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Does it? Watching Episode I, it appears that the entire planet is covered in lights, but you would think that there would be an ocean on a planet with an atmosphere. Maybe I'm just not looking closely

According to the books, yes. But there has been no indication from the movies that Coruscant does. Maybe Episode II will show one?

If it ever did have I would reckon it is all artifical by now. You may as well ask where all the oxygen comes from without enough plantlife. The whole strucutre of that planet is now artificial; the means to life will be artificial with it.

We'll let's hope it does have an ocean and lets hope even more that Jar Jar drowns in it in Ep 2

The first drafts of ROTJ had the Emperors castle which was at the bottom of Coruscant it was surrounded by caves and rocky mountains, suggesting that the very bottom of Coruscant was like another world. Maybe they just built over the ocean.

Agreed, those people must get food and water from somewhere!

No planet so urbanised could be self-supporting. Most of their material needs would be imported (one of the best reasons to colonise other planets)

Half of the air traffic must be food supplies if that is the case.

That doesn't sounds logic for a military-guy:
if you are under attack they just close the supplie-line and wait, while if you have your own supplies they can't do it.
They have to be aware of a revolution, because there are always guys against something

On the subjct of energy, Kamino in Episode 2 is supposed to be powered by huge wind farms which are planted in the middle of the ocean.

Yerssot, it doesn't matter what would be better. Pure logistics dicatates that that planet HAS to be supplied by others! They have no choice in it.

Tight military control of the supply worlds and the trade routes would be part of any military defence scheme and probably the core of the Galactic Empire to come.

Thight military control in a system with only peace? I find that hard to believe, I'm of the oppinion that there MUST be something of food and drinks there

I have to agree with yersott.

I meant the EMPIRE would have such a tight military control. The Republic probably didn;t, but then it was in decline.

Look, the simple fact is that a completely urbansied planet with natural sources removed) with so many countless billions on cannot POSSIBLY be self-supporting!

Coruscant itself is clearly based on the city world of Trantor, from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series (the two are eerily similar...).

The 20 closest worlds to Trantor had been entitrely dedicated to supplying this unbelievably vast urban jungle of people with what they needed.

Jedi1212 guy said that it does have an ocean, he said it states so in the book. Maybe it's a little ocean.

What is Isaac Asimov's Foundation series?


Coruscant has to have a ground level, something that the first inhabbitants built on. So it is possible that there is an ocean there. Maybe it's like oil and they have to drill for water.

Or maybe that what all the moisture farmers work for. Who buys the moisture that they farm anyway?

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series was one of the first ever sci-fi franchises (along with his Robot series; he eventually amalgamated the two); it is legendaryt and sci-fi and without his influence much modern day sci-fi would not exist.

After his death (with the story not wuite finished), three sequal books were written, and they were not very good. Greg Bear's one was SO bad that I refused to touch Rogue Planet with a bargepole when it came out.

Don't go overboard on what the book says, Tex, though we have no reason to think it is wrong.

Point is, it's not going to be an ocean in the way which we would recognise it.