My trooper has finished Ord Mantell and all quests(even soloed the 3 heroics) and has been told to go to Corusant and cannot activate the stand nor get mod chip and lore ether, pretty sad that trooper starter quest for modification is broken. I have a alt who is an artifice so I can put in an epic chip anyhow, but still the lore and quest for mod is broken we cannot activate the stand even today....

I will say an easy way to beat this entire zone and the boss is to be higher then 34 when you reach him. If you do every sidequest on every planet up to this, daily pvp and mission quests, and daily starship missions you can easily be above 37. I was 37 and 3/4 when I fought him and only died once or twice because getting the feel for the interrupts can be tricky when you have 300ms lag...lol I actually found that with Theran Cedrax and holiday up that using the 3 sage interrupts and deploy holiday and healing myself while KITING the boss made it cake downed in first try with heal pet... The trick is when you see him start GLOWING darkish RED/BLACK and hear a certain techno sounding sound on repeat that is his big bomb and you need to Interrupt it with whatever you have and run/heal until he is dead. This boss actually does have a preferred skill order... first he spams http://www.torhead.com/ability/e6toc9I/obliterate Get your interrupts ready then because 95% of the time he always follows that with http://www.torhead.com/ability/2NPz3TC/force-crush ALWAYS interrupt that and kite him down while healing yourself with heals and theran and this boss becomes a cake-fest.