SWTOR’s April 2026 Event Calendar Brings Back Rakghouls and the Gree

SWTOR’s April 2026 event lineup is not trying to reinvent the galaxy. Instead, it is bringing back two familiar rotating events that should look very recognizable to long-time players: Rakghoul Resurgence on Alderaan and Relics of the Gree. According to the official monthly event post, April will feature one outbreak-heavy week on Alderaan and a much longer run for the Gree on Ilum.

Rakghoul Resurgence returns to Alderaan in mid-April

The shorter of the two events is Rakghoul Resurgence on Alderaan, which runs from April 14 through April 21 and requires level 25 or higher. The official event description says T.H.O.R.N. has issued a level-2 emergency alert over a Rakghoul plague outbreak, with quarantines in place and players encouraged to head to the affected zones as volunteer responders. As usual, players can pick up more details from the News Terminals on the Republic or Imperial Fleet.

The reward list is the usual mix of practical and grossly thematic. Featured rewards include THORN reputation, the Merciless Seeker’s Armor Set, THORN Epicenter and Dark Vector armor sets, Outbreak Response Weapons, Doctor Lokin as an alliance contact, infected mounts like the Infected Varactyl and Infected Dewback, plus several Rakghoul mini-pets. That is a decent enough carrot for anyone still filling in old collections or chasing event-specific cosmetics.

Relics of the Gree runs for a much longer stretch

The bigger time investment in this monthly post is Relics of the Gree, which runs from March 28 to May 5 and requires level 50 or higher. That means it is technically not just an April event, but it will be active for almost the entire month. The event sends players to Ilum’s Western Ice Shelf to explore the contested area around the Gray Secant, the ancient Gree starship parked over the zone.

Featured rewards here include Gree Enclave reputation, the Gree Digitization Cube, White, Red, and Blue Scalene Armor, Gray Helix Weapons, several mini-pets, and the Cyan, Blue, and Red Sphere vehicles. For veteran SWTOR players, that makes April feel less like a month built around surprise and more like a reliable catch-up window for reputation, cosmetics, and older event loot. That last part is an inference based on the event lineup and reward structure rather than something Broadsword explicitly says in the post.

A light month, but not a useless one

If you were hoping for some wild curveball in April’s event schedule, this is not really that month. But if you still need Rakghoul rewards, Gree reputation, or an excuse to revisit a couple of SWTOR’s most established recurring events, the calendar does its job. Sometimes the MMO content treadmill is less about shock and awe and more about knowing exactly which flavor of grind is back this week.

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