With that in mind, now might be the perfect time to revive the idea of the Underworld project and continue to explore the lower levels of Coruscant. In the recent glimpse at this criminal underworld that The Clone Wars gave fans, they saw that the crooks in the lower levels mean serious business. Even Ahsoka, a skilled fighter trained in the Jedi arts, had to break a sweat to beat a couple of low-level goons down. The episode added a cyberpunk flair to the series, which is a great contrast to the shiny upper levels.
Seeing something like this translated to a live-action series would instantly create a classic piece of Star Wars content. If Lucasfilm is smart, it'll take from the long-awaited series from Lucas to provide new content from a galaxy far, far away.
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Garbage was compressed into thick blocks and stored in the deeper levels of the Underworld. Much machinery that satisfied the needs of the well-to-do surface-dwellers, were also kept in the depths of the Underlevels and so there was a constant sense of motion and unrest. The Underlevels were home to various mutant species including the cthon , Coruscani ogre , duracrete slugs , hive rats , shadow barnacles , Conduit worm , taozin , and granite slugs , which often posed a threat to sentient beings.
Very little is known of the Coruscant underlevels in the Pre-Republic era. In , BBY , the lowest fifty levels of the planetwide ecumenopolis had been fully built over the entire surface. Around that time, the big-brained Columi visited the world and dismissed Coruscant as a primitive failure despite the presence of the planetwide city.
Over the following millennia, the lower levels became the domain of criminals and vagrants. The bottom fifty levels that made up the underworld were buried under levels of duracrete and buildings. Several mutant species developed around this period including the humanoid Cthon and the corridor ghouls. Despite the formation of the Galactic Republic in 25, BBY , life in the underlevels was left unchanged by the new galactic government.
During the Great Galactic War , food shortages caused riots in the underlevels. The Undercity during the Clone Wars. During the waning days of the Galactic Republic period, while the wealth and marvel of Coruscant gleamed on its exterior level, the Underworld below degenerated even further, since the Republic was in decline.
It served as a refuge for scum, petty crooks, as well as drug dealers, the poor gone bad, and other outlaws. Even the highest of the underlevels fell into ruin and disrepair by the time of the Naboo crisis and the Clone Wars. One place as dangerous as it was popular in the Underlevels was the Uscru Entertainment District with such hangouts as the Outlander Club and the Snapping Septoid.
The once-famous criminal organization called Black Sun had many allies working in the Coruscant underworld including none other than District Mayor Acros-Krik. These poor communities of desperate beggars and violent people were isolated from the rest of society by enormous, impenetrable blast doors.
Panaka was given access to one of the locked-down communities where the Queen had been taken by holding the door-operator, an intellectual government agent, at gunpoint. Once rescuing Queen Amidala and killing much scum and hostiles alike, Panaka re-opened the verbally-accessible blast doors by giving the passcode phrase "Coruscant has lovely sunsets".
Quinlan Vos is tested by Mace Windu in the bowels of Coruscant. Lower-class immigrants who came to Coruscant, expecting to be living in the prosperity of the "surface life", were all gradually sunken into the subterranean realms. Self-made neighborhood lookouts would often gain some small territory over their group of companions and lessers if lower ranks could at all be possible , thus occasionally creating a tight-knit and durable community who might have even withstood hoodlum fights and minor attacks.
Usually though, once these vigilantes acquired weapons to protect their turf or began engaging in violence, even if in self-defense, there was always a great chance their strengthening community would collapse to eventual criminal influences. The destruction of the galactic capital was hoped to be followed by the destruction of the Galactic Republic.
This resulted in the deaths of Ashaar, all his comrades, and Yarael. During the Imperial reign of the galaxy that began in 19 BBY , conditions in the Underworld deteriorated further and it became a refuge for Jedi Purge survivors and dissidents. These fugitives survived by revamping some of the abandoned underbasement rooms, tapping into electrical conduits, and stealing energy from the city world's power grid, while surviving upon scraps and the fungus found in these lower levels. Han Solo was once forced to descend to the very planetary surface itself, an experience he found so harrowing he vowed never to do it again, making the same vow for the surface of Nar Shaddaa.
Also, at some time prior to the Battle of Endor , the Emperor had the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya constructed and hidden beneath the lower levels of the planetwide city. The Lusankya would become the private prison and secret headquarters of the Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard , who would use it to imprison key Rebel Alliance prisoners. Luke Skywalker fighting a dianoga in the sewers below Xizor's Palace.
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