Outcasts (Taris)

"We are the Outcasts, banished and reviled by those who dwell above!" "Here in the filth and darkness we claw out a wretched existence, scavenging and begging just to survive long enough to see another wretched day."

- Two Outcasts, attempting to squeeze five credits out of Revan.

The Outcasts were citizens of Taris that had been banished to the Undercity of the planet. They and their descendants were forced to live in dirt and filth, while having to beg, steal, and scrap for food and clothes. The Outcasts lived in constant fear of the rakghouls, hideous mutants which could spread their infection to anyone.

Taris's Dark Age
In 4,156 BBY when new, smaller trade routes moved from Taris, rendering the planet unnecessary and without the support of the Republic, the planet began to fall into ruin and despair. The great city of Taris covered more than half the planet's surface; the kelp harvest and the creatures of the sea were their only food source.

It was at this time that a self sufficent colony beneath the undercity was descovered, which was the only part of Taris not urbanised and also it was inhabited by Droids.

Abandoned by the Republic, the Tarisian industrialists began to use the power source of their wish, which was some form of toxic waste. The pollution poisoned and killed most of the oceanic fauna and flora, and so the planet was swept with famine. The Tarisian elite hoarded the remaining food and wealth for themselves—far more than they needed—while the poor were left to starve and die. It was at this time that the self sufficent coleny's location was lost to the Tarisians.

The Tarisian poor, disgusted at what the rich had done, rebelled, beginning the Tarisian civil war. Millions of innocents died and large sections of Taris were destroyed or abandoned. The rebellion was crushed in the end and the thousands of remaining disarmed rebels were imprisoned. But the jails could not hold them all, so they were instead banished to the Undercity, unable to return to the surface under penalty of death.

All hope was lost to the defeated rebels, save from one, the self sufficent colony in which would bring them salvation in which they dubed the Promised Land. Gendar's ansester led the Outcast to built the Outcast village in which they might survive.

The prisons in the Upper City were rendered unnecessary and any criminals in the Upper and Middle City were banished to the Undercity, also unable to return under pain of death. Here, walking the original surface of the planet that never saw the sun due to the shadows of Taris' massive skyscrapers, they endured a lifetime of horror marked by starvation, rakghoul attacks, and rakghoul infections, and even their descendants were forced to live in damnation.

As the generations passed fewer and fewer Outcast belived in the tales of the Promised Land. Beleving them to be fairytails to prevent the outcast from going mad from despair.

In the year 4,156 BBY, non-Humans were also banished and forced to live in the slums of the Lower City. Thus the law enforcement of the corrupt government enforced strict socioeconomic divisions upon the people of Taris for 190 years, from 4,156 BBY until 3,966 BBY.

During this time Rukil's gradfarther searched fore clues fore the Promised Land but was killed buy Rakghouls in the Sewers. His farther did the same and found more clues to its location but he met the same fate.

This rule ended in 3,966 BBY due to the Republic's elimanation of the goverment but were interupted to finish the job due to the Mandalorian attacks of the planet. In 3,964 BBY the Republic reluctently abandoned the planet to the Mandalorians and so the Outcast continued to live in damnation. Even after the Mandalorians withdrawl of the planet in 3,960 BBY after their defeat their lives were still the same disconfert.

During the Jedi Civil War the Republic estabilished the planet to finish their job they had began during the Mandalorian Wars. In the Upper City the Republic scientest perfected a cure the Outcast of the Rakghoul desiese called the Rakghoul Serum. The Republic were about to tighten the socoeconomic divisios once more but the sith invaded.

During the Sith ocupation all followers of Rukil had abandoned him save from one, his apprentice called Malya. Rukil, to old to search for clues for the Promised Land, sent Malya to look fore more. She indeed did find more clues but was killed in the machanical wildiness by Rakghouls.

The Sith were using the Rakghoul Serums fore themselves fore patroles in the Undercity. In 3,956 BBY when the Endar Spire Escape Pods crashed into the Undercity they used the serum a whole lot more. Buy the time Revan entered the Undercity the Sith had run out of serum all toghter. Although some of the Sith Troopers of whom were killed by Rakghouls still had a sample of serum in their corpses.

When Revan arrived at the Undercity, he helped Rukil, an outcast who believed in a Promised Land for the Outcasts. Revan found journals in and around the City sewers which showed the direction to the Promised Land. The journals of Rukil's grandfarther, farther and apprentice Malya. He then gave the tomes to Rukil, who led the Outcasts from the village. It is unknown if the Outcasts survived the bombardment of Taris; however it is possible that they survived because of the shelter provided by the buildings around them. Revan was able to save the Outcasts from the rakghouls by giving a rakghoul serum vile (in which he found on the remains of a Sith Trooper) to an Upper City doctor Zelka Forn who was able to reproduce it and cure the Outcasts of the disease. These Raghoul Serum viles were among the resources that helped the Outcast during the journey.

Known Outcasts

 * Rukil
 * Gendar
 * Hendar
 * Hester
 * Malya
 * Shaleena
 * Trewin
 * Igear
 * Esala

Behind the scenes

 * An alternate non-canon plotline is that Revan gives the serum to one of Davik Kang's men for a large sum of money.
 * Another non-canon plotline is to give the three Promised Land journals to Igear to destroy so the Outcast will never find salvation.
 * In Knights of the Old Republic all the Outcast were Human with no Non-human Outcast in the village.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic