Galactic Seasons in Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) are a limited-time progression track that runs for months at a time. You complete a rotating list of daily and weekly objectives to earn points, rank up the track, and claim rewards ranging from cosmetics to mounts, decorations, and special tokens for vendor purchases.

This guide covers the core system (how points and objectives work), how to plan your weekly progress, and what’s notable about Galactic Season 10: Secrets of the Syndicate, including the returning companions Altur and PH4-LNX and the vendor that sells past-season items. Along the way, you’ll also learn how to keep your credits budget under control for companion influence, unlocks, and convenience spending.

Galactic Seasons Basics: What It Is and Who It’s For

Galactic Seasons is designed for nearly every type of player:

• Free-to-play and Subscribers can both participate at no additional cost.
• Subscribers get an additional reward track with extra cosmetic rewards.
• You can start as early as level 1, and progress is legacy-wide (you can work on it across multiple characters on the same server).

In addition to track rewards, you earn Galactic Seasons tokens that can be spent at vendors for previously retired items and certain exclusive unlocks (including stronghold-related rewards depending on the season’s vendor stock).

How to Open the Galactic Seasons Menu

Open the main menu and look for the icon that resembles a person, then choose Login and Seasons Rewards. When a season is live, you’ll see a Galactic Seasons tab in that window.

If you don’t see the tab, it typically means there is no active season running at that time.

Points, Ranks, and Objectives (The Only Things That Count)

Your rank is shown near the top-left of the Galactic Seasons panel. To gain a rank, you need to earn 8 Galactic Seasons points.

You earn points only by completing objectives listed in the Objectives tab. Activities outside that list do not award Season points, even if they feel “seasonal.”

• Daily objective: You can complete one per day.
• Weekly objectives: You can complete up to seven per week from the available list.
• Weekly login bonus: If you log in four times during the week before reset, you receive bonus points.

Objectives vary in point value. If you’re trying to rank efficiently, always check the point value and pick the objectives that match what you already planned to do that week (Flashpoints, Heroics, crafting, PvP, exploration, etc.).

Planning Tip: Finish the Weeklies First

Because weeklies are capped and reset on a schedule, they’re the most important to prioritize. If your playtime is limited, aim to complete your seven weeklies early, then use the daily objective as a flexible “top-up” on days you can log in briefly.

Season 10 Overview: Secrets of the Syndicate

Galactic Season 10 is notable because it brings back a large set of rewards from earlier seasons, heavily themed around the returning companions Altur and PH4-LNX. This makes Season 10 especially valuable for new, returning, or lapsed players who missed those original tracks.

If you already earned most of the older rewards, Season 10 has fewer truly new items, but there are still standout prizes and practical reasons to participate (tokens for vendors, decorations, and companion-related achievements).

The Season 10 track includes many returning rewards originally featured in earlier seasons, such as:

• Weapons
• Mounts
• Armor sets
• Companion items and customizations

For collectors, this is a rare chance to pick up previously retired rewards without relying solely on secondary sources. It’s also a helpful catch-up path for players who want their account to feel “complete” across cosmetics and utility unlocks.

Notable New Rewards: Companion-Riding Mounts

Even if you already own many returning items, two mounts on the track are especially memorable:

• Rank 50: Blue Shift
• Rank 100: Event Horizon

These are among the rare mounts in SWTOR that allow your companion to ride alongside you, which makes them a strong “end-of-track” motivation for players who value unique travel cosmetics.

Altur and PH4-LNX: How to Unlock the Season 10 Companions

Season 10’s objective list frequently includes tasks that require taking Altur or PH4-LNX with you. If you don’t have them yet, you can unlock them quickly through the track.

How to Get Altur

You unlock Altur very early. You only need to reach the first rank on the track, which requires 8 points. Complete any objective that doesn’t require these companions, claim the reward, and you’ll receive an item that grants access to Altur.

When you use the item, you’ll typically have two options: recruit the companion immediately or start a short intro quest to meet them first. You can recruit right away and still do the story later.

How to Get PH4-LNX

PH4-LNX is similar, but you need to reach Rank 5 on the track to claim her. As with Altur, you can recruit immediately or do her short story first, and you can still complete the story later if you recruit right away.

Legacy Access and Collections Unlocks

When you claim these companions, you generally receive them on the character that claimed the reward. If you want account-wide access, check Collections for an unlock option. This typically costs Cartel Coins, but Seasons tracks commonly include Cartel Coins as rewards over time.

Many Season 10 objectives ask you to bring Altur or PH4-LNX and:

• Defeat a large number of enemies while the companion is set to Tank, Healer, or DPS.
• Earn 200,000 Conquest points with the companion present.

To swap a companion’s role, summon them and change their role via the companion controls (you can also re-summon companions from the companion window if they vanish or are dismissed).

Important Restriction: Some Content Doesn’t Count

Certain companion-kill objectives do not count in several instanced modes. If you’re not getting credit, move to open-world combat where companion behavior and kill credit are more consistent. As a general rule, don’t expect these specific objectives to progress inside Warzones, Galactic Starfighter, Flashpoints, or Operations.

How to Complete the 200,000 Conquest Objective Reliably

The Conquest-based objectives (often labeled along the lines of “earn 200,000 Conquest points with Altur/PH4-LNX”) can be the most confusing. The key requirement is simple but strict: your companion must be physically summoned when you complete Conquest objectives that award points.

Where to Find Conquest Objectives

Open your mission log and go to the Conquest tab. You’ll see:

• The week’s Conquest objectives
• How many points each objective awards
• Whether objectives are repeatable
• How much time remains before reset

Efficient Conquest Approach for Seasons

To hit 200,000 points without overthinking it, choose Conquest objectives that align with what you already do in SWTOR. Examples of commonly efficient categories include:

• Open-world missions and Heroics (steady points while you also earn gear, materials, and reputation progress)
• Crafting and crew skill turn-ins if you already maintain a crafting loop
• Group content if your weekly routine already includes it (just remember the companion must be out when the point-awarding objective completes)

From an economy standpoint, Conquest is also a consistent way to stabilize your weekly SWTOR credits sources because it naturally overlaps with content that drops vendor trash, crafting materials, and items you can sell.

Powering Up Altur and PH4-LNX: Influence, Gifts, and Credit Cost

If you want Altur or PH4-LNX to perform better for objectives (especially if you set them to heal or tank while you AoE enemies), raising their influence level helps noticeably.

These two companions use unique gifts rather than standard companion gifts. During Season 10, you can purchase discounted gifts from Kiat Favo in the Supply section of the Republic or Imperial Fleet.

• PH4-LNX: Blue Counterfeit Chips
• Altur: Blue Succulent Pickle Beetles

How Much It Costs to Max Influence (Example Budget)

If you plan to push one of them to Influence 50 using the blue gifts sold during the season, a commonly cited estimate is:

• 50 blue gifts total
• 375,000 credits total cost

That’s not an extreme amount compared to endgame expenses, but it’s still worth planning for alongside repairs, travel, and gearing. If you’re already spending heavily on SWTOR credits for mods and augments, consider leveling only one of the two companions first (whichever is required most often by your weekly objectives).

Players who don’t want to grind extra hours sometimes choose to supplement their budget by using a trusted SWTOR credits site with secure payment and support so they can focus playtime on objectives and cosmetics rather than repeating the same farm routes.

Spending Galactic Seasons Tokens: Where to Go and What to Look For

Season tokens are one of the biggest reasons to participate even when you don’t love the current track rewards. In Season 10, the key vendors are on Fleet:

• Kiat Favo (Supply section): Season 10 vendor stock, including companion gifts and a rotating selection of past-season items not directly on the track.
• Nearby vendor(s) that may offer older retired rewards depending on what’s active for the season.

Expect to see a mix of mounts, decorations, dyes, and companion customizations. If you’re trying to avoid impulse spending, set a token plan early: decide whether you’re prioritizing mounts, companion cosmetics, or stronghold decorations, then spend only after you’ve checked the full vendor list.

Credit Planning: Tokens Reduce Spending Pressure

Because tokens can replace purchases you might otherwise chase through the GTN, they indirectly help with SWTOR credits management tips. If an item is available for tokens, it may be smarter to wait and use tokens rather than paying inflated market prices.

Season 10 Meta Achievement: Who Should Aim for It?

Like many seasons, Season 10 includes a meta achievement that requires completing multiple specific achievements during the season. The reward is a set of companion customizations for Altur and PH4-LNX (a set of five unique skins).

This meta is intentionally “above and beyond” what’s needed to finish the track. It’s best suited for players who:

• Play efficiently several days per week
• Enjoy checklist-style completion
• Already plan to do Conquest and Season objectives consistently

If your goal is simply to finish the reward track, you can usually ignore the meta and still walk away with the most important items, including the companion-riding mounts at higher ranks.

A Simple Weekly Routine to Finish the Track On Time

If you want an evergreen routine that works in most seasons, use this structure:

• Day 1–2 after reset: Complete your seven weeklies (or as many as your schedule allows).
• Throughout the week: Do the daily objective on the days you log in.
• Hit four logins: Secure the weekly login bonus points.
• Companion weeks: When Altur/PH4-LNX objectives appear, summon the required companion before you start and keep them out until objectives complete.

This approach minimizes last-minute pressure and helps you avoid “wasting” play sessions on low-value objectives. It also pairs well with a steady income plan, whether you prefer SWTOR credits farming loops, GTN flipping, crafting, or simply selling what you earn while doing Seasons and Conquest.

Do I need to be a Subscriber to do Galactic Seasons?

No. Free-to-play players can participate and earn rewards. Subscribers simply have an additional reward track with extra cosmetics.

How many points do I need per rank in Galactic Seasons?

You need 8 points to gain one rank. Points come only from the objectives listed in the Galactic Seasons Objectives tab.

Why am I not getting credit for the Altur/PH4-LNX kill objective?

Some companion-specific objectives don’t progress in certain instanced modes. Try open-world combat and make sure the companion is summoned and set to the required role.

What’s the easiest way to finish the 200,000 Conquest objective?

Pick Conquest objectives you already do (missions, Heroics, crafting loops) and ensure Altur or PH4-LNX is physically present when the objective completes and awards points.

How expensive is it to boost Altur or PH4-LNX with Season gifts?

Using the discounted blue gifts from the Fleet vendor, a common budget to reach high influence is around 375,000 credits for 50 gifts. Plan this alongside other upgrade costs, especially if you’re also funding gearing and augments.

Done right, Galactic Seasons becomes a steady, low-stress progression lane: you earn cosmetics and mounts, pick up returning rewards with tokens, and build a predictable weekly rhythm that also supports your overall in-game economy.