star-wars-the-old-republic
I can't seem to get any Lost Artifact Fragments through my Archaeology missions. I've been repeatedly doing the other missions that yield other Grade 1 materials in order to clear them out and hopefully have a mission that yields Grade 1 Artifact Fragments, with no luck. Torhead claims "Memoirs of a Crimelord" gives them, but I've never seen that mission come up.
Is there something I'm missing here? Any other way to get them (besides the GTN if someone sells some)?
If you want to make sure you got all the datacrons on a specific planet, look at the Codex entry for that planet and then click on the magnifying glass. It shows your progress on that planet, including how many of the datacrons you have:
As for the rewards from datacrons, it seems it's only stats boosts and matrix shards, but I can't say that for certain.
You can buy another color crystal on the Republic (or Imperial) fleet. Use your map, click the Vendors button to show vendors, and look for the Pre-order Crystal Vendor tucked in a corner along the outer circle.
Best Answer
Artifact fragments can occasionally be received when harvesting color crystal nodes in the world, and can also be found as nodes themselves (I've seen them in/around the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas).
If the mission isn't showing up, and you meet the requirements for it (35 skill - I've sent Khem on this mission myself, so I know it exists), well, you're out of luck, because there are more missions than there are slots for them, so a random batch gets picked, and Memoirs wasn't among them.
In that case, you'll want to reset your available missions: log out / in, change zone, or complete any other mission.