Laore meet with Empress Acina to form an alliance. But they were sabotaged by Chancellor Saresh who has gone mad with power and wants to steal Laore's alliance.
The two escape Dromound Kass and return back to the Alliance where Laore is disappointed in Saresh and he sentence her to life in prison. In the end he decides to put his trust in Acina because despite his formal relationship with the Empire in the times of the Vaylin's cruel rule, Laore needs all the help he can get.
On Lokath Scorilla has to stop the Republic and Empire from getting their hands on a superweapon. Scorilla sides with the Republic since she had planned to betray Acina from the beginning. Now is the time.
Quinn returns after betraying Scorilla twice and Scorilla make him beg for forgiveness. After getting on his hands and knees begging for forgiveness, she welcomes him back.
Laore heads to Voss to save it from Vaylin's conquest. Turns out Senya and Acrann are also there. Laore choose to trust Senya in hope that Acrann can come back as a reformed villain.
Starmarkin is thrown into the new expansion. Not much happens other than Starmarkin getting sick of tried of the mandalorian plot line and her continuing to stab the Republic in the back.
(For all the newcomers out there Starmarkin is actually a double agent working for Darth Baras. Well she used to. After Darth Baras was killed Starmarkin decides that she wants to be her own master. She is still a double agent. But now works for her own gain.)
His time as Emperor was short live as the Order of Zildrog plus an evil betraying retcon Theron Shan threatens to destroy Drakis' empire. They stop Zildrog but in the end it was the order who got the last laugh, as both the Eternal fleet and the Gravestone are gone.
With the Alliance no longer the power house Drakis must return back to the Empire. As for Theron Shan he was rescue and healed up but Drakis has him banished from the Alliance.