Saracino tries to persuade Shepard, who was recently declared the first human Spectre, to endorse him in an upcoming election, and the commander can either support him or condemn him for his views. The human supremacist tries to recruit the player to his cause, and just like Shepard's interaction with Saracino, the player can either confront Colu on his views or outright join the discriminatory organization.
Players can also observe an Ithorian resident of Taris suffering physical abuse at the hands of two kids. They add further insult to injury with some xenophobic rhetoric, tragically driving home the point that humankind may not look too kindly on aliens in the Star Wars universe. It's also worth noting that players will pick up a great deal of each game's party members in these two early areas. Upon arriving on the Citadel, Shepard will already be allied with Ashley Williams and Kaidan Alenko, and by the time the Alliance commander departs for the next world, the commander will have recruited Garrus, Wrex, and Tali to come on board the Normandy.
There are also some uncanny comparisons to be drawn between certain party members met on Taris and the Citadel. Zaalbar was exiled following a heated battle with his brother, who was selling Wookiees into slavery.
Inversely, Wrex voluntarily left his home planet after his father tried to murder him due to Wrex's differing ideology. Additionally, Tali and Bastila Shan's introductions are quite alike, too. Content approaching. Parts of this article have been identified as no longer being up to date.
Please update the article to reflect recent events, and remove this template when finished. Taris was a polluted urban planet located in the Outer Rim. Although Taris was a heavily populated ecumenopolis , much of the surface itself was polluted with wrecked starships and dense, overgrown swamps.
Makeshift tenements made of shipping containers and crashed starships stacked on top of one another, while yellow smog drifted in the atmosphere.
The elite of the planet dwelled in nicer skyscrapers. Taris was a very diverse ecumenopolis that was covered in both urban sprawl and wastelands. If you used the overload command most of the Vulkars should be dead except for one. Kill him and search the bodies for the pass card and some advanced medpacs. Head north to the pool. Program the droid to roll into the pool and self destruct.
This will disable the gas allowing you to get into the footlocker at the back. With the western section complete head back to the east and then north.
This will take you around to the elevator to the basement. Head down the elevator to the basement. There are some junkpile droids that you can reactivate and I guess have them patrol the area for you.
Head down the corridor to the right, which leads west and take out the Vulkar Guards. Take all of the items. Before you go there head to the Landing Bay in the east. Kill the droid there and unlock the footlocker for a reward of 2, credits! Head to the south and east to face the final Vulkar battle with Kandon and his guards.
He will offer you the choice to go and with with him and the Vulkars. This will be a tough fight as Kandon is more than a match even for Zaalbar in melee fighting. The way I defeated him was to focus all my firepower on Kandon while throwing grenades at the other guards. Kandon has a lot of loot on him including another hair trigger upgrade. Head around the corner, disable the mine and find the Swoop Accelerator Engine.
Head out of the base back into the Lower City. Go visit Gadon again and let him know you have the accelerator. Go just fast enough to get the fastest time.
Use the accelerators on the ground to speed up your swoop bike. Speak to the Race Announcer to begin your first run. No matter what time you get Redros will beat it. This time when you win you will take first prize! Brejik, head of the Black Vulkars will come forward to present the prize.
He will claim you cheated by using an accelerator. Bastila will break out of her cage and a fight will begin. Focus your attention on keeping Brejik busy. Bastila will take care of all of the other guards herself. The two of you can then gang up on Brejik. Brejik has equipment that resists damage from melee attacks. When you leave the hideout a Rodian will come running up to you with a message saying that Canderous Ordo wants to meet you in the Upper City Cantina.
Finish off any other business you want to take care of, like taking the Rakghoul Serum to Zelka to finish of the Medical Mysteries quest. The only way into the base is by using an Astromech Droid able to slice through the security systems. Luckily Davik was having a droid like that being built by Janice Nall. Go to the Droid Shop and speak with Janice. Tell her you want to buy the T3-M4 Droid.
You can buy it for 2, credits or persuade her to sell it to you for half price. The T3-M4 droid will now join your team and you can select it whenever you go out adventuring. The stun ray and flame thrower are really powerful weapons to have in a battle but they have limited uses. Now that you have the droid bring him along with another member and head towards the entrance to the Sith Military Base.
The door to the Sith Base can not be opened with normal security skills. Talk with her and let her leave. Slice into it to see all the cameras. There is an assault droid guarding the elevator. You may want to disable its shields to make fighting it easier later on. If you want to make your life much easier in the Sith Base go to the System Commands and take all of the Sentry Droids offline.
After looking at the terminal most of the rooms should be showing on your map. The Control Center is to the west and the elevator is to the south east. The door north leads to other areas of the base.
Continue down the hall to the north until you come to a room with yellow tubes. A guy is stuck in one of them and he begs you to let him out. To set him free set all of the panels on the wall behind you to the red position. There are five panels. As you switch one the ones next to it also switch. Just play around with it until they all turn red. Take the path to the west into the Control Room. Although much of the city would be rebuilt in the following centuries, many ruins remained. Tach , a species found on Taris and Kashyyyk.
Being an ecumenopolis, [8] Taris had relatively little animal or plant life. There were however several important species. In the upper levels of Taris there were feathered dogs used almost exclusively as pets.
These unique creatures could be seen on leashes as their owners took them out on walks through the promenades of Taris. There were also large lizards that were domesticated and used to pull refuse through the Lower City. One of the only species of wild animals on Taris was the simian tach. The tach possessed a unique gland in their heads that, when powdered, could be used to make Tarisian ale , a major export of Taris.
The rakghoul , the fiercest and most terrifying species on Taris, inhabited the Undercity. They were mutated humans that ruthlessly attacked anything outside of the protective gates of the Undercity. Contact with the rakghouls caused a sentient to contract the rakghoul plague , a terrible affliction that would cause the victim to turn into a rakghoul. The oceans of Taris once hosted a variety of kelp and marine life that were harvested as food for the Tarisians.
Most of these were later destroyed by pollution from Taris' many industries and what was left of them was later consumed to extinction by the Tarisian nobles. Renowned for their delicious taste, [17] the people of Taris would sometimes deep-fry and serve coin-crabs at establishments such as the Horizon Hotel. Some time during the Manderon Period , a fleet of human ships from unknown origins colonized the planet and started to build a city underground, which was completed by BBY and according to Rukil would become the site of the Promised Land.
They were governed by the Taris Civil Authority. In BBY, the whole surface of the landmass was covered in a giant city which would become the Undercity , which housed the sewers , which existed between the Promised Land and the Undercity and was built sometime after. The kelp harvest and the oceanic fauna became the planet's only food source since there was nowhere to grow crops or herd livestock on land. Eventually different alien species settled or visited Taris.
The Republic took notice of the world, and before long it began to prosper. Taris was situated on a major hyperspace transport hub, and owing to its wealth and population became known as the " Coruscant of the Outer Rim ," [16] due to Taris being an ecumenopolis , with all landmasses eclipsed with a world-spanning city.
The city's grandeur was once said to rival the galactic capital, Coruscant , for years. However, the planet wasn't truly a planet-wide city, as unlike other city-planets such as Coruscant and Nar Shaddaa , it contained an ocean.
Unfortunately with this title, the planet suffered from overpopulation, and only the Republic kept it from falling into disrepair. In BBY, Taris underwent a precipitous decline as the hyperspace lanes that were key to its prosperity shifted when newer, shorter routes were discovered and without the republic, its business began to die out and so its population started to shrink with the Tarisian's diaspora across the galaxy.
By this point, the Promised Land had been rediscovered. To maintain the planet's economy, Taris turned to industry, where the Tarisian industrialists switched to a new, cheaper power source, that produced toxic waste as a byproduct, which began to slowly pollute the once-pristine ocean, in a century of destruction of the kelp farms and most of the marine life.
While the issue of of its overpopulation had been lifted, the city was slowly dying, which was an economical urban decay that would last for years. When the Republic had abandoned the planet in BBY, Taris's population had likely numbered in the tens of billions, but by the time of the Sith occupation in BBY , the city's inhabitants had dwindled to just six billion. According to the author, T3 droids working in one of Taris' starports stole his baggage.
Eventually the rakghoul disease ended up in the Tarisian Undercity by unknown means. This caused the city to be abandoned and the sewer system was left to disrepair and was eventually overrun by rakghouls and Gamorrean slavers but it still served as the planet's infrastructure. The rakghouls would often use the turbolifts 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.
After several decades of Taris's ecosystem dying off from pollution, famine swept the planet. Panicking, the greedy Tarisian nobles hoarded the remaining kelp and marine life for themselves. Around BBY , a century before the Jedi Civil War , the starving lower-class engaged the nobles in a massive civil war , where millions of innocents died and large sections of Taris were destroyed or abandoned.
The Promised Land was lost once more and became a legend amongst the lower class faction. Ultimately, the nobles emerged victorious. The Tarisian prisons couldn't hold all the rebels, so the nobles began the tradition of banishing criminals and their descendants to the Undercity, unable to return to the surface under pain of death. These people became the Outcasts. They built a village , but suffered from starvation, rakghoul attacks, and rakghoul infections; all hope for them was lost save for the legendary Promised Land.
The remaining kelp along with the remaining oceanic fauna was consumed to extinction by the Tarisian nobles in which they were then forced to rely on imported food. Also, because many of the rebels were aliens, the human nobles became prejudiced against non-humans , and banished them from the Upper City to the Lower City, punishing any that dared to enter the upper levels without a permit.
Thus began the long oppression by the Humanocentric Tarisian nobility of the non-human lower class. The Lower City's conflicts with the rakghouls continued but the locals continued to emerge victorious. Their hope for improving their lives was to save up until they could leave the world. Naturally, this gave the planet a very bad reputation to off-worlders both human and alien.
The gangs in the Lower City got worse as they fought each other more and their main vehicle was the swoop bike , where they competed in the Tarisian Season Opener thus the term Swoop Gang was coined. Many gangs oppressed the common Lower City citizens. It was here that swoop racing captured the imagination of the galaxy around BBY. Using an intricate system of hyperspace beacons, Tarisian race organizers broadcast the results of their swoop races throughout the galaxy, which eventually gave rise to a huge and profitable gambling operation and was funded by Czerka Corporation.
The planet also began to export Tarisian ale that was made from a gland from a tach. Taris remained a hub for swoop racing for decades, becoming the center of the Galactic Swoop Racing Circuit. Taris skyline during the Mandalorian Wars. Due to Taris' close proximity to the Mandalorian War front, it had been granted Republic membership in BBY and it became the heart of the Republic's defense for the region.
The planet served as a staging point for dissident Jedi who where led by Revan and his apprentice Malak and their allies for campaigns against the Mandalorians who based themselves in the Jedi Academy. They succeeded in dissolving the Taris Civil Authority and driving the Exchange off the planet.
The Jedi Order managed to free the slaves but the Mandalorian presence did not lift. Meanwhile, Taris had compensated for its decaying importance to trade routes by negotiating with Lhosan Industries , which employed over half of the Lower City residents in its mining activities. However, due to increasing swoop gang activity, Lhosan was considering pulling out, and moving its operations to a world with less crime. The local authorities assured Lhosan Industries that they had the swoop gangs fully under control, and would take care of them with the assistance from the local Jedi.
However, after a fugitive Jedi Padawan named Zayne Carrick was accused of murdering the entire graduating class of new Jedi Knights and escaped twice from Jedi custody in the Jedi Tower, Lhosan made its decision, and abandoned Taris. This left many Tarisians unemployed, and angry citizens began rioting all over Taris, setting entire sections of skyline on fire. The riots soon spilled up into the Middle City.
Crime began to envelop Taris. Jervo Thalien , head of Lhosan, became frantic since it was Goravvus who had installed Lhosan on the planet and Jervo had arranged a Senate seat in the Grand Convocation Chamber of the Senate Building on Coruscant for him in return. He promised Hierogryph a reprieve of the Massacre charges and most of the bounties on him lifted, but also secretly ordered the Moomo Brothers to kill Goravvus, as he had become a liability.
Due to the political anarchy, the Jedi based on Taris were recalled to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, abandoning the Tarisians to their fates. Taris was also largely abandoned by the Republic military. It maintained only a small military base on the planet's surface.
Without the protection of the Jedi and the Republic military, Taris was left open to a Mandalorian invasion. The Mandalorians used Taris to make their first direct strike at the Republic and captured the Jedi Tower and to a lesser extent the Military Base was used as the Mandalorian base who were led by Cassus Fett.
The Tarisians managed to form a small resistance movement led by the swoop gangs, such as the Hidden Beks, which employed guerrilla tactics to assist them. Hierogryph met up with the Beks and was soon reunited with Zayne Carrick.
The Beks wished to join with the Resistance but had nothing of value to offer them. Luckily, Carrick found the constable's children, who were being held hostage by Brejik and Griff Vao.
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