Coruscant's backstory BEFORE THE PREQUELS!

[@EckhartsLadder]

No idea why there are those spots with black screens... it looks like one of my media sources got corrupted during export. Sorry >_

[@spiffygonzales5899]

Unforgivable

[@gasparayakos8215]

Eck have you seen "Heir to the empire" animated by DarthAngelus? It's very well done.

[@michaelstodovski2219]

Eck using emojis UwU

[@BethanyAcorn]

Yeah, hate it when that happens 🔨🔨🔨🔨

[@happydayaday8293]

Yoda approvers

[@Erad_Prime]

I grew up with the Zahn Trilogy. Yes, seeing Coruscant in 1999 was a highlight of the Phantom Menace for me.

[@daniels7907]

It made a lot of expanded universe fans very happy when Qui-Gon first said the name in the film, and they then went to the planet.

[@giladpellaeon1691]

Also grew up with the Zahn trilogy, it's what made me a Star Wars fan. Knowing Coruscant was going to be front and center was something I excitedly looked forward to.

[@patriciashutes2221]

Same

[@arthurballs7083]

I brought it in 1994, brought the Jedi Academy triliogy the same year. Re-read them during lockdown. Nowhere near as good as I remembered them being.

[@Optimus-Prime-Rib]

Heir to the Empire was my intro to StarWars back in 93 or 94. Massive fan ever since.

[@LEGIONBRICKS]

Coruscant is one of my absolute favorite planets. It’s just so interesting how it was built up and up over thousands of years and how the lower levels are apocalyptic. I just find it such absolutely interesting planet.

[@matthewmyers2714]

Too bad it isn’t in battlefront 2. Imagine if the battle of corusaunt was in battlefront 3!

[@Obiwan7100]

Coruscant reflects the inequality of the Galaxy in how rich humans live in huge buildings that reach cloud heights, in the low levels where the poorest live, The radiation level so high that some humans have evolved into Coruscant ogres and Cthons.

[@bradhedgehog12]

Im The Senate! The poor live in the lower lvls?! That’s cruel.

[@senatorluxbonteri6065]

Coruscant and city planets are overall super interesting

[@Obiwan7100]

@@senatorluxbonteri6065 Coruscant in the population of 1 trillion people. 50% Aliens 50% Humans

[@semibat]

Eck: Hey guys it’s Eckharts Ladder KZbin Auto subtitles: Hey guys it’s eckhart’s slaughter

[@yachiyous9110]

Anakin: this is outrageous, its unfair. How can you be a slaughterer and not be a skywalker

[@BrassMaster117]

Everytime hahah

[@ksanbahlyngwa1998]

I actually used to hear eckhart slaughter myself so no surprise.

[@unworthy.potato]

I wanna see some eckharts slaughtered

[@UGNAvalon]

This should be included in EcksToo gameplay vids! “Hey guys, welcome back to EcksToo/x2, I’m Eck from Eckhart’s Ladder, and *_now_* _(Dramatic Pause)_ *_it’s time to begin... ECKHART’s SLAUGHTER._* “

[@FroJSimpson]

One of my favorite bits of early Legends Coruscant lore is that, after the formation of the Empire, Palpatine installed massive planetary shield generators all over the planet to consolidate control over the capitol. Wherever those shields overlapped massive thunderstorms would brew, giving the entire planet the foreboding, gothic vibe we see in the opening cutscene of TIE Fighter.

[@RealBadGaming52]

I love that Idea actually

[@owenparris7490]

Can I just say how breathtaking Star Wars concept art is? The Monument Plaza piece is my favorite in this video.

[@MrBonesYT]

Should be in a museum

[@forrestpenrod2294]

Fun fact: Coruscant is an actual word that means glittering; sparkling, which is pronounced with a second hard ‘C’.

[@RoboticPope]

Exactly. The early video games and audio novel were not "taking a crack" at pronouncing Coruscant. They were saying the real word correctly. The planet's name was a description of what it looked like from space. It was one of Lucas' absolutely daft decisions to change the pronunciation of the planet Coruscant. Coruscant pronounced without the second C is just a meaningless name.

[@pufflepoint]

​@@RoboticPopeLike Hoth, Endor, Alderaan, Naboo, Bespin, Kashyyyk, or Mandalore make any more sense? The unique pronunciation makes more sense as it's original to Star Wars.

[@mattd923]

Dromund Kass (From SWTOR) also pulls a lot from the original Had Abbadon concept art. It's not a full city-planet, but the pyramids and temples in the main city really resemble that original concept art, plus the shared fact of being essentially a "dark throne-world." Makes me sad that Exegol ended up being so uninspired by comparison.

[@Kaiser-jo3uj]

The pyramids and temples were common on most worlds where a dark lord set up shop. Dromund Kaas had Tulak Hord and Vitiate while Yavin 4 (the rebel base) had Exar Kun

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

When he showed the concept art that's where my brain first went. It's really cool that it ended up inspiring something, damn near everything that came from Ralph McQuarrie's hands was pure gold, we have him to thank in a lot of ways for the aesthetic Starwars embodies.

[@nagasShadow]

I wonder if they just ran out of time on IX. There was some concept art featuring Coruscant for what Trevero was working on before Abrams took over. Because a massive city planet as Exegol would not only have looked cool but it would have answered that question of where did all the stuff come from? If Exegol had been the hidden Sith redoubt where Sith had been funneling resources since the time of Darth Bane it wouldn't be surprising all that it could churn out the first order fleet or the final order fleet. Why those two were not simply the same thing... that's Abrams fault.

[@yanmtl5759]

I miss the hard “c” in coruscant. I grew up playing Tie Fighter.

[@adamross6474]

CoruScant if I remember correctly 😃

[@tracytron7162]

Eh, agree to disagree on that part.

[@adamross6474]

Tracytron watch the tie fighter cut scenes :)

[@tracytron7162]

Adam Ross I didn’t say that they didn’t say that in the games, I’m just saying that I prefer the modern pronunciation.

[@TeaWillRock]

It will always be the hard c for me.

[@cellianexurianity5021]

Not gonna lie, the "bee-spin" of bespin freaking killed me with laughter

[@Aptonoth]

Beespinning sounds like a sport.

[@scottamo]

I'm wondering why there's a different pronunciation of Bespin since Han Solo did not pronounce it with a "bee" sound in The Empire Strikes Back.

[@alexissandoval1284]

It's the same mispronounciation as Tantive IV had originally. Some people like Metatron still pronounced it wrong.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Gyro Zeppeli's favourite honey comes from Bee-Spin.

[@lostcause3720]

@@GerardMenvussa "I hate it when he does that."

[@Leonhardt_Nukryst]

I miss the time when Jar jar was our biggest problem and before Disney discarded Coruscant.

[@anthonyvomela424]

@Darth ScoutBonnie he means they stopped using it in their works, probably because its by far the most prequel-associated planet and the prequels get a lot of hate

[@michaelboyd395]

I remember those times. Before the dark times...

[@Sergeant_Camacho]

Before the dark times... Before the Disney Empire...

[@DrewLSsix]

@@anthonyvomela424 why would it get any use? Theres no particular reason to use it in the films but it has been used in the shows that Disney continues to put out. I think people are making shit up again to feed the hate machine lol.

[@kevinvassago]

@@DrewLSsix clearly becuz those ppl have nothing better 2 do with their lives than 2 feed into toxicity. But I've also talked with ppl on the opposite side of sw who are absolutely canon junkie assholes. Gawdforbid u accidentally mistake legends for canon, or use legends to fill in any canon gaps, those ppl will straight up verbally attack u lol. I hate both groups of ppl, cuz they literally have nothing better to do with their lives than to go online and tell others how their way of enjoying star wars is wrong. Fuqqin sad if u ask me.

[@Werrf1]

My first contact with Coruscant was through the Rogue Squadron books. What always struck me was the sheer _scale_ of the place. It's why my favourite scene in the prequels is at the end of Episode II, with Palpatine overseeing the assembly of this vast army - one of the shots that really gets that size across.

[@GoosemanOmega]

I always love watching your videos. They are the best. Never stop making videos!!!

[@dsmiley53]

As someone who read the Thrawn trilogy before seeing TPM (and also ROTJ Special Edition)...yes, it was VERY exciting to see Coruscant on the big screen come to life. After reading about it, I wanted to see it so badly. It was a genuine thrill when it first showed up in all its glory in TPM. It also gave me hope that one day we'd see the Thrawn trilogy in movie form...oh well, you can't win them all.

[@andypham4216]

I loved that coruscant was so heavily populated and so covered in buildings, the Vong couldn't come anywhere close getting rid of all the people on it. Of course lord Nyax was down there too, lurking 🤣🤣

[@conorb7094]

I love Ralph McQuarrie's concept art for Had Abbadon. It looks beautiful. A big complaint I have with the prequels is that Coruscant often looks too futuristic, sleek and shiny etc, but McQuarrie clearly took inspiration from ancient architectures and combined it with Star Wars technology.

[@nutyyyy]

This. The Prequels look nothing like the originals and it's pretty jarring tbh.

[@ryansargent661]

The fact that even Lucas pulled from the Expanded Universe when it made sense is why K Kennedy saying they had to work from scratch upset so many people. I do however look at the expanded universe as an alternate universe where things happened differently. I do enjoy both new and old canon, and like how some elements are making their way back in an alternative way.

[@DIEGhostfish]

Courscant with the second hard C was an actual word for shiny.

[@diminios]

If you watch the TIE Fighter cutscene where Thrawn's forces (i.e. you) save some TIE Defenders from Zaarin, Thrawn says "Prepare to leave for Coruscant" with a second hard c as well (so, not just the audio books).

[@goldgodryukendo913x]

You forgot the 2 levels from shadows of the empire. the sewers of Coruscant and the Endar Spire battle.

[@Kaiser-jo3uj]

The Endar Spire was destroyed over Taris which I think is on the Outer Rim

[@maxrander0101]

@@Kaiser-jo3uj its almost in the outer rim its on the very edge of the mid rim and was not well known in the civil war era as it was still a blasted husk of a world

[@alexandergerbery2794]

Great video ;) personally I prefer the Imperial Palace being a different gothic looking behemoth that dwarfed all the other buildings with pyramids and vast chambers. I get the irony in retrofitting the old Jedi Temple into Palpatine's palace but I still preffer the old version.

[@TheMokeleMbembe]

Can confirm, it *was* extremely cool to see Coruscant in ROTJSE and TPM, coming from a book background and anticipating its inclusion. I remember being confused at Qui-Gon's pronunciation, but still cool.

[@krbacon]

It was indeed quite cool seeing Coruscant on the big screen after reading about it in the novels. I recall making a comment along those lines to some friends when it showed up in the special editions.

[@DIEGhostfish]

McQuarrie and Johnston etc's concept art for Had Abbadon ended up literally Relabled as "Coruscant" in "The Illustrated STAR WARS Universe" By McQuarrie and KJA.

[@daniels7907]

My copy had it listed as both Coruscant and Imperial Center. They were clearly waffling on the name before the prequels locked it in.

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@daniels7907 Oh it was both in Legends for a long time. With Imperial Center as the name the Empire was pushing in propaganda.

[@daniels7907]

@@DIEGhostfish - I remember. Even the early EU was pretty heavily focused on addressing the stuff from Lucas's drafts that had not made it into canon. Timothy Zahn came up with Coruscant because the galactic capital didn't have a firmly-established name and "Imperial Center" obviously wouldn't be used by the Old or New Republics. Zahn himself has talked about how pleased he was that the Lucasfilm people convinced George to just stick with his name when TPM was written.

[@demogorgonzola]

...world covered by planet-spanning city, a planet called Tranto-- **khem, khem** --Had Abbadon ;-)

[@WKFO_Space]

Yeah, gotta love George Asimov

[@jazzrodgers]

Fan of the Foundation Trilogy; a true man of culture! If I remember correctly there are many concepts and even character archetypes from Isaac Asimov's universe George Lucas borrowed heavily from, like Palpatine vs The Mule as 2 disfigured despots with mind-control powers.

[@notablegoat]

It's just Asimov's Trantor but with more space wizards Edit: Not that there aren't any space wizards in the Foundation books

[@elrednimoy5223]

Was going to post this ! I'm currently reading Foundation again and Coruscant being Star Wars Trantor is very straightforward

[@daniels7907]

The main difference is that Trantor was not really an ecumenopolis. It's various sectors were under enclosed domes that had been in place for so long that they had even accumulated soil and had plant life growing on them. The planet's ecosystem recovered within just a few centuries after the domes were dismantled for salvage when the Empire fell and agrarian society resumed. Trantor was really a call back to the "caves of steel" cities on Earth before the rise of the Settler movement. Asimov (who was a bit agoraphobic) kept coming back to the idea that future humans would tend to congregate in enclosed cities. The exception being the decadent Spacers, who were shown to often avoid even interacting with their own spouses and ultimately were unable to expand further into space because they could not endure any discomfort or inconvenience - including having to live in close quarters with other people.

[@timleber2257]

I would say the Coruscant is a riff on Trantor. There is a bit in Prelude to Foundation where Asimov writes that the only part of Trantor that was natural habitat was the Imperial Palace. The rest of the planet was one great city.

[@daniels7907]

@@timleber2257 - And yet the novels also state that the palace grounds were heavily-gardened. An emperor actually gets killed by a zealous gardener that he tried to promote to an office job. Of course, maintaining strict continuity in the novels was never a big concern of Asimov's. For example, Caves of Steel and most of the Robot novels depicted Earth as dependent on atomic power. Then in real life Three Mile Island happened. In Robots and Empire, written after the incident, Asimov did an outright retcon and declared that Earth had abandoned nuclear power in favor of solar power millennia earlier.

[@SJHFoto]

@@elrednimoy5223 Definitely!

[@SeventhSwell]

About the pronunciation, now I get why Adam Savage calls it CoraScant. Every time I hear that I'm like, what is he talking about?

[@loganwendigo937]

Hey I grew up with the VHS golden edition too. That was MY introduction to Star Wars

[@ShakerCheeseIsRite]

Logan Wendigo lol i grew up with all of them because my mother was a huge star wars nerd. Black (silver) box, gold box, then the dvds then bluray, had the phantom menace special edition vhs even. And then the big ass wall of literally every star wars book as it came out lol. I wish i had read all of them before they got destroyed in the flood, but i read most of the post original trilogy books.

[@loverofjesusMKII]

"Good Changes" "Swapping out Yub-Nub vor Victory Celebration" In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Eckhart.

[@andrewthorne3570]

Thank you was going to bring that up myself. Victory Celebration was so tame compared to the outpouring of emotion that Yub-Nub invokes

[@adamkelly7128]

I also prefer Yub-Nub to the updated version. A preference that betrays one's age I guess.

[@480JD]

"Weesa freeeeee!!!!"

[@daniels7907]

The revised version might have been better if they had used better background music.

[@ryanhawe8234]

#IStandwithEckhart

[@dragonan8459]

Zahn is the master of star wars writing of legends and canon. If anyone is a fan of Zahn or a fan of Thrawn sould read the Hier to the Empire 20th anniversary. Alot of good side notes in the book as to how Zahn and George created EU.

[@mrmacguff1n]

"We had NOTHING to work with when we were making the sequel trilogy" - Kathleen Kennedy

[@ryanhawe8234]

"Point of information, You did, Ms. Kennedy, but your Keepers of the Holocron chose or were directed to flush it all. Then you brought in an Artist!(tm) for your bridging film who refused to read notes from the Story Group, because he is an Artist!(tm) -- at which point you should have done what you did with Colin Trevorrow and the Solo team and said 'This is not going to be a good fit.' But the lure of critical credibility along with box-office dollars was just too much to pass up, wasn't it? "

[@nickmalachai2227]

@The Martial Lord of Loyalty It's always fascinating when people seem to not get that. You don't need to scapegoat a particular person to blame for why you're not satisfied with the direction of a series. A lot of people were involved with the process, including the fans' inflexible expectations and vitriolic reaction to anything new.

[@ryanhawe8234]

@The Martial Lord of Loyalty Indeed it is. And while a worldwide plague knocking Galaxy's Edge attendance into a cocked hat is not a thing she could have foreseen, in all fairness; the box office take of TLJ, Solo and Rise of... erm, somebody?? do raise the question, "And how's that working out for her so far?"

[@ryanhawe8234]

@@nickmalachai2227 Well, I'm just one Sad Bastard, and can only speak for myself: but my biggest bantha beef with The Force Needs Five More Minutes is that it was largely a straight retread of A New Hope. The Legacy comics, by contrast, may have looked like a fan's worst wants at first glance (Gritty Pirate Skywalker who smokes! A vinyl-strip-wearing Twi'lek Sith enforcer! SHE IS THE FUTURE OF STAR WARS! -- or so Dark Horse asserted in early promos), but it successfully remixed the elements (a smuggler, a princess, an Empire, a bunch of Knights) and created a new story with them. (And honestly, I'd like to think that at least some of the fans moaning about "The Force being female now!" would not have minded a GirlFight between Rey and Darth Talon. As always, I Could Be Wrong.)

[@nickmalachai2227]

@@ryanhawe8234 eh, I've always found Legends to be too interconnected by nature to be genuinely portrayed on the big screen. My biggest complaints are that I think Disney as a company should be burned to the ground and its copyrights thrown to the wind to be picked up by whoever has the resources to do so, and that while the story in general was lackluster and not a masterpiece, the fans are so wrapped up in their own nostalgia over the original Trilogy and prequels (THE PREQUELS?!) that they actively dismiss anything new as Utter Garbage Unworthy of Sullying the Holy Name that is Space Fighting Stuff. An unpleasable fanbase and an always-safe megacorp who refuses to take risks with anything to jeopardize their precious Family-Friendly Megacorp image make... whatever the fuck has happened in the past few years wrt Star Wars.

[@realamerican7626]

the one thing i loved about the west end games books, was that they were full stories behind the planet, people, and technology. So sad that they went out of business.

[@randallpetroelje3913]

You do realize that “abaddon “ is very similar to a name of a demon. The sith temple was built under a Jedi temple.. Hmmm?? Maybe the sith and the Jedi both had their sights on the prize. Just saying. Love your show and your dog. Thanks again for your show.

[@Howlrunner82]

Yeah, that scene at the end of Jedi...somehow I belive that seconds later Stormtroopers swarmed the scene and killed everybody "celebrating"

[@ryanhawe8234]

One of 1997's action figure releases was "Crowd Control Stormtrooper." It's not unreasonable to think that someone at Hasbro had knowledege of the new scene for the Special Edition Trilogy, but thought it would make a bigger contribution....

[@TheMaster4534]

Meanwhile in the new canon, the "celebrating" in Jedi degenerated into a shitshow that plunged Coruscant into an internal civil war. Source: Aftermath Trilogy

[@lipingrahman6648]

I vaguely remember some comments that Lucas took the some of the esthetics of Coruscant's from Ridley Scotts Blade Runner but given some of the paintings of Ralph Maquarrie it is likely that after Lucas decided not to use the idea of a city world most of Maquarrie's ideas were recycled into Blade Runner.

[@andu1478]

i like this type of videos more than the 1000th video about space battle tactics

[@Cyro_2235]

Rian Johnson and JJ Abrams: What's a "Coruscant" ?

[@dotista2008]

more info, coruscant is in french the translation of "coruscating"

[@Arashmickey]

It took a while before I made that connection even though I knew the word. It took me even longer to realize Karrde's pet Vornskrs Sturm und Drang refer to the German art movement, the words just kept nagging at me. I'm so bad at noticing things that are staring me in the face.

[@UGNAvalon]

“The shining jewel of the Republic!” Makes sense! I love it even more! 🤩

[@FranckRABESON]

@@Arashmickey It took me over two decades to notice that our favorite Bothan nuisance was literally named Borsk Failure.

[@Arashmickey]

@@FranckRABESON [fur bristles]

[@cookie1138]

as if.. the translation was Corrussant as proven here: me.me/i/coruscant-croissant-is-coruscant-actually-just-a-croissant-posted-by-5435465

[@Peteman81]

Yes it was very nice seeing Courscant appearing exactly as in the books in Episode 1 - it felt very satisfying

[@NRRenggli]

Speaking of the original cassette tapes, the best rendition of Grand Admiral Thrawn was voiced by Anthony Daniels. Thats right, the best evil character in Star Wars was voiced by C-3PO!

[@sirius4k]

The two worst things that have happened in and with Star Wars universe: Order 66 George selling Star Wars universe to the Sith empire.

[@Kaiser-jo3uj]

The Jedi purge under the Sith Triumvirate was much more effective than Order 66. It only left one Jedi compared to the multitude of Jedi that survived Palatine's purge

[@sirius4k]

@Venom Snek The sequels are the product of George selling the Star Wars universe.

[@erika002]

CCP Empire?

[@erika002]

@Venom Snek are you aware about Disney being happy about CCP's concentration camps? Not exactly Star Wars itself but yes, the movie Mulan is somehow involved in this. www.bbc.com/news/world-54064654

[@erika002]

@Venom Snek I'm surprised that people are not aware of this. I this was like a month ago. I recommend you watch this channel: kzbin.info/door/fwE_ODI1YTbdjkzuSi1Nag I got it from there, just find it.

[@JJSMJ]

Coruscant should have been in Episode IX. Should have redone some of the original ROTJ concepts like the lava throne, the attack on the capital etc.

[@jkdragonjk6895]

Honestly the alternative pronunciation of Palpatine sounds pretty cool

[@Nameless0061]

Just started Heir to the Empire. It's amazing!

[@jx6135]

I like that you used some of the intro from Tie Fighter.......God that takes me back

[@RustyNord]

I have insomnia and couldn't sleep all last night. Seeing a new video from you is a much needed moment of rest for me

[@cd5sircoupe]

Silver Edition here, gotta stay up on that widescreen format. I had a mix of different VHS copies from the 80s and early 90s, couple of the grey boxes, a couple with the poster artwork. Was also fortunate enough to see all of the SE in the theaters in middle school, good to have those memories. Yub Nub is better than Victory, change my mind.

[@ThieflyChap]

I'm glad that Coruscant was spared from The Farce Awokens. Having it blown up by the First Disorder would have pissed me off too much.

[@CaptainGinyu]

tie fighter's version of coruscant is still the real version to me

[@BillyDrakePianoMan]

I’ve always wondered how Coruscant never had a runaway greenhouse effect cataclysm with all of the air pollution that an city planet would have, even with advanced energy technology. Is there some sort of massive air processing system on the planet, or are we just supposed to suspend our disbelief on that front?

[@daniels7907]

This is part of the reason for all those industrial zones on Coruscant. Various old expanded universe materials talked about the *HUGE* infrastructure of the planet that supported all those inhabitants. Keep in mind that they have the technology in Star Wars. The Death Stars were technically vast artificial worlds when you measured them in *volume* rather than surface area. But they still had comfortable interior life support.

[@FranckRABESON]

IIRC, in the Legends books, the Yuuzhan Vong conquest was feared to have wrecked the planet’s air recycling facilities, but the good guys later discover that the facilities were left alone because they were organic (huge vats of genetically engineered bacteria) rather than purely technological like the rest of the planet.

[@d_valroth]

Also, as I recall, they dumped a lot of stuff underground and just figured they'd deal with it later. The Undercity is a messed up place.

[@nutyyyy]

In reality all the latent heat from the planet spanning city and the massive population would cook the planet alone. Its why ecumenpoli on this scale are impossible. But the population would also be ridiculously huge, like quadrillions of people.

[@happydayaday8293]

the thumpnalli on this video looks cool

[@jon6309]

Coruscant was actually my favorite planet when I was introduced to Star Wars.

[@rainasy1766]

i just stumbled into your channel because of star wars squadrons, i like your stuff very much!

[@h.m.tolympic4669]

Hey, Eck. Just wondering if you know when I'll be able to comment on the Eckstoo channel. Also, my personal favourite planet is probably kamino.

[@davidrebolledo5784]

I’ve been waiting for this one for SO LONG! Courscant is such a cool city! Edit: typo

[@KiwiSpartan01]

I love all this pre prequel stuff

[@ggt47]

Tonight on Corasaunt *live* .

[@thomasbaagaard]

The planet is central to the story in the 2nd X-wing book...(Wedge's Gamble) covering how the New Republic captured planet. The book is from 1996 And is is still relevant in book 3.

[@Calmputer]

I just did an entire playthrough of TIE Fighter (Special Edition) and had a very visceral reaction to the officer and secret order guy saying Coruscant, and Palpatine... it just immediately took me out of the fiction, so to speak. Some of the old audiobooks are a trip. I got "The Further Adventures: Planet of the Hoojibs", which has some excellent voiceacting, and weird pronunciations... though the version I have is translated and voiced in Swedish.

[@griffminester6288]

Coruscant epic

[@Palpatine001]

Seeing and focusing on Coruscant - the heart of the Galaxy in the prequels was always a special moment. I believe Imperial Centre was Palpatine renaming the Planet in the time of the Empire and it got changed back with the new Republic. That said one thing I missed in the sequels was - Coruscant

[@williamwatts6463]

In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 video game, there was a forest moon called Duxn and a planet with a city called Iziz and they were by each other.

[@Shadowkey392]

I didn’t know TIE Fighter was set five years before the Prequels! ;)

[@nemesis2445]

As we later saw in Clone wars, For a majority of Coruscant's Population it was always nighttime, since they lived underneath the "surface"....

[@callumwearne7870]

I think its pretty safe to say George Lucas was contemplating using Bladerunner's metropolis setting in 1983.. A year after bladerunner was made.. and probably thought it was distasteful at the time and revisited the idea later with the prequels.. Pretty soon numerous franchises would be ripping off the idea of having giant cyber punk cities with flying cars.. Total Recall / Judge Dredd / Altered Carbon..

[@maxrander0101]

any true star wars fan gets goosebumps when we see something we have read about or seen i a game make it to the screen one major thing for me was seeing a razor-crest in a live action show as that ship first showed up in the first few missions of starwars bounty hunter jango had one until the mission to Oovo IV this is where he got The Firespray-31-class ( he named slave one ) he destroyed the rest later a few were made off of the designs but slave one was the first and last of the line at the time and the razor-crest was a ship used as a small troop ship by the true Mandalorians jango's one belonged to Jaster Mereel

[@matthewmyers2714]

Yo eck can you talk about real world wars and analyse key skirmishes such as the battle of the Somme, or the battle of midway, even the battle of Trafalgar. Love the content though, keep it up!

[@Kaiser-jo3uj]

The Somme was humanity's stupidity at its worst

[@matthewmyers2714]

Kaiser come on, you probably haven’t read into either the Crimean war, or the Gallipoli campaign, at least at the end of the Somme they pushed the Germans back

[@nickraupp6104]

I've been rewatching Star Wars with my wife, and she had never seen Yub Nub. I, for one, freaking looooove Yub Nub. Maybe it's a bias towards "the Star Wars I grew up with..." but idk. Victory celebration without Yub Nub was just less fun...

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

I had all the X-wing and tie fighter games, I was always amazed my the city planet, got in to the books, loved the Harkov, Zahn and Thrawn stories. I miss those games.

[@poetscotty]

I want to see it's underground nature sanctuaries and ruins of old

[@yamomsfavrunner]

Really interesting topic! May the force be with you all!

[@pll3827]

Wasn't this back when someone thought an alternative universe where Yoda crashed the Death Star/Justice Star into the planet, killing billions of lives, was a good thing to end a comic on?

[@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847]

Star Wars Infinities #1. It's a really outrageous take on what if Luke missed his target upon the Death Star.

[@matiasluukkanen7718]

Disney really produces inferior ideas compared to Legends. Imperial Palace was so cool, as was idea of abandoned and closed-off Jedi Temple.

[@litesaber54yi3]

read Heir to the Empire as a freshman in HS 1996. So good

[@Maverick8t88]

I loved walking around Coruscant in the original Dark Forces game. Graphics are Minecraft level pixelated, but it is the first chapter one of the best stories in all of Star Wars, IMO.

[@originaluddite]

Many capitals are also the biggest city of a polity. But often they are instead a much smaller city purpose-made as a capital, sometimes so they will do that job better, sometimes to act as a neutral shared seat of government and so side-step the problem of rivalry between existing, big cities. It would have been interesting if the galactic capital had been based on this latter concept.

[@aaronhedgesmusic]

Could have made sense to mention that he took the idea of a planet covered by a city from Asimov’s work in the 1960s... not that the idea originally came from a 1990s Star Wars book

[@daniels7907]

Trantor wasn't technically "covered" by cityscape in the same sense that Coruscant was. It had hundreds of interconnected domed cities that were so old that they had even accumulated soil and had plants growing on their outer surfaces. As had been the case on Earth before the Settler exodus, most people on Trantor rarely, if ever, saw outside of the domes except on special trips.

[@aaronhedgesmusic]

Daniel S en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis

[@aaronhedgesmusic]

Daniel S sounds like you are referring to the version of trantor later in the foundation series

[@daniels7907]

@@aaronhedgesmusic - Remember that Trantor (as an expy of ancient Rome) only appears after it's fall in the original Foundation novels (and Seldon himself is dead and not a character in them). The capital of the fragmented empire had even been moved off of Trantor (much like the western Roman capital moved to Ravenna). Trantor does not really get developed much in-story until the prequel novels that focus on Seldon before the establishment of the Foundations. But also keep in mind that back in the 1950's they had a very different view of what over-population looked like. Asimov originally imagined Trantor as having a population of around 40 billion. Which is a lot, but nowhere near enough to require that an entire planet be covered in city. Asimov did realize this later on and it was part of the reason for the evolving depiction of Trantor.

[@aaronhedgesmusic]

Daniel S this seems to be a distinction without a difference. The primary concept of a city planet comes from Asimov, one of the greatest sci fi writers of all time. Not some second rate writer for the Star Wars book. It’s clear that he came up with the idea where all continents were enclosed and had multiple layers under the surface. These ideas were essentially stolen from the Star Wars writer, which is my primary point. Just as Lucas himself also stole many ideas from Herbert’s dune series (desert planet, a drug called spice, a semi-religious order with extraordinary powers, etc)... I don’t really want to nit pick the details of it. Was rather saying give proper credit where credit is due. Obviously the writer of some stars wars book in the 1990s was not the originator of a city wide planet... they just did a very easy copy / paste of some of asimovs work.

[@katakisLives]

I'd imagine the technicalities of depicting a city planet in the 80's would have been very expensive, not impossible but difficult enough to not bother until better CGI came along. we could have had a few establishing shots using miniatures and matte paintings but it would have been quite a task to have more

[@goodmind4940]

Blade Runner happened in 80s...

[@katakisLives]

@@goodmind4940 Yeah, I had that in mind when I wrote that comment, you see in Blade Runner the future City was the star of the movie, they went all out with fantastic miniatures and mattes to create one of the most iconic future city scapes to ever grace the silver screen but it was the whole movie I was thinking having all that investment for just a few scenes might be a bit too must to justify

[@kennethferland5579]

Trantor did it first, both fully covered in cityscape and the capitol of a galactic empire, it was a well established trope in sci-fi for decades prior to StarWars.

[@jamesmartin9401]

Coruscant is essentially Trantor from Isaac Asimov's Foundation books so it's way older than the Star Wars franchise in concept.

[@LastManFilmsUS]

I’ve always wanted to know PRE-prequel Star Wars

[@losh330]

I thought this was going to be able the history of coruscant before the prequels and I got really excited but alas...

[@OdamaKamayuka]

Fun fact : The first pronunciation of Coruscant was with the second "c" being hard as you said. Coruscant is in fact a (rarely used) french adjective meaning "bright, shiny", and pronounced as the first pronunciation of the planet in the SW lore.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

I read the xwing books in the late 90s. Honestly I didn't even notice Coruscant was in the movie. I think that says more about the quality, or lack, of the movies.

[@HydraDominus]

8 bit coruscant looks sick

[@RonaldTrumpOfficial]

Cool video as always!

[@BrachioInGen]

I seem to recall that there was a BTS clip with Jake Lloyd having trouble saying Coruscant and said people were gonna make fun of him and the cast sitting at the table was saying "nooo no they won't" and If I recall, he was saying the alternate pronunciation.

[@miaththered]

Wow, my dad wasn't bullshitting when he said it was originally called 'The Revenge of the Jedi'.

[@noblehatterviolet]

I didn't know that Coruscant was secretly Hogwarts!

[@HoggleToggler]

I think I read somewhere about Han Solo skiing with one of Luke's Jedi trainees on a nice heat mountain on coruscant.

[@HustlerHorstRuediger]

I kinda waited for this.

[@GhostLink92]

...elevator technicians must be making bank on Coruscant.

[@1959Edsel]

If you're hip to this kind of tip, and go take this Coruscant trip, get your kicks on Order 66.

[@zarander]

Lucas changed the pronunciation. It's supposed to be Coru-scant. We all said it that way for years before Phantom Menance.

[@AckzaTV]

We need a new star wars Disney series just called CORRUSCANT and it will have episodes about the time before the planet was a city planet showing the original stone jedi temple etc and then episodes showing amazing wealthy homes as whole buildings... and then of course a few episodes about the underworld and the I believe nearly 2000 levels under the artifical ground untill you reach level 0 where the old surface of the planet was ... where only animals and monsters live... I believe the only time we saw videos of this was in clone wars show with ashoka hiding down there

[@zhongxing1965]

Good video dude👍

[@lisbon1492]

Eck, how dare you bad mouth Yub Nub! That was a great ending song!

[@lisbon1492]

Just kidding, Eck. I do love that song, but I respect your opinion. I get why that song turns people off, but I always felt that it suited the scene. Anyway, all the best to you and your family.

[@zhongxing1965]

If u look carefully in EP 6 u can see coruscant at the end of the movie where everyone is celebrating the empire being destroyed

[@molinodesign]

corusant reminds me of UAE, 2 main cities, (dubai, abu ddhabi), industrial sections, low income sections, oil fields, but the cities look futuristic and attracts the wealthy.

[@ValkyrieMagnus]

There was the original city planet Capital of the Galactic Empire Trantor which is the inspiration to Coruscant.