Starfield: Guilty Parties - walkthrough Starfield guide, tips

Guilty Parties is a quest of finding Imogene Salzo for the Ryujin Industries faction. This guide page for Starfield tells you how to get to the syndicate's headquarters, how to steal the Kumiho tablet, and how to score confrontations with Imogene Salzo and Ularu Chen.

Last update: 21 September 2023

Guilty Parties is one of the most complex quests in Starfield that you complete for the Ryujin Industries. You need to find Imogene Salzo, suspected of betrayal. This walkthrough explains where the Syndicate Hideout is and how to make its exploration easier, how to obtain the slate from Kumiho's office, how to handle the confrontation with Imogene, how to handle the conversation with Ularu Chen and how to deliver evidence to Dalton.

• Finding Imogene Salzo
• Exploring the Syndicate Hideout
• Finding the Kumiho slate
• Reaching Imogene
• Confronting Imogene
• Confronting Ularu Chen
• Final conversations

Finding Imogene Salzo

1. You must first complete the Ryujin quest, Background Checks - it is described on the previous page of this guide.
2. Move to the operation floor. You need to question Imogene Salzo, but you won't find her - it'll turn out that Imogene has left the Ryujin skyscraper. Talk to Yuko Serrano and provide any reason for searching for Imogene.
3. You will be sent to Frankie's Grab & Go - the syndicate's hideout. Before you go there, you can optionally return to Dalton on the management floor. He'll recommend you to meet Benjamin Bayu.

Now you'll have 2 options:

1. Entering the syndicate hideout right away - you will be treated as an enemy and attacked immediately.
2. Meeting with Benjamin Bayu - this is to ensure the right of entry to the syndicate's premises. Benjamin is on the VIP balcony at the Astral Lounge. Ask him for permission - you can pass the persuasion check or do a favor for Benjamin.
3. The favor involves obtaining Kumiho's tablet - she is one of the leaders of the syndicate. You will simply receive an additional mission objective while exploring the next location.

1. Go to Frankie's Grab & Go (use the hand scanner and the arrows on the ground if you have trouble getting there).
2. Talk to Franchesca Moore and tell her that you're here because of Ryujin business. The woman will unlock the passage to the syndicate's hideout.

Exploring the Syndicate Hideout

1. If you have reached this location immediately, the syndicate members will attack you. Fighting them will not block your access to Imogene; you'll simply have more trouble to get to her.
2. If you visited Benjamin Bayu and requested access, the syndicate will allow you to explore public areas.
3. Unfortunately, quest locations are among the unavailable ones. While attempting to enter, for example, the top floor, you will be stopped by the syndicate members. It'll end in a warning for now, but another attempt to enter a forbidden area will force them to attack.

Finding the Kumiho slate

1. This is an optional quest objective to be completed only if you have agreed to do a favor for Benjamin Bayu. Kumiho's office is in the guarded area of the syndicate's hideout and you can locate it by using a scanner (one of the blue markers).
2. If you prefer a stealth approach, you can reach the office through the ventilation shafts - use your boost pack to reach the passages near the ceiling and the grates.
3. Kumiho is in her office and if detected, she will immediately attack. You can stay hidden until she goes the other way, quickly sneak up to her desk, take the slate (picture 2) and return to the ventilation shaft.

Reaching Imogene

1. Imogene is hiding in the backroom of the syndicate hideout; the entrance to it is shown in the picture.
2. You can reach this location after killing all members of the syndicate or by relying on stealth (for example, by using the passages by the ceiling). We recommend saving the game in advance because you will soon be faced with a choice.

Confronting Imogene

Imogene Salzo will want to convince you of her innocence and that she was framed by Ularu Chen. There is an important choice here determining your approach to Imogene's situation. The options are the following:

1. Collecting evidence with the intention of giving it to Dalton - this will keep Imogene alive and help prove her innocence. This is the best option.
2. Attempt to arrest Imogene - she will not agree to this. You have to choose another option.

1. Attacking and murdering Imogene - this option means a mini-boss fight - Imogene is at level 21 and defeating her may prove difficult. Try to prevent her from renewing her shield and use weapons suitable for close-range combat.
2. After the fight, examine Imogene's corpse and collect evidence against Ularu Chen.

Confronting Ularu Chen

1. Regardless of your decision about Imogene, you must leave the syndicate hideout. You can optionally confront Ularu Chen in her office in the Ryujin skyscraper.
2. After you accuse Ularu of being a mole and tell her about the evidence you have, she will suggest a private conversation. Once you're alone, you can optionally use persuasion to make Ularu admit her guilt. She will propose a collaboration and you can side with her or remain loyal to Dalton.
3. Alternatively, you can attack Ularu and kill her. This would be another difficult fight due to the small size of the room. Ularu is also a strong warrior of level 21.

Final conversations

Completing this quest involves several other conversations:

1. Talking to Benjamin - this is obligatory if you agreed to obtain the Kumiho's slate for him. You can give him the slate right away or blackmail him and demand 2,500 credits.
2. Talking to Yuko - you can share your suspicions about Ularu with her or keep it to yourself.
3. Talking to Dalton - the course of this conversation may vary depending on whether Imogene and Ularu are still alive. Dalton needs to be given the evidence slate, which you received from Imogene or found by her corpse.

You will receive XP, 4,800 credits and 2 first aid kits. The next quest, The Key Ingredient, will begin.