There was possibly another project in development that needed the planet to exist in that timeframe. The tweets from Hidalgo suggest that Courscant wasn’t used as the seat of the New Republic in The Force Awakens because Lucasfilm didn’t want Courscant destroyed. This means that in the current canon the New Republic had at least two capitals before The Force Awakens - Chandrila and the Hosnian system - but never Coruscant. This idea was emphasized by background dialogue in The Mandalorian, which confirmed that Chandrila (home to Mon Mothma) was the capital planet for the New Republic in roughly 9ABY. In fact, Coruscant itself comes from Legends canon it’s first introduced in Timothy Zahn’s novel Heir to the Empire, then retroactively becomes the seat of power for the Old Republic in The Phantom Menace.īy moving the center of New Republic political power away from Coruscant, The Force Awakens established a new way to think about how a “centralized” Star Wars system of governance might work. This was a subtle but large departure from Legends lore, in which the New Republic takes over the same structures occupied by the Empire and runs things from Coruscant. At the time of the movie’s release in 2015, this was a new star system in Star Wars lore and indicated that the New Republic didn’t set up shop on Coruscant after beating the Empire. In the final version of The Force Awakens, Starkiller Base destroys “the Republic,” which we later learn is in the Hosnian system. This droid was teaching the students all about where the New Republic was located.
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