Coruscant () is an

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in the fictional universe of ''

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.'' It was first described in Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel ''

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.'' The planet made its first on-screen appearance in a scene added to ''

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'' for its 1997 re-release. It has since become an important location in the ''Star Wars'' universe and appears frequently in ''Star Wars'' media. In-universe, Coruscant is a politically and strategically important planet, serving as the capital and

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for the

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and the

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, as well as the headquarters of the

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. It is depicted as a bustling, yet highly stratified planet-spanning metropolis. Throughout the city's centuries-long development, new city blocks were built on top of old ones, forming levels. Coruscant has 5127 levels, with the top being the wealthiest and the lowest being the poorest. Coruscant has four moons and is the sixth planet out of the eleven that make up the system of the same name. It lies within the Coruscant Subsector of the Corusca Sector, located in the Core Worlds

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region. The sun, Coruscant Prime, is the zero

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of the ''Star Wars'' galaxy (as opposed to being its

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). In ''

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'', Coruscant was once referred to as Notron or Queen of the Core. It was renamed Imperial Center during the reign of the Galactic Empire (as depicted in the original films) and Yuuzhan'tar during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion (as depicted in the ''

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'' novel series). Initially, the planet's

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was Galactic City (built at least in 100,000 BBY, partially destroyed in 27 and 44 ABY). It was Imperial City under the

and was Republic City (or the City of Spires) under the

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. The planet was code-named Triple Zero during the

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. The demonym and adjective form of the planet's name is Coruscanti. Many native citizens of Coruscant speak with the

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accent (known in-universe as Coruscanti).

Etymology and naming

In the ''

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, the planet Coruscant derives its name from a rare and valuable gemstone, the corusca gem (a fictional gem in ''Star Wars'' lore). The lights of the planet-wide city, as seen from space, were said to resemble the glittering of these gems. In the real world, the word "coruscant" originates in the late 15th century from the

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word ''coruscant'', meaning "vibrating, glittering". It comes from the

verb ''coruscare'', meaning "to glitter". The ''

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'' defines it as a poetic and literary adjective meaning "glittering; sparkling". In

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, "coruscant" is also used as an adjective meaning "glittering; sparkling". As a literary adjective, the

term can be used to describe a decadent and overly complicated language, decorum, or community.

Early concepts

The concept of a city-planet in the ''Star Wars''

originated with the initial drafts of ''

'' when author

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included a planet called ''

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,'' a city-planet and the capital planet of the galaxy. In Lucas's 1975 draft, ''Adventures of the Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars'', the capital planet of Alderaan is described as a

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in the clouds, "suspended in a sea of cirrus methane". This concept was illustrated in early sketches commissioned by Lucas from conceptual artist

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, and the design very closely resembles Cloud City, the floating city featured in ''

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''. In Lucas's third draft, the Imperial City of Alderaan became the homeworld of the

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s, where

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held

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captive. Lucas continued to hone his script, aided by

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and

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. By the fourth draft, scenes on the Imperial capital planet had been moved to a space station called the

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and the name of

was given to a peaceful world destroyed by the Empire. The Empire's homeworld, Had Abbadon, came up in early drafts of ''

''. The entire planet was to be a sprawling city. However, concluding that the realization of such a city was impossible at the time, the creators abandoned the idea. Later, in the graphic novel ''Legacy 29: Vector, Part 10'' the name Had Abbadon was given to a lost mythic planet in the Had Abbadon System of the Deep Core. This mythic planet was covered by dry fields, linked to the birth of the Jedi, and the location of a planned assassination attempt by

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. It was also the home to an Imperial. The Empire's homeworld first appeared in the ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe and was called Coruscant for the first time in

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's ''

''. In various novels, characters aligned with the Empire refer to Coruscant as the "Imperial Center". Within the stories, this is explained as an administrative renaming undertaken to emphasize the differences between the Old Republic and the Empire. Coruscant was in some early sources called "Jhantor" in homage to

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Design

Production artwork produced by Ralph McQuarrie for ''Return of the Jedi'' included some unrealized designs for the imperial capital, Had Abbadon. During the production of ''

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'', it was decided that scenes would be set on the capital planet, now called Coruscant. Artist

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was tasked with designing the imperial city for which he turned to McQuarrie's original concept art. The appearance of the cityscape has been described as a "

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metropolis", and the streams of floating vehicles traveling between soaring skyscrapers is thought to have been partly inspired by

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's 1927 film, ''

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''. In ''

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'', the depiction of Coruscant was expanded greatly. Chiang created a more urban, apocalyptic environment for the street level, taking inspiration from

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's 1982 hit film ''

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''. For the television series Andor, VFX supervisor Scott Pritchard chose to move away from the "high science fiction" depiction of Coruscant seen in the

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and instead opted for a more realistic and grounded take on the planet's cityscape, inspired by

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stone buildings. Real world locations in

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, such as the

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and

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, were used for filming scenes on Coruscant and were later extended or augmented with CGI.

Appearances

''Episode VI: Return of the Jedi''

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, where many citizens are seen celebrating with fireworks and pulling down his statue. The 1998 novel ''X-Wing: Iron Fist'' included an eyewitness account of this scene.

''Episode I: The Phantom Menace''

Coruscant was prominently featured in ''

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'' as the location of the

Senate building and the central Jedi Temple.

''Episode II: Attack of the Clones''

There is a speeder chase through the skies of Coruscant in '' Episode II: Attack of the Clones'' that eventually leads to a nightclub in the bowels of Coruscant's Uscru Entertainment District. Another area of Coruscant shown is ''Coco Town'' (short for "collective commerce"). Coco Town is the site of Dex's Diner in ''Attack of the Clones''. Another notable area of Coruscant is 500 Republica, an area where the elites of the city, such as politicians and diplomats, gather.

''Episode III: Revenge of the Sith''

In '' Episode III: Revenge of the Sith'', Coruscant is featured in a space battle (known as the Battle of Coruscant) during the opening scene. Separatist cyborg,

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kidnaps Chancellor Palpatine and uses the Separatist fleet to help assault the capital and cover his escape. The planet's cityscape is then prominently featured throughout much of the movie with Chancellor Palpatine's office as well as the Senate building being the primary two settings on Coruscant. A theatre in 500 Republica is where

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and Palpatine watch a ballet; during the show, Palpatine encourages Skywalker to ally with the Dark Side by telling him of the supposed Sith ability of resuscitation. After a failed attempt by the Jedi to arrest Palpatine when he divulges his true identity as Darth Sidious to Skywalker, Palpatine appoints himself Emperor of the first

in the Republic Senate Building on Coruscant.

''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' (2003 and 2008 TV series)

Coruscant features prominently in both the 2003

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'' series and the 2008 animated '' The Clone Wars'' series, as the headquarters of the Jedi Temple and the Senate.

''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story''

In ''

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'',

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has a flashback of her young self on Coruscant.

''Obi-Wan Kenobi''

In ''Obi-Wan Kenobi'', Coruscant makes its first extensive live-action appearance in the ''Star Wars'' saga since the prequel trilogy. Coruscant is prominent in a montage of footage from the ''Star Wars'' prequel films, and the Jedi Temple of Coruscant is the setting of several scenes.

''Andor''

Coruscant is a prominent setting in the '' Andor'' series. The Majority of

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, Dedra, and Syril's scenes take place on Coruscant.

''Tales of the Jedi''

In '' Tales of the Jedi'', Coruscant appears prominently in three of the six episodes.

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and

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attend the funeral of Council Member Katri at the Jedi Temple,

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is shown extensively training for combat in the same location, and the final

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duel between Master Yaddle and Count Dooku takes place in

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' manufacturing-district lair. In one scene, Dooku remarks upon the fact that Coruscant is a planet of "Steel and Stone", lacking much in the way of wild nature;

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, who was born there, had never seen a tree before visiting the Jedi Temple for the first time as a boy.

''The Mandalorian''

In the 19th episode of ''

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'', Coruscant is featured as a New Republic capital. On Coruscant, we are re-introduced to Dr. Penn Pershing and Elia Kane, a former communications officer on Moff Gideon's cruiser, who are now revealed to be a part of the New Republic Amnesty program. We are also introduced to the Shipyard Depot, a salvage yard where decommissioned Star Destroyers are being dismantled.

Other works

Coruscant appears as the background of a space battle in '' Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga''. In '' Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga'', players can visit Coruscant's Federal and Uscru Districts. In the prologue of the comic series ''

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'' (1991), set after the original film trilogy, Coruscant is ravaged by battles between warring Imperial factions. Coruscant appears as the opening level in 2023's '' Star Wars: Jedi Survivor''. Cal Kestis is tasked with tracking down Senator Daho Sejan, the player chasing after the senator's yacht until catching up with it. Coruscant is seen in the ''

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'' series of computer games. Concept art by

served as the basis for the pyramidal Imperial Palace, depicted in ''The Illustrated Star Wars Universe'' (1995) by

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, which claims it is "the largest structure on Coruscant, perhaps on any planet". According to the ''

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'' (1998), it is located next to the Senate building. Although this version of the Imperial Palace appears in a variety of Expanded Universe works, in canon, the Imperial Palace is located at the site of the former Jedi Temple, where Palpatine resides. In ''

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'' series (1999–2003), Coruscant is the capital world of the New Republic until, in ''The New Jedi Order: Star by Star'', the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong overwhelm the New Republic defenses in three attack waves led by Warmaster

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who takes over the planet, destroying the New Republic and creating the theocratic Yuuzhan Vong Empire. After surrendering, the Yuuzhan Vong agreed to help the Alliance rebuild Coruscant. The new Coruscant is a combination of technology and organic life representing the peace between the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (Galactic Alliance) and the Yuuzhan Vong. James Luceno's novel '' Labyrinth of Evil'' (2005) introduces a deserted manufacturing area known as 'The Works' as the meeting place for

s Darth Sidious (Palpatine) and

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. With the 2012 acquisition of

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, most of the licensed ''Star Wars'' novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 film ''

'' were re-branded as ''Star Wars Legends'' and declared non-canon to the franchise in April 2014.

Notable metropolitan areas

Senate District

The Senate District (also sometimes referred to as the Federal District) is located on the planet's equator, and is known to contain numerous notable sites such as the Ambassadorial Sector (canonically home to ''500 Republica'' and the Senate Apartment Complex), Embassy Mall, the Coruscant Opera House, the Galactic Museum, the Heorem Complex (where the Heorem Skytunnel is located), Judicial Plaza (home to the Glitanni Esplanade and the Judicial Arcology), the Legislative Borough, Senate Plaza, the Avenue Of The Core Founders, the Republic Executive Building, the Galactic Senate Building, Hospital Plaza, the Galactic Senate, the Palace District (home to the Imperial Palace and Senate Hill), Quadrant A-89 (home to the CSF HQ), the Fellowship Plaza, the Galactic Justice Center and the Temple Precinct (home to the Jedi Temple), Sector H-52, Sector I-33, the Uscru Boulevard, Westport and Xizor's Palace. The Senate District is depicted as the ''de facto'' capital of Coruscant, the Old Republic, the Galactic Empire, the New Republic, the Galactic Federation Of Free Alliances, and the One Sith. It is shown bordering the Financial District and the Sah'c District and is also adjacent to The Works (an industrial sector on the planet). The Senate District is also referred to as the Legislative District, Government District, and Government Center.

Alien Protection Zone

The Alien Protection Zone is referenced as a walled

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on Coruscant of an unknown location, housing the planet's

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population. Neighborhoods within the zone are shown representing the cultures of these minority groups. The Alien Protection Zone was constructed in 19 BBY by the Galactic Empire and opened by the New Republic in 6 ABY.

Sah'c Town

Sah'c Town, also known as Sah'c District or Quadrant H-46, is an area described as situated on the Equator, named after and controlled by the wealthy Sah'c family. It was home to an emergency bunker where the chancellor of the Galactic Republic or New Republic ruled in case of emergencies. The area also contains Sah'c Canyon, which is the exit point of the Senate District's Heorem Skytunnel. Uscru District The Uscru District appears in ''Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith,'' and ''Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga''. On its upper levels, it hosts the Galaxy's Opera House. The district's lower levels were collectively referred to as the Entertainment District. The Outlander Club, seen in ''Attack of the Clones'' and mentioned in '' Jedi: Fallen Order,'' is in the Entertainment District.

Theme park attraction

Coruscant also appears as one of the in–ride "destination planets" in the theme park attraction

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External links

* * * For a description of the word coruscant in French with examples, look at the blog "Le Garde Mot

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