How Coruscant Evolved to Become Capital of the Known Galaxy - The Full History Explained

[@deepashtray5605]

Taken in perspective, 200,000 years of a violent chaotic history with empires rising and falling, countless wars and one golden age collapsing after another, the Star Wars saga we have been following over the last 46 years at best amounts to a parable on nihilism.

[@papapalps2415]

....What? No. For a franchise called Star Wars, there is frankly shockingly little actual galactic-scale war, and what there is tends to be either over quickly or in relatively short spurts of activity (I.E., the roughly 70-80 year period from the prequels to the Fate of the Jedi novels). As the literal first line ever in the entire franchise says, from the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (I.E., the ANH novelization, released before), the Republic stood like a tree, immune to outside assault.

[@deepashtray5605]

@@papapalps2415 But once again it all fell apart.

[@papapalps2415]

@@deepashtray5605 No? By the end of the established material in the franchise (I.E., the Legacy comics) things have more or less stabilized once again under a new galactic government.

[@deepashtray5605]

@@papapalps2415 At the end of episode 9 things did not seem particularly stable, and if it did manage to stabilize then how long?

[@papapalps2415]

@@deepashtray5605 Ew, sequel content.

[@anthonygrant7124]

Man you NEVER disappoint with the content…love the new long series you got going on…the one you did recently on the Sith? WOW bruh…can’t wait to see what else you got

[@marshalllatta2073]

I love coruscant one of the famous planets in star wars it's humongous for every species your channel so cool you guys done a fantastic job

[@zexalbrony4799]

Agreed.

[@snorlaxmunch8675]

Fair to say that when opportunity knocked Coruscant opened the door

[@indianajones4321]

Hey Geetsly’s if you ever wanted to do a collab with The Front, you could always do a video on the military experience of the producers and actors in the franchise. For example, Gary Kurtz was a Marine cameraman in Vietnam and Ralph Mcquarrie survived being shot in the head in Korea

[@trickster20644]

Uh, who wants to tell him?

[@LM37_]

@@trickster20644 not me

[@indianajones4321]

@@trickster20644 dude I know they’re the same, it’s been a running joke between the two channels for a few years that “they” would do a collab.

[@barbiquearea]

In his early drafts for Star Wars, George Lucas was going to make Alderaan a planet scale city and the capital planet of the galaxy. However by the forth draft of his story, Alderaan was changed into a peaceful planet and became Leia Organa's homeworld, and was blown up by the Death Star. Meanwhile the name of the Empire's capital planet didn't come up again until early drafts of Return of the Jedi, and it was going to be called "Had Abaddon". However Lucas and his team realized they didn't have time to shoot any scenes with Had Abaddon in mind, and so it was written out of the final script. Despite everyone's belief, Coruscant wasn't first mentioned in The Phantom Menace but in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, starting with Heir to the Empire, which was released in 1991, eight years before The Phantom Menace was released in theaters.

[@thorguff]

"Despite everyone's belief, Coruscant wasn't first mentioned in The Phantom Menace but in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, starting with Heir to the Empire, which was released in 1991... Congratulations. A lot of Star Wars fans know that as we read "Heir to the Empire." That book was very popular in the early 1990s. Ha, "despite everyone's belief." What an elitist.

[@parkaller7959]

@@thorguffMost casual fans have not read those books to be fair.

[@inquisitorgarza312]

It is as the old saying goes “All Roads lead to Rome”, when there is a net connected logistics to a single location will allow that location to be extremely important to the central government.

[@zexalbrony4799]

Since you asked, I would like to see videos on what Courscant was like under the Empire and New Republic.

[@FairbrookWingates]

More on ancient Coruscant and pre-hyperdrive human history, yes please!

[@Seraco5735]

You can't just use the statue of Talos, the ascended Tiber Septim, in a Star Wars video. You mad lads! 1:40

[@silverchairsg]

It all started when a currant and a croissant fell in love...

[@ronjon7942]

BadumpBump...

[@goldeagle6431]

The Senate evolved to become the EMPEROR of the ENTIRE galaxy.

[@JaelaOrdo]

It all started with the Battalions of Zhell stealing the world from it’s rightful owners, the Taung Warriors of Shadow, but then those Taung went on to become the first Mando’ade so it’s all good in the end.

[@pizzapicante27]

Would like to see a video about the Yuzhan Vong invasion of Coruscant.

[@I-NINE93THREE-I]

1:40 Lol Talos Shrine

[@ericvulgate]

There's not a new idea in all of starwars.

[@JCWinters-bu8de]

Corustcant is like pretty much the “NEW YORK” of Star Wars. Every planet in it’s universe has 1 or 2 of the various climates that Earth has in real life. Very nice… 🌎

[@samburns8394]

Anyone else notice the Skyrim screenshot?

[@Americandragonrider333.]

I want to see a lot more about Coruscant! Maybe talk about it’s different level from the surface to the deepest level down!

[@paulhunter6742]

Coruscant wasn't only center of Galagic Republic, but also economic center being linked to major hyperspace transport hub. Even after the many wars it still able to recover and continue rebuild. But, how did they manage to drain the Oceans? Cover up mountains and active volcanos?

[@Emanon...]

I've never understood why anyone would create an ecumenopolis, let alone choose to live there. It doesn't seem feasible, even for a high tech setting like this to be able to maintain an atmosphere and the levels of food, raw materials and energy required.

[@papapalps2415]

Why? This is a setting that can, and has been established since its inception, to be capable of casually producing planet vaporizing battlemoons. City worlds are hardly unfathomable.

[@paulhunter6742]

I agree you still need some plant life to generate oxygen and remove buildup of carbon dioxide from industrial centers. And how be possible support food production you couldn't import everything needed sustain billiond of beings

[@greatazuredragon]

Great episode.

[@ricks5756]

What would be interesting to see explained in the Star Wars universe are the junkyard /scrapyard planets and how they operated. Especially after the various wars when so much wargear / spaceships / vehicles / e.t.c. where disposed of and/or salvaged.

[@nellidivina5280]

What kind of defenses does coruscant have against asteroids, meteors, meteors, and comets? Planetary shield generators?

[@lerneanlion]

Question: Who decided to make Coruscant the capital of the Republic anyway? And I'm talking about in-universe, of course.

[@TribbelTv]

I think it just kinda became the capital by default since the hyperspace lanes end on Coruscant

[@lerneanlion]

@@TribbelTv I know that but sometimes, politics and personal feelings can influenced certain decisions. For example, Sultan Shah Rukh decided to move the capital to Herat instead of holding his court in Samarkand after his father, Emir Timur, passed away and the first of the Timurid Civil Wars comes to an end.

[@ericvulgate]

That much construction piled on a planet would be enough to throw off it's gravity. And a world city with five thousand levels would hold something like ten trillion people if it were as crowded as portrayed. Also- 'drain the ocean' where, exactly? Into space? Like most starwars coruscant is neat ideas realized poorly.

[@papapalps2415]

God, I fucking love when randoms that wouldn't know science from a mosquito that bit them on the ass try to pretend they AKSHUALLY have a functioning brain. 'Throw the planet off its axis', holy fuck dude. Like as if a civilization that can casually produce planet-vaporizing battle moons being able to move planetary oceans is somehow surprising (lul, of fucking course they moved it off world).

[@Yeeyeeenation]

Wait till you learn about Starkiller base sucking up an entire star

[@ronjon7942]

@@papapalps2415Yes! Nailed it. Just wait til this genius figures out this isn't a documentary.

[@erikm8372]

I’ve always wondered about random Coruscant details… like, where on the planet exactly is the capital and surrounding city located? Is it near the equator, or somewhere temperate? How many “continents”, or “metropolises” are there? And are different regions of the city split into zones, “countries,” “counties”, or sections? I know it’s a planetwide city, but of course, there must be some variation from cities at the South Pole versus the North Pole, stuff like that. I wonder if it’s colder there, despite their artificial atmosphere and weather regulation… maybe it’s just planetwide the same weather conditions… And I’m curious about the “other” places… the “wastelands”, factories, processing plants and warehouses, outside of and between the metropolis areas.

[@lorenzopace6187]

playing jedi survivor brought me here because cheezus its beautiful!

[@crandleberrysadie]

Wait... Talos was on Coruscant? 😂

[@Introvertedtroy]

Why drain the oceans and lakes. Where would the planet get there water? What water would the recycle?

[@papapalps2415]

To make more space for habitation, lul. Obviously Coruscant isn't self sufficient; virtually everything is imported. What do you think the constant, 24/7 blanket of ships over the planet is doing, exactly?

[@tomduncan2400]

1:42 Talos

[@fernandochapa1433]

My dream video game is an m rated cyberpunk style rpg game but set in Coruscant with a lot of activities and crime

[@eliberman9956]

how many layers does coruscant have? how are the layers different? do the rich live on top the poor (literally)?

[@papapalps2415]

Seeing how the cityscape of Coruscant is generally heavily implied if not outright stated to go down to almost the core (you could, frankly, make a convincing argument its more of a planet-sized space station than anything else), the number of layers would be somewhere between 'a fucking lot' and 'a FUCKING LOT'. Although of course, the further you go down, the more unpleasant it becomes, and generally unlivable.

[@ronjon7942]

@@papapalps2415The core? It's not even 100,000 FEET deep - in fact, it ROSE! The first and lowest level started on the surface, and went up from there. There are 'parks' where the tops of mountains are on display, lower than the uppermost city levels. It hasn't even come remotely close to cracking the crust, because the -opolis migrated upward, not down. There are over 5,000 levels. And yeah - the common folk don't get the view to the heavens.

[@papapalps2415]

@@ronjon7942 The core, yes. There are a few statements in the old canon (and probably the new, I'd wager) that Coruscant also expanded downwards, including a few that state it ended up urbanizing all the way to the planetary core; hence my comment that, if that's taken at face value, Coruscant is actually really closer to a planet-sized space station at that point.

[@inquisitorichijou883]

Is there enough material to make a video on the history of Correlia?

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

You know something, personally I think Coruscant is an issue within itself, (economically speaking) as it must take huge resources to maintain alone, since the amount of levels, the needed maintenance must be HUGE, and the costs of upkeep and such must also be very large, if we look at the dune series (my knowledge in Dune based on my friends convo's and too many videos on explaining how to make world building feasible), how people may have been at least partially responsible for the water crisis as they pit stopped to take the worm dust, then the opposite is true, most of the republic's resources most likely ended up agglomerating inn certain planets, among them most likely primordially Coruscant I just want to say, have any of you seen ascendance of a bookworm? You know the part that the royal family of the Jorgenshmit ? was NOT sending energy to the country foundation, but instead just wasting pushing a ton of energy to the capital duchy (which was created without it really needing to exist), and that capital duchy being a lot bigger than it should have been? Aka, even post Myne finding the country foundation, if the royal family did NOT in fact attempt to get rid of the capital, the energy outage would be HUGE. Or rather, if anyone randomly found the actual foundation, without the gutrisheit? then the royal family would still be in the big trouble, if not MORE, at their lack of ability to maintain the place where their castle is at, AND the country itself. This can be applied to Star Wars conversely.

[@DavidBrantford]

More please!

[@declanhandley-byrne4335]

All hyperspace lanes lead to Coruscant

[@MikefromTexas1]

How do they produce food, air, and water??

[@ronjon7942]

The groundwater still exists...the cities grew upwards, not down. The air is 'scrubbed' and air oxygen is maintained by chemistry, by de-oxidizing chemistry. For example, oxygen is liberated from rust to make steel. And like food, construction materials, and more oxygen, if necessary, is imported. The planet is at the hub of the hyperspace lanes.

[@ronjon7942]

"The oceans were drained..." to...where?? I wonder if they eventually exported it off planet. Maybe the planet had huge oil reserves, and after they went through their petro phase, the groundwater filled in the voids. And they'd have mined a lot of resources for construction materials, maybe some water went into some of that space. But w repulsor lifts, I guess exporting it wouldn't be so crazy. Would have been sporting if they rained some on Tatooine! Does anyone remember Asimon's Foundation, and the planet Trantor? That was the first time I'd ever read of a planet-city...I wanna also say there's a planet in the SW Galaxy named Trantor, in a nod to the greatest of the giants of SciFi.

[@papapalps2415]

They obviously had to export it off world, lul. Although speaking of that, a particularly funny instance of the Empire's wanton cruelty from the old canon comes to mind; where a planet was punished by having all its water, oceans and all, shipped off-world by an armada of freighters and the like. Certainly a unique kind of punishment, if nothing else.

[@DCeasedbrickbuilds]

& then it evolved into a hell like no other…

[@Bluesonofman]

The true canon

[@thetruth4654]

If you hate modernity, Corusant would be a good reflection of hell. the entire planet is a mega city

[@akira84729]

Whats "Osass"?

[@MrBROTHERFELDER]

“The government you elect is the government you deserve” - Thomas Jefferson

[@macwade2755]

This is Canon for me!

[@davidprice1376]

You left out important information like how the sith alter under the Jedi Temple came to be

[@DarthVages]

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[@brokenbridge6316]

I'm guessing that I don't say anything interesting enough to have it featured after a video. Oh well.

[@reallybigmistake]

corusKANT CUT -George Lucas

[@bavorogier7306]

What's with his voice?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Oh, what the likes of me and many like-minded allies would gladly do so to completely purge this sinful central symbol of all the basic wrongs of any Star Wars universe, and to avenge its original yet unfortunately extinct Taung inhabitants...

[@trickster20644]

Please fix your microphone. Seriously, it's affecting my ability to enjoy your videos.

[@ronjon7942]

Well! If it's doing something SO drastic, we'll get on it right away! How is it now? Your happiness is all of our utmost concern.

[@OverTheTop85]

With Radical Disney ruining Star Wars I know I can always come to this channel and find others like yourselves who still care about Star Wars! True Star Wars, anything that's NOT Disney!

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