Taris/Legends

Taris is a planet in the Star Wars universe featured in the 2003 videogame Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

One sprawling city covered the entirety of the planet's surface. The less affluent citizens lived underground, in the Undercity and Lower City. The Undercity was the home of the Outcasts, who were frequently hunted by fearsome mutants called rakghouls.

The great Jedi hero Revan visited this world twice: once, during the Mandalorian Wars to liberate its people from the ruthless Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, and again during the Jedi Civil War, when his transport, the Endar Spire, fell under attack by Sith forces.

Situated on a hyperspace transport hub, Taris, called the "Coruscant of the Outer Rim," was once an important galactic presence but at the time of Revan's second visit was decaying rapidly.

After rescuing the beautiful Jedi apprentice Bastila Shan, who has been taken prisoner by the Black Vulkars, a Lower City swoop gang, Revan and his friends fled the planet aboard the Ebon Hawk, the flagship of Exchange kingpin Davik Kang. Shortly after their escape, Taris's surface was completely demolished by Sith forces under the command of the Dark Lord Malak. Though the Outcasts in the Undercity survived the Sith's orbital bombardment, everyone on the world's surface was killed, save for Revan and his comrades and the notorious bounty hunter Calo Nord.