Yuuzhan'tar (Yuuzhan Vong War)

Yuuzhan'tar was the name given to the galactic capital Coruscant after its conquest by the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong in 27 ABY.

It translated from the Yuuzhan Vong tongue as "Creche of the Gods". The planet was also named after the original Yuuzhan'tar which had been destroyed millennia earlier in the Yuuzhan Vong home galaxy during the Cremlevian War.

Origins


Due to its stategic location in the Galactic Core and its importance in galactic society, the Yuuzhan Vong realised that holding Coruscant would better their position in their conflict against the inhabitants of the galaxy.

In 27 ABY, nearly the entire Yuuzhan Vong fleet would take part in Battle Plan Coruscant. This massive armada was divided into two groups based in Reecee and Borleias which had been captured earlier as stepping stones for the assault on the capital.

Coruscant's darkest hour was at the peak of the Yuuzhan Vong War. During the Fall of Coruscant, the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong overwhelmed the Republic defenses in three attack waves and conquered the planet. Coruscant, which had been completely covered in city sprawl for millennia, was devastated during the assault. Billions of lives were also lost during the battle.

Vongforming


Following the battle, the Yuuzhan Vong decided to Vongform the planet in their image as the had done to many other conquered worlds. They designated it Yuuzhan'tar

Also, many of the landmarks that made Coruscant unique either met their end or were altered to suit the invaders needs. The Imperial Palace was destroyed when Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya detonated a suicide bomb in his office; the Manarai Mountains, the last part of the planet untouched by cityscape, were blasted into giant craters; the Western Sea, the planet's sole body of water, was turned into a giant Succession Pool; the Senate Building became the location of the World Brain, which was in charge of the terraforming of the planet.

The Yuuzhan Vong designated it Yuuzhan'tar, after the name of their species and their chief deity Yun-Yuuzhan, and terraformed it to overwhelm the city covering its surface and restore a natural ecology. In order to get Coruscant to match their homeworld, large dovin basals pulled the planet closer to Coruscant Prime and biological processes were set forth to create the jungle including increasing the temperature and releasing more moisture into the atmosphere. Soon, nearly the entire planetwide city was covered beneath vegetation while rivers filled canyons where airspeeders had once roamed before. The lower levels were the domain of wildlife brought in from the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy and was where most of the outcast Shamed Ones lived.

Coruscant's three smaller moons were dragged from their original orbits by dovin basals while its largest moon was destroyed by tidal stress created by pulses from other yammosk-linked dovin basals. A similar technique dragged the resulting expanse of dust, rock and hardening magma into a wide spreading asteroid belt known as the "Rainbow Bridge", that they were familiar with. The Rainbow Bridge orbited Coruscant around at an angle of 17 degrees from the ecliptic. The vast majority of the planet's non-Yuuzhan Vong population was shipped offworld in massive refugee ships, though some people did stay behind in the substructure of the city; they called the "new" Coruscant Necropolis.

When the living planet Zonama Sekot suddenly arrived in the system, it collapsed the Rainbow Bridge, caused another of Coruscant's moons to be "slingshotted" out of orbit, and pulled Coruscant closer to its original orbit, causing volcanic eruptions and groundquakes for the first time in two thousand years. The Galactic Alliance eventually retook Coruscant from the Yuuzhan Vong during the Liberation of Coruscant.

After Coruscant was retaken by the Galactic Alliance in 30 ABY, reconstruction of the planet began, although the planet would maintain certain aspects of its organic nature.

Appearances

 * Dark Journey
 * Traitor
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force