Star Wars: The Old Republic unlocks

One-time tasks for the current patch cycle — unlocks, questlines and setup you do once, then never again. Recurring daily and weekly tasks are on the checklist page.

Unlocks

Verified for 7.9.1a — Light and Shadow (7.9 "Legacy Reborn" cycle)✓ Verified in-game

One-Time (Game Update 7.9 cycle)8

Legacy Reborn story

7.9.1a is a maintenance and hotfix update — it adds no new permanent story chapter. These are the 7.9 cycle items worth having finished.

Complete the Legacy Reborn story finale
Travel through the finale on Khar Shian to close out the Legacy of the Sith storyline. The principal one-time story content of Game Update 7.9
Reward Story completion

Wreckage on Dantooine

7.9 changed the onboarding: the intro cinematic plays only once, the intro mission is granted only if you have never completed it on any character, and alts skip it afterwards.

Complete Wreckage on Dantooine
If you have not already done it on any character
Learn and use the Hazard Mitigation system
Unlock the Dantooine Dynamic Encounter progression
Complete Core Competence and defeat the Orbital Core at least once
7.9 separated Orbital Core from the Wreckage story mission, so the story can now be completed WITHOUT defeating this boss
optionalComplete [MASTER 4] Orbital Core

Systems to check once

from Aug 18Open Galactic Season 11 and review its reward track
Login & Seasons Rewards → Galactic Seasons, from August 18. No purchase is required for the base track; Free-to-Play and Preferred get the free track, Subscribers add the subscriber track
Check Companions & Contacts → Ineligible for Story
This interface has effectively replaced the old Companion Locator Terminal. Narratively unavailable companions can be returned here for gameplay purposes. No mission required — returning players just need to know it exists