Administrative Sector

Map of the Administrative Sector

**The Administrative Sector** is the capital city on the planet Coruscant.

## History

Once called Republic City — and then Imperial City — it is now referred to as the Administrative Sector, a neutral term adopted by the New Republic, which the First Order has not yet attempted to rename. The Administrative Sector and its surrounding areas comprise a metropolis roughly the size of a continent and is distinguished by the surrounding areas by its sheer height. Although the surface level of the Administrative Sector is home to some of the most lavish locations on the planet, the lowest levels have not seen daylight in tens of thousands of years.

Named by Mon Mothma, first president of the New Republic, the Administrative Sector houses the seat of galactic government and has for thousands of years. It wasn’t until several years into New Republic rule that the idea came to the Senate to rotate the galactic capital in an attempt to escape Coruscant’s imperial history. This proved to be an asset to the First Order when using Starkiller Base: in 34 ABY, as the New Republic’s capital was located in the Hosnian system, the First Order was able to obliterate the new center of power without destroying all the history present on Coruscant. It also made marching to Coruscant to reclaim the capital in its name all that easier.

Now that the war is over, the First Order has taken to transitioning to civilian government using the Administrative Sector as its headquarters, and all governmental business is conducted out of its downtown region, shown in the map below.

## Districts

### **Calocour Heights District**

The marketing district known as the Calocour Heights resembles a miniature Corporate Sector. Located south of the Imperial Palace, the Heights teems with pushy survey-takers, free product samples floating on repulsorlift carts, and flashing, musical billboards. The Heights is also home to the galaxy’s most cutthroat marketing and communications agencies, including SchaumAssoc and NullComm (both of whom are linked to post-war First Order messaging operations). A person seeking cutting-edge gadgets would do well to visit the Heights, though the price tag could probably make a miser faint.

### **Column Commons District**

The publishing district called Column Commons falls between the Imperial Palace and the Calocour Heights. This midlevel district features large, open areas interspersed with fat columns that support the “ceiling” levels of cityscape overhead. Hundreds of holodrama and newsnet publishers keep officers here, along with all the major news bureaus, including TriNebulon and Nova Network. The business people of “the Commons” boast that nothing escapes their notice, and until recently considered it their solemn obligation to pass along information to the consumer through limited edition datatexts and pay-per-read newsnet articles. In the latter New Republic days, these news bureaus struggled against the freely available information (and disinformation) on the Holonet.

Recently, to save most of the companies from bankruptcy, the First Order has nationalized the press. These news bureaus, once deeply divided over New Republic partisan politics for the sake of ratings, now print and broadcast pre-approved news releases provided by the First Order government. There are a few independent sources still hanging on in the post-war period, but with rumors swirling of the First Order bringing back the Empire’s use of “truth officers” to ensure everything published is in line with the rhetoric of the new regime, their days are likely numbered.

### **The Factory District**

The Factory District is rapidly gentrifying.

Not every megablock on Coruscant is filled with people; many regions house only droids and a few organic

overseers, where goods are manufactured for export and local consumption. These factory districts have gone through phases of use, abandonment, and reclamation over the thousands of years of Coruscant’s existence. This particular factory district, located five levels down in the northeast region of the Administrative Sector, is the latest in a string of gentrification projects of former industrial centers. Once a production center for brands such as Serv-O-Droid, Huvicko, and Nebula Manufacturing, these blocks of abandoned warehouses and high-rises have been repurposed for chic living by the hipster class. The properties are in high demand due to the modest amount of sunlight they enjoy and the rising rent prices on the surface. Many young professionals now call the Factory District home, and can be seen commuting to the government centers as well as Column Commons and Calocour Heights. Apartments in the Factory District are often large studios with many windows, and come with that bleak, post-industrial feel. But there’s laundry in the building and sometimes even a door man. Rumor has it the properties here won’t stay affordable for long, so better strike while the plasma-torch is hot.

The Historic Quarter is thought to be the oldest residential neighborhood on the planet.

### **Petrax Historic Quarter**

One of the oldest continually inhabited areas of the planet is the Petrax Historic Quarter, a grouping of skyscrapers with distinctive, charmingly historic architecture to the northwest of the Admin Sector’s downtown. Archaeologists believe that Coruscant’s vertical architecture started here and spread out across the rest of the planet. Although none of the original ancient structures are still intact — the “old” buildings standing there today are still exceedingly modern by galactic standards, and stand atop hundreds of meters of packed rubble — urban archaeologists have drilled deep into the ground for core samples, recovering artifacts such as cups, styluses, engraved glass fragments, and lightsaber handles.

In the New Republic era, the historic significance of the Petrax Quarter became a status symbol, and soon it was home to some of the planet’s most wealthy elite. Apartments there boast spacious floor plans, multiple rooms with elaborate decor and luxurious amenities, ever-sought after “green space,” and of course, full sky view day and night. It is a short walk from the Quarter to Glitannai Esplanade, ensuring a pedestrian hub to the very heart of the Administrative Sector itself.

### **The Southern Underground**

The Southern Underground sees no natural sunlight from the surface.

As one moves away from the Administrative Sector, the cityscape grows seedier, but it doesn’t get truly dangerous until one moves down. Deep in the shadow levels where sunlight never reaches, the destitute and the desperate scratch out a passable living. The Southern Underground district contains a hemispherical shopping center stuffed with run-down stores and impromptu barter stalls. The Crystal Jewel is perhaps the most infamous of the cantinas in the Underground, boasting on its sign “If the customers don’t kill you, the drinks will.” Those who visit the Southern Underground quickly learn to keep one hand on their credit pouch and the other on their blaster.

However, due to skyrocketing housing prices on Coruscant during the New Republic years, neighborhoods like this have become a haven for bright-eyed hopefuls wanting to “make it” on the planet that never sleeps. The Southern Underground boasts a number of dingy apartments, damp with mold and never seeing the sun, with shady landlords and few amenities. Its main draw to anyone who isn’t a criminal is its close proximity to the center of the Administrative Sector: just ten levels up and you’re there.

## Landmarks

### **First Order Military Garrison and Barracks**

The First Order garrison is located near the Legislative Borough.

Located adjacent to the legislative borough and the commercial Westport spaceport, this military garrison houses thousands of First Order military personnel. Security Bureau trainees are offered housing in the barracks alongside the soldiers. Accommodations are spare, but each person is given a unit with a bedroom, a private bathroom, and a small kitchenette. Meals are also offered in the mess hall. The garrison is within easy walking distance to the Security Bureau headquarters, and some agents who have graduated training and started their assignments sometimes stay on for awhile to save up their paychecks.

### **Galactic Senate Building**

The Galactic Senate Chamber is another of Coruscant’s striking edifices. Fronted by impressionistic statutes, the chamber was built many levels above the site of the original Senate Hall in which Vodo Siosk-Baas and Exar Kun battled to the death. The Senate Rotunda contains 1,024 floating platforms, each belonging to a regional or sectoral Senator, forming a microcosm of the civilized galaxy. Directly behind each senatorial platform, delegates could retreat to a narrow slice of offices built to accommodate the environmental needs of each specific species.

Emperor Palpatine closed the Galactic Senate Chamber when he dissolved the Imperial Senate, and the New Republic renovated and reopened it under the name Senate Hall. The Senate Hall was converted to a temporary public exhibit in the years after the New Republic moved its capital to Hosnia Prime, and is currently again under renovation, intending to be reopened for the first Senate session under the First Order some time in 37 ABY. Most New Republic senators were lost at the Hosnian Cataclysm, and the war and shift of power has led to a mass reallocation of power in most of the systems represented in the Senate. Some rumors have it that the Senate will operate with diminished power, leaving the ultimate decisions up to the Supreme Leader, while others claim the new Senate will be stacked with old Imperial loyalists and other First Order sycophants.

### **Galaxies Opera House**

The Opera House is one of the Admin Sector’s most ornate landmarks, bearing the elaborate design touches of indulgent pre-Republic architecture. From the Old Republic to the New, performances never ceased on the stage of the Opera House. Emperor Palpatine often attended premiere nights, sitting in a balcony that had formerly been reserved for Valorum family members for over five hundred years. That balcony is now officially reserved for Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, although he has not yet appeared at any performances — although Prime Minister Hux has arrived in his place once or twice.

The Opera House accommodates an audience of two thousand in the traditional theatre design, with an orchestra pit, tiered seating, and private balconies. In addition, a number of galleries are located directly underneath the floor, where those not wealthy enough to hold tickets for the main amphitheater can watch the performance via real-time hologram.

### **Glittanai Esplanade**

A public execution of Resistance agents taking place at Judicial Plaza on Glittanai Esplanade, New Year's Day, 37 ABY.

Glittanai Esplanade, more commonly referred to as “the esplanade” to locals, is one of the most storied

avenues in the Administrative Sector, running along the broad-topped buildings of the Judicial Plaza. The ritziest shops and tastiest restaurants are found here, plying their wares to well-heeled tourists in the morning shadow of the Imperial Palace. In the warmer months, an open-air farmer’s market opens on the esplanade weekly, and merchants from a variety of planets sell their organic and artisanal products at high price tags. The Judicial Plaza itself has seen a lot of action as of late, as the First Order has resumed the public executions that became infamous there during the days of the Empire.

### **Imperial Palace**

The colossal pyramid of the Imperial Palace dominates the skyline of the Administrative Sector, leaving lesser structures in its arrogant and indifferent shadow. Dazzling transparisteel crystal twinkle amid the unfathomable tons of gray-green rock that form the palace exterior, and the interior courts are miniature masterworks featuring hanging 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 the legendary “pirate general” Toleph-Sor.

The Grand Corridor serves as the palace’s main passageway, linking the Council Chamber with the assemblage auditorium. It is said that the Grand Corridor is so spacious it could accommodate an entire Star Destroyer beneath its vaulted ceiling. The residential areas of the palace, including the exclusive wood-paneled President’s Guests floor, are reachable from the Grand Corridor. The throne room sits under prismatic skylights, designed so that they could illuminate the raised pedestal upon which Emperor Palpatine sat.

Since the takeover by the First Order, the Imperial Palace (unlike the Administrative Sector, no neutral-sounding name change ever took root here in the New Republic era) has become home to both Supreme Leader Kylo Ren and Prime Minister Armitage Hux, with both living on the premises. Until the Senate returns to session, all governmental business has been conducted out of the Imperial Palace, including audience with the Supreme Leader, diplomatic meetings, policy decisions, and so on. As such, it is the most heavily guarded building in the capital, with squads of Praetorian Guards always on patrol, armed with heavy blaster rifles.

### **Intelligence Bureau**

The First Order Intelligence Bureau is located in the same building as the former New Republic Intelligence Bureau, and the Imperial Intelligence Bureau before that. Just steps from the Imperial Palace, this unassuming rectangular structure of duracrete houses the First Order intelligence apparatus. Foreign spywork is the name of the game, and field agents and career bureaucrats alike can be seen filing in and out of its building, giving no hint to the machinations going on inside, even to fellow civil servants.. The Intelligence Bureau HQ is where Director of Intelligence Phasma has her office.

### **Jedi Temple Museum (Closed)**

The Jedi Temple Museum shortly before its closure in 21 ABY.

The foundations of the Jedi Temple are among the oldest on Coruscant. The Jedi Knights maintained a

continual presence on the capital planet since before the birth of the Old Republic. Over the millenia, engineers expanded the existing foundation to create a massive edifice that could house tens of thousands of individuals. After Palpatine’s ascension to the Imperial throne, he closed the temple, and during the New Republic era, the massive building proved too much to maintain for Luke Skywalker’s fledgling Jedi Academy. He moved the Jedi school to the moon of Yavin 4, and the New Republic converted the old Jedi temple into a museum, with each wing dedicated to a different branch of Jedi history. The museum closed its doors in 21 ABY, caving to political pressure and the widespread backlash against the Jedi caused by Kylo Ren’s fall to the dark side and massacre of his fellow students at the Academy. In the years since, many of its exhibits and archives have been vandalized, looted, and sold into the black market. There was even support for razing the building, although those cries fell on deaf ears in the Senate until the Hosnian Cataclysm.

Today, the Jedi Temple Museum is a hulking ruin. Rumor has it that anything of value remaining was secreted away to undisclosed locations when the First Order took the capital in 34 ABY. Red armored Praetorian Guards stand sentinel on the perimeter day and night, but there are no current plans to raze or repurpose the structure.

### **Security Bureau**

Located next door to the Intelligence Bureau and identical in appearance, the First Order Security Bureau handles domestic threats to the regime, while the Intel Bureau is primarily focused on foreign threats. However, since both agencies are still in their infancy, there is a lot of overlap in their missions, and each is officially overseen by Director of Intelligence Phasma. Among the agencies’ employees, the Security Bureau is seen as the Intel Bureau’s annoying younger sibling, as its goal is currently as much about optics as it is success. The security agents are intended to be the First Order’s public facing law enforcement agency, sent out into the field to convince an uneasy, unstable  galaxy that the First Order is indeed on their side. Additionally, the FOSB’s recent recruiting scheme has given it a reputation of desperation, in which more or less anyone with a pulse was guaranteed a job, even members of “less desirable” alien species.

Agents not out on field assignment report to the Security Bureau HQ during normal work hours. Teams of agents are assigned their own office and can access a number of investigative resources on site that are difficult to access remotely. Assistant Director Shiv Horizonis has his office in the Security Bureau.

### **Skydome Botanical Gardens**

Skydome Botanical Gardens attracts two types of visitors: bookish botanists and those who simply love beautiful things. Skydome possesses some of the rarest forms of plant life in the galaxy, and public tours of the facility often sell out months in advance. Of course, not all Skydome’s collections are made available for public viewing. Two and a half tons of meat are needed every month to satiate the ravenous plants in the Carnivorous Flora exhibit, while the Poisonous Flora exhibit is off limits to anyone not wearing a biological hazard suit.

### **Western Sea**

Coruscant locals who frequent the Western Sea could almost fool themselves into thinking they have traveled to a coastal resort on some quaint planet, even though the sea is merely an artificial aquifer. Since the time of the Old Republic, the Western Sea has hosted boat rentals and all-hours entertainment clubs on its shores, while “islands”( actually sand beds placed on top of rafts made from plasteel drums) float lazily across the surface and cater to the very rich. Long-winged sea shrikes, imported from offworld, nest in the towers overlooking the reservoir and feed on schools of tiny, phosphorescent fish. As with all destinations on Coruscant in recent years, prices along the Western Sea have skyrocketed, but it remains one of the most sought-after vacation destinations on the planet.

### **Westport (spaceport)**

Westport is the starport most commonly associated with the Administrative Sector. Though the city has other public spaceports — Eastport, Newport, and the West Championne land field among them — the bustling aerodome of Westport enjoys a favorable location near the Imperial Palace, the Legislative Borough, and the military garrison. Though the platforms seen throughout the Admin Sector may look attractive to a novice looking for a parking spot, they are usually reserved for high-ranking government officials or the super rich.