Talk:Empress Teta/Legends

Population Problems
Wait, wait. I know that Star Wars is Space Opera, not Science Fiction, so it's really fast-and-loose with the numbers. I'm cool with that. But the planet Koros/Empress Teta is 15,700km in diameter, has one city Cinnagar covering half of the planet's surface, and has a population of 1.3 billion. Earth is 12,740km in diameter, has innumerable cities that cover nowhere near half the planet's surface (take a plane trip sometime, or check the population density map about halfway down at for a quick overview), and has a population of around 7 billion (ibid).

Has the planet been recently and violently depopulated or something? It was around the 1870's when the earth had that low of a population. The only argument for Koros/Empress Teta having such a sparsely populated city over half its surface is that Coruscant (12,240km) has a population of 1 trillion (1,000 billion). The note about "additional transients" can't be referring to several trillion more people.

I can understand just picking numbers that seem "big," but c'mon, it only takes a few minutes to realize you'd need to seriously outstrip the earth's population in order to warrant a planet-city. Texas is 268,820 square miles in area, which translates to 7,494,271,488,000. Right away you can see that's roughly 1,000 square feet per person if everyone on earth were crammed into Texas. (Assuming 7 billion people, the estimate for 2013, the math comes out to 1070.6 square feet per person, for the curious.) If the city is 2 stories, that's 2,000 square feet to support each person. By comparison, Tokyo has 12.79 million people, with 1840.6 square feet devoted to each person... and while it is an impressive city, Cinnagar seems to dwarf the skyscrapers of Tokyo.

That's a little too in-depth for Space Opera, maybe, but it didn't take that for me to know the numbers don't work. As soon as you note it's roughly earth-sized, has a city over half of its surface, and yet doesn't even have a population to match earth's in 1900AD much less its current population... yeah. WTFBBQ. Thoughts? --Sctn2labor 01:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)