Upper City



The Upper City was one of the metropoles that covered the city world Taris approximately 4,000 years before the Battle of Yavin. It was inhabited by the privileged classes of Taris. The Upper City was comprised of the towering skyscrapers that dominated the planet's landscape. In 3,964 BBY, following Zayne Carrick's second escape from the Taris Academy, the Upper City was the last part of the planet to hold out against the marauding rioters that spread up from the lower levels.

Access to the Upper City was restricted to Humans, although notable nonhumans found in the Upper City included a Twi'lek droid merchant Janice Nall, Ajuur the Hutt and a Rodian duelist Twitch. The Upper City featured a cantina, which was famous for its dueling ring owned by Ajuur the Hutt, and Zelka Forn's medical facility, which was famous for being able to heal all diseases but the infamous rakghoul disease.

History
In 4,300 BBY the Upper City along with the rest of Taris began to prosper and became Courscant of the Outer rim. Sadely in 4,156 BBY Taris's golden age had come to an end. In 4,156 BBY new shourter trade routs were descovered thus Taris became obsolete. Abandoned by the Galactic Republic the Tarisiean industurlist began to use the power source of their wish, which was some form of toxic waste. The toxic polition posioned and killed most of the sea floura and fauna-thus famine swept the planet. The tarisiean elite hourded the remaining food and wealth fore themselves wile the poor were left to starve and die.

The tarisiean poor desgusted at what the rich had done rebelled and so the Taris Civil War had began. Millions of inoconts, large sections of Taris destroyed or abandoned. The rebellion was crushed in the end and the thousands of remaining disarmed rebels were inprisoned but the jail cells could not hold them all. So they were insted banished to the Undercity unable to return to the upper and Middle City under penulty of death. The prisons in the Upper city were rendered unecessory and any crimanals in the upper and middle city were banished to the Undercity also unable to return under penuilty of death. Even their desendents were forced to live in damenation due to the currupt goverment.

In 4,156 BBY Non Human's were banished from the upper and middle city to the Lower City of Taris. Since that year the Upper City was ocupied by the Tarisiean eliet Human's as a symble of strict socioeconomic devisions in the Galaxy.

In 4,086 BBY the upper city droids stole the travelers laguage giveing the planet an extreamly harsh review in the Temptast Star Guide. Giveing the worst recomdation in the navagation charts.

Cira 4,000 BBY the Exchange ocupied the planet to as far as the upper city. The estate was based in the upper city and sent bountys to anyone who opposed them, obiously not helping with the planets problems but only makeing it worse.

In 3,964 BBY, following Zayne Carrick's seconed escape from the Taris Academy, the Upper city was the last part to hold out against the marauding rioters that spread up from the lower levels. During the Mandoloriean Wars Saul Carath had to abandonen the planet to the Mandoloriean's.     Shourtly before the Sith ocupied the planet during the Jedi Civil War the Republic had a base in the Upper city as their centre of restoration. The republic scientist created formilas such as the Rakghoul Serum to cure the Outcast. The Republic was going to elimanate the scocoeconomic devisions but the sith armada had invaded. The Republic was driven out and the Sith enforced a planet wide quaritine, martioul law and didn't allow anyone to arive and leave the planet. Exept fore afficial Sith busness.

During the the Sith ocupationa the Sith military base was also established in the Upper City, and its roads were heavily patrolled by Sith troopers. After the Endar Spire was attacked by the Sith over Taris, Republic soldiers Revan and Carth Onasi crashed into the city in a battered escape pod. The two managed to find refuge in a vacant apartment there, where they began planning their search for Bastila Shan. The Upper City was destroyed when the Sith fleet under Saul Karath's mighty Leviathan bombarded Taris from orbit.

The citizens of the Lower City called Upper City residents "uptowns".

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 0: Crossroads
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * The Taris Holofeed: Invasion Edition
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Bloodlines