Lower City

The Lower City was one of the metropoles that covered the city world Taris approximately 4,000 years before the Battle of Yavin. It was home to Taris's under-privileged classes. This was particularly true of nonhuman residents who, due to the dominant anti-alien sentiment, were confined to living there by law. The Lower City was located beneath the towering skyscrapers of the Middle City and the Upper City surface of Taris, was dominated by slums, and had streets littered by filth and refuse.

Control over the Lower City streets was the subject of rivalry between swoop gangs — gangs whose pilots competed in swoop racing, a popular kind of sport on Taris and some other planets, among them Tatooine and Manaan since 4,000 BBY. The most notable swoop gangs were the Hidden Beks, led by Gadon Thek, and the Black Vulkars, led by Gadon's adopted son Brejik.

After the destruction of Taris by Darth Malak, the Lower City may have had a relatively large amount of survivors compared to the Upper City, most of whose inhabitants were killed.

Since 4,156 BBY the non-Human population of Taris were inforced to live in the Lower City after the Taris Civil War had ended while simultaniously the Outcast been banished to the Undercity. Later Juhani and her parents were forced to live in one of the worst slums of the Lower City after fleeing the Mandalorian attack of her own homeworld Cathar. The intergalactic criminal organization known as The Exchange helped keep the Lower City in fear except for Black Vulkars during the swoop gang war.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 7: Flashpoint, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 22: Knights of Suffering, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic