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minnarr · 4 years ago

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Don’t Talk to Me About Naboo’s Moons

Last month, I had a little too much time on my hands when I ran out of things to do at work, so I made a Powerpoint. I did not expect to have 20 slides worth of yelling about Naboo’s moons, but here we are.

[ID: PowerPoint slide. The title, in big letters, reads “Don’t Talk to Me About Naboo’s Moons.” In smaller letters, the subtitle: “(Star Wars Writers Sure Didn’t Talk to Each Other About Them, Either)”. /end ID]

And now I’m adapting it to a Tumblr post, because why not.

How many moons does Naboo have?

I'm glad you asked

Three

Inside the Worlds of STAR WARS Episode I (2000) stated that they had one moon, and from TPM footage it’s hard to claim for certain there’s any more than that. Apparently taking their cue from Secrets of Naboo, a supplement to the WOTC Star Wars RPG, later sources have run with three moons

Source: https://www.theforce.net/swtc/orbs.html#naboo

Thrawn: Alliances (2018) compares another system’s moons with Naboo’s: “They were small moons, smaller than any of Naboo’s three…” (Ch. 15)

Nexus of Power (supplement to the Star Wars Force and Destiny Roleplaying Game) says Naboo has “three small moons”

[ID: Moonlight over Theed, The Phantom Menace. One obvious moon shines in the sky over Theed palace. Another bright object in the sky may also be a moon. /end ID]

[ID: Amidala’s starship passes a moon of Naboo, The Phantom Menace. The moon in question is tan and barren-looking. /end ID]

So, we have designations for three or fewer moons, right?

Wrong

There's five candidates: Ohma-D'un, Onoam, Rori, Veruna, and a “nameless mass”

Sources and Canon in Star Wars

Before we go on, let’s look at how we get information about the Star Wars universe, and how I select from contradictory information. If you’re familiar, obviously, feel free to skip ahead to the next section. The imaginary audience for the PowerPoint might not have been.

The old EU passes into Legends

On April 25, 2014, in the leadup to The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm announced that all previous Expanded Universe material would now be published under the Legends banner. All six previous movies plus The Clone Wars series “are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align.” Novels, comics, and other expanded universe material published after the changeover to Legends is now known as New Canon (or Disney Canon).

Every fan ultimately comes to their own arrangement with what they consider canon — which pieces of New Canon and Legends they stitch together to come to a satisfying understanding of the Star Wars universe.

Canon status of roleplaying game materials

The canon policy of Wookieepedia is fascinating and I have not even scratched the surface, but the section on roleplaying games makes for especially convoluted reading. Both the West End Games and Wizards of the Coast licenses for RPGs ended before the Legends changeover; these are firmly Legends.

Fantasy Flight Games, however, gained the license to card, board, and roleplaying games in 2011, just three years before the switch to New Canon. Lucasfilm Story Group has made no public stance on whether their material is canon.

For this reason and because their publishing time for the RPG sourcebooks stretches before and after the changeover, Wookieepedia has gone case-by-case and selected which books apply to Legends, Canon, or both for article-writing purposes.

Mainstream solutions to the three-moon problem

[ID: A quote from Nexus of Power: “Three small moons - Ohma-D’un, Rori, and a nameless mass that is little more than an overgrown asteroid - house small colonies as well as a handful of offworld and orbital shipyard and factories.” /end iD]

Nexus of Power is an FFG sourcebook that was determined by Wookieepedia’s standards to apply to Canon as well as Legends articles. Its entry on Naboo, however, differs from the later sourcebook Rise of the Separatists, which Wookieepedia deems canon and cites in its selection of moons.

The Rise of the Separatists entry reads:

Three moons—Ohma-D’un, Rori, and Veruna—orbit Naboo. They host small colonies with shipyards, orbital dockyards, and factories.

So even within one publishing license and one context, different moons have been attributed to Naboo.

Wookieepedia

Wookieepedia’s Canon page for Naboo lists Ohma-D’un, Onoam, and Veruna. Each of these comes from a different source:

Ohma-D’un cites Rise of the Separatists

Onoam cites Leia, Princess of Alderaan

Veruna cites Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia

They’ve made a choice—but it’s definitely not the only plausible choice. Each of the four names we’re given for Naboo’s moons has at least some backing in New Canon.

Onoam

Onoam is the only moon on this list that is fully and non-dubiously canonical, as Leia spent some time there in the 2017 novel Leia, Princess of Alderaan. It is, however, the funniest name choice: someone recently pointed out to me that it’s just an anagram of “a moon”

I love this, but Claudia Gray sure muddied the Naboo Moon Name Waters by making this the only choice it is impossible to reject. No shade, though. I loved the LPOA Naboo crumbs.

Onoam has both mines (plagued in the Imperial era by corrupt leadership and miner safety issues) and luxury housing. Before his assassination, Moff Quarsh Panaka resided in a chalet on Onoam, and Queen Dalné had a home there.

Sidebar: The Mining Moons

When discussing the assassination attempt on Padmé in Attack of the Clones, Mace Windu says, “Our intelligence points to disgruntled spice miners on the moons of Naboo.”

Leia, Princess of Alderaan establishes that Onoam was one of these moons; it mentions strikes and minor political violence a generation before Leia’s. It also establishes that Onoam is mined for medicinal spice, which by law can only be mined by humans, not droids

In Queen’s Shadow, which takes place in 28 BBY, the mining moons “struggle to maintain the balance between the rule of Naboo and their allegiance to filling their quotas”; the mining jobs are much less lucrative than farming on Karlinus

Veruna

[ID: a rather barren, tan-colored moon /end ID]

Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia (2017) identifies the moon pictured above as Veruna. The same moon was identified as Ohma-D’un by The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (2008), according to Wookieepedia. I have access to neither, but it looks like the moon the ship passed in TPM. For being one of Wookiee’s choices, the evidence for this name is astonishingly thin, but the same can be said of some of the others

Sidebar: King Veruna and his moon

The likelihood is that Veruna (the moon) was named for Ars Veruna, Padmé’s predecessor as Naboo’s monarch in Legends novels Darth Plagueis (2012) and Cloak of Deception (2001)

It is very probable that Veruna is no longer canon, and it is certainly impossible that he served a decade-plus term that ended shortly before Padmé’s reign:

Padmé’s immediate predecessor, according to Queen’s Peril (2020), was Queen Sanandrassa

Sometime during Eirtaé’s childhood, Réillata served a single two-year term, according to Queen’s Shadow (2019)

Even if he’s placed somewhere before Sanandrassa, there’s not really room for him to have reigned that long unless there are two monarchs between him and Padmé

Rori

Rori was named and fleshed out in the 2003 game Star Wars Galaxies, which is now Legends. While it is one of the names given in the Fantasy Flight Games sourcebooks, it doesn’t seem to have a source anywhere else in New Canon.

Ohma-D’un

Ohma-D’un has one New Canon source outside of RPG sourcebooks: the 2018 reference book Star Wars: Smuggler’s Guide. In Smuggler’s Guide, Tyro Viveca (one of the owners of the in-universe book) mentioned seeing bursa-baiting on Ohma-D’un. Bursas are bear-like creatures originally from Legends material, where they were known to attack and destroy Gungan settlements.

I had a picture of a captive bursa for illustrative purposes, but honestly it made me too sad so I deleted it. Nevertheless, that’s stronger detail and evidence than we have for either Rori or Veruna.

Bonus fact: Naboo officially has no such thing as prison. When Panaka mentions this to Rabé, she says, “Only because we send everyone to the moon” (Queen’s Peril). Enjoy those implications!

TL;DR

While Onoam is definitely one of the moons, what you call the other two is up to each person’s discretion until something else is stated. Personally, I prefer Ohma-D’un and Rori, rather than Veruna. This partly because I don’t like Veruna the Legends figure (petty) and partly because Rori has some interesting Legends lore that could be drawn on in a pinch, which as far as I can tell Veruna does not.

#star wars #naboo #star wars meta #my headcanons #the subtitle isn't like. a real dig.#there isn't a lot of info about them! kudos to gray and johnston for picking up on mace's comment abt miners #there are so many little details i miss in the movies they've made interesting in books

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gawayne-replies · 7 years ago

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91 Questions

Oh lord. Thank you @selkatha for tagging me in this!

THE LAST – 1. Drink: Water  2. Phone call: My dad trying to get me to fix the internet 3. Text message: "'A tomato was a foodstuff that could be thrown.'" (a quote from Wookieepedia) 4. Song I listened to: "The Battle Of Gall" by Joel McNeely 5. Time you cried: Monday at 4 am, reading the Kanan comic

HAVE YOU EVER –  6. Dated someone twice: No  7. Been cheated on: No 8. Kissed someone and regretted it: I guess but not really in the way you're thinking 9. Lost someone special: Not really 10. Been depressed: Always 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: No

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS –  12. Vantablack 13. Regular black 14. Dark red

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU –  15. Made new friends: I guess, sorta? 16. Fallen out of love: I’ve never fallen in love so that would be difficult 17. Laughed until you cried: About once a week in math class 18. Found out someone was talking about you: Yeah, but in a pretty neutral way 19. Met someone who changed you: I started watching Rebels. So yes 20. Found out who your true friends were: Sure, I suppose

MORE –   21. Kissed someone on your facebook? Don't have a Facebook, would never kiss someone who has a Facebook 22. How many of your facebook friends do you know in real life? None, don't have Facebook 23. Do you have any pets? Two cats, Leeloo (mine) and Snowpaw (my sister's) 24. Do you want to change your name? Yeah, I guess, idk 25. What did you do on your last birthday? Literally nothing 26. What time did you wake up? 12:30 pm 27. What were you doing at midnight? "Writing" 28. Name something you can’t wait for: Bubble tea 29. When was the last time you saw your mother? Like two hours ago 30. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life? No more mental illness 31. What are you listening to right now? The Office 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom? Probably? 33. Something that is getting on your nerves? The stupid post I have to do on my other blog 34. Most visited site: Either this one or Wookieepedia

SCHOOL –   35. Elementary: Alternating years of Good and Hell. So much fuckin snow like that's my clearest memory. So much snow. A mostly-functional education system, that was nice. I went to like five different schools and each had something worth talking about but that'll take too long. (One of them practiced paganism, as it turns out). I moved in the middle of it. Just a very dense time in my life. Too much happened. 36. Middle: Mostly blank. I remember like three things and the rest is a blur of anxiety and dissociation. This is about when I realized that teachers don't actually know stuff, especially if you choose to hire teachers who don't know stuff. 37. High: So far, dislikeable. About half my teachers hate me cause I never do work and the others think I'm a model student (hint: no). I never have to take gym again, though, so naturally I replaced it with philosophy. I can now tell you exactly when the sun rises every morning, thanks J-block band. The third floor became gay this year. 38. College: I'm thinking Waterloo right now, but who knows I might just die instead? I'll probably study either chemistry, astrophysics, writing or music, or philosophy or maths. Who knows?

ME –   39. Hair color: Pink, but it'll be mint by next week 40. Long or short hair? Quite short 41. Do you have a crush on someone? Never 42. What do you like about yourself? About half my brain 43. Piercings? Just ears 44. Blood type: AB+ I think 45. Nickname: Occasionally Sherlock, but I mostly get called Daddy Binks these days (or Long Beef Binks, or Daddy Long Beef) (don't ask, you don't want to know). Some people call me Obi on occasion, which doesn't actually come from Obi-Wan as one would expect 46. Relationship status: Single 47. Zodiac sign: Virgo 48. Pronouns: I use she/her but I honestly don't care, as I recently found out 49. Favorite TV show(s): Brooklyn 99, Rebels, Clone Wars, Arrested Development, Parks & Rec 50. Tattoos: Nope 51. Right, ambidextrous, or left-handed? Right-handed

FIRST –   52. Surgery: Nope 53. Piercing: Ears 54. Sport: Climbing, since I was 3 55. Vacation: Texas? That wasn't really a vacation per say but we never go on vacation 56. Pair of trainers: Well I'm sure I had one, probably, but what does this want? They were probably blue?

CURRENT –   57. Eating: Nothing 58. Drinking: Nothing  59. I’m about to: Eat, practice, work on stuff 60. Listening to: The Office

FUTURE –   61. Waiting for: Death. Or bubble tea 62. Want: Bubble tea, and death 63. Married: Nah 64. Career: Idfk. Either something to do with space, something to do with science, both, something to do with writing or something to do with music.

YOUR TYPE –   65. Hugs or kisses? Hugs, but those are also generally bad 66. Lips or eyes? Eyes. Unless the lips are playing something really cool 67. Shorter or taller? Idc 68. Older or younger? Romantically, I'm guessing? My age would be better? 69. Nice arms or nice stomach? I don't give a shit 70. Sensitive or loud? Sensitive, I guess. Just not loud 71. Hook-up or relationship? Neither, preferrably 72. Troublemaker or hesitant? Hesitant 73. Kissed a stranger? Depends on your definition of stranger 74. Drank hard liquor? Nope, so far I only like white wine 75. Lost contact lenses/glasses? Don't have them 76. Turned someone down? I don't think so. If I have I can't remember 77. Sex on first date? Nah 78. Broken someone’s heart? Doubt it 79. Had your heart broken? Not romantically 80. Been arrested? No 81. Cried when someone died? All the Jedi at the end of ROTS. Jacen Solo. Chewie. And my dog. That should have gone first, I'm thinking. 82. Fallen for a friend? Nah

DO YOU BELIEVE IN –   83. Yourself? Only at 5:30 in the morning  84. Miracles? Not really 85. Love at first sight? No 86. Santa Claus? No  87. Kiss on first date? Sure, whatever 88. Angels? No

OTHER –   89. Current best friend’s name: Holly 90. Eye color: Blue/grey 91. Favorite movie: Rogue One, ROTS, Planet of the Apes, Megamind, Star Trek: Beyond

Alright, I'm gonna tag @kenobi-and-barnes, @classy-mantis-shrimp, @crazy-tracyn, @freya-emrys, and anyone else who wants to (seriously you can if you want, I just can't think of people rn).

#woo that was long #you don't have to do it either lmao

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gffa · 7 years ago

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→ STAR WARS: CORUSCANT → WHY AND HOW I’M DOING THIS: Coruscant is my favorite Star Wars planet! It’s the home of the Galactic Senate, it’s the home of the Jedi Temple, it’s later home of the Empire, it’s where much of the action is! My favorite characters spent most of their lives on this city-planet and it’s fascinatingly huge and I desperately want to know more about how it works and so this is my best effort to collate as much info as I could reasonably find. While a lot (if not most) of what will be here has been swept into Legends, which is not my favorite place to go for worldbuilding if I can help it, there’s not much left of this planet if we don’t. But a general rule of thumb is: If it comes with a cap from TCW or the movies, it’s probably canon. If it’s from a reference book or SW Insider (unless otherwise noted), then it’s Legends. There’s going to be a lot of stuff I’m missing, but I tried to include only things that I could verify from my own sources (Wookieepedia is amazing! but sometimes it doesn’t quote as much as I’d like or show the best angles or sometimes doesn’t give full context) and that are reasonably still workable with the Immovable Objects Of Star Wars History. → OVERVIEW:

(Larger version here. Star Wars Atlas (2009) profile here.) PROFILE: 368 days in a year, 24 standard hours, population 1 trillion, species mix is 78% humans + 22% aliens, major export is culture, major import is food/medicine

→ FURTHER OVERVIEW NOTES: - Coruscant orbits relatively far from its tiny sun [....] and thus does not have a climate particuarly suited to humans. This problem is overcome by an array of orbital mirrors that augment the sun's warmth and light. (from Star Wars: Complete Locations)

- Wookieepedia’s overview is pretty great, so I’m going to quote it, then dig up the references if I can!

Located in the Coruscant subsector of the Corusca sector within the Core Worlds region, Coruscant was a planet covered in a dense ecumenopolis. 12,240 kilometers in diameter, Coruscant orbited relatively far from its small sun, varying from 207 to 251 million kilometers, and thus did not have a climate that suited any one particular species (although this inconvenience was rectified by technological means and the vast heat generated by the multi-level cityscape). There were 24 hours in a Coruscant day, and 365 days in a Coruscant year. Owing to its importance in galactic history, the galaxy used a dating system standardized on Coruscant and the planet's galactic coordinates were 0-0-0 despite it not being located in the exact geographical center of the galaxy. From space, Coruscant's luminosity was slightly dimmed by the planet's hazy cloud cover. The planet's weather patterns were affected by the troposphere-piercing buildings that covered the planet's surface. Inside the tallest buildings, enormous differences of temperature and air pressure from top to bottom produced unusual and unpredictable microclimates. As such, Coruscant had its own weather control system. Thousands of years of development destroyed the planet's ancient mountains and seas. As such, Monument Plaza housed the top of Coruscant's last remaining mountain peak.

MORE OVERVIEW/HISTORY:

(From the RPG guide Coruscant and the Core Worlds. More here.) Especially interesting of note is that most people are centered around the equator, the Western half of the planet is less populated but that’s where they generate their energy, and the main city is the size of a continent.

(From Star Wars Complete Locations. Larger image here.) ”In the top levels of Galactic City, the richest citizens breathe their preferred choice of gas in high-grade, purified form. Their buildings are routinely scanned for impurities, and problems are dealt with by teams of quality-control droids. In the dirty underworld of tunnels and corridors at the base of the massive buildings, inhabitants struggle to exist on barely breathable combinations of waste gasses. Many regular visistors to Coruscant choose to bring their own air supply to last the length of their stay.” I would take this with a major grain of salt as we never really see it playing out in the movies or the TV shows, despite the time we spend in some of the highest buildings on Coruscant.

(Larger version here.) This isn’t much to go on besides a few names of places, but it does show the way Coruscant is built up and up and up, how some buildings get buried along the way and just how crowded everything is.

(Larger version here.) A map of the chase scene from Attack of the Clones, when Obi-Wan and Anakin are trying to hunt down Zam Wessel. While there’s not a ton of worldbuilding here, it does show the density of the buildings and at least gives you an idea of where the Skysitter restaurant [see below] is, where several hotel chains are (Novaplex, the Vos Gesal Hotel), shows the procession of freighters that delivers foods/goods and removes waste, the location of some Embassies, the Senatorial News Agency, the food giant TaggeCo, the Coruscant Ministry of Ingress (which handled the influx of people coming to the planet) and the Financial Zone. It mentions skytunnels, one which Obi-Wan and Anakin chased the bounty hunter through, which are large tunnels in the middle of buildings that were put up in the middle of skylanes and wound up blocking traffic. So the only way to keep the skylane was to build a tunnel through the building itself! (Reference images here and here.) → DISTRICTS, PLACES, AREAS: - There are A LOT of districts in Coruscant (as well there would be, given that it’s an entire city-planet with both a surface world and an Underworld), but a great many of them are only ever offhandedly mentioned (as you can see in Wookiepedia’s list of Coruscant Distrcts), never shown or explored much. I’m going to focus on pre-Empire districts that have a reasonable amount of information about them as best I can! - CORUSCA CIRCUS - This was the name for the collection of buildings at the heart of Coruscant--”[....] the lights of the lower metropolis canyons shine brightly. Three main canyons intersection here, passing around an accumulation of public buildings known as Corusca Circus that has been expanding haphazardly for centuries.” And “An ancient part of the Senate District on Coruscant, it was the site of brightly lit thoroughfares and architecture.” (from the complete SW encyclopedia). Sort of like “downtown Coruscant”, I would say.

(Larger version here and secondary reference image here.) - THE SENATE DISTRICT - Most known for housing the enormous Galactic Senate Building, it also contained high class living quarters and shopping malls and restaurants and several species’ Embassies and even at least one hospital. Especially notable locations were: Senate Building, which is primarily known for housing the Galactic Senate Chamber, the meeting hall for the thousands of Senators. “Behind each Senatorial platform, almost a kilometer of offices houses the hundreds of workers needed to support each Senator.” Many of these are also modified for a given species’ atmospheric and biological needs or simply give a resting area for the Senator and their aides.

(Larger versions here, here, and here.) Also in the Senate building, Palpatine has a “working office” just beneath the Senate Chamber. This is where his podium rests when not in use, before it ascends into the Chamber itself--this is also where Yoda goes to meet Darth Sidious towards the end of Revenge of the Sith. 500 Republica, the most exclusive residential tower on Coruscant and was located in the Ambassadorial Sector of the Senate District. (Padme stayed here as a guest of Palpatine’s during the Invasion of Naboo. Also referenced here.) Senate Apartment Complex, which was a short distance away from the Senate Building. Padme’s apartment during her time as a Senator was located here. (Senate Apartment Complex shown here and here in Attack of the Clones.) Skysitter Restaurant, which was a thousand stories high, famous, and only the wealthiest Senators could afford it. Galactic Museum, which was a massive historical museum of various and myriad cultures, so large that it would take days to fully explore. Sometimes they also funded expeditions to uncover lost relics. Galactic Senate Medcenter, which was the top five stories of a non-descript mid-level building and was set up exclusively for the Senators and was accessible by a turbolift from the Senate Building or a skybridge from the Embassy Mall or accessible via an airspeeder. Calacour Heights, the marketing district known as the Calocour Heights resembled a miniature Corporate Sector. Found here: Survey-takers, product samples on repulsor-lift carts, and a crapload of billboards. Why you'd go there: Looking for cutting edge gadgets! You'll pay an arm and a leg, but you'll get quality. It was situated in the Senate District. (Referenced here.) Galactic Justice Center was a massive government building on Coruscant. Located in Quadrant A-89 of the Senate District and contained several courthouses and other judicial and law enforcement facilities. - SENATE OFFICE BUILDING - It was also called the Republic executive building or Senate executive building, it was the lower dome shaped office building we see here. It was where the offices of many Senators were, had a number of landing bays, and Chancellor Palpatine’s office. It was located in the Legislative Borough of the Senate District, had many docking bays and hangars for official transports. It was created to alleviate the growing need for office space as more and more systems gained Senators, and we know both Padme and Bail’s offices were located here. (The Clone Wars episode Hostage Crisis takes place here.)

(Larger versions here, here, here, here, and here. Wookiepedia has more images here and here. Its docking bays are here.) Chancellor’s Office / Chancellor’s Suit, which was the office we all know from the movies and TV shows--though, it’s expanded upon in Complete Star Wars Locations. There is the main foyer and office, but off to the side are a small bedroom, wardrobe, and private fresher, as well as a secondary private office to deal with more private (and often times Sithly) matters. There’s a Statue of Sistros (along with the other Four Sages of Dwartii) in the main part of his office, where his lighstaber is hidden, a small office for his aides to work in, and and a hidden emergency escape turbolift.

(Larger version here and here.) Padme’s Office and Bail’s Office (from the Revenge of the Sith deleted scenes) were here as well. - THE TEMPLE DISTRICT - While I’ve covered the Jedi Temple itself elsewhere, the District it’s centered in itself doesn’t get a lot of coverage. There is a simple map to show the general layout, though:

(Larger version here.) But it was likely there were at least some entertainment businesses or residential apartments scattered along the edges, as well as various government buildings. As the Clone War went on, though, it accommodated more hangars and military supply installations there as well. - COLUMN COMMONS - This mid-level district featured large, open areans interspersed with fat colums that supported the "ceiling" levels of cityspace overhead. What you'd find her: Holodrama and newset publishers had offices here, the major news bureaus were here. Why'd you go there: If you need to find a reporter, here's where you'd go. (Referenced here.) - SOUTHERN UNDERGROUND - The Southern Underground district located near the south pole and it contained a hemispherical shopping center stuffed with run-down stores and impromptu barter stalls. Why you'd visit: If you’re in the Coruscant Undgeround and needed a quick, if dirty, place to shop, here’s your district to head towards. Just watch out for the stone mites and duracrete slugs. (Illustrations on Wookieepedia here and here. Also referenced here. ) - COCO TOWN - (Wookieepedia link here, Legends here.) An ecclectic area of Coruscant, it’s mostly known to us for where Dex’s Diner was located. Some areas were more run-down, some areas catered to many of the municipal and construction workers of Coruscant, and some areas were more exclusive stores. There were a lot of middle scale diners and hotels/cantinas, but also at least one theater and a branch of the Galactic Museum [see above].

(Full images here.) - WORKS - This was also called the Industrial District, which was once a manufacturing powerhouse, but by the time of the Clone Wars, it was largely abandoned (to have manufacturing moved off-world where it was cheaper) and we see it mostly used for shady meeting places. There were some attempts to clear the space out with duracrete slugs, stone mites, and conduit worms so it could be purchased and refurbished, but that didn’t seem to go much of anywhere. (Wookieepedia pages here and here.) - FINANCIAL DISTRICT - Here is where you’d find a collection of banks, accounting related business offices, and wealthy businesses made their offices here. It bordered the Senate District, was about 12 square miles, and wasn’t to be confused with the Business District, though they often overlapped. - USCRU DISTRICT - (Wookieepedia link here + the Entertainment District and Entertainment District/Legends.) While the evolution of this area is a little convoluted, how it seems to have ultimately ended up is--the larger district is the Uscru District, but the lower levels (which are part of the larger district) was called the Entertainment District and was where you could find a lot of seedy bars and clubs, with a lot of gambling and drinking. This is where the Outlander Club (cross-section here) from Attack of the Clones, where Obi-Wan and Anakin chase after Zam Wessel. The Galaxies Opera House [see below] could be found in the upper levels of this district as well.

(Larger and expanded version here.)

(This piece Ralph McQuarrie Coruscant Concept Art is likely the Uscru Entertainment District.) → ENTERTAINMENT ATTRACTIONS: - The RPG Guide Coruscant and the Core Worlds has several listed points of entertainment! Including: the Coruscant Opera House, Skydome Botanical Gardens, Westport, Calocour Heights, Column Commons, the Southern Underground, the Invisible Sector, etc. (Full image here.) - Coruscant Holographic Zoo for Extinct and Exotic Animals (post with Coruscant’s section here) - While the focus is on Alderaan (which wouldn’t be destroyed until 19 years into the Empire’s reign) in the Wildlife book, it has appeared chronologically before that, so you can still use the framework for an attraction that a tourist might want to see or a meeting place between two undercover agents if you’re writing PT-based fic. Also includes a handful of other species’ specialty animals! Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan visited it during a mission in 37BBY. (Relevant pages here and here.) - Galactic Museum - [see above] - Galaxies Opera House appears in canon (where Palpatine and Anakin have the conversation about Darth Plagueis) and in concept art here. Located in the Uscru Entertainment District.

(Larger and expanded version here.) - Coruscant Opera House is a separate opera house with a bit more history to it, it tended to be more exclusively for the rich. While it had a public area that poorer people could watch via holograms, it was relatively small and very upscale. (Referenced here as well as a bit more information/history on it here..) - Skydome Botanical Underground attracted two types of visitors: bookish botanists and those who simply loved beautiful things. It was full of rare and beautiful plants and public tours frequently solid out months in advance. Likely also served for conservation purposes or study purposes. (Referenced here.) - Leisure Satellites - “Vast space stations that traveled from planet to planet, bringing with them as many opportunities to relax as there are species in the galaxy. Be it games of chance, cutting-edge fashion, or even the thrill of high speed!” These were pretty massive space stations, you can see that they’re large enough to host entire podracing venues at the very least. It seems like these two stories take place on the same giant satellite, so you can see that they were significantly large, but either way, if you need something for characters to do to relax (even Jedi apparently go to them!), there’s plenty of opportunities here! (Referenced here, here, here, and here. You can see that in these moments they’re hovering over the Senate District and the Jedi Temple District, which is presumably along the equator. Referenced here and here.) - The Ghost Ship - The giga-class transport ship Ultimo Vista that Anakin and Obi-Wan narrowly avoid hitting is one of Coruscant's most bizarre sights. Established decades ago as a leisure cruise ship, it is now a separate, contained world in which its elderly passengers are full-time residents. Almost entirely self-sufficient, the slow-moving craft endlessly circles Coruscant on its original route to nowhere. (Referenced here. Illustration here.) - Circuses and wildlife exhibits - [see Animal and Plant Life below] → THE UNDERWORLD When trying to figure out just how the upper layers work with the lower layers, the Atlas profile says about the planet’s history, "The megalopolis that would one day become the Galactic City is said to have already stood layer upon layer as early as 90,000 BBY." When looking at caps of the Coruscant Underworld, it seems as though there are buildings attached to the underside of something almost like a shell around the entire planet. As best I can tell, there is a shell over the Underworld that the surface of Coruscant is built on top of. It’s difficult to get a feel for the Underworld, about the best I could reasonably do is look through the moments we get in The Clone Wars and make some observations: - The most common way to get into the Underworld seems to be through the Underworld Portal, that giant tunnel we see ships lowering themselves through. Along the way there are many, many docking bays and landing platforms and Terminals/stations, and that the Underworld comprised of at least 1,300+ levels. - Some of the landing platforms have thoroughfares that head straight towards the main “area” of the Underworld, but probably not all of them. - The majority of the Underworld seems to be strewn with brightly colored lights from neon signs and some street lamps and the light spilling out from storefronts, that it’s dark and nighttime-like even when we know it’s daylight on the higher levels of Coruscant. There are dark alleyways without much light that one would need to be careful of, but in the main thoroughfares you can see perfectly well by the light of the signs. - While many of the posters that are put up (and there are posters EVERYWHERE or graffiti all over the place, there’s hardly any clean, blank surfaces in the Underworld) there are also brightly light holoscreens that can display things like wanted posters. - In addition to the neon lights being plastered on everything (including steps and walkways to help keep things semi-lit and to see where you’re walking), there’s a lot of steam pouring out from businesses in the area, there’s probably not much elsewhere it can go, so it lingers as smog in the air even more than it would above the ground. - It doesn’t seem to be a terribly long walk before you’ll hit some factory areas, some of which may be more populated/manned than others. - There are feral animals that can be round scurrying around. We know there are Tookas and other animals for sure, as well as Legends has conduit worms and duracrete slugs. - It’s large enough that it has air traffic floating through the air, at least in the more open areas near the Underworld Portal(s?). - It’s a mishmash of unorganized construction, which means there are small catwalks and platforms everywhere. - At least some streets are wide enough that there are land speeders driven or parked along the roads. - There’s some public transportation including a rather dirty public tram/subway and public turbolifts. - There are public (whether they require a fee or not is difficult to discern) comm stations, though, whether they’re in working order or not is another matter. Even the darker, less used alleyways seem to have them. Star Wars 1313 concept art also has some really interesting designs for the Underworld and the Underworld Portal! You can find them here, here, here, here, and here. There’s not much new to be gathered, but there’s some really cool detail and something of a sense of scope! Also, [see above] for significant districts located in the Underworld. → ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE - The Wildlife of Coruscant is a good place to start! They mention:

- Silica parasites (duracrete worms, granite slugs, and shadow barnacles) which are silicon-based invertebrates that feed upon building structures. They are very destructive--annually causing millions of credits' worth of damage. There are also duracrete slugs that fall into the same category. (Referenced and illustrated here.) - Hawkbats - Predatory reptavians, hawkbats ride the thermals rising from the bowels of the city. Though to be the only native Coruscant species left in existence. Hawkbats are officially protected because they feed on destructive silica parasites. (Referenced and illustrated here and here.) - Mutant Rats - These giant, nearly skinless rapacious rodents inhabit the lower levels and sewers. (Referenced and illustrated here.) - Dianoga - Large mollusks found throughout the universe, dianoga are used by many in sewage treatment. Occasionally, there are residential problems when there’s backup and you might get a few tentacles wriggling up through your space toilet. (Referenced and illustrated here.) - The Animal Trade + Fugitives - Traders, brokers, trappers, and hunters bring specials from all over the universe to dealers (sometimes pet stores, sometimes not), who sell the animals as pets, zoo animals, livestock, etc. (Referenced and illustrated here and here.) - Circuses - Circuses, carnivals, and spectaculars featuring exotice species from all over the galaxy visit Coruscant every year. They are very popular and give many their only chance of seeing rare animals.- (Referenced and illustrated here.) - Livestock Exchange and Exhibition - Every year, the largest livestock fair in the galaxy is held in the stables, corrals, and halls of the Grand Symposium, a major event for animal dealers and traders of all sorts. - (Referenced and illustrated here.) - Senators and their Menageries - Being the diplomatic headquarters of the galaxy, Coruscant hosts countless diplomats and ambassadors who establish permanent or semi-permanant residencies on the planet. These diplomats naturally bring pets from their home planets and/or acquire additional creatures during their tenure. (Referenced and illustrated here.) - Coruscant Holographic Zoo for Extinct and Exotic Animals - [see above] While much of this will only apply to after Alderaan’s destruction, the zoo already existed pre-TPM, as you can find above. (Reference and illustrated here, here, and here.) → MUNICIPAL WORLDBUILDING: - Garbage pits were spread across Coruscant to accommodate the massive amounts of waste and were filled with garbage worms--useful for a good place to crash if you want your Jedi or bounty hunter to have a bit of a messy, trouble landing, but could probably still survive and need rescuing from. (Further info here.) - The Grand Republic Medical Center was a large, extremely tall hospital managed by the Republic during the Clone Wars, though, would later become Emperor Palpatine’s more personal Surgical Reconstruction Center (in Legends). It wasn’t until after the “incident with the renegade clone” that Palpatine would move his Sith artifacts here, though. The building appeared in The Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith, it was where the construction of Darth Vader took place. Before that, though, it’s unclear if it was for government officials or a more public hospital. But it seems likely that it was a public hospital, given that the cross-section mentions that, to the public, it was a medical facility that took on specialized cases from all across the galaxy and “Sith patients can arrive like regular patients”, not realizing the truth of what it really hid.

(Larger versions here, here, and here.) - Senate Landing Platforms were privately reserved for the Senators, aids, and visiting dignities. The public landing platforms were often so busy that a vehicle may have had to wait hours in a holding pattern before one was available. - Coruscant Air Traffic Control monitors the skylanes traffic, though, they’re also magnetic and guide ships along specific paths. - Coruscant Weather Control Network, aka the WeatherNet, modulated the planet’s weather.

- Coruscant Park was a park located near the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Jedi Masters often took their Padawans to the Park for training. (Probably less common than using the rooftop gardens on the Temple, but occasional field trips wouldn’t have been out of the norm.)

- Coruscant Green Park was an endangered park area and posters were put up to help save it. You can see the poster with the tree and building here. - Giant billboards for advertisements or government announcements could be seen strewn between buildings many times. (Reference here, here, here, and here.) - Construction was likely a daily obstacle in any given area of Coruscant, as it was literally constantly being built upon and build upon. (Reference here.)

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