Undercity

The Undercity was a village on the ground level beneath the cities of Taris in 3,956 BBY. It was a dark, wild area inhabited by the Outcasts &mdash; people whose predecessors were banished from the surface for their crimes. The Outcasts never saw the sky in their miserable life, and nobody hoped that their life would ever turn for the better&hellip; except Rukil, an old man who was considered crazy by the rest of the village because of his stories about the Promised Land, a self-sufficient colony built long before the foundation of the Undercity. Nobody believed in these stories, and most villagers considered them tales created with the purpose to give people false hope. Many died from starvation and disease, and the rakghouls killed even more.

The wilderness around the Undercity village was extremely dangerous because of rakghouls, semi-humanoid beasts that could infect humans with the rakghoul disease. The Outcasts had to keep infected people isolated from the rest of the society because they would inevitably mutate into rakghouls.

During the destruction of Taris by Darth Malak, the Undercity may have been untouched, in contrast with the Lower City and the Upper City, most of whose inhabitants were killed.

Appearances

 * Knights of the Old Republic