database: search the galaxy across items, loot, creatures, schematics, resources, spawns, professions, planets, collections, the armory and the interactive map
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