Coruscant will always be THE Ecumenopolis. After all, it did provide the Opera House scene in Episode III, which is arguably one of the greatest scenes of all time...
When I was a kid, I was a huge Coruscant fan boy. That chase scene from episode 2 made me so fascinated with it. That, and Lego star wars, ironically. I could be wrong, but I remember the first game hub being the diner on coruscant.
Still find it crazy that Disney haven't even touched coruscant in the films since it's essentially the capital of the galaxy. Hoping to see it in episode 9...
With TFO seizing control of the galaxy from the NR I think its obvious Coruscant would be number 1 on the list. The Republic senator (Arbo) was part of a political fraction in the Senate that wanted the Empire restored. So I think it's easy to imagine this guy happily giving his planet to TFO and using it as the new capital for the New Empire and there wont be too much of a problem unless the population puts up a fight along with any remaining NR forces stationed there and unaware of the senators betrayal. I have a feeling that Lucasfilm might return to the planet in XI as a way to connect up all 3 trilogies.
Trantor was the capital planet of the galaxy in Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” novels. The “Foundation” novels even featured a character known as “The Mule” who seemed to have powers and abilities that Star Wars fans would recognize as The Force.
Coruscant, Alsakan and Taris have by the far the largest population in Star wars lore. Other city planets don't even reach a population of 500 billion according to my knowledge. So, other city planets are more like fully urbanised planets, less like skyscraper planets.
I’ve never bought that Coruscant is the human homeworld; that smacks of so much historical revisionism, like “Oh yeah obviously we came from this massively wealthy and prosperous capital world, we’re the most widespread and politically dominant species after all.” In Legends its highly likely that the humans who populated ancient Coruscant were transplanted there by the Rakata, and that its true natives are the Taung, the cultural forebears of the Mandalorians; in canon there’s no alternative human homeworld that I know of, but I still doubt that Coruscant is it.
@@Janoha17 Tatooine was home to the Kumumgah, but it’d speculated the Rakata spliced their gene plan to crest other species like Humans for their space labor across the galaxy
Lux, think about this. Coruscant couldn’t have always been the Ecumonopolis it is now. Also, the Center of political power? i mean come on. Our planet is pretty much just a smaller version of that. But i feel like that bit you said about the Mandolorians, is probably that they were like the pilgrims in a way
MarcoP In fact if I’m not mistaken, Foundation’s Trantor was one of the influences for the Empire for Lucas back in the day, back when during the early drafts Alderaan was going to be the city capital of the Empire.
@@myriadmediamusings l The whole empire was based on the one from the foundation books. Lucas even talked with asimov during the early parts of the writing process.
I have a soft spot for Empress Teta But Coruscant will always be THE ecumenopolis , the one planet everyone thinks of when the words "city planet" are spoken
They made a eucemenopolis called Trantor, of course they did. They've got to pay respects to their sci-fi forefathers. If you didn't know Trantor is the capital of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and is probably the first eucemenopolis in fiction and it began the tradition of author's assigning ludicrusly small populations to eucemenopoli (which Star Wars has faithfully followed in lock step).
In fairness the fist book mentions hundreds of billions of solely administrative personal who run the empire on the planet with no tital population. The latter books took that as a total for everyone but given how some of the books take place well after its been a bombed out and reduced to a husk it could be just the foundation members don't know what they're tallong about in regards to the subject. I mean the "forgot" earth and guy behind that was altering and eraseing lots of records to hide his existence. Of course that only works for wierd population figures for the second foundation and the sequel books. Not the first 2 and prequels.
@@vonfaustien3957 I actually didn't read the books, I'm going off second hand references, but a ecumenopolis should have a population in the tens of trillions.
I’d like to see more of Denon. I’m also interested in the accent of the Inner Rim folk. If the Core worlds have British accents, then what accents do the Inner Rim have?
I’d love to see a video that focuses on the known ice/snow planets in both canon and legends. I’d especially like to see a video that highlights known planets that are under the First Order’s control.
It would be if we, like Courasount, established colonies to supply food and things and we had technology to deal with the oceans. I expect we would be closer to Taris
Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, and arguably was the first Ecumenopolis mentioned in written literature. No doubt the Star Wars Trantor, was a tribute to this planet
Hey Alex! You should play the “Star Wars Trivia Game” from Cardinal Instructions! There are some SERIOUSLY difficult trivia questions such as How tall was Bail Organa? Or who said “Sir, Luke is the best bush pilot in the outer rim territories”?
It's interesting that you are going to Planet types and it'll be interesting to find out how many different types of planets are the Star Wars universe like swamp planets Forest planets desert planets ocean planets and mountainous planets and finally ice planets
At the beginning you made an error which is when you said that "The Phantom Menace" is the first onscreen look but it's in the 1997 Special Edition of "Return of the Jedi".
@@J5CTacky Nope, it had multiple cities as well as mountain ranges and oceans. There are some he didn't include but a lot of them are new Canon planets which appeared after this video was made, such as Troithe in Shadow Fall.
And what about Churba from Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire? There's a description that it is another ecumenopolis in the Outer Rim. You also forgot the planet Pergitor of the Minos Cluster and the heavily industrialized and impoverished moons Shesharile 5 & 6.
Techincally speaking, Iokath is a Dyson Sphere, a megastructure surrounding a star. If I recall correctly from the entry in SWTOR's in-game planetary codex, Iokath was built by the an unknown species that destroyed planets of system to obtain the materials to build Iokath. So, in reality, Iokath is a gigantic space station built arround a star. It's not a planet
@@carlosdanielquirosmonge4841 it make me wonder to what weapons the Unknown Species used to destroy some planets and use their Material to build a Dyson Sphere.
"Sir, our city planet has too many people. it takes days to travel 10 miles by car." "Your right, my loyal aide. 2-dimensional travel isn't good enough anymore. We'll have to take advantage of another dimension." "I'm sorry, sir. What do you mean?" "We shall make our cars fly."
Hoping we get Coruscant for mandalorian. I understand in the first order era they moved the republic moved operations to a different planet but come on!
(I know, date) Vardos is not ecumenopolis world. It's more like Earth. It got a lot of cities, but they are separated, so Vardos is just heavily populated planet.
@@youcantseeme9029 I meant Fondor, but you understood. Some cities in Fondor cover a big portion of the planet, and the planet was the most important imperial planet after the liberation of coruscant, so I think it should have been included.
I would love to see Coruscant in the Mandalorian. Especially level 1313 and below.
Peter from the future: it didn't happen. I'd love to see it in the mandalorian though.
pro tip: watch movies on Flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies during the lockdown.
@Luciano Omar definitely, have been watching on Flixzone for years myself =)
@@aaronjairo5456 don’t listen to them its a bot and illegal.
What about season 3
Coruscant will always be THE Ecumenopolis. After all, it did provide the Opera House scene in Episode III, which is arguably one of the greatest scenes of all time...
When I was a kid, I was a huge Coruscant fan boy. That chase scene from episode 2 made me so fascinated with it. That, and Lego star wars, ironically. I could be wrong, but I remember the first game hub being the diner on coruscant.
@@5stargrim yep that chase scene made me fall in love with coruscant.
arguably one of the greatest scenes of all time...
To people who don't watch a lot of movies.
Still find it crazy that Disney haven't even touched coruscant in the films since it's essentially the capital of the galaxy. Hoping to see it in episode 9...
Chalmskinn Productions it was in Rogue One.
It’s where all the worst parts of the prequels were so it makes sense why they’d want to avoid it
@@shrektheogre4349 that was Naboo
With TFO seizing control of the galaxy from the NR I think its obvious Coruscant would be number 1 on the list. The Republic senator (Arbo) was part of a political fraction in the Senate that wanted the Empire restored. So I think it's easy to imagine this guy happily giving his planet to TFO and using it as the new capital for the New Empire and there wont be too much of a problem unless the population puts up a fight along with any remaining NR forces stationed there and unaware of the senators betrayal.
I have a feeling that Lucasfilm might return to the planet in XI as a way to connect up all 3 trilogies.
Was it not destroyed by the Death Star 3.0 in TFA?
What about Fondor?
Even Laudal Breivik and hosnian prime
It definitely looks that way in canon and is confirmed to be in legends
What about the droid attack on the wookiees?
lakaboMNR Good point, good point
I was thinking that too.
Trantor was the capital planet of the galaxy in Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” novels. The “Foundation” novels even featured a character known as “The Mule” who seemed to have powers and abilities that Star Wars fans would recognize as The Force.
General Veers is probably the one of the most underrated Star Wars characters
Me and him have the same name so I agreee 😉
General Veers was badass, plain and simple.
JAMES HARDEN 3time dpoy #MVP # FTB First name General, last name Veers? Man, what a coincidence
@@shrektheogre4349 nah Maximiliian but I got the joke 😂
General Veers is my Imperial officer and my favourite character in The Empire second only to Darth Vader
I hope there are less city planets in Canon as I feel it diminishes Corusant.
Coruscant, Alsakan and Taris have by the far the largest population in Star wars lore. Other city planets don't even reach a population of 500 billion according to my knowledge. So, other city planets are more like fully urbanised planets, less like skyscraper planets.
@@kingkusnacht Nar Shaddaa is a "skyscraper" planet, it just has a lower population cause it's a much smaller moon.
6 or 5 would be nice.
Biggest ecumenopolis
Coruscant 1 trillion
Alsakan 1 trillion
Metellos 900 billions
Denon 500 billions
Enpress teta 310 billions
Hosnian prime 179 billions
Eufornis major
Troith
Nar shaddaa
Byblos
Axxila
I’ve never bought that Coruscant is the human homeworld; that smacks of so much historical revisionism, like “Oh yeah obviously we came from this massively wealthy and prosperous capital world, we’re the most widespread and politically dominant species after all.” In Legends its highly likely that the humans who populated ancient Coruscant were transplanted there by the Rakata, and that its true natives are the Taung, the cultural forebears of the Mandalorians; in canon there’s no alternative human homeworld that I know of, but I still doubt that Coruscant is it.
I suspect either Tatooine or Corellia might be the actual homeworld of humanity in the Star Wars galaxy.
@@Janoha17 Tatooine was home to the Kumumgah, but it’d speculated the Rakata spliced their gene plan to crest other species like Humans for their space labor across the galaxy
Lux, think about this. Coruscant couldn’t have always been the Ecumonopolis it is now. Also, the Center of political power? i mean come on. Our planet is pretty much just a smaller version of that. But i feel like that bit you said about the Mandolorians, is probably that they were like the pilgrims in a way
@@Janoha17 it is probably corellia
Trantor is a nice reference to one of the most famous city-planet in science-fiction, described by Asimov in the Foundation series
MarcoP In fact if I’m not mistaken, Foundation’s Trantor was one of the influences for the Empire for Lucas back in the day, back when during the early drafts Alderaan was going to be the city capital of the Empire.
@@myriadmediamusings l
The whole empire was based on the one from the foundation books. Lucas even talked with asimov during the early parts of the writing process.
I knew I recognized that name
A list of war torn planets would be interesting
Great video Alex. I find the concept of a city planet fascinating.
Always jazzed to hear Alsakan mentioned. One of my favorite parts of Legends that is found pretty much only in source books is the Alsakan conflicts.
I have a soft spot for Empress Teta
But Coruscant will always be THE ecumenopolis , the one planet everyone thinks of when the words "city planet" are spoken
They made a eucemenopolis called Trantor, of course they did. They've got to pay respects to their sci-fi forefathers.
If you didn't know Trantor is the capital of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and is probably the first eucemenopolis in fiction and it began the tradition of author's assigning ludicrusly small populations to eucemenopoli (which Star Wars has faithfully followed in lock step).
In fairness the fist book mentions hundreds of billions of solely administrative personal who run the empire on the planet with no tital population. The latter books took that as a total for everyone but given how some of the books take place well after its been a bombed out and reduced to a husk it could be just the foundation members don't know what they're tallong about in regards to the subject. I mean the "forgot" earth and guy behind that was altering and eraseing lots of records to hide his existence. Of course that only works for wierd population figures for the second foundation and the sequel books. Not the first 2 and prequels.
@@vonfaustien3957 I actually didn't read the books, I'm going off second hand references, but a ecumenopolis should have a population in the tens of trillions.
Can u do a video on planets in wild space
I’d like to see more of Denon. I’m also interested in the accent of the Inner Rim folk. If the Core worlds have British accents, then what accents do the Inner Rim have?
American accents? Australian?
I’d love to see a video that focuses on the known ice/snow planets in both canon and legends. I’d especially like to see a video that highlights known planets that are under the First Order’s control.
I wonder if it's possible for Earth to become like Courasount.
Stuart Lugsden no it would pollute the planet killing it
It would be if we, like Courasount, established colonies to supply food and things and we had technology to deal with the oceans. I expect we would be closer to Taris
You mean like Croissant?
@@coday_ because I was too lazy to look up how to spell it and just copied OP
*Coruscant
My most favorite urban planets from Wars will always be Coruscant, Fondor, Taris, Eriadu, Corulag, Muunilinst and Bonadan.
Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, and arguably was the first Ecumenopolis mentioned in written literature. No doubt the Star Wars Trantor, was a tribute to this planet
Points of interest of Coruscant are Senate Plaza, Space Opera House, Monument Plaza, Galactic Archives and Jedi Temple and Temple Plaza.
I love when u do these informative sw vids!
Was the Taris bombardment basically a Base delta zero?
Fun little fact about Taris: in canon, they say that there was a "devastating" event in its history that destroyed a large portion of it
What muunilist?
Bespin is also a city planet, there is only air and the city.
Every Gas Planet in Star Wars.
What about garrell from rebels?
I think that’s how you spell it
Far too remote to be one. Garel's city shown in Rebels only have about 40, 50 levels.
Great video man
Taris and Nar Shaddaa will always have a special place in my heart because they take me to KOTOR and SWTOR!
Hey Alex! You should play the “Star Wars Trivia Game” from Cardinal Instructions! There are some SERIOUSLY difficult trivia questions such as How tall was Bail Organa? Or who said “Sir, Luke is the best bush pilot in the outer rim territories”?
Hes about to win against sam witwer look him up he has a resume big time
Wasnt Taris represented by a Rebel Senetor in Rouge One?
Can you do a video on what Happened to Chancellor Vallorum after episode 1?
In Legends, he was assassinated during the Clone Wars after digging up a bunch of dirt on Palpatine. I don't know about canon.
Vardos is also an ecumenopolis.
I love the word for this: ecumenopolis
It's interesting that you are going to Planet types and it'll be interesting to find out how many different types of planets are the Star Wars universe like swamp planets Forest planets desert planets ocean planets and mountainous planets and finally ice planets
You should do a video on every invaders of the Galaxy.
ver Coruscant es como amor a primera vista
Coruscant planet and Nar Shadaa moon are my favourite!
Nice Video :)
Trantor is from the Foundation Series.
Taris is the Radiator Springs of Star Wars
At the beginning you made an error which is when you said that "The Phantom Menace" is the first onscreen look but it's in the 1997 Special Edition of "Return of the Jedi".
Piplup Boy Are you sure? I’m pretty sure it was the 2011 version that had Coruscant, but I’m probably wrong.
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Did you include Bespin?
@@StrongandStable17what about vardos?
@@J5CTacky Nope, it had multiple cities as well as mountain ranges and oceans. There are some he didn't include but a lot of them are new Canon planets which appeared after this video was made, such as Troithe in Shadow Fall.
And what about Churba from Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire? There's a description that it is another ecumenopolis in the Outer Rim. You also forgot the planet Pergitor of the Minos Cluster and the heavily industrialized and impoverished moons Shesharile 5 & 6.
city planets are the best
Is the legends book review series not going to happen?
What happened to Fondor?
4:27 I think Isaak Asimov wants a word with the writers of this book
In cannon, Alsakan was the homeworld of Alligiant General Pryde from The Rise of Skywalker.
Is it a ecumenopolises in canon
@@saulgoodman1829 yes
4:00 anyone elce see the face
THANOS PLANET
THANOS PLANET
How many is a handful 6?
What about Hosnian Prime or Vardos?
Did you include vardos
to be honest, i don't think thats an Ecumenopolis
What about Fondor, Vardos and Hosnian Prime?
My favorite Star Wars planet is Scariff from Rogue One. 🌴 🌴 🌊 🌊
Trantor is named after the Capital of Galactic Empire in Foundtaion series .
Fondor and vardos?
What about Vulpter
It's called Metellos with 2 Es.
I always felt sad about the people who needlessly died when Taris was bombarded.
Trantor is a city-planet in Asimov's Foundation, it is the capital of the Galactic Empire
Wait, I thought ther was a visual guide that made Taris canon. Or was that Rakata Prime? I just know it was some old Republic planet
vardos?
Good video, but you forgot about Fondor.
Iokath from SWTOR is also a city-planet
Techincally speaking, Iokath is a Dyson Sphere, a megastructure surrounding a star. If I recall correctly from the entry in SWTOR's in-game planetary codex, Iokath was built by the an unknown species that destroyed planets of system to obtain the materials to build Iokath. So, in reality, Iokath is a gigantic space station built arround a star. It's not a planet
@@carlosdanielquirosmonge4841 it make me wonder to what weapons the Unknown Species used to destroy some planets and use their Material to build a Dyson Sphere.
What about galifrey jedi channel take a look
Gallifrey is from Doctor Who, not Star Wars.
You forgot Corellia
Corellia isn’t a ecumenopolis.
a list of worlds unique to the video games either minor or lesser ones
*I've never ever in my life liked Star Wars cities, so that's why I prefer Star Trek, even they have a farm much more beautiful and better!! 🖖*
"Sir, our city planet has too many people. it takes days to travel 10 miles by car."
"Your right, my loyal aide. 2-dimensional travel isn't good enough anymore. We'll have to take advantage of another dimension."
"I'm sorry, sir. What do you mean?"
"We shall make our cars fly."
Zukul? Vardos?
Weren’t Vardos and Correlia city-planets?
The Memester Vardos I don’t know, but Corellia actually Gad various cities and took pride on their balance between nature and technology
Taris is Canon though. It may not have had the same history, but it's canon. Something I thought you'd mention.
Hoping we get Coruscant for mandalorian. I understand in the first order era they moved the republic moved operations to a different planet but come on!
What about Corellia?
Not a city planet
Corellia isnt fully a city planet.
All ice/snow planets
Wait. Wht about Bespin?
Bespin is a gas giant the cloud city is just floating on top
Isn’t Taris cannon because I think there is a Taris senator in Rogue I.
Wait what about Vardos?
(I know, date) Vardos is not ecumenopolis world. It's more like Earth. It got a lot of cities, but they are separated, so Vardos is just heavily populated planet.
@@youcantseeme9029 I meant Fondor, but you understood.
Some cities in Fondor cover a big portion of the planet, and the planet was the most important imperial planet after the liberation of coruscant, so I think it should have been included.
@@sachahector5674 Yes, you got a point here
Is Hosnian not a city-planet? I always thought it was...
Loyalist Redcoat it’s not
Is it Humbarine not Hubmarine?
Also, according to Star Wars: Galactic maps, Mortis is in the outer rim.
Isn’t Taris in canon due to their appearance as part of the rebellion in Rogue One?
4:27 Trantor? I foresee a dark future for the SW galaxy.
What about the one that got blown up by the first order in ep 7
I hope the First Order Capital is Coruscant or Mustafar in ep 9 since there ruling the galaxy now.
Isn’t Canto Bight a City Planet?
No. It's a relatively small casino city on a desert world. The ocean near it is artificial.
Noah Juarez Nope. It’s a desert with a small casino city.
I’m not entirely sure, but it seems like Fondor is a city world.
What about Dromund Kass- The capatial world of the Sith Empire during the Old Republic?
Actually, Dromund Kaas was never an ecumenopolis. Even in Old Republic, it has ample jungles, even dividing Kaas City from The spaceport
Gaminglord829 Sidious
Whaaaaaa!?! Dromund Kaas is famous for it's super dangerous *JUNGLE,* it's never been known for any big cities.
there's a planet named Ator ? Hehehehe that's funny cuz Ator in portuguese means actor
Trantor is a reference to Isaac Asimov's Foundation where it was an ecumenopolis too
I could hear a phone ring, also why not Fondor?
Wow I'm early for once!
Fondor and hosnian Prime ?
Both have multiple cities, and therefore are not ecumenopolis
Byss is my fav cause of dark empire series
Dangit well anyway hello there
Urban sprawl
Hosnian prime?
I wish this was 30 mins