With the Exchange's withdrawal along with the Galactic Republic and the Jedi the Mandalorians governed the Lower City along with the rest of Taris. The Taris Resistance held them off until they were defeated and retreated to the Undercity so they could escape aboard The Last Resort, which was based there. The Jedi Order managed to free the slaves but the Mandalorian presence did not lift. The Republic led by Saul Karath succeeded in dissolving the Taris Civil Authority and driving the Exchange off the planet. The Jedi Order led by Revan liberated the slaves. Many Exchange members sold their slaves to the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders among them was the slaver Xor and the slave Juhani. From Juhani's perspective it was the worst the galaxy had to offer.ĭuring the Mandalorian Wars, the Lower City was attacked by the Mandalorians.

Her species, or at least her subspecies were considered alien even among the non-humans of Taris. 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 most notable swoop gangs were the Hidden Beks, led by Gadon Thek, and the Black Vulkars, led by Gadon's adopted son Brejik, from 3976 BBY to 3956 BBY. The intergalactic criminal organization known as The Exchange helped keep the Lower City in fear since 4000 BBY, except for the Black Vulkars during the swoop gang war. Many of the gangs began to oppress the common Lower City citizens.Ĭontrol over the Lower City streets was the subject of rivalry between swoop gangs. Eventually the lower levels became beyond the law of the government but it was largely for this reason why the locals boycotted the government anyway. Taxes were then raised for the government's own use in and above the Lower City. In 4056 BBY the non-Human population of Taris was forced to live in the Lower City after the Tarisian Civil War had ended, while simultaneously, the Outcasts being banished to the Undercity due to the Tarisian Human nobles and some alien nobles emerging victorious. When the Rakghouls had somehow ended up in the planet's Undercity they would often use the elevators from the sewers to ascend to the Lower City and attack its residents but the locals always ended up winning the fights of the disease. The Lower City was later blocked from seeing the sun and sky due to its massive skyscrapers. A few centuries before Taris became a hub, the Taris Civil Authority had the Lower City constructed on top of the Undercity and eventually the Middle City was constructed above it and the Upper City above that.

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