Coruscant
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The Galactic Center of Coruscant was the political hub of the Galaxy for millennia and the seat of power of Emperor Josdon's Galactic Empire. It was generally agreed that Coruscant was, during most of Galactic history, the most politically important world in the Galaxy. A large number of the Galaxy's trade routes — including the Perlemian Trade Route, the Corellian Run, the Metellos Trade Route, the Koros Trunk Line, and the Leisure Corridor — went through Coruscant, making it one of the richest worlds in the Galaxy. Tellingly, the planet's hyperspace coordinates were (0,0,0).
Geology
Geologically, the planet comprised a molten core with rocky mantle and silicate rock crust.
The entire surface of Coruscant had been covered over throughout the thousands of generations of galactic history by sprawling mile-high skyscrapers and cities, and boasting a population of over one trillion to one hundred billion, depending on the era. These skyscrapers dwarfed all the original natural features including mountains and now dry bodies of oceans which once covered a large proportion of Coruscant's surface. Below the skyscrapers was Coruscant's undercity, where sunlight never reached. Artificial lighting illuminated these lower levels and advertisement holograms could be seen everywhere. There were numerous establishments for entertainment, catering to a myriad of alien species.
All natural bodies of water had been drained and stored in vast caverns beneath the city as a result of years of overpopulation. The only body of water visible was the artificial Western Sea, with many artificially-created islands floating on it, used by tourists on holidays.
With no bodies of water available to feed and water its trillion inhabitants, Coruscant's architects, along with many others from around the Galaxy, worked together to build a self-contained eco-system in the massive buildings set all over the planet. Polar cap stations also melted ice and distributed water throughout the planetwide city through a complex series of pipes.
One of the few pieces of Coruscant's landmass that were left untouched were the Manarai Mountains, twin peaks that stuck up out of the ground near the famous Imperial Palace. The Manarai Mountains included the tallest peak, Umate; many floating restaurants; the Monument Plaza; and were home to the Flames of Umate cult. It was beneath the Manarai Mountains where Lusankya was hidden.
Society
Galactic City was divided into several thousand quadrants, with each quadrant subdivided into numbered sectors. Some of these numbered sectors received colloquial names. For example, H-46 was also called Sah'c Town, named for the family that owned much of it. Some areas were specifically designated senatorial, governmental, financial (including banking zones), commercial, and residential. Larger areas of the planet were designated for industrial or manufacturing use only. The largest of these areas was known colloquially as "The Works", which manufactured spacecraft parts, droids, and building materials at an astonishing rate for hundreds of years, but as construction in space became more efficient, The Works fell in disrepair. It gained the reputation as a hub of high criminal activity and many locals stayed away from it. Another area of Coruscant was CoCo Town (short for "collective commerce"). Many diverse species lived there and worked in manufacturing.
Coruscant also orbited relatively far from its tiny star Coruscant Prime, ranging from 207 million to 251 million km. Thus, Coruscant did not naturally have a climate suitable for Humans. Coruscant's Humans countered this by erecting a series of orbital mirrors that reflected the sun's warmth and light.
Almost everything on the planet, from clothes to packaging and machinery, was recyclable. Another problem for a world like Coruscant was the unimaginable amounts of carbon dioxide and heat energy that its trillion-being population generated each day, so thousands of carbon dioxide reactive atmospheric dampeners were put into place in the upper atmosphere to prevent atmospheric degeneration. The first set of these planet-wide dampeners, developed by the Galactic Republic, was known as the Coruscant Atmospheric Reclamation Project. Galactic Standard Time was developed on Coruscant and revolved around the hours Coruscant had in a single day, which was 24 hours, with 368 local days a year.
Near the planet's core were a number of massive power relay stations. The lowest levels were abandoned to mutants and scavengers, such as the cannibalistic, mythical Cthons. The foundations of many of the buildings, some of which weighed billions of tons, also extended deep into the planet's crust.
Points of Interest
Eastport
Galactic Museum
Located in the heart of Imperial City, for over 12,000 years the museum has provided the citizens of the Galaxy with the premier repository for artifacts worth preserving. The museum's exhibit wings include Annals of the Republic, The History of Hyperdrive, Flora and Fauna, Planetary Cultures, Masterpieces of Expression, and The Reign of Emperor Josdon.
Galaxies Opera House
Imperial Palace
The colossal pyramid of the Imperial Palace dominates surrounding buildings much as the Emperor Dominates the Galaxy. Swathed in dazzling transparisteel, crystals twinkle amid the unfathomable tons of gray-blue rock that forms the core of the Palace's exterior. Nestled within the confines of the Palace's walls are interior courts, featuring ganging gardens, marble pyramids, and zero-gravity fountains. The Palace contains over twenty thousand chambers and over fifty connected structures, including a rumored treasure compartment built by ancient pirates. The main thoroughfare in the Palace is known as the Grand Corridor, it links together the Council Chamber with the assemblage auditorium. It has been said that the Grand Corridor was so spacious that an entire Star Destroyer could fit within its gargantuan confines.
Jedi Temple
The foundations of the Jedi Temple were among the oldest on Coruscant.
Manarai Mountains
Newport
Senate Building
Skydome Botanical Gardens
Skydome possesses some of the rarest forms of plant life in the Galaxy, making the Gardens one of the most busiest attractions on Coruscant. Two and a half tons of meat were needed every month to feed the ravenous plants in the Carnivorous Flora Exhibit, while the Poisonous Flora exhibit was off limits to anyone not wearing a biological hazard suit. Many sections of the Gardens were kept off limits to the general public, while being left open to the more affluent of Corscuanti society.
The Works
University of Coruscant
Founded by Chancellor Fillorean and Borz`Mat`oh thousands of years ago the University is Coruscant's oldest place of learning. The University is located in a collection of buildings scattered throughout the Fobosi district, with the main campus located contained within the confines of blocky tower, which incorporates student housing, administrative offices,a few of the original lecture halls, and the chalcedony statues of Fillorean and Borz`Mat`oh
Westport
The starport most commonly associated with Imperial City, the bustling aerodrome of Westport enjoys its favorable location near to the Legislative Borough and the Imperial Palace.
Glitannai Esplanade
One of the most storied avenues located in Imperial City, it runs along the broad-topped buildings of the Judicial Plaza. The ritziest shops and tastiest restaurants were found along here. The Imperial Fair is held upon the Esplanade, with dancers, acrobats, venders, food pavilions, technology exhibits, as well as a massive parade of Imperial Military Might.
Shipyards
Holographic Zoo of Extinct Animals
Calcour Heights
A marketing district that resembles a miniature Corporate Sector. Located south of the Imperial Palace, the Heights are teeming with pushy survey-takers, free product samples, and flashing musical billboards. The Heights is also home to some of the most most cutthroat marketing and communication agencies. A person seeking leading-edge gadgets would do well to visit the Heights, though the price tag would probably make a miser faint. Living in the confines of this sector are the families and workers of the large agencies.
Citizens of Interest
Arcturus Gunsiri
Ciara Palmera
Eryk Ballard
For most of his life, Eryk's parents expected him to be the best. They constantly pushed him to achieve even when he was constantly exhausted. As a teen, he became bitter towards them, their lack of real interest in his life, and their upscale lifestyle on Coruscant. He began to realize that they cared more about how he reflected their image than who he really was. Because their parents paid them little attention, he and his sister became very close and relied on one another for comfort more than siblings usually would ...
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Ethan Erat
Isabel Ballard
Ivy Morau
Lanaan Kutsiri
Lillith Norra
Locke Dayspring
Siren Blaze
Tirdarius
Garreth Astrid
Garreth Astrid was born Garreth Sainsen, the daughter of a pair of Hapans that had eloped to Coruscant. Her parents, both extremely young (mother 16 and father 17), were neither wise nor able to plan for the long term, and also very shallow of character, being completely obsessed with themselves. They had stowed away aboard a passenger liner when their parents would not allow them to marry, and had fabulous plans to craft lives for themselves on Coruscant, together ...
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Kristian Levin
Kristian was born as a simple young man, with a harsh and stern father. He was born on Coruscant, and kept away from the politics and war that could be seen every day. His father was a reknowned artist, as a child Kristian would spend hours in his workshop, watching the blades he used shearing the metal, watched him polish the statuetes he made, prefering the tradional apprach rather than the more modern one of Laser sculpting. As soon as he was old enough his father took him on as his apprentice learning a trade with his father, he excelled in working with metal, sculpting, art, and at the age of sixteen was going to be an apprentice of a renowned artisan having learned all that his father had taught him and live out the rest of his adulthood with the simple artistic life ...
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Morgan Kade
Born and raised on Coruscant, center of the Old Republic and the rising Empire, Morgan was the only daughter of two scientists, both loyal to the Republic. While neither worked directly with the military or the government, her mother was a xeno-biologist, focused on the preservation of endangered species across the galaxy, working heavily hand in hand with the Coruscant zoological society. Her father, more in the private sector, was a medical doctor that was employed by a pharmaceutical company, developing new drugs and therapies ...
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Paige Garrel
Paige was born on Coruscant to unidentified parents. Abandoned or somehow lost in the underlevels shortly after her birth, she was dumped into the foster-care system pending adoption. At the age of three, a woman named Falie Hagget, or at least that was the name she gave at the time, adopted both Paige and another slightly older girl, Garreth Sainsen ...
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Thyssen Duress
Thyssen Duress is from a long line of honourable Jedi Knights and Masters, in fact in his time as a Master there were two Duress Jedi Knights, not including himself. However the name Duress may have been honoured for Jedi, but the name also called to question the Sith origins of the Duress family. In the ancient times when the order came into being, the Duress were a group of darksiders hailing from Ziost. For countless centuries they were a prominent Sith family all the way until just four millennia ago ...
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Bishop Xinge IV
The child of Bishop Xinge III, Imperial Minister of Propaganda, and his late wife Kate Xinge. IV was born 1 year, 3 months AtP. Currently travels with his father aboard the Dreadnaught Killing Witch to whatever mission he has been assigned ...
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Remielan Deimos
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Misc
Fauna
- Conduit worm
- Coruscanti ogre
- Cthon
- Duracrete slug
- Gartro
- Granite slug
- Hawk-bat
- Stratt
- Ringed moon shadowmoth
- Spider-roach
- Bot flies
- Armored rat
- Floater flea
- Thranticill
- Glowflies
- Garbage worm
- Spire falcon
- Shadow barnacle
- Dianoga
- Grate toad
- Scrap mouse
- Mutant Rat
