What kind of defenses does Coruscant have?

[T-1000]

Have any of the novilzations or any of the reference books ever stated what kind of defensive firepower Coruscant has in case of a full scale attack on Imperial city (say some rogue Rebel cell what nuts and decided to gather a large fleet of capital ships, troop transports, fighters, the works!). How would Coruscant repell such a fleet?

[AdmiralKanos]

It's got a shield, and it gets so much traffic that even if someone showed up, blockaded its traffic and jammed its transmissions, every star system in the region would know about its predicament and reinforcements would come streaming to the scene.

[Master of Ossus]

It's got an extremely powerful set of planetary shields, numerous surface-to-space and surface-to-air emplacements scattered throughout the planet, a very large defense fleet, numerous extremely powerful orbital defense platforms, mines, and its importance as a strategic world.

[Mr Bean]

Better Answear

The Planet of Courscant has dual overlapping shield systems both stronger than the avarage Imperal Worlds SINGLE set of Plantary shields which are know to be able to take YOTTATONS of energy and survive, Its even theories that the shields would be able to take a DS 2 shot and survive realtivly intact

Important Instlisations on top of THAT have thier own onsite power generation facilites + Theater Shields and entire brigades just to defend them

In orbit is a network of Golan I and Golan II Defense Platfoms which although they are Imoble have more weapons than an ISD II and stronger shields as well, These are spaced roughly ever 100 KMs or so in a gobal patter so each Golan has 100 KM Circule to defend for itself

Also the Courscant Defense Fleet which is comprised of a reforced Sector Fleet for JUST Courscant instelf, Mind you thats 24 Imperal SD plus a few hundred smaller support ships, JUST for Courscant.

During Imperal Times the Plant also had 4-20 Imperal Star Destroyer MK IIs in close attendance at all times as well

Hmm I don't belive I left anything out, Oh besides the Plantary Weaponry itself with Light mintue ranges, Mind you the Golan's are in the Highest Possible Orbit around the Planet so the Space between them and the Planet is normaly the main Fire area of the Plantary defense, however is somthing gets close enough to the Golan's they can hit that too


Plantary defense counsit of a few hundred Wings of Fighters, Smaller Attack Ships(Gunboat Sized) and Plantary Defense turrets which as we know from Essitonal Guid are defined as having 25 Meter Bores
Comparsion
The WWII Iowa Class Cruiser had 16 inch guns
The Plantary Turbolasers have 984 Inch Guns


Yep thats about it

[Captain tycho]

In Star By Star, we saw that it had easily ten-thousand fighters for defense , hundreds of ground-based weapons, multiple overlapping shields, dozens of orbiting Golan Arms defense platforms, and a large minefield. Of course, the Yuuzhan Vong were right at Coruscant's doorstep at the time, so the would obviously not be present in normal situations.

[Mr Bean]

Of course, the Yuuzhan Vong were right at Coruscant's doorstep at the time, so the would obviously not be present in normal situations.

Yep and look at the Idiot NR, Even during the Empire's collapse they had over a million SF on Courscant(FYI on a Planet of TRILLIONS its not to be suprised they have a ton of defenses, after all millio is just .0000001% of the total popluation)

[Captain tycho]

Of course, the Yuuzhan Vong were right at Coruscant's doorstep at the time, so the would obviously not be present in normal situations.

Yep and look at the Idiot NR, Even during the Empire's collapse they had over a million SF on Courscant(FYI on a Planet of TRILLIONS its not to be suprised they have a ton of defenses, after all millio is just .0000001% of the total popluation)

There was also many references to an atmospheric defense force, consisting of thousands of airspeers and repulsor vehicles.

[FettKyle]

Mr Bean you forgot Lusanka. Is that how It's spelled?

[Zaku-chan]

Mr Bean you forgot Lusanka. Is that how It's spelled?

Lusankya. And when was that part of the Coruscant Defense Force?

[FettKyle]

It launch from Corusant and it could be used as a defence if the Emperor was alive

[Alyeska]

In orbit is a network of Golan I and Golan II Defense Platfoms which although they are Imoble have more weapons than an ISD II and stronger shields as well, These are spaced roughly ever 100 KMs or so in a gobal patter so each Golan has 100 KM Circule to defend for itself

IIRC they also had mostly Golan-IIIs which had an equal number of missile launchers as a VSD-I.

[Zaku-chan]

It launch from Corusant and it could be used as a defence if the Emperor was alive

It killed millions when it launched off from Coruscant. Great way to protect people.

[FettKyle]

We ARE talking about the Empire whats 1,000,000 comparerd to 1,000,000,000,000

[Zaku-chan]

We ARE talking about the Empire whats 1,000,000 comparerd to 1,000,000,000,000

Still a dumb way to "protect" a planet. Besides, it had to discard the repulsor couch it used to get through the atmosphere, and the Empire wouldn't waste credits building those over and over just to launch one SSD.

[FettKyle]

Your Right, but it still can be used.

[Zaku-chan]

Your Right, but it still can be used.

Just because it CAN doesn't mean it SHOULD. If anything, it should be a last-ditch tactic. If your forces are nearly beaten, having an SSD come to their aid from nowhere is always a good thing.

[Lord Pounder]

Have any of the novilzations or any of the reference books ever stated what kind of defensive firepower Coruscant has in case of a full scale attack on Imperial city (say some rogue Rebel cell what nuts and decided to gather a large fleet of capital ships, troop transports, fighters, the works!). How would Coruscant repell such a fleet?

Welcome to SD.net Pounder sized poke

serriously nice too meet you but don't ask silly questions that can be answered by reading one of the EU books. Try the X-Wing books, they get well into the workings and defences of Corruscant

[TheDarkling]

Whats wrong with the guy asking for info?
I usually get PMs asking for info on things but if this guy didnt know who to pm starting a thread is a good enough idea.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

WRONG FORUM!

[Sea Skimmer]

Your Right, but it still can be used.

Just because it CAN doesn't mean it SHOULD. If anything, it should be a last-ditch tactic. If your forces are nearly beaten, having an SSD come to their aid from nowhere is always a good thing.

At that point it's far more likely it would just be crushed. If an enemy assaults with sufficient strength to overwhelm as opposed to just harassing the defenses one Executor when you're near dead won't do shit against that kind of force.

With an attack under way you'd have time to clear people out from over it and then lift off. Isard needed to escape quickly and couldn't exactly go around warning people.

[T-1000]

Welcome to SD.net Pounder sized poke

serriously nice too meet you but don't ask silly questions that can be answered by reading one of the EU books. Try the X-Wing books, they get well into the workings and defences of Corruscant

What? So now there is a problem with me asking a simple question? All I wanted to know was what kind of defenses Coruscant has, and the people here have been more than kind enough to answer.

[Zaku-chan]

At that point it's far more likely it would just be crushed. If an enemy assaults with sufficient strength to overwhelm as opposed to just harassing the defenses one Executor when you're near dead won't do shit against that kind of force.

But with a battle of that magnitude, there's probably a good chance the invaders will have taken some body blows and be reeling just like the defenders.

With an attack under way you'd have time to clear people out from over it and then lift off. Isard needed to escape quickly and couldn't exactly go around warning people.

Which is why I think it's a bad idea.

[Sea Skimmer]

But with a battle of that magnitude, there's probably a good chance the invaders will have taken some body blows and be reeling just like the defenders.

Not likely. If you assault the most important planet in the galaxy, you need overwhelming strength so you can both breach the defenses and ward off the counter attacks that will follow. Truly overwhelming power is needed, not just sufficient margin to win.

Which is why I think it's a bad idea.

How does it make it a bad idea if you can simply order everyone to evac? Construction driod's can rebuild the place overnight and the vast swarms of airhooks on the planet can easily haul off mere millions in a short timeframe.

Courscant had people leaving the planet by the tens of billions in a timeframe of minutes after all. Moving them 5 kilometers is not going to take very long at all.

[Zaku-chan]

Not likely. If you assault the most important planet in the galaxy, you need overwhelming strength so you can both breach the defenses and ward off the counter attacks that will follow. Truly overwhelming power is needed, not just sufficient margin to win.

Good point.

How does it make it a bad idea if you can simply order everyone to evac? Construction driod's can rebuild the place overnight and the vast swarms of airhooks on the planet can easily haul off mere millions in a short timeframe.

Courscant had people leaving the planet by the tens of billions in a timeframe of minutes after all. Moving them 5 kilometers is not going to take very long at all.

But who will you evac millions, possible billions of people from the area in just the few minutes that may allow the SSD to emergency launch? And where will they go if a full-scale is raging outside the planetary shield?

[Sea Skimmer]

How does it make it a bad idea if you can simply order everyone to evac? Construction driod's can rebuild the place overnight and the vast swarms of airhooks on the planet can easily haul off mere millions in a short timeframe.

Courscant had people leaving the planet by the tens of billions in a timeframe of minutes after all. Moving them 5 kilometers is not going to take very long at all.

But who will you evac millions, possible billions of people from the area in just the few minutes that may allow the SSD to emergency launch? And where will they go if a full-scale is raging outside the planetary shield?

I assume you mean how and where. I addressed both in part already. The vast fleet of atmospheric airspeeders and airhooks on Coruscant can easily move billions in minutes.

"Attention we need ten to fifteen million air speeders to do twenty minutes work for fifty credits to help save the planet. All interested please go to the following sector and do the following....."

A plant with a Quadrillion people would easily have enough hotel space to hold that many people, but its not like a day without a bed to sleep in would hurt anyone if that's not an option. Construction driod's are constantly at work on the planet and can build skyscrapers in minutes. The whole area could be rebuilt overnight.