Talk:Coruscant

message: Who said that Coruscant's Population is 1 quadrillion? The figure cited over and over in the star wars universe is 1 trillion. That's kinda a difference from a quadrillion. A factor of 1000 actually. I will revert to a Trillion until someone cites evidence that shows otherwise (and no... back-of-the-napkin calculations based on guesstimates for population density/surface area don't count). 
Y'know, if Coruscant were the size of Earth, the population density would be 5076 people per square mile, which would practically make Coruscant a planet of rowhouses - unless a good portion of the people on Coruscant were fabulously wealthy and had whole chunks of skyscrapers to themselves. Of course, Coruscant might actually be a smaller world with an atmosphere that bends the light slightly. Hard to tell from Star Wars' density. But you said guesstimates like the above don't count, so why bother you? - Rickyrab
*The population density of the poor regions near the bottom of the planet which be much, much higher than the density of areas near the top, in which wealthier people would own more land. Just like the population density of the most populated areas of Africa are higher than the population densities of the most urbanized areas in North America or Europe. bob rulz 08:58, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)
**Not all areas of the planet would be inhabited by the same population density. The Works takes up alot of room yet it is a manufacturing district that was abandoned. In other districts, however, say the financial, senatorial, or entertainment districts, the density could easily be over a million beings in a square mile, because the skyscrapers in those areas are more than a mile high each. Riffsyphon1024 02:22, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, those books are NOT G-Canon.  Actually read the article on Star Wars canon: only the movies, scripts to those movies, the novelizations of the movies, radio dramas of the movies, and direct statements from George Lucas himself is G-Canon, everything else is at most C-Canon.  This has been explicitly clarified on starwars.com (http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=194183&tstart=75) among other places, the misunderstanding began when the author of one of those books said that his books were "canon", which was mistaken by fans to mean "G-canon", when he spoke imprecisely.  --Wingsandsword 06:25, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coruscant Population 

message: Somebody chaged the value from <5% to 29%. Where does that figure come from?  SpaceCaptain 15:39, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surface water 

message: I didn't think the planetwide city predated the Old Republic; I thought ground was visible in Sith War era stories. SpaceCaptain 23:00, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age of the city? 

message: Surely a totally urbainsed planet would be uninhabitable? Where does the oxygen come from?
:If I recall correctly there are massive air scrubbers underneath the surface that provide the Oxygen to the people living there. I've only read NJO, but I think I remember some of the people going down into one at some point. --Ctachme 23:16, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of O<sub>2</sub> 

message: It might be useful to divide the History section up into subsections, which could provide easy linking to specific parts of Coruscant's history, including the Fall of Coruscant. It might also be useful to include more information on the fall of the planet. I am currently at work assembling some information on this historic event. – Mipadi June 28, 2005 15:26 (UTC)
In one story they turn off the air scrubbers, and expanded universe story...a rouge squadron one, or maybe Mara just mentioned that Palpatine enjoyed being incontroll of the air scrubbers to suffocate the population
I think we really need to cut back on the indepth nature of this article.  Remember, it is all fiction.Johnpacklambert 00:34, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Subsection: The Fall of Coruscant

message: I've been curious for a long time about what's at the absolute bottom of the planet. The "surfaces" we see at the beginning of EP3, where starships crash, are far above the actual, original ones. We can see crevasses all around, so those "surfaces" we see up top are actually artificial plateaus or mesas. If one could fly down those crevasses and to the first 25 levels, what would things be like down there?
Don't say "pitch black". The airspeeder's lights are on. So are the infrareds and nightvisions. --Shultz 05:08, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original surface streets 

message: Since this city-planet is based in a futuristic setting their building's should be seriously high, im asking if anyone knows the average building height or the tallest in the city planet. taking in note that todays tallest Skyscraper is the Taipei (1,670)Enixspirit 23:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coruscant's Skyscraper Height 

message: I have heard that there may also be a connection to Khorasan. Apart from the obvious similarity of the names and pronounciation, there is also some parallels to Islamic Themes, see here: http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1473_0_25_0_C —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.63.30.18 (talk • contribs) 
:I would question some of the theories at the link.  Jedi also look like ancient Jewish Prophets.  
:I greatly doub it. That's a bit of a stretch, and a derivation from "coruscating" (or, "coruscant"; as in, "The coruscating gem was coruscant.") is much more likely. --maru   (talk)  contribs 02:19, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, life before Star Wars.  The Wiki article itself says the earliest use of this word in the Star Wars universe was in a book in 1991.  I know in 1996 or 1997 I received an email from a gentleman interested in starting a small, close-knit discussion community he titled "coruscant".  I suppose it is indeed possible that he was pulling from SF fandom, but he didn't seem the sort...  A quick check of Meriam Webster's website  reveals coruscant is a normal old adjective meaning 'shining' or 'glittering'.  Further, Yahooligans gives a more thorough definition and confirms  the same etymology as found in the Wiki writeup.  Finally, a Google search for phrase "the word coruscant"  finds several sites referring to the author E. E. Smith whose use of the word in his 1920s SF is likely what resulted in the planet's naming in Star Wars.  Everything old is new again. OldMiner 15:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is only a possible connection if you can show anyevidence that Zahn ever read the works of E. E. Smith.  Just because there are books in the world does not mean they influence latter writters.  I have never heard of E. E. Smith before and am not convinced that you had until you googled the subject.
I seem to recollect of Star Wars (the original film) Obi Wan being worried about Leia being diverted or possibly taken to "The Imperial planet of (or palace on) Coruscant".  It could be from The Empire Strikes Back.  I'm not sure.  Anyone here have a better memory of that sequence?  I know it wasn't from the Return of the Jedi.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.13.148.189 (talk) 17:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Happy this thread already exists there is something very obvious about the name. Greater Khorasan. It is identical and Star Wars does draw from without ever giving credit to where it draws from. Yes some of the themes look like Ancient Jews, but a lot of the aesthetic is clearly Islamic. Hausa warrior (talk) 07:32, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology and Naming 

message: Do you guys think George Lucas made Coruscant to hint the future of Earth? --KFan II 16:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah. That was Asimov. --maru   (talk)  contribs 20:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lucas does not seem to be the originator of Coruscant anyway.Johnpacklambert 00:41, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reminiscent of Earth? 

message: Ok, I'm a little confused about something.  In the info box, it says something about the diameter of the planet being 1,444km in relation to its potential population being 2.8 Trillion people, which in all reality would be impossible to house a civilization like this.  For instance, the diamter of earth is something like 12,000km.  Furthermore, Wookiepedia lists the diameter as 12,240km.  So I was just wondering where this 1,444km came from or am I just missing something here? (Grizzwald 19:55, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diameter 

message: "Galactic Standard Time was developed on Coruscant and revolves around the hours Coruscant has in a single day, which is 24 hours, with 368 local days a year."
This seems to contradict the Dates in Star Wars article, which states that the days have something like forty hours of twenty-three minutes. I assume that the dates article is correct, but could someone verify that?--76.23.84.86 01:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coruscant Year? 

message: In the History section it says there is speculation that Coruscant is a rebuilt Taris. How can this be considered valid? There are references to Coruscant in Knights of the Old Republic like when a Sith Soldier on Maanan says that the Sith will eventually conquer Coruscant. So how couled Coruscant be Taris? 71.221.220.143 03:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coruscant being Taris 

message: The article reads in the introduction: "The adjective form of the planet name is Coruscanti."
Is there any canonical source that states this? The sentence seems like some sort of joke...
DarthSidious 09:55, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I've heard this somewhere but I don't remember what it was in. It may just be generic fan-talk or it might have been in the Clone Wars animated series on Cartoon Network. Venku Tur'Mukan (talk) 22:54, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

text: I would add that across wikipedia, the phrase "adjective form" is typically replaced with demonym, also referred to as a gentilic  173.73.137.96 (talk) 11:00, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The adjective name... 

message: This sentence was just removed:
* "Another connotation leads to Khorasan, a central asian region marking historic touches between the arabian and asian civilisations."Anonymous Arabist: Never Too Much Star Wars Nerdery
..because it would not provide a "reliable source". Are you kidding? The whole article is about a fiction world, and a hint on a real world article which happens to have the same pronunciation, is questioned for its sources? (Put here your favourite parallel universe remark.) --Bernd.Brincken (talk) 08:09, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: the thing is many are noting Khurasani and the who thing cannot be just my observation. The problem with RS is it always favor whitewashing, It is clear it was borrowed by Star Wars like so many other things and credit is never given. Hausa warrior (talk) 14:21, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources and universes 

message: Where does the city planet produce oxygen? 206.125.152.169 (talk) 02:01, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxygen