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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. Disgusted and starving, the poorer classes rebelled, and so the [[Tarisian Civil War]] had begun. Millions of innocents died, and large sections of Taris were destroyed or abandoned. |
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. Disgusted and starving, the poorer classes rebelled, and so the [[Tarisian Civil War]] had begun. Millions of innocents died, and large sections of Taris were destroyed or abandoned. |
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− | Eventually, the Tarisian nobles emerged victorious and the rebellion was put down. Thousands of disarmed rebels were imprisoned, but the jail cells could not hold them all. The rest were banished to the Undercity and forbidden to return to the Upper City and Middle City under penalty of death. As the decades passed, exile to the lower layers supplanted imprisonment, and the Upper City prisons were rendered unnecessary. The remaining [[Tarisian kelp|kelp]] along with the remaining oceanic fauna was consumed to extinction by the |
+ | Eventually, the Tarisian nobles emerged victorious and the rebellion was put down. Thousands of disarmed rebels were imprisoned, but the jail cells could not hold them all. The rest were banished to the Undercity and forbidden to return to the Upper City and Middle City under penalty of death. As the decades passed, exile to the lower layers supplanted imprisonment, and the Upper City prisons were rendered unnecessary. The remaining [[Tarisian kelp|kelp]] along with the remaining oceanic fauna was consumed to extinction by the Tarisin Nobles in which they were then forced to rely on imported food. As banishment replaced imprisonment entirely, no arrangements were made to care for the descendants of the banished by the increasingly corrupt government. |
Circa [[4056 BBY]], non-Humans were banished from the Upper City and Middle City to the Lower City of Taris. Since then, the Upper City was occupied by the Tarisian [[Human/Legends|Human]] elite as a symbol of strict socioeconomic divisions in [[The galaxy/Legends|the galaxy]], though a few non-Humans did remain. |
Circa [[4056 BBY]], non-Humans were banished from the Upper City and Middle City to the Lower City of Taris. Since then, the Upper City was occupied by the Tarisian [[Human/Legends|Human]] elite as a symbol of strict socioeconomic divisions in [[The galaxy/Legends|the galaxy]], though a few non-Humans did remain. |