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Taris (Taris), a dead planet.
In fact, at the peak of Mandalorian Crusaders's rule 5,300 years ago, Taris was the most prosperous planet under the Crusaders' jurisdiction, with a population of nearly 100 billion, and was known as 'Outer Rim Coruscant'.
Taris is the core transportation hub of Hydian Way. Countless spaceships come and go here, which also brings huge business opportunities and countless wealth, and the planet also develops rapidly.
In Taris more than 5,300 years ago, the entire planet was completely urbanized. Except for about 30% of the ocean area on the planet's surface, all other land has been built into a super huge planet-level city!
During urban development, a very complex underground pipe network system was built underground in this first city, which was simply an underground maze.
After hundreds of years of development, a new second city was built on top of the first city, so the first city was called 'Lower City' (Undercity). 4600 years ago, a third city was built on the surface of the planet, so the second city was called 'Mid-City'.
As Taris continued to prosper and develop, and as Mandalorian Crusaders began to form an alliance with the Sith Empire to jointly fight against Galactic Republic, Lower City and Mid-City of Taris became places harboring filth and evil. As a result, those high-level Noble House and nobles of Taris once again built a brand new city. This city is at the top of all cities. This is 'Upper City'.
Therefore, Taris became such a five-layer structure from top to bottom: sewer, Lower City, Mid-City, First Upper City, Second Upper City.
In this era, the population of Taris reached its peak, approaching 100 billion!
At this time, the shortcomings of this planet's original lack of agricultural production due to less surface water bodies began to be exposed. Only 30% of the planet's oceans are almost completely covered by kelp farms used for food, but even this cannot meet the needs of the planet's huge population.
As a militarized civilization, Mandalorian Crusaders does not have the economic strength to support Taris like Galactic Republic supports super planets such as Coruscant and Rendili. So Taris has become such a deformed ecology that pays equal attention to industry and agriculture.
As a result, excessive farming and mining, as well as excessive industrialization, have caused serious pollution to the planet's kelp farming, and a large number of people have become sick due to long-term use of contaminated food. The infected people were expelled to the planet Lower City. When Lower City could no longer accommodate it, Mid-City was used as the Land of Exile for these people.
But for Taris, it rained all night. 4156 years ago, with the continuous development of Corellian Trade Route, the status of Hydian Way began to decline. More caravans and spaceships preferred to sail from the faster Corellian Trade Route instead of going around Hydian Way.
As a result, Taris's trade volume almost suffered a cliff-like decline in just a few decades, and the economy suffered a severe recession. This recession lasted for more than 200 years.
At this time, Mandalorian Crusaders was unable to cope with Galactic Republic's counterattack during the war, and Taris was occupied by Galactic Republic. And Galactic Republic didn't want this dirty planet either. After occupying it for a short time, he gave up and left.
Finally, Taris was occupied by the Sith Empire more than 3,900 years ago. By this time, the planet's population had dropped to between 6 billion and 10 billion.
Sith Empire After occupying this place, naturally there will be no time to govern this planet. In fact, you can imagine that at its peak, Taris had a population of almost 100 billion, and the planet-level city had five floors. At that time, you can completely imagine how prosperous and glorious the planet was.
But with the decline of the planet, the population has dropped sharply from 100 billion people to less than one tenth. Naturally, there are not so many resources, financial resources and manpower to maintain such a huge city. In those dark corners of the city, there is no energy, no food, no clean water. All that can be seen as far as the eye can see are countless steel jungles.
Shrouded in darkness, dilapidated, with no end in sight, civilization Relics...
Among the last 6 billion people, only a very small number of the top rich live at the top. They still live a life of luxury and wealth based on the huge wealth they accumulated in the past.
Almost all other 'normal citizens' live on the second floor. They are engaged in various relatively decent jobs and maintain the operation of Upper City.
As for the Mid-City, Lower City, and even the sewers further down, no one knows what they are like inside now, and no one cares.
But these people have no idea that for Taris, the real disaster has just begun.
At that time, the war between the Sith Empire and Galactic Republic was still going on. Sith Empire, who was defeated on the front line, was not willing to accept their defeat. They made a crazy decision-Orbital Bombardment Taris!!
Powerful lasers rained down from the sky, vaporizing oceans and igniting cities. The aristocratic families and elegant ladies living in the uppermost city screamed and wailed and fled in all directions. When they were desperate, they poured into the lower-level cities one after another.
But facing the powerful firepower of the space battleship, a mere first-level city cannot resist it. When the flames and explosions penetrated the city on the upper level and began to spread to the lower level, countless cracks appeared in the solid dome and collapsed everywhere...
These once pampered rich and nobles finally ran into a place they never thought they would set foot in - Taris Mid-City and Lower City...
What greeted them was darkness and terror they had never imagined!
Those who live, no, should be said to be abandoned in Mid-City and Lower City, or even in the sewers, many of them are people who have contracted infectious diseases due to food contamination, or are poor and desperate people, or they are the most vicious criminals!
These people are struggling to survive in the abandoned city, drinking polluted water, eating deformed rats, and walking in the dirty and smelly dilapidated streets.
They were in the dark underground city, looking up at the bright upper city with sick and greedy eyes.
And when they saw those Upper City nobles with fat heads and tender skin running down in panic, the scarlet eyes in the darkness revealed a ferocious light one after another.
From the initial disappearance, loss, kidnapping, and assassination, to the blatant attack and large-scale attack!
Taris's Mid-City and Lower City became a bloody slaughterhouse!!
But is this all disaster?
No!
Far from it!!
In the deepest part of the Taris underground, where even the filthiest and most evil people would never set foot - the sewer, an extremely evil thing awakened...
One of the original seven Sith Lord, the extremely powerful Karness-Muur, the stasis capsule where he was exiled, landed here. And as he slept, his Sith artifact - Muur Talisman completely lost its restraints, and unscrupulously exuded his own evil and Dark Side Force!!
The massacres that occurred at Mid-City and Lower City, the flowing blood donations, the shrill screams, the painful wails, the roaring souls... all of this stimulated the continuous growth of the Force and Dark Side. Muur Talisman, under the nourishment of Dark Side, woke up!!
Under the influence of Muur Talisman, a large number of dead corpses and lost souls stood up again!!
These corpses began to change and turned into terrifying monsters-Rakghoul! These ghouls are extremely powerful and agile, and their tough skin cannot even be penetrated by lower-power blasters!
What's even more frightening is that originally Rakghoul should have been able to retain some of his consciousness during his lifetime, but because the owner of Moor amulet - Karness-Muur was asleep at that time, no one controlled these monsters at all, and they turned into monsters that only rely on instinct to act and only know bloodthirsty and killing!
These Rakghoul began to rush out of the sewers, killing everyone they saw. It didn't matter whether they were beggars, hooligans, nobles or rich people. As long as they appeared in front of them, any living life would be massacred!
The killings spread from the sewers to Lower City and Mid-City. No one can resist the killings of these monsters!
During the 200 years of the decline of Taris, during the process of the population plummeting from 100 billion to more than 6 billion, God knows how many corpses were abandoned in the sewers, and God knows how many people died silently in the sewers!
And now, these corpses have all turned into terrifying ghouls!
As long as the bodies of people killed by Rakghoul are relatively intact, they will soon be transformed into new Rakghoul and then thrown into new massacres!
At this time, the nobles of Upper City also began to organize their own armed forces to resist the massacre of the dark forces of Mid-City and Lower City, and the two sides were fighting fiercely. The sudden appearance of Rakghoul left both warring parties at a loss. Looking at the endless army of ghouls crowded in the underground streets, even if they unite, they cannot resist it.
So people began to retreat towards Upper City, Rakghoul spread to Lower City and Mid-City, and finally these monsters appeared even in Upper City!
There was no other way. Those who survived could only blow up all the entrances and exits of the city, and then ran out of the city and struggled to survive among the ruins that had been plowed into the ground in Orbital Bombardment.
At this time, several years had passed since Orbital Bombardment's Sith Empire. Sith Empire had been defeated, and Galactic Republic had no interest in this dirty and chaotic planet and abandoned it again.
The lonely Taris is not managed by anyone, and even pirates and mercenaries have no interest in it.
So the survivors rebuilt several cities among the ruins and lived a difficult life. At this time, they no longer care about nobles or gangsters. Those who can survive such a disaster are all extremely tough elites.
At this time, the number of people who could escape alive was less than 500 million.
The population has dropped from 100 billion at its peak to 500 million now. This process can only be described as miserable or even terrifying.
Now, Taris's once five-story city has been collectively called the underground Lower City, and the survivors are constantly strengthening the passages to the underground level to prevent any Rakghoul from having the chance to break out.
After rebuilding Homeworld on the surface of the planet, although the survivors lived a difficult life, they were finally away from war and massacre, and they finally lived a peaceful life. And Lower City has become a taboo that no one on this planet can tell!
The number of Rakghoul that are still in Taris's Lower City's place cannot be counted at all. One hundred million? Two hundred million? One billion? Two billion? No one knows. These Rakghouls have been wandering around the earth Lower City under the nourishment of the endless Dark Side Force emanating from Muur Talisman.
This place is already one of the most terrifying places in the entire galaxy. There are indeed some people who want money rather than their lives. They ran into Lower City to dig out the huge wealth that was abandoned during the escape. As a result, no one who went down was able to come out.
It was not until later that, in the shadow of Jedi Covenant, Celeste Morne received Lucian Dre's order to trace the traces of Karness-Muur, fought all the way into Lower City, and then picked up Muur Talisman in the deepest part of the sewer.
"Actually, I often think about it. At that time, I was able to fight all the way to the deepest place in a place like this. Maybe it wasn't because of my own interests, but because Muur Talisman was calling me." Judgment stood in front of the ship's porthole, looking at the gray planet with a faint expression. He said, "Billions of Rakghoul... In the face of such killings, even my act of using the power of the amulet to transform and eliminate more than 8 million Mandalorian Crusaders on Jubal planet is just childish."
She raised her hand and stroked the golden insect-like Moor amulet on her neck, and her tone gradually became firmer, "Such killings should not appear again in the galaxy! And I will be the seal of this power!"
Priestess also frowned and said, "Taris's billions of Rakghoul are always a hidden danger and must be solved. Otherwise, if one day Lower City's passage is blown open, the planet will be completely destroyed!"
Das-Malthael looked at these two people, but thought with some irony in his heart, are these two lotuses that emerged from the mud and remained unstained?
"Can you control those Rakghoul from Taris to Lower City?" he asked.
"Theoretically it should be possible. But these Rakghoul have been wandering here for four thousand years after Muur Talisman was taken away. I am not sure whether their current state is under control." Judgment said seriously.
"Then give it a try." Das-Malthael said calmly, "Once the war with the Galactic Empire resumes, I will throw all the Rakghoul here to the within the Empire."