Taris - Why?

[ultimate_ed]

For those that haven't finished with Taris and left the planet, you'll want to avoid this post as it is a spoiler
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I have finished Taris. Having done so, I find myself feeling somewhat bummed. I did all the quests on the planet on the light side. But, in the end, none of them matter as everyone I saved or helped gets killed off.

It's too bad there wasn't some way of the Escape from Taris quest could be completed in a way that spares the planet.

Anyone else have any feelings on this one?

[Curry]

Well the planet wasnt destroyed, the surface was just pretty good bombed :P Anyway of course there will be couple of survivors

[Armisael]

I dunno, I'd guess there's only so much carpet bombing a planet can take before it goes kaput...

[Noushin]

I was pretty bummed about Taris, but I did get Mission and Zaalbar (although I never used Zaalbar all that much), but the UnderCity dwellers who left for their Matrix-like Zion beneath the surface may have survived.

[BelloL]

yeah. after spending so many hours invested in Taris (first time around playing the game) and really getting to know the city and its characters it sucked to see the destruction of the place and knowing that you can't go back. Still, I suppose that's what makes this game so epic. You really understand (or don't) the evil of Darth Malak to the point where the Admiral himself is hesitant and seemingly regretful of the orders he's forced to follow. Even in the original SW movies, you didn't get the impression that the officers were somehow morally challenged by the idea of blowing up a planet with the original Death Star. They were just scared for their lives when they messed up on something more trivial. To think, I just got out of the planet and have only just gotten to Dantooine, and from the random spoilers I keep mistakenly reading it seems like this story has really just begun. I almost wish that once Lucas is done with the prequels that he will do a movie (not necessarily a trilogy) based on this game, even if just for the fans. But yeah, I was surprised at how saddened I was when I saw Taris get bombarded - the cut scene captured the destruction well.

[Gizkanator]

I hate Taris. It's boring and tedious, and I just wanted to kill all those Undercity losers. I kept telling myself "Taris now, Dark Jedi later". Seeing that horrible planet reduced to rubble was perhaps the best moment I've experienced so far. If you can't tell, I wanna be a Dark Jedi! Being evil never felt so good, not even with morphine!

[khaselri]

Yea they didnt actualy blow up the WHOLE planet did they?.
I dont know i think the outcasts might still be alive in their place they go to if u give em all the journals.

[Adm. Pellaeon]

Two schools of thought for the Undercity Outcasts:

1. The journey they began when "you" handed them the Journals would take them several months. At the latest, you rescued Bastila two days or so later (remember, there was the night were you "prepared" for the Taris Swoop Championship). Given that time frame, they're dead ... the victims of the Sith Fleet's bombardments of Taris.

2. Nothing over two stories survived, says Carth. The Undercity was not like as in EU depictions of Coruscant or Nar Shaada, however. The "sky" of the undercity was the ceiling of the vaulting that held up the rest of the city. If the buildings were destroyed, there's still a good chance that the vault levels escaped the general destruction.

Actually, there's a third. The image we see of Taris as the Ebon Hawk flees the destruction shows a band of cityscape in the middle of the visible portion of the planet. It's conceivable that, unlike Coruscant, Taris City doesn't actually cover the entire planet, but is merely a REALLY built up portion of it.

And they don't actually destroy Taris. The fleet merely slags the surface. The planet is still there, of course...

[Kool69]

Well after playing through Taris 5 times, it gets to the point where you just wish you could go to do something else and let a bot or w/e run through it and get the quests items and so forth for you... After you see it beeing bombed 5 times, trust me you feel pretty indifferent and just want the ****ing cutscene to end already!

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NO!!! Master stop! I need those circuits! Don't vent your frustration on them! Please I beg you master! -HK-47

[Adm. Pellaeon]

I agree whole-heartedly. I was/am REALLY sick of Taris.

[Kameleon]

Originally posted by Kool69
Well after playing through Taris 5 times, it gets to the point where you just wish you could go to do something else and let a bot or w/e run through it and get the quests items and so forth for you... After you see it beeing bombed 5 times, trust me you feel pretty indifferent and just want the ****ing cutscene to end already!

Amen to that, I'm only on my third run through and it's getting a little - shall we say - infuriating. Oh, and why can't you skip all the cutscenes? Cardinal sin tbh...

[ultimate_ed]

Well, I haven't tried skipping many cutscenes since I'm on my first time through. But, for things like the takeoff and landing sequences, I can just hit escape to get past those. Does not not work with the major cutscenes?

[Kameleon]

Originally posted by ultimate_ed
Well, I haven't tried skipping many cutscenes since I'm on my first time through. But, for things like the takeoff and landing sequences, I can just hit escape to get past those. Does not not work with the major cutscenes?

You can skip most of the FMV cut-scenes, but when you get game-rendered stuff you just have to sit there and watch. You can't even click quickly through the dialog like you can in-game. So I go make cups of coffee

[Kool69]

Xbox the only 1 ive been able to skip through is numbro uno cutscene with the Endar Spire getting attacked. I just pull the tiggers and hit buttons like a madman till it skips it.

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NO!!! Master stop! I need those circuits! Don't vent your frustration on them! Please I beg you master! -HK-47

[Master_Deeje]

something strange about me is I've beaten the game 4 times and each time i played totally light side yet each time i enjoyed watching taris be destroyed...maybe it just reminds me of alderran