Guilty Parties is a faction quest for the Ryujin Industries questline in Starfield that requires you to find the mole that has been sharing vital information about the industry with its competition. To unlock the Guilty Parties mission in Starfield, you must complete the Background Checks mission, and all the seven quests that preceded it. After completing Background Checks, a prompt will appear on your HUD to speak with Imogene in the operation center of the Ryujin Tower located on Planet Neon.
How to complete “Guilty Parties” in Starfield
When you reach Imogene’s office, she won’t be found there, instead, Yuko will be present. When you converse with her, she’ll tell you that Imogene is missing and about the Seokghu Syndicate hideout which was her last known location. She will even recommend running things with Dalton before you head out.
Speak with Dalton and Benjamin Bayu (optional)
Head over to the executive floor and speak with Dalton to get more information about the Seokghu Syndicate Hideout. He’ll tell you that he thinks Imogene is the mole. He will then suggest speaking with Benjamin Bayu to help you search for Imogene.
Leave the Ryujin Tower and head over to the Astral Lounge bar located on the other side of the planet Neon. Once in the bar, take the elevator to the VIP balcony and approach the booth where Bayu will be resting.
Speak with him to gather information about the Seokghu Syndicate. Here, you basically need to get his permission to enter the Hideout. Before he spills any beans on the Syndicate, he’ll require you to do a task for him but you can bypass that by choosing to persuade him.
Persuading him won’t be that hard as it only requires you to fill up 4 bars of persuasion. If you’re unable to, you’ll need to find and bring Kumiho’s Slate back to him.
The slate can be found in the Syndicate Hideout. Simply enter and take the stairs right near the entrance, which will lead you to Kumiho’s room. The area is very heavily guarded so we recommend using stealth to bypass security. The slate is located right on his computer desk. Pick it up and return it to him to complete his favor.
Choosing to do the task will make everyone in the Hideout nonhostile as Benjamin sends word of your arrival which makes the mission slightly easier as a result.
Visit Frankie’s Grab & Go (optional)
To get to Frankie’s Grab & Go head out of the Astral Lounge and walk straight until you find the entrance for the Ebbside on your left.
Just walk through the entrance and look for a neon sign that reads Frankie’s Grab & Go. You’ll only be allowed to enter if you’ve either persuaded Benjamin or chosen to do his task.
She’ll tell you the location of the hideout but will ask you to steer clear of the third floor as the hideout members become hostile if you do.
She’ll give you a keycard which you can use to enter the Hideout. If you weren’t able to complete either of the prerequisites with Benjamin you’ll need to break into Frankie’s and pickpocket the keycard from Franchesca Moore. If you do this the Seokghu Syndicate members will be hostile toward you when you enter their base.
Confront Imogene in the Hideout
Once you’ve acquired the Keycard. The quest marker will lead you to the Hideout. If you pickpocketed Franchesca, be ready for a fight. If you didn’t, you can either stealth past the Syndicate members or kill them. either way, simply follow the quest marker which will take you to a room towards the back where Imogene is.
Speak with Imogene and decide what you want to do with her. You’ll be given a choice to listen to her side of the story where she’ll provide you with a slate with all the evidence proving her innocence and implicating Ularu. Here, you can either kill her or spare her.
Should you kill or spare Imogene?
Since Imogene is not the mole, it makes zero sense to kill her from a moralistic standpoint. If you decide to kill her, Imogene will not return to the Ryujin offices once the faction quest line is over. If you decide to spare her, she’ll return. Sparing or killing Imogene does not have any effect on the main story of Starfield.
Confront Ularu (optional)
After you’ve dealt with Imogene make your way to Ularu in her office on the Executive Floor of the Ryujin Tower. Here you need to confront her and then use Persuasion to get her to admit that she was, in fact, the mole.
You’ll then be prompted to make a choice of either siding with her or killing her proving your loyalty to the Ryujin’s CEO, Masako.
Should you side with Ularu or Masako?
If you decide to side with Masako, it will provide you with an opportunity to hand in the evidence from Imogene to prove her innocence and a prompt will appear to attack Ularu in her office.
If you decide to attack Ularu, the security team and Dalton will be upset with you but the next faction quest will play out the same.
Do note that if you side with Ularu, the blame for being a mole will still be on Imogene resulting in her death even though she was innocent.
When you go and speak with Dalton to finish the Guilty Parties faction quest in Starfield, the dialogue for Dalton will be quite different from choosing Masako and attacking Ularu.
The best choice to make here, from a narrative standpoint is to side with Masako. You’ll not only spare Imogene this way but you also won’t earn the ire of Dalton and the security team during the next mission.
Return to Dalton
Once you’ve dealt with Imogene make your way to Dalton at the Executive Floor in Ryujin Towers to report on the investigation about Imogene.
A new faction quest will start known as the Key Ingredient. This will mark the end of the ‘Guilty Parties’ quest.
Guilty Parties mission rewards
For completing the Guilty Parties mission quest in Starfield, you get the following rewards:
- 4800 Credits
- 250 XP
- Med Packs x2
Starfield Guilty Parties quest bug
In some instances, you may encounter two distinct bugs in the Guilty Parties quest. The first bug prevents you from accessing the Ryujin Towers elevators to move about the building and the second bug does not allow the quest marker to appear after you talk to Dalton. Thankfully the fix for both these bugs is quite easy
To fix the quest marker and elevator glitch in Starfield, simply fast-travel to a nearby area and then manually walk back to Ryujin tower. This fix will work for one bug at a time. So, you may need to do it twice if you experience both bugs during your playthrough.
