Talk:Coruscant/Legends

I find the scene from ROTJ Special Edition of the celebration on Coruscant odd. I can only think that the fireworks and celebration was amongst those who opposed the Emperor, but I imagine that their open defiance on Coruscant would have been met with swift retribution by the still in-power Imperial forces. --SparqMan 14:14, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe they felt that the Imperials would be morally destroyed along with the Emperor. And maybe they were dealt with. -- Riffsyphon1024 14:25, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * They were. Isard promptly ordered their executions (Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand).  Nonetheless, it was an important milestone - an anti-Imperial protest at the very heart of the Empire.  You wouldn't have seen any such thing if the Emperor hadn't died.  jSarek 21:28, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, excellent. I haven't read that comic, but I'm glad it was covered in continuity. --SparqMan 01:35, 6 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Its also mentioned in one of the X-Wing novels (Wraith Squadron?). A few minutes after that scene the Stormtroopers were sent in...
 * Iron Fist, actually. The Stormtroopers just went in and started shooting. SFH 14:21, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Total Population
--Master Starkeiller 16:04, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)I added it in favor of the other numbers that have been stated previously, and for the fact that a city-covered planet would logically have more than a trillion inhbitants. There has been a lot of debate about the 1 trillion number, and so I thought I'd add the "possibly". --Master Starkeiller 00:15, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)You mean trillion. And realistically, we're talking about quadrillions here. "Over" is much better. --Master Starkeiller 22:02, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)For the sake of realism though, we must have "Over" there. I'll agree with SFH that the trillion number is the number taken by official surveys. Realism contradicts canon here, and even though this is the Star Wars universe, the 1 trillion number is ridiculous. I think the survey explanation works perfectly with "Over" there. --Master Starkeiller 23:57, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)There can be ways around these. Can there be a way around Coruscant, capital of the galaxy, being literally a desert of buildings? Even if there can be, "Over" is correct, even in current canon. It can't be a square trillion anyway... Okay, as I said earlier, "Over" is vague enough so that anyone can believe what he choses. Also, it's neutral enough to preserve canon. --Master Starkeiller 02:24, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC) I'd be better if we avoided mistakes, though. This is an encyclopaedia. Either way, "Over" fits nicely. --Master Starkeiller 11:36, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Seeing as a 'possibly' has just been added to the 1 trillion number: is there actual any debate about the population anymore? Im pretty sure the most recent in-continuity source about it was Traitor, which called it as 1 Trillion. Or is something more recent saying otherwise? Durnar 15:02, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * That is a good point. Also, that is probably the number taken by official survey's. Who knows how many their are in the Undercities. User:SFH
 * I changed the "Possibly" the "Over" since that covers any discrepancy (since, "officially" its a little over 1 billion, but realistically it should be a LOT over 1 billion). QuentinGeorge 10:25, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 trillion is the figure given by Inside the Worlds of The Phantom Menace. See also my posting of this scan at Wikipedia:Talk:Coruscant. -- Riffsyphon1024 01:04, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * You think that's bad? West End Games sourcebooks tended to claim numbers like 5-10 billion.  &mdash; Silly Dan  22:07, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Realism does not contradict canon here. If that was the case, then we wouldn't be hearing spacecraft in flight or seeing ships explode. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:08, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, maybe the parts of the planet we see are atypical, and large sections of the planet are no more heavily populated than typical Earth cities. If that were the case, estimating the population from assuming Coruscant's entirely convered in mile-high skyscrapers would work as well as estimating the population of the USA by assuming it's all as built up as Manhattan. If a modern Earth downtown population density were the average, that'd give us a few tens of trillions instead of quadrillions.  &mdash; Silly Dan  00:47, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Take in note that not all sections of Coruscant are filled with skyscrapers. There are areas like The Works and the Manarai Mountains that do not have the same population density. -- Riffsyphon1024 01:26, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Starkeiller, we dont have to have every single article entirely pc and neutral so as not to make the tiniest mistake. ITWOTPM says 1 trillion. Traitor, which I believe was published after this, says 1 Trillion. And as I dont think this has been contradicted by any later sources, 1 Trillion is the correct number. Durnar 08:46, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * If its a mistake it can be corrected, but the officail numbers arent mistakes. And anyay, it should probably be included that the population is considerably less as of TJK. Durnar 11:39, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)

New pic
It looks different than any others I've seen of Coruscant... Makes it look like the planet isn't 100% city-covered. Where is it from? --Master Starkeiller 01:02, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, for one thing, Coruscant is not 100% city. There are some bodies of water, as well as some exposed mountain peaks. As for this picture, I don't know where it's from. Honestly, it still looks pretty city-covered to me, although the cloud cover seems to be more than I would've imagined. My own imagination has little to do with fact, though. – Aidje talk 04:13, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * It is Coruscant. If you go to the page with the picture, you will recognize it. -- SFH 14:19, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * I think we should keep the one from Episode I, since it is like the "Official" photo of Coruscant. --24.247.124.158
 * I think we should switch places with the last one. --Master Starkeiller 01:59, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

The Imperial Palace
The Imperial Palace was supposed to have been there when the Old Republic was still ruling but where was it?

And was the Imperial Palace the small pyramid like building in the end of ROTJ? if so then it was not anything like I pictured it.

I think the Imperial Palace, originally called the Presidential Palace, was in the Senate District. However, the Palace never actually made an appearance in ROTJ (which is a bummer, I know; maybe it will show up in the new TV series coming up). As for the design, it was said that Emperor Palpatine made some major renovations and built new structures into it. I'm not sure what the original design looked like, but the Palace we see was influenced by architectural styles ranging at least since the formation of the Old Republic (though it looks like it bears some similarities to Sith temples). -- SFH 02:09, 14 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Question about the Inconsistencies Section
Specifically, regarding this paragraph here:

The assumption that Coruscant was made up of many layers of buildings on top of each other, supported by Expanded Universe works such as the Young Jedi Knights series, was not supported by the appearance of the planet in The Phantom Menace. The canonical interpretation was revised for The New Jedi Order. Now, Coruscant is essentially two planet-spanning cities: one on the surface and one underground. The underground city takes the status of "lower levels" from the retconned covered-over buildings. Incidentally, this new interpretation makes Coruscant much more like Trantor, the imperial capital in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. It also explains why the surface seen in Attack of the Clones was not nearly as dismal as the lower levels in YJK: they were below the surface in the book.

I don't recall any such retcon. The depiction in TPM doesn't contradict earlier appearances at all, and in AotC it's clear that they're not actually at groundlevel, but rather at streetlevel, which is on top of yet more buildings. Since the PT Coruscant has continued to be depicted in the same way with no major changes that I noticed. I'd say this whole paragraph could be removed, although I wanted to double check first. 000 02:52, 20 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. That paragraph has always bugged me. QuentinGeorge 06:12, 20 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I also agree. Does anyone have a source on the existence of this retcon? -LtNOWIS 06:18, 20 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Moons
I thought Coruscant had 4 moons before the Vong invasion. When did it turn to 6?Thanos6 05:14, 23 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * It never had more than 4. I fixed it.  The Bridge is NOT a sixth moon; it is the remnant of one or more moons DESTROYED by the the YVong.JustinGann 00:05, 26 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * One and for all, there is NO Centax-4; Coruscant only has FOUR moons, not 6! The Rainbrow Bridge was made from one of the four, it is not a sixth moonJustinGann 07:07, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Districts and their mayors
Thanks to the recent Databank update, we know a little bit more about Coruscant's government. Like Acros-Krik, I think that each district has their own mayor. Trey Duna, from Coruscant and the Core Worlds was also mayor of Imperial City. Any thoughts on this? --24.247.126.44 00:31, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * It would make sense in such a complicated system. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:02, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Fauna!
Whoa! Who says Coruscani ogres=Cthons? Cthons, IIRC, are blind; ogres are NOT!JustinGann 03:19, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops. My mistake. I was unaware of that fact. The information I had read about the Cthons and the Ogres had lead me to believe that they were the same species. I apologize. -- SFH 03:28, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Big decision
There are a bunch of sub articles out there about Coruscant, like Imperial City and Galactic City. Should they be merged as a subsection to the Coruscant article?--Xilentshadow900 22:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)