You obtain this special companion through a quest chain that starts in Belsavis’ Section X. The quest chain consists of collecting HK-51 parts and will require you to be level 50 and have at least a level 15 alt of opposing faction. You will also need to run two flashpoints as part of the quest chain.
Guide to obtaining HK-51
There are four parts to the quest chain of obtaining your very own Hunter-Killer droid.
1. Belsavis – Section X – Frozen Lake -Fatality
The chain starts in Section X on Belsavis, which you can reach by shuttle once you reach the planet. The quest (Fatal Errors for Empire and The Fatality for Republic) is started by a droid (G0-A1 for Empire and B6-31 for Republic) and it happens inside the ship Fatality. You go to the Frozen Lake part of Section X and talk to NPC there (general Avrun for Empire and general Bren for Republic) who will tell you to enter a wreck of the ship Fatality.
Frozen Lake is in the NW part of Section X
Although the quest is Heroic 2+ with good gear and a healing companion you can probably solo it and the only real problem could be the last boss with two strong mobs.
Dread Legion Leader
2. Theoretika
Next, you will have to travel to the Uncharted space and visit the ghost space ship Theoretika.
Theoretika is located in the Uncharted space
The Theoretika
You will be exploring this derelict ship and attempting to unlock its sections in order to get your hands on the HK-51 schematics. At the end you will face a champion mob, that can be soloed with decent gear (or with some help from poisons). You will start on Deck 4 of Theoretika. There are 4 rooms in the middle and one to the north. What you need to do on this deck is find an engineer’s id badge that will get you into the engine rooms where you will find a power cell that will help you open the door to Deck 5. Along the way you will be able to collect datalogs as part of the bonus quest Fate of the Theoretika.
You will find a corpse with engineer's badge at this location on Deck 4
This badge will help you get into the engine rooms to the south
Once you get the engineer’s badge go south and you will be able to open the engine deck doors. All the way south, in a contaminated area (you will lose health just by standing there) you will find an emergency battery that will help you power up the door to the next Deck. Pick it up and go north and use it in the emergency power socket.
You can enter the engine room through doors in the south part of Deck 4
Engineer's id badge will get you inside
You will find the Emergency battery in the south part of Deck 3
Map of Emergency Battery locations. You only need one.
You use the battery at the socket in the northern room of Deck 4.
This opens the door to Deck 5, whose location on the map you can see above.
There is a bonus mission that will have you collecting datalogs from dead crew members. You will find three datalogs on Deck 4 and two on Deck 3. Two datalogs on Deck 4 are easy to find, while the third one is hidden inside the locked room that you will access later.
These are the map locations for two easily found crew datalogs on Deck 4
Map Locations of 2 crew datalog locations on Deck 3 (Engine room)
On Deck 5 you will find two locked blast doors to the left and the Main Engineering room partly filled with water to the right. There is a circuit breaker that you will need to activate that will unfortunately electrify the water. You will have to jump over pipes to avoid the water and leave Main Engineering. You will then find a corpse with security badge that will help you open the last room on Deck 4.
Location of the breaker you need to activate on Deck 5
Explosion follows and enables you to climb up
Once upstairs jump on crates and than jump onto pipes
Jumping onto pipes can be tricky, just move back a bit. Once you manage to jump onto the 2nd pipe you just need to jump up onto this ledge.
You need to go across the beams to get past the electrified water
Follow this route across the beams to get to the exploding barrel
At the end you will find a barrel of hazardous material that, once activated, will explode and open a passageway for you to go through
Once the explosion opens the passage just jump down and exit Main Engineering to the North.
Once outside you will find a corpse that contains security officer's id badge
Loot the id and go back to Deck 4 to unlock the room you couldn't enter before.
Go back to Deck 4 and enter the room shown on the map above.
It's a Trap! Thanks to this guide you will be able to find an exit quickly and easily.
You first want to move this crate in the NE part of the room. This will reveal a hidden panel.
Behind the crate is a sabotaged con trol panel inside which you find a broken fuse. You need to find something to replace that fuse with.
You fill find a replacement "fuse" in the SW part of the room
Once you replace the fuse pick up the datalog and the medical id badge from the corpse inside that room. This will help you go inside the Medical bay on Deck 5 where you will find the last datalog and something that will help you defeat the last boss.
Enter the medical bay to find your last datalog and create a poison that will help you against the last boss
Pick up the empty stim injectors and go to Nylite canisters (there are full ones in SW corner of the room) and fill them
All that is left for you to do is go to Deck 6 (to the north of Deck 5) and kill Specimen Gamma 19 (remember to use the nylite poison in your Mission inventory)
3. HK parts hunting
Next you will go on a scavange hunt to pick up 7. HK droid parts scattered around the universe.
1. HK primary transistor – Tatooine – Outlaw’s Den
The first part can be bought at a jawa vendor Collector Kezzit in Outlaw’s Den on Tatooine. If you have the legacy perk you can teleport there instantaneously. Wrapped HK transistor you need can be bought for 125k. Also, if you do not have the Burba Seismic Excavator / Scanner in your inventory already you can buy one here as well. This is used to find two other parts later on so it is pretty important.
Vendor location on Tatooine for the first HK part
Buy Wrapped HK transistor from the vendor
2. HK chassis – Taris – Endar Spire crash site
This is probably the most tedious part of this whole quest chain. You need to use the Burba Seismic Excavator / Scanner around the Endar Spire crash site until you find the HK part. You basically activate the scanner and it scans 25m around you fore the part for 16 seconds. It can take a lot of time to cover all that ground with the scanner. Luckily, if other peoople are searching the area as well you will be able to find it much quicker because once one of you finds it everyone in the area can loot it (it stays spawned for a minute or so after being excavated). I found my HK chassis at -92,-207 and the other reported coordinates are {90, -100}, {-51, -142} and {-120, -157}.
Once you find the exact location of the component the scanner will excavate it.
Just loot the unearthed component
Local map of the HK chassis
Global map of Hk Chassis unearthed on Taris
3. HK AI regulator – Coruscant – Jedi Temple ruins
Hk part on Coruscant is inside the Jedi temple area. Anywhere in that area. I found mine at -3048, 2984
If you are Empire you will have to have a Republic alt of around lvl 15 to get to Jedi Temple ruins in Coruscant and scan the area for the next HK part. Once found the item is in a Bind on Legacy container so you can send it to your main. The entire lower part of the Jedi Temple ruins is a possible place to find the component so you need to be very patient and very thorough. Worst … game … design …ever…
4. HK motivator – Dromund Kaas- Dark Temple Grounds
HK 51 parts on Dromund Kaas can be in any part of the Dark Temple approach (marrked in red). Be in group to search.
Same as with the Jedi temple Ruins you need to have at least a level 15 Empire character (or a high level babysitter) and scan a large area of Dark Temple grounds to find the next component. Item is also legacy bound so you can mail it to your alt.
5. HK Power Core – Hoth – Glacial Fissure – Ambria’s Fury
Hk-51 part on Hoth is located near the Ambria's Fury crash site in NE Glacial Fissure. I found mine at 594, -881
This is found in the NE part of Glacial Fissure area on Hoth near the Ambria’s Fury wreckage and it is a lot of ground to cover. People say that the components are usually found closer to the ship so you do not have to wander off too much.
6. HK Weapons Protocol – The False Emperor flashpoint (normal mode)
You need to kill HK-47 in the False Emperor flashpoint to get this HK part
Kill HK-47 boss in The False Emperor flashpoint to gain this component.
7. HK Loyalty Chip – (The Foundry/Maelstrom Prison Flashpoint Hard Mode)
This is the location of the HK part in The Foundry - Empire side. Once you defeat Revan loot this thing next to the reward chest.
The last part is appropriately held by Revann himself in the Foundry/Maelstrom prison flashpoint, which you will need to complete on hard mode.
4. Back to Fatality
All you need to do now is go back to Section X on Belsavis and make your way through the ship and some enemies to get HK-51. There are two groups of mobs there. One champion mob that heals and two hard mobs that also heal. It was very difficult to solo them, but doable. The last obstacle is the Lord of Agony, which I defeated by regularly interrupting his heals. Congratulations, you can now watch the cinematic and enjoy your new companion!
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Comment by red-ninja made on November 23, 2012 at 12:08 pm
great guide! thx a lot. But just to clarify: you say you need a lvl 15+ alt to scan the opposite faction area (temple areas) but how does the alt get the scanner? Is it also bound to legacy? Or do they need to buy one in Outlaws den?
Comment by Aurak made on November 29, 2012 at 3:54 am
Currently, Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior (both Advanced Classes of each) are ‘bugged’ with getting HK-51, and they will get him without any gear at all. To my knowledge, there is no ETA on when this can be fixed. With all the people that try and sell his gear, you could just farm up the 1 million to ‘buy’ him early with an alt, and just make one specifically for stripping down HK, then mail the gear to the Knight/Warrior.
Comment by Ezuel made on January 18, 2013 at 2:41 pm
theres a bug. I was at the final part of the chain and grouped with a friend who wanted to start the chain. We entered the ship on his quest and found that my mobs had joined them. This becaome apparent at the end when we confronted not only the dread master leadr and two DM gunners but Lord of Agony was in front of them.
We resolved it by him abandoning his quest and we finished mine, then he started his again and everytihing from that point was as it should be.
Comment by Ezuel made on January 18, 2013 at 10:42 pm
for affection I found at rank 1
Weapons 70
Technology 35
Military Gear 35
Trophy 35
Also if you use a higher rank while rank 1 is at above rewards, then the rank 2 will be 1/2. But when for instance rank 1 drops to 35 then rank 2 will become 70 (for weapons).
Economically, rank 1 is 200 credits and rank 2 is 600 credits. So it’s cheaper to continue buying 2x rank 1 and feeding you companion (for a cost of 400 credits and 70 affection) as opposed to forking out 600 credits for 70 affection (weapons)
Comment by Lestrade made on March 29, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Hi everybody.
Once u got the droid, ure given a pack with parts to equip the droid with, but the droid is alredy equipped with the same stuff (blaster, cores and all that stuff).
My question is, if i unlock the droid for the rest of the characters qith the legacy perk, will it be equipped as well, or i should have saved that box to equip the droid?
Thanks in advance.
Comment by dakotawhite made on April 3, 2013 at 4:10 am
i recently got him and i found that the extra pack is completely useless i bought hk for my lvl 10 alt and he had all lvl 50 gear the pack you can just sell to a vender and make about 40k
Comment by GingerNinja made on April 14, 2013 at 6:59 pm
i have a glitch that, when i turn the power on and go kill specimen gamma 19, the subject doesn’t leave its chamber after going through the same conversations seen in guides on videos, any suggestions.
thanks in advanced
Does anyone have a way around getting the new gear, ripping the armoring out of it, and putting it into HK-51′s armor? Can’t seem to figure it out and want to get the higher level stuff for him.
Found mine at 136, -187 on Taris.
great guide! thx a lot. But just to clarify: you say you need a lvl 15+ alt to scan the opposite faction area (temple areas) but how does the alt get the scanner? Is it also bound to legacy? Or do they need to buy one in Outlaws den?
You just send it to your alt by in-game mail. It is legacy bound I think.
The excavator found the hk part on Taris, but when I tried to loot it, it told me I don’t need it right now. What gives?
Currently, Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior (both Advanced Classes of each) are ‘bugged’ with getting HK-51, and they will get him without any gear at all. To my knowledge, there is no ETA on when this can be fixed. With all the people that try and sell his gear, you could just farm up the 1 million to ‘buy’ him early with an alt, and just make one specifically for stripping down HK, then mail the gear to the Knight/Warrior.
Uhh, I have a Sith Warrior and Knight, I got Gear with my HK-51.
It is a known bug, not everyone is getting what you discrbed.
Unless this is a fairly recent issue?
-55 -138 -145
Taris HK Chassis
-136-145 for me gl everyone
-93/-143 for me
-2960 /487 Jedy temple
Also found HK chassis on Taris at -23, -146
Chassis also found on Taris at:
x: -32 y: -228 z: -146
(or -32, -146 on the big map frame)
Found the Chassis on Taris at 7, -145
theres a bug. I was at the final part of the chain and grouped with a friend who wanted to start the chain. We entered the ship on his quest and found that my mobs had joined them. This becaome apparent at the end when we confronted not only the dread master leadr and two DM gunners but Lord of Agony was in front of them.
We resolved it by him abandoning his quest and we finished mine, then he started his again and everytihing from that point was as it should be.
for affection I found at rank 1
Weapons 70
Technology 35
Military Gear 35
Trophy 35
Also if you use a higher rank while rank 1 is at above rewards, then the rank 2 will be 1/2. But when for instance rank 1 drops to 35 then rank 2 will become 70 (for weapons).
Economically, rank 1 is 200 credits and rank 2 is 600 credits. So it’s cheaper to continue buying 2x rank 1 and feeding you companion (for a cost of 400 credits and 70 affection) as opposed to forking out 600 credits for 70 affection (weapons)
Found the chassis on taris at -53, -172
Hoth power core is now: 473, -752
HK Part found on belsavis at 36, -136
Taris, not belsavis. sorry
Hi everybody.
Once u got the droid, ure given a pack with parts to equip the droid with, but the droid is alredy equipped with the same stuff (blaster, cores and all that stuff).
My question is, if i unlock the droid for the rest of the characters qith the legacy perk, will it be equipped as well, or i should have saved that box to equip the droid?
Thanks in advance.
i recently got him and i found that the extra pack is completely useless i bought hk for my lvl 10 alt and he had all lvl 50 gear the pack you can just sell to a vender and make about 40k
i have a glitch that, when i turn the power on and go kill specimen gamma 19, the subject doesn’t leave its chamber after going through the same conversations seen in guides on videos, any suggestions.
thanks in advanced
Taris part 138, -187 Hoth part 522, -780 dromund -1643, 555
As level 55 Assassin I had no problem fighting all bosses by myself. Only needed help for flashpionts.
Does anyone have a way around getting the new gear, ripping the armoring out of it, and putting it into HK-51′s armor? Can’t seem to figure it out and want to get the higher level stuff for him.
I found an HK part On Taris at 63, -146.
It’s between 1 of the tents and 2 of those big cargo boxes.
Taris -17 -146