ST Whither Coruscant?

Not all pilots are clones, even during the Clone Wars (eg, Anakin). I cannot recall the dialogue, and growing up I wondered the same thing, but I've come to realize that Luke, despite hating the Empire, would have done anything to see the stars. Also, didn't he say something about the Alliance not being "out here" in the Outer Rim?

 

Something that has been hinted at, that we have never seen, is The Courts. I would love to see the justice system of the galaxy at work....

 

TCW showed the Republic's justice system at work in the final arc of Season 5. Ahsoka is sent to a Republic courtroom where Palpatine presided as judge while the Senators acted as jury...so Mace's words in RotS, that Palpatine had control of the courts, was literally true.

It would be interesting to see the courts and the justice system of the New Republic, which I imagine would be far more similar to what we're familiar with here on Earth than the more military-tribunal style seen in TCW (since a Jedi was on trial, perhaps this was why Palpatine and the Senate were directly involved in the trial).

 

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Well, however, at the beginning of RoTS he is being held captive by Dooku, so there must have been some action on Coruscant. Of course, he orchestrated the whole thing, yes, but there would presumably have been some pretense that there was a battle of sorts when he was "kidnapped" by the separatists.

 

To return to Coruscant would be awesome. Please let the Coruscantis have British accents, rather than the Sith!

 

I would love to see the new government, whatever it may be, set up shop in the halls of Palpatine's Imperial Palace. The place has been retrofitted to its new purpose... But there are still undiscovered passageways and dark secrets hiding within.

 

I really hope we see Coruscant, Korriban, and Dromund Kaas at some point in the ST.

 

Maybe we could see parts of Coruscant reverting to nature - some buildings or city sectors may have been demolished to make way for parks or the re-establishment of forests. Symbolically, the Rebels were always represented by nature in the OT (even down to names like Leia *Organa*) whilst the Empire inhabited a sterile, technological world. With the Force apparently in balance at the outset of the ST and the Republic in the process of being re-established, this would be a nice bit of symbolism.

 

Wasn't Coruscant mostly realized with models?

 

Well yeah, that's the conventional wisdom of the internet, but I'm not so sure. And there was much more to Coruscant than distant matte paintings, digital or otherwise.

 

I think we'll only visit Coruscant if there is a reason to visit Coruscant. I know it sounds like common sense and a little silly out loud to say, but I was thinking about this today: In Episode IV, Luke says goodbye to the Lars homestead and as far as the films are concerned, he never returns to that location. In Episode VI, Luke returns to Tatooine to save Han. Does he pop into the old homestead to grab some old belongs? Does he stop at Obi-wan's old place? Maybe, but we don't see it happen and he doesn't mention stopping by, so for all intents and purposes he never did.

Would it be neat to see the Jedi Temple after years of it being abandoned? Sure, but if there isn't a logical reason why one of the characters would visit that site, then we probably won't see it at all.

 

Perhaps we could be introduced to some new locations in the galaxy that supply as much intrigue as the original locations.

 

I have no doubt that the new locations will be intriguing. Also, I believe there is definitely room to visit different locations on planets we already have seen. I wouldn't mind seeing different parts of Felucia, Saleucami, and/or Kashyyyk.

 

While the Kinect Star Wars game got a lot of crap, one of the really cool aspects of it for me was that it took place in a post-ROTJ Jedi Temple with Artoo and Threepio speaking to the player while Luke was, presumably, somewhere else in the temple.

 

So then by your own statement both were designed and drawn. The only difference in one is paint on glass the other is digital paint on digital glass.

Exactly the PT used every trick in the book and all the new ones they has been working on before than and all the totally new ones they came up with for it.

It's doubtful the ST will use anywhere near the practical SFX of the PT. I don't see it as it's too much of a cost savings to go all-CGI models rather than all the practical model work the PT did.

Why spend all that money and time when you can do it on the computer? I doubt they would do all the PE work and miniatures that were all over the PT which for people missed out on.

Some article I read once stated the amount of PE used for each PT movie was larger than the entire OT trilogy and that is probably true. The number of models alone was astounding.

Trying to talk with some people though is useless. They don't care in the least about facts but will simply say everything was "CG" without really knowing what that means. Just a bogus catch all phrase for digital film-making.

They obviously have no idea how Mustafar was created and what went into it. The big mistake the PT made was to not emphasis all the practical work being done. This allowed the people who didn't like them to then vent their anger about how CG ruined everything.

The ST is already showing how they are working the media to talk about a balance. So they are well on the way to making people think that they will have more PE when almost certainly they will have far less.

 

I was recently reading the Foundation Trilogy and noticed how Coruscant is Trantor, the capital world in the books. The later books have the planet being sacked, much like Rome, with destroyed buildings and the population gone. Dark Empire had much the same feel for the planet in the first issue.

There is probably no Republic in the ST, as 30 years is a short amount of time to defeat a colossal enemy and create a strong galaxy-wide government. The Alliance may be headquartered on another world, the Terminus of Star Wars. Could we see an abandoned and broken Coruscant? With a possible return to rebuild the Republic at the end of the trilogy?

 

Like anything else remotely connected to the PT, I don't expect to see Coruscant at all in the ST.

 

I think that would be pretty cool, have a REAL Battle of Coruscant, in either VIII or IX. Not a space battle, but like a real land battle, from skyscrapers. That could be cool.

 

The concept of Coruscant is an OT creation(it was called Had Abbadon). If there is a Galactic Republic then there is a good chance we will see Coruscant.

 

I love the idea of a basically dystopian Coruscant after the Empire is defeated. I could see them just having a new Rebel/New Republic capitol planet and explaining that the planet was abandoned, and I actually have been in the "let's not see Coruscant camp," but the idea of returning to a deserted Coruscant at some point in the ST actually kind of appeals to me. I could see it as a rundown, crime-ridden wasteland, with all manner of scum and villainy, the furthest thing from the grand political hub of the PT.