Coruscant

Coruscant was a planet covered in one, massive city and was the galactic capital.

Characteristics
Coruscant had been considered the center since the beginning of interstellar travel. In fact, there were still several widely-accepted navigation charting formats that places the Coruscant System at the coordinates (0, 0, 0), noting it as the standard point of all location references.

The space in the Coruscant system never had a day of rest for many centuries. The Coruscant Air Traffic Control Center of the Capital Transportation Department employeed more manpower than some planets’ entire populations merely to guide the incoming and outgoing traffic volumes to this system. People foreign to this system often said that a if one expects a trip to Coruscant to take three days, expect to spend up to six days by factoring in traffic volumes, random boardings for security purposes, and landing bay availability if you are heading into the Coruscant city-planet.

The outer edges of the Coruscant system were lined with many defense platforms, acting both as bases for the customs agents performing the random boardings, as well as powerful defense platforms in the occasion that the system was to be invaded by foreign powers. The Galactic Empire was known to place its military’s top academy graduates at these platforms, both for their talent and efficiency as well as for their hands-on training. Many graduates who acquired positions as station officers go on to eventually hold important positions such as captains of Star Destroyers.

Besides these defense platforms, one would also find that space mines are emplaced throughout the edges of the system. At the frequency of one mine about every kilometer, these mines orbited around the star Coruscant as an additional layer of security, slowing down potential invaders, therefore giving the defense fleets additional time to deploy defensive formations. These space mines were equipped with heavy laser turrets, turbo laser turrets, or concussion missile launchers, depending on the type. The different types of mines were randomly deployed in terms of sequence, and was purposely manufactured to have very small differences in appearance, so to force the potential invaders to take the time to find out which mines they must take down first depending on the invader’s fleet component.

Coruscant was also considered the center of trade, diplomacy, and finance. With billions of merchants visiting this system on a monthly basis, the Coruscant system was often considered an independent market segment, with thousands of subcategories under it, by the premier marketing firms of the galaxy.

Notable locations

 * Imperial City
 * Imperial City University
 * Imperial War Academy
 * Imperial Palace
 * War Ministry