Undercity

"I hope you like mutants, freaks, and disease, Intern, 'cause our way off Taris takes us to the Undercity!"

- Marn Hierogryph

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 founding 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. Dangerous sewers located in the Underlevels were infestd with rakghouls and Gamorreans.

During the destruction of Taris by Darth Malak, and thanks to its altitude position, the Undercity may have been untouched from the blast hits, in contrast with the Lower City and the Upper City, most of whose inhabitants were killed. Also, the Outcasts could have survived already since some time before the bombardment, they had left for the Promised Land

However, it's possible that the Undercity suffered from the falling debris of the higher structures that were directly blasted, or from the blaster fire that went down directly through the surface and ceiling. Whatever happened, it can only remain pure speculation.

Bloodlines
"Anyone who wants me to go down there again can pay triple."

- Boba Fett

In 40 ABY, Boba Fett goes to the Undercity seeking out information about stolen cloning information so that he can be cured from a serious disease. This proves that it indeed does still exist.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Bloodlines