Coruscant's backstory BEFORE THE PREQUELS!

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2020
  • We cover the fascinating backstory of Coruscant from before the Star Wars Prequels released on today's Star Wars Legends lore video!
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  • @EckhartsLadder
    @EckhartsLadder  3 роки тому +365

    No idea why there are those spots with black screens... it looks like one of my media sources got corrupted during export. Sorry >_

  • @Erad_Prime
    @Erad_Prime 3 роки тому +521

    I grew up with the Zahn Trilogy. Yes, seeing Coruscant in 1999 was a highlight of the Phantom Menace for me.

    • @daniels7907
      @daniels7907 3 роки тому +48

      It made a lot of expanded universe fans very happy when Qui-Gon first said the name in the film, and they then went to the planet.

    • @giladpellaeon1691
      @giladpellaeon1691 3 роки тому +20

      Also grew up with the Zahn trilogy, it's what made me a Star Wars fan. Knowing Coruscant was going to be front and center was something I excitedly looked forward to.

    • @patriciashutes2221
      @patriciashutes2221 3 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @arthurballs7083
      @arthurballs7083 3 роки тому +6

      I brought it in 1994, brought the Jedi Academy triliogy the same year.
      Re-read them during lockdown. Nowhere near as good as I remembered them being.

    • @YouPube_X
      @YouPube_X 3 роки тому +6

      Heir to the Empire was my intro to StarWars back in 93 or 94. Massive fan ever since.

  • @LEGIONBRICKS
    @LEGIONBRICKS 3 роки тому +298

    Coruscant is one of my absolute favorite planets. It’s just so interesting how it was built up and up over thousands of years and how the lower levels are apocalyptic. I just find it such absolutely interesting planet.

    • @matthewmyers2714
      @matthewmyers2714 3 роки тому +13

      Too bad it isn’t in battlefront 2. Imagine if the battle of corusaunt was in battlefront 3!

    • @Obiwan7100
      @Obiwan7100 3 роки тому +27

      Coruscant reflects the inequality of the Galaxy in how rich humans live in huge buildings that reach cloud heights, in the low levels where the poorest live, The radiation level so high that some humans have evolved into Coruscant ogres and Cthons.

    • @bradhedgehog12
      @bradhedgehog12 3 роки тому +1

      Im The Senate! The poor live in the lower lvls?! That’s cruel.

    • @senatorluxbonteri6065
      @senatorluxbonteri6065 3 роки тому +8

      Coruscant and city planets are overall super interesting

    • @Obiwan7100
      @Obiwan7100 3 роки тому +9

      @@senatorluxbonteri6065 Coruscant in the population of 1 trillion people.
      50% Aliens
      50% Humans

  • @semibat
    @semibat 3 роки тому +406

    Eck: Hey guys it’s Eckharts Ladder
    UA-cam Auto subtitles: Hey guys it’s eckhart’s slaughter

    • @yachiyous9110
      @yachiyous9110 3 роки тому +41

      Anakin: this is outrageous, its unfair. How can you be a slaughterer and not be a skywalker

    • @BrassMaster117
      @BrassMaster117 3 роки тому +5

      Everytime hahah

    • @ksanbahlyngwa1998
      @ksanbahlyngwa1998 3 роки тому +5

      I actually used to hear eckhart slaughter myself so no surprise.

    • @unworthy.potato
      @unworthy.potato 3 роки тому +3

      I wanna see some eckharts slaughtered

    • @UGNAvalon
      @UGNAvalon 3 роки тому +5

      This should be included in EcksToo gameplay vids!
      “Hey guys, welcome back to EcksToo/x2, I’m Eck from Eckhart’s Ladder, and *_now_* _(Dramatic Pause)_ *_it’s time to begin... ECKHART’s SLAUGHTER._* “

  • @FroJSimpson
    @FroJSimpson 3 роки тому +47

    One of my favorite bits of early Legends Coruscant lore is that, after the formation of the Empire, Palpatine installed massive planetary shield generators all over the planet to consolidate control over the capitol. Wherever those shields overlapped massive thunderstorms would brew, giving the entire planet the foreboding, gothic vibe we see in the opening cutscene of TIE Fighter.

    • @DaraGaming42
      @DaraGaming42 9 місяців тому

      I love that Idea actually

  • @owenparris7490
    @owenparris7490 3 роки тому +119

    Can I just say how breathtaking Star Wars concept art is? The Monument Plaza piece is my favorite in this video.

    • @MrBonesYT
      @MrBonesYT 3 роки тому +1

      Should be in a museum

  • @forrestpenrod2294
    @forrestpenrod2294 3 роки тому +51

    Fun fact: Coruscant is an actual word that means glittering; sparkling, which is pronounced with a second hard ‘C’.

    • @RoboticPope
      @RoboticPope 3 роки тому +6

      Exactly. The early video games and audio novel were not "taking a crack" at pronouncing Coruscant. They were saying the real word correctly. The planet's name was a description of what it looked like from space. It was one of Lucas' absolutely daft decisions to change the pronunciation of the planet Coruscant. Coruscant pronounced without the second C is just a meaningless name.

  • @cellianexurianity5021
    @cellianexurianity5021 3 роки тому +140

    Not gonna lie, the "bee-spin" of bespin freaking killed me with laughter

    • @Aptonoth
      @Aptonoth 3 роки тому +4

      Beespinning sounds like a sport.

    • @scottamo
      @scottamo 3 роки тому

      I'm wondering why there's a different pronunciation of Bespin since Han Solo did not pronounce it with a "bee" sound in The Empire Strikes Back.

    • @alexissandoval1284
      @alexissandoval1284 3 роки тому

      It's the same mispronounciation as Tantive IV had originally. Some people like Metatron still pronounced it wrong.

    • @GmodPlusWoW
      @GmodPlusWoW 3 роки тому +1

      Gyro Zeppeli's favourite honey comes from Bee-Spin.

    • @lostcause3720
      @lostcause3720 3 роки тому

      @@GerardMenvussa "I hate it when he does that."

  • @mattd923
    @mattd923 3 роки тому +44

    Dromund Kass (From SWTOR) also pulls a lot from the original Had Abbadon concept art. It's not a full city-planet, but the pyramids and temples in the main city really resemble that original concept art, plus the shared fact of being essentially a "dark throne-world." Makes me sad that Exegol ended up being so uninspired by comparison.

    • @Kaiser-jo3uj
      @Kaiser-jo3uj 3 роки тому +1

      The pyramids and temples were common on most worlds where a dark lord set up shop. Dromund Kaas had Tulak Hord and Vitiate while Yavin 4 (the rebel base) had Exar Kun

    • @theeccentrictripper3863
      @theeccentrictripper3863 3 роки тому +1

      When he showed the concept art that's where my brain first went. It's really cool that it ended up inspiring something, damn near everything that came from Ralph McQuarrie's hands was pure gold, we have him to thank in a lot of ways for the aesthetic Starwars embodies.

    • @kwamiagyeman4839
      @kwamiagyeman4839 3 роки тому +2

      I wonder if they just ran out of time on IX. There was some concept art featuring Coruscant for what Trevero was working on before Abrams took over. Because a massive city planet as Exegol would not only have looked cool but it would have answered that question of where did all the stuff come from? If Exegol had been the hidden Sith redoubt where Sith had been funneling resources since the time of Darth Bane it wouldn't be surprising all that it could churn out the first order fleet or the final order fleet. Why those two were not simply the same thing... that's Abrams fault.

  • @yanmtl5759
    @yanmtl5759 3 роки тому +145

    I miss the hard “c” in coruscant. I grew up playing Tie Fighter.

    • @adamross6474
      @adamross6474 3 роки тому +13

      CoruScant if I remember correctly 😃

    • @tracytron7162
      @tracytron7162 3 роки тому +7

      Eh, agree to disagree on that part.

    • @adamross6474
      @adamross6474 3 роки тому

      Tracytron watch the tie fighter cut scenes :)

    • @tracytron7162
      @tracytron7162 3 роки тому +8

      Adam Ross I didn’t say that they didn’t say that in the games, I’m just saying that I prefer the modern pronunciation.

    • @TeaWillRock
      @TeaWillRock 3 роки тому

      It will always be the hard c for me.

  • @GreaterGrievobeast55
    @GreaterGrievobeast55 3 роки тому +57

    I always loved endors title as a “sanctuary moon” it just made it feel so much more significant for reasons I can’t quite explain. Its amazing how two words going together that you wouldn’t normally think would can just be so impactful like “bullet farmer” or “God tamer”.

  • @Leonhardt_Nukryst
    @Leonhardt_Nukryst 3 роки тому +223

    I miss the time when Jar jar was our biggest problem and before Disney discarded Coruscant.

    • @anthonyvomela424
      @anthonyvomela424 3 роки тому +44

      @Darth ScoutBonnie he means they stopped using it in their works, probably because its by far the most prequel-associated planet and the prequels get a lot of hate

    • @michaelboyd395
      @michaelboyd395 3 роки тому +26

      I remember those times. Before the dark times...

    • @Sergeant_Camacho
      @Sergeant_Camacho 3 роки тому +21

      Before the dark times...
      Before the Disney Empire...

    • @DrewLSsix
      @DrewLSsix 3 роки тому +8

      @@anthonyvomela424 why would it get any use? Theres no particular reason to use it in the films but it has been used in the shows that Disney continues to put out. I think people are making shit up again to feed the hate machine lol.

    • @kevinvassago
      @kevinvassago 3 роки тому +4

      @@DrewLSsix clearly becuz those ppl have nothing better 2 do with their lives than 2 feed into toxicity. But I've also talked with ppl on the opposite side of sw who are absolutely canon junkie assholes. Gawdforbid u accidentally mistake legends for canon, or use legends to fill in any canon gaps, those ppl will straight up verbally attack u lol. I hate both groups of ppl, cuz they literally have nothing better to do with their lives than to go online and tell others how their way of enjoying star wars is wrong. Fuqqin sad if u ask me.

  • @GoosemanOmega
    @GoosemanOmega 3 роки тому +53

    I always love watching your videos. They are the best. Never stop making videos!!!

  • @conorb7094
    @conorb7094 3 роки тому +7

    I love Ralph McQuarrie's concept art for Had Abbadon. It looks beautiful. A big complaint I have with the prequels is that Coruscant often looks too futuristic, sleek and shiny etc, but McQuarrie clearly took inspiration from ancient architectures and combined it with Star Wars technology.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy 2 роки тому +2

      This. The Prequels look nothing like the originals and it's pretty jarring tbh.

  • @diminios
    @diminios 3 роки тому +3

    If you watch the TIE Fighter cutscene where Thrawn's forces (i.e. you) save some TIE Defenders from Zaarin, Thrawn says "Prepare to leave for Coruscant" with a second hard c as well (so, not just the audio books).

  • @dsmiley53
    @dsmiley53 3 роки тому +3

    As someone who read the Thrawn trilogy before seeing TPM (and also ROTJ Special Edition)...yes, it was VERY exciting to see Coruscant on the big screen come to life. After reading about it, I wanted to see it so badly. It was a genuine thrill when it first showed up in all its glory in TPM. It also gave me hope that one day we'd see the Thrawn trilogy in movie form...oh well, you can't win them all.

  • @goldgodryukendo913x
    @goldgodryukendo913x 3 роки тому +34

    You forgot the 2 levels from shadows of the empire. the sewers of Coruscant and the Endar Spire battle.

    • @Kaiser-jo3uj
      @Kaiser-jo3uj 3 роки тому +1

      The Endar Spire was destroyed over Taris which I think is on the Outer Rim

    • @maxrander0101
      @maxrander0101 3 роки тому

      @@Kaiser-jo3uj its almost in the outer rim its on the very edge of the mid rim and was not well known in the civil war era as it was still a blasted husk of a world

  • @ryansargent661
    @ryansargent661 3 роки тому +6

    The fact that even Lucas pulled from the Expanded Universe when it made sense is why K Kennedy saying they had to work from scratch upset so many people. I do however look at the expanded universe as an alternate universe where things happened differently. I do enjoy both new and old canon, and like how some elements are making their way back in an alternative way.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 3 роки тому +10

    Courscant with the second hard C was an actual word for shiny.

  • @TheMokeleMbembe
    @TheMokeleMbembe 3 роки тому +3

    Can confirm, it *was* extremely cool to see Coruscant in ROTJSE and TPM, coming from a book background and anticipating its inclusion. I remember being confused at Qui-Gon's pronunciation, but still cool.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 3 роки тому +14

    McQuarrie and Johnston etc's concept art for Had Abbadon ended up literally Relabled as "Coruscant" in "The Illustrated STAR WARS Universe" By McQuarrie and KJA.

    • @daniels7907
      @daniels7907 3 роки тому +1

      My copy had it listed as both Coruscant and Imperial Center. They were clearly waffling on the name before the prequels locked it in.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 3 роки тому +2

      @@daniels7907 Oh it was both in Legends for a long time. With Imperial Center as the name the Empire was pushing in propaganda.

    • @daniels7907
      @daniels7907 3 роки тому +1

      @@DIEGhostfish - I remember. Even the early EU was pretty heavily focused on addressing the stuff from Lucas's drafts that had not made it into canon. Timothy Zahn came up with Coruscant because the galactic capital didn't have a firmly-established name and "Imperial Center" obviously wouldn't be used by the Old or New Republics. Zahn himself has talked about how pleased he was that the Lucasfilm people convinced George to just stick with his name when TPM was written.

  • @alexandergerbery2794
    @alexandergerbery2794 3 роки тому +21

    Great video ;) personally I prefer the Imperial Palace being a different gothic looking behemoth that dwarfed all the other buildings with pyramids and vast chambers. I get the irony in retrofitting the old Jedi Temple into Palpatine's palace but I still preffer the old version.

  • @BillyDrakePianoMan
    @BillyDrakePianoMan 3 роки тому +17

    I’ve always wondered how Coruscant never had a runaway greenhouse effect cataclysm with all of the air pollution that an city planet would have, even with advanced energy technology. Is there some sort of massive air processing system on the planet, or are we just supposed to suspend our disbelief on that front?

    • @daniels7907
      @daniels7907 3 роки тому +10

      This is part of the reason for all those industrial zones on Coruscant. Various old expanded universe materials talked about the *HUGE* infrastructure of the planet that supported all those inhabitants. Keep in mind that they have the technology in Star Wars. The Death Stars were technically vast artificial worlds when you measured them in *volume* rather than surface area. But they still had comfortable interior life support.

    • @FranckRABESON
      @FranckRABESON 3 роки тому +10

      IIRC, in the Legends books, the Yuuzhan Vong conquest was feared to have wrecked the planet’s air recycling facilities, but the good guys later discover that the facilities were left alone because they were organic (huge vats of genetically engineered bacteria) rather than purely technological like the rest of the planet.

    • @d_valroth
      @d_valroth 3 роки тому +2

      Also, as I recall, they dumped a lot of stuff underground and just figured they'd deal with it later. The Undercity is a messed up place.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy 2 роки тому +1

      In reality all the latent heat from the planet spanning city and the massive population would cook the planet alone. Its why ecumenpoli on this scale are impossible. But the population would also be ridiculously huge, like quadrillions of people.

  • @SeventhSwell
    @SeventhSwell 3 роки тому +17

    About the pronunciation, now I get why Adam Savage calls it CoraScant. Every time I hear that I'm like, what is he talking about?

  • @demogorgonzola
    @demogorgonzola 3 роки тому +50

    ...world covered by planet-spanning city, a planet called Tranto-- **khem, khem** --Had Abbadon ;-)

    • @WKFO_Space
      @WKFO_Space 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah, gotta love George Asimov

    • @jazzrodgers
      @jazzrodgers 3 роки тому +3

      Fan of the Foundation Trilogy; a true man of culture! If I remember correctly there are many concepts and even character archetypes from Isaac Asimov's universe George Lucas borrowed heavily from, like Palpatine vs The Mule as 2 disfigured despots with mind-control powers.

  • @loganwendigo937
    @loganwendigo937 3 роки тому +6

    Hey I grew up with the VHS golden edition too. That was MY introduction to Star Wars

    • @ShakerCheeseIsRite
      @ShakerCheeseIsRite 3 роки тому +2

      Logan Wendigo lol i grew up with all of them because my mother was a huge star wars nerd. Black (silver) box, gold box, then the dvds then bluray, had the phantom menace special edition vhs even. And then the big ass wall of literally every star wars book as it came out lol. I wish i had read all of them before they got destroyed in the flood, but i read most of the post original trilogy books.

  • @krbacon
    @krbacon 3 роки тому +3

    It was indeed quite cool seeing Coruscant on the big screen after reading about it in the novels. I recall making a comment along those lines to some friends when it showed up in the special editions.

  • @notablegoat
    @notablegoat 3 роки тому +28

    It's just Asimov's Trantor but with more space wizards
    Edit: Not that there aren't any space wizards in the Foundation books

    • @elrednimoy5223
      @elrednimoy5223 3 роки тому

      Was going to post this ! I'm currently reading Foundation again and Coruscant being Star Wars Trantor is very straightforward

    • @daniels7907
      @daniels7907 3 роки тому +2

      The main difference is that Trantor was not really an ecumenopolis. It's various sectors were under enclosed domes that had been in place for so long that they had even accumulated soil and had plant life growing on them. The planet's ecosystem recovered within just a few centuries after the domes were dismantled for salvage when the Empire fell and agrarian society resumed. Trantor was really a call back to the "caves of steel" cities on Earth before the rise of the Settler movement. Asimov (who was a bit agoraphobic) kept coming back to the idea that future humans would tend to congregate in enclosed cities. The exception being the decadent Spacers, who were shown to often avoid even interacting with their own spouses and ultimately were unable to expand further into space because they could not endure any discomfort or inconvenience - including having to live in close quarters with other people.

    • @timleber2257
      @timleber2257 3 роки тому +1

      I would say the Coruscant is a riff on Trantor. There is a bit in Prelude to Foundation where Asimov writes that the only part of Trantor that was natural habitat was the Imperial Palace. The rest of the planet was one great city.

    • @daniels7907
      @daniels7907 3 роки тому

      @@timleber2257 - And yet the novels also state that the palace grounds were heavily-gardened. An emperor actually gets killed by a zealous gardener that he tried to promote to an office job.
      Of course, maintaining strict continuity in the novels was never a big concern of Asimov's. For example, Caves of Steel and most of the Robot novels depicted Earth as dependent on atomic power. Then in real life Three Mile Island happened. In Robots and Empire, written after the incident, Asimov did an outright retcon and declared that Earth had abandoned nuclear power in favor of solar power millennia earlier.

    • @SJHFoto
      @SJHFoto 3 роки тому

      @@elrednimoy5223 Definitely!

  • @mrmacguff1n
    @mrmacguff1n 3 роки тому +141

    "We had NOTHING to work with when we were making the sequel trilogy" - Kathleen Kennedy

    • @ryanhawe8234
      @ryanhawe8234 3 роки тому +30

      "Point of information, You did, Ms. Kennedy, but your Keepers of the Holocron chose or were directed to flush it all. Then you brought in an Artist!(tm) for your bridging film who refused to read notes from the Story Group, because he is an Artist!(tm) -- at which point you should have done what you did with Colin Trevorrow and the Solo team and said 'This is not going to be a good fit.' But the lure of critical credibility along with box-office dollars was just too much to pass up, wasn't it? "

    • @nickmalachai2227
      @nickmalachai2227 3 роки тому +9

      @The Martial Lord of Loyalty It's always fascinating when people seem to not get that. You don't need to scapegoat a particular person to blame for why you're not satisfied with the direction of a series. A lot of people were involved with the process, including the fans' inflexible expectations and vitriolic reaction to anything new.

    • @ryanhawe8234
      @ryanhawe8234 3 роки тому +3

      @The Martial Lord of Loyalty Indeed it is. And while a worldwide plague knocking Galaxy's Edge attendance into a cocked hat is not a thing she could have foreseen, in all fairness; the box office take of TLJ, Solo and Rise of... erm, somebody?? do raise the question, "And how's that working out for her so far?"

    • @ryanhawe8234
      @ryanhawe8234 3 роки тому +1

      @@nickmalachai2227 Well, I'm just one Sad Bastard, and can only speak for myself: but my biggest bantha beef with The Force Needs Five More Minutes is that it was largely a straight retread of A New Hope. The Legacy comics, by contrast, may have looked like a fan's worst wants at first glance (Gritty Pirate Skywalker who smokes! A vinyl-strip-wearing Twi'lek Sith enforcer! SHE IS THE FUTURE OF STAR WARS! -- or so Dark Horse asserted in early promos), but it successfully remixed the elements (a smuggler, a princess, an Empire, a bunch of Knights) and created a new story with them.
      (And honestly, I'd like to think that at least some of the fans moaning about "The Force being female now!" would not have minded a GirlFight between Rey and Darth Talon. As always, I Could Be Wrong.)

    • @nickmalachai2227
      @nickmalachai2227 3 роки тому +3

      @@ryanhawe8234 eh, I've always found Legends to be too interconnected by nature to be genuinely portrayed on the big screen. My biggest complaints are that I think Disney as a company should be burned to the ground and its copyrights thrown to the wind to be picked up by whoever has the resources to do so, and that while the story in general was lackluster and not a masterpiece, the fans are so wrapped up in their own nostalgia over the original Trilogy and prequels (THE PREQUELS?!) that they actively dismiss anything new as Utter Garbage Unworthy of Sullying the Holy Name that is Space Fighting Stuff.
      An unpleasable fanbase and an always-safe megacorp who refuses to take risks with anything to jeopardize their precious Family-Friendly Megacorp image make... whatever the fuck has happened in the past few years wrt Star Wars.

  • @loverofjesusMKII
    @loverofjesusMKII 3 роки тому +44

    "Good Changes"
    "Swapping out Yub-Nub vor Victory Celebration"
    In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Eckhart.

    • @andrewthorne3570
      @andrewthorne3570 3 роки тому +4

      Thank you was going to bring that up myself. Victory Celebration was so tame compared to the outpouring of emotion that Yub-Nub invokes

    • @adamkelly7128
      @adamkelly7128 3 роки тому +5

      I also prefer Yub-Nub to the updated version. A preference that betrays one's age I guess.

    • @480JD
      @480JD 3 роки тому +2

      "Weesa freeeeee!!!!"

    • @daniels7907
      @daniels7907 3 роки тому +1

      The revised version might have been better if they had used better background music.

    • @ryanhawe8234
      @ryanhawe8234 3 роки тому +1

      #IStandwithEckhart

  • @Werrf1
    @Werrf1 3 роки тому +1

    My first contact with Coruscant was through the Rogue Squadron books. What always struck me was the sheer _scale_ of the place. It's why my favourite scene in the prequels is at the end of Episode II, with Palpatine overseeing the assembly of this vast army - one of the shots that really gets that size across.

  • @realamerican7626
    @realamerican7626 3 роки тому +8

    the one thing i loved about the west end games books, was that they were full stories behind the planet, people, and technology. So sad that they went out of business.

  • @Cyro_2235
    @Cyro_2235 3 роки тому +3

    Rian Johnson and JJ Abrams: What's a "Coruscant" ?

  • @lipingrahman6648
    @lipingrahman6648 3 роки тому +4

    I vaguely remember some comments that Lucas took the some of the esthetics of Coruscant's from Ridley Scotts Blade Runner but given some of the paintings of Ralph Maquarrie it is likely that after Lucas decided not to use the idea of a city world most of Maquarrie's ideas were recycled into Blade Runner.

  • @dragonan8459
    @dragonan8459 3 роки тому +5

    Zahn is the master of star wars writing of legends and canon.
    If anyone is a fan of Zahn or a fan of Thrawn sould read the Hier to the Empire 20th anniversary. Alot of good side notes in the book as to how Zahn and George created EU.

  • @andypham4216
    @andypham4216 3 роки тому +1

    I loved that coruscant was so heavily populated and so covered in buildings, the Vong couldn't come anywhere close getting rid of all the people on it. Of course lord Nyax was down there too, lurking 🤣🤣

  • @andu1478
    @andu1478 3 роки тому +1

    i like this type of videos more than the 1000th video about space battle tactics

  • @Peteman81
    @Peteman81 3 роки тому +1

    Yes it was very nice seeing Courscant appearing exactly as in the books in Episode 1 - it felt very satisfying

  • @dotista2008
    @dotista2008 3 роки тому +20

    more info, coruscant is in french the translation of "coruscating"

    • @Arashmickey
      @Arashmickey 3 роки тому +2

      It took a while before I made that connection even though I knew the word. It took me even longer to realize Karrde's pet Vornskrs Sturm und Drang refer to the German art movement, the words just kept nagging at me. I'm so bad at noticing things that are staring me in the face.

    • @UGNAvalon
      @UGNAvalon 3 роки тому +3

      “The shining jewel of the Republic!”
      Makes sense! I love it even more! 🤩

    • @FranckRABESON
      @FranckRABESON 3 роки тому +1

      @@Arashmickey It took me over two decades to notice that our favorite Bothan nuisance was literally named Borsk Failure.

    • @Arashmickey
      @Arashmickey 3 роки тому +1

      @@FranckRABESON [fur bristles]

    • @cookie1138
      @cookie1138 3 роки тому

      as if.. the translation was Corrussant as proven here: me.me/i/coruscant-croissant-is-coruscant-actually-just-a-croissant-posted-by-5435465

  • @RustyNord
    @RustyNord 3 роки тому

    I have insomnia and couldn't sleep all last night. Seeing a new video from you is a much needed moment of rest for me

  • @rainasy1766
    @rainasy1766 3 роки тому

    i just stumbled into your channel because of star wars squadrons, i like your stuff very much!

  • @h.m.tolympic4669
    @h.m.tolympic4669 3 роки тому +22

    Hey, Eck. Just wondering if you know when I'll be able to comment on the Eckstoo channel. Also, my personal favourite planet is probably kamino.

  • @Nameless0061
    @Nameless0061 3 роки тому +1

    Just started Heir to the Empire. It's amazing!

  • @Howlrunner82
    @Howlrunner82 3 роки тому +3

    Yeah, that scene at the end of Jedi...somehow I belive that seconds later Stormtroopers swarmed the scene and killed everybody "celebrating"

    • @ryanhawe8234
      @ryanhawe8234 3 роки тому +1

      One of 1997's action figure releases was "Crowd Control Stormtrooper." It's not unreasonable to think that someone at Hasbro had knowledege of the new scene for the Special Edition Trilogy, but thought it would make a bigger contribution....

    • @TheMaster4534
      @TheMaster4534 3 роки тому

      Meanwhile in the new canon, the "celebrating" in Jedi degenerated into a shitshow that plunged Coruscant into an internal civil war.
      Source: Aftermath Trilogy

  • @ggt47
    @ggt47 3 роки тому +6

    Tonight on Corasaunt *live* .

  • @just_dec
    @just_dec 3 роки тому +1

    Eckhartsladder is my happy place

  • @jx6135
    @jx6135 3 роки тому +1

    I like that you used some of the intro from Tie Fighter.......God that takes me back

  • @happydayaday8293
    @happydayaday8293 3 роки тому +1

    the thumpnalli on this video looks cool

  • @griffminester6288
    @griffminester6288 3 роки тому +5

    Coruscant epic

  • @NRRenggli
    @NRRenggli 3 роки тому +1

    Speaking of the original cassette tapes, the best rendition of Grand Admiral Thrawn was voiced by Anthony Daniels. Thats right, the best evil character in Star Wars was voiced by C-3PO!

  • @RonaldTrumpOfficial
    @RonaldTrumpOfficial 3 роки тому +1

    Cool video as always!

  • @yamomsfavrunner
    @yamomsfavrunner 3 роки тому

    Really interesting topic! May the force be with you all!

  • @JJSMJ
    @JJSMJ 3 роки тому +2

    Coruscant should have been in Episode IX. Should have redone some of the original ROTJ concepts like the lava throne, the attack on the capital etc.

  • @cd5sircoupe
    @cd5sircoupe 3 роки тому +1

    Silver Edition here, gotta stay up on that widescreen format. I had a mix of different VHS copies from the 80s and early 90s, couple of the grey boxes, a couple with the poster artwork. Was also fortunate enough to see all of the SE in the theaters in middle school, good to have those memories.
    Yub Nub is better than Victory, change my mind.

  • @zhongxing1965
    @zhongxing1965 3 роки тому

    Good video dude👍

  • @KiwiSpartan01
    @KiwiSpartan01 3 роки тому

    I love all this pre prequel stuff

  • @sirius4k
    @sirius4k 3 роки тому +41

    The two worst things that have happened in and with Star Wars universe:
    Order 66
    George selling Star Wars universe to the Sith empire.

    • @Kaiser-jo3uj
      @Kaiser-jo3uj 3 роки тому +3

      The Jedi purge under the Sith Triumvirate was much more effective than Order 66. It only left one Jedi compared to the multitude of Jedi that survived Palatine's purge

    • @sirius4k
      @sirius4k 3 роки тому +1

      @Venom Snek The sequels are the product of George selling the Star Wars universe.

    • @erika002
      @erika002 3 роки тому

      CCP Empire?

    • @erika002
      @erika002 3 роки тому +1

      @Venom Snek are you aware about Disney being happy about CCP's concentration camps? Not exactly Star Wars itself but yes, the movie Mulan is somehow involved in this. www.bbc.com/news/world-54064654

    • @erika002
      @erika002 3 роки тому +1

      @Venom Snek I'm surprised that people are not aware of this. I this was like a month ago. I recommend you watch this channel: ua-cam.com/channels/fwE_ODI1YTbdjkzuSi1Nag.html
      I got it from there, just find it.

  • @Calmputer
    @Calmputer 3 роки тому +1

    I just did an entire playthrough of TIE Fighter (Special Edition) and had a very visceral reaction to the officer and secret order guy saying Coruscant, and Palpatine... it just immediately took me out of the fiction, so to speak.
    Some of the old audiobooks are a trip. I got "The Further Adventures: Planet of the Hoojibs", which has some excellent voiceacting, and weird pronunciations... though the version I have is translated and voiced in Swedish.

  • @HustlerHorstRuediger
    @HustlerHorstRuediger 3 роки тому

    I kinda waited for this.

  • @jkdragonjk6895
    @jkdragonjk6895 2 роки тому +1

    Honestly the alternative pronunciation of Palpatine sounds pretty cool

  • @thekidry5551
    @thekidry5551 3 роки тому

    Thank you!!

  • @matthewmyers2714
    @matthewmyers2714 3 роки тому +2

    Yo eck can you talk about real world wars and analyse key skirmishes such as the battle of the Somme, or the battle of midway, even the battle of Trafalgar. Love the content though, keep it up!

    • @Kaiser-jo3uj
      @Kaiser-jo3uj 3 роки тому

      The Somme was humanity's stupidity at its worst

    • @matthewmyers2714
      @matthewmyers2714 3 роки тому

      Kaiser come on, you probably haven’t read into either the Crimean war, or the Gallipoli campaign, at least at the end of the Somme they pushed the Germans back

  • @channeleamon
    @channeleamon 3 роки тому

    Growing up with the novels, I feel like 1995-1996 was when Coruscant came into focus for me - it was when we got Shadows of the Empire game/comic/novel, and also Ralph McQuarrie/Kevin J Anderson's 'The Illustrated Star Wars Universe' came out. Before then it had obviously been in a lot of source books and novels (not to mention TIE Fighter), but those two projects gave me my best idea of what it looked like until ROTJ:SE came along, and then TPM.

  • @poetscotty
    @poetscotty 3 роки тому +4

    I want to see it's underground nature sanctuaries and ruins of old

  • @CaptainGinyu
    @CaptainGinyu 3 роки тому +2

    tie fighter's version of coruscant is still the real version to me

  • @thomasbaagaard
    @thomasbaagaard 3 роки тому +1

    The planet is central to the story in the 2nd X-wing book...(Wedge's Gamble) covering how the New Republic captured planet.
    The book is from 1996
    And is is still relevant in book 3.

  • @jon6309
    @jon6309 2 роки тому

    Coruscant was actually my favorite planet when I was introduced to Star Wars.

  • @randallpetroelje3913
    @randallpetroelje3913 3 роки тому +2

    You do realize that “abaddon “ is very similar to a name of a demon. The sith temple was built under a Jedi temple.. Hmmm?? Maybe the sith and the Jedi both had their sights on the prize. Just saying. Love your show and your dog. Thanks again for your show.

    • @darthrevan1281
      @darthrevan1281 3 роки тому

      Abaddon (or Apollyon) is not a demon. He is an angel from the Book of Revelation tasked with controlling all the weird locusts contained within The Abyss. (Re 9:11)

  • @williamwatts6463
    @williamwatts6463 9 місяців тому

    In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 video game, there was a forest moon called Duxn and a planet with a city called Iziz and they were by each other.

  • @jpritchett42
    @jpritchett42 3 роки тому

    Ooh, I hadn't known about the pronunciation confusion with Coruscant. Makes me think that Qui-Gon Jin's exchange of "I'm taking these people to Goruscant" "Gorucscant, that doesn't compute" was a nod to that confusion.

    • @RoboticPope
      @RoboticPope 3 роки тому

      That piece of dialogue was so bad. Must have been a little confusing for the actors to have Lucas asking them to pronounce an English word incorrectly.

  • @davidrebolledo5784
    @davidrebolledo5784 3 роки тому +5

    I’ve been waiting for this one for SO LONG! Courscant is such a cool city!
    Edit: typo

  • @ThieflyChap
    @ThieflyChap 3 роки тому

    I'm glad that Coruscant was spared from The Farce Awokens. Having it blown up by the First Disorder would have pissed me off too much.

  • @Shadowkey392
    @Shadowkey392 3 роки тому +1

    I didn’t know TIE Fighter was set five years before the Prequels! ;)

  • @TheInternetHelpdeskPlays
    @TheInternetHelpdeskPlays 3 роки тому

    I had all the X-wing and tie fighter games, I was always amazed my the city planet, got in to the books, loved the Harkov, Zahn and Thrawn stories. I miss those games.

  • @StarKeyStudios
    @StarKeyStudios 3 роки тому

    Nice vid

  • @Palpatine001
    @Palpatine001 3 роки тому

    Seeing and focusing on Coruscant - the heart of the Galaxy in the prequels was always a special moment. I believe Imperial Centre was Palpatine renaming the Planet in the time of the Empire and it got changed back with the new Republic. That said one thing I missed in the sequels was - Coruscant

  • @captainevernovice3744
    @captainevernovice3744 3 роки тому +1

    I think I read somewhere about Han Solo skiing with one of Luke's Jedi trainees on a nice heat mountain on coruscant.

  • @nickraupp6104
    @nickraupp6104 3 роки тому +3

    I've been rewatching Star Wars with my wife, and she had never seen Yub Nub. I, for one, freaking looooove Yub Nub. Maybe it's a bias towards "the Star Wars I grew up with..." but idk. Victory celebration without Yub Nub was just less fun...

  • @callumwearne7870
    @callumwearne7870 3 роки тому +1

    I think its pretty safe to say George Lucas was contemplating using Bladerunner's metropolis setting in 1983.. A year after bladerunner was made.. and probably thought it was distasteful at the time and revisited the idea later with the prequels.. Pretty soon numerous franchises would be ripping off the idea of having giant cyber punk cities with flying cars.. Total Recall / Judge Dredd / Altered Carbon..

  • @litesaber54yi3
    @litesaber54yi3 3 роки тому

    read Heir to the Empire as a freshman in HS 1996. So good

  • @noblehatterviolet
    @noblehatterviolet 3 роки тому +21

    I didn't know that Coruscant was secretly Hogwarts!

  • @simonwillis1529
    @simonwillis1529 3 роки тому

    I see I click happy job done

  • @maxrander0101
    @maxrander0101 3 роки тому

    any true star wars fan gets goosebumps when we see something we have read about or seen i a game make it to the screen one major thing for me was seeing a razor-crest in a live action show as that ship first showed up in the first few missions of starwars bounty hunter jango had one until the mission to Oovo IV this is where he got The Firespray-31-class ( he named slave one ) he destroyed the rest later a few were made off of the designs but slave one was the first and last of the line at the time and the razor-crest was a ship used as a small troop ship by the true Mandalorians jango's one belonged to Jaster Mereel

  • @59rlmccormack
    @59rlmccormack 3 роки тому

    City planets sure are iconic in science fiction.

  • @HydraDominus
    @HydraDominus 3 роки тому

    8 bit coruscant looks sick

  • @digitalnative5678
    @digitalnative5678 3 роки тому

    Ah yes, my favorite planet, Choruskant.

  • @LastManFilmsUS
    @LastManFilmsUS 3 роки тому

    I’ve always wanted to know PRE-prequel Star Wars

  • @nemesis2445
    @nemesis2445 3 роки тому

    As we later saw in Clone wars, For a majority of Coruscant's Population it was always nighttime, since they lived underneath the "surface"....

  • @mikeltaylor2511
    @mikeltaylor2511 3 роки тому

    I always ove the ends

  • @BrachioInGen
    @BrachioInGen 3 роки тому

    I seem to recall that there was a BTS clip with Jake Lloyd having trouble saying Coruscant and said people were gonna make fun of him and the cast sitting at the table was saying "nooo no they won't" and If I recall, he was saying the alternate pronunciation.

  • @losh330
    @losh330 3 роки тому

    I thought this was going to be able the history of coruscant before the prequels and I got really excited but alas...

  • @BuckySeifert
    @BuckySeifert 3 роки тому

    I'm almost certain that design of the Imperial Palace in the McQuarrie painting made it's way into the space of the same name in the 90s Star Wars Monopoly game.

  • @wastelandkitten9698
    @wastelandkitten9698 3 роки тому

    I like the "HOME" intro track. how did you get him to give you access to his music?

  • @theblade1251
    @theblade1251 3 роки тому +1

    can you do the siths before the prequels?

  • @kennethferland5579
    @kennethferland5579 3 роки тому

    Trantor did it first, both fully covered in cityscape and the capitol of a galactic empire, it was a well established trope in sci-fi for decades prior to StarWars.

  • @MostlyPennyCat
    @MostlyPennyCat 3 роки тому

    I read the xwing books in the late 90s.
    Honestly I didn't even notice Coruscant was in the movie. I think that says more about the quality, or lack, of the movies.

  • @originaluddite
    @originaluddite 3 роки тому

    Many capitals are also the biggest city of a polity. But often they are instead a much smaller city purpose-made as a capital, sometimes so they will do that job better, sometimes to act as a neutral shared seat of government and so side-step the problem of rivalry between existing, big cities. It would have been interesting if the galactic capital had been based on this latter concept.

  • @randomstuff9080
    @randomstuff9080 3 роки тому

    I like your vidoes

  • @277imperator
    @277imperator 3 роки тому +1

    Hi. Love your channel. Can you please do palpatine’s imperial palace from legends?

  • @bldeagle10
    @bldeagle10 3 роки тому

    Definitely wasnt the history I was expecting lol. Still a good video though. I thought this was going to be about how the city started to develop and what the planet was like before it was inhabited or at least in the early days of its inhabitance