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Anyone want to take a guess at this?
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Haven't we?

Something in the low to medium quintillions, I believe.
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I'm curious because, given 12 million full member worlds, and a stated figure of "six hundred fifty billion" :roll: which we can only assume to mean 6.5e13 for the population of coruscant, an upper limit I came up with is 7.8e21. So, I'm looking for a lower limit. :wink:
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Some factors to definitly consider are the ease of both food, transportation of goods and medical.

I'd roughly give easily most except the desolate Outer Rim worlds, a 10 billion mark. Captials easily in the Trillion mark.

Also Han's quote in DE was Twelve Million inhabited Star Systems...not planets.
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So, if we say the average is 10 billion, the average highly developed world, 10 trillion or even 100 trillion, and the average rim world 10 million, what proportions of each are there? :?:
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NecronLord wrote:I'm curious because, given 12 million full member worlds, and a stated figure of "six hundred fifty billion" :roll: which we can only assume to mean 6.5e13 for the population of coruscant, an upper limit I came up with is 7.8e21. So, I'm looking for a lower limit. :wink:
Except that the official population of Coruscant was revised to one trillion (US, abandon antiques) in the ITWs.

And yeah, I know that's still too low, but still indicating that it's been revised.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Except that the official population of Coruscant was revised to one trillion (US, abandon antiques) in the ITWs.

And yeah, I know that's still too low, but still indicating that it's been revised.
Ouch. That's... low..
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NecronLord wrote:So, if we say the average is 10 billion, the average highly developed world, 10 trillion or even 100 trillion, and the average rim world 10 million, what proportions of each are there? :?:
Wouldn't be too bad of a start.

As for ratios a bit unsure...could get to you back at the weekend to see what I can dig up. If I remember the Outer Rim is not tjhat much inhabited as claimed really. The Core worlds also wouldn't be a huge proportion as well.

Maybe a really rough of 35: 50: 15 (Core, Mid, Outer)?
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Well, the Empire has a million systems according to the ANH novelization, while there are 12 million inhabited systems in the galaxy by Han's estimation in Dark Empire- ie taking into account the "so many uncharted settlements", the piss-ant backwater systems the Empire doesn't concern itself with (must be pretty shitty considering Tatooine is part of the Empire) etc.
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Vympel wrote:(must be pretty shitty considering Tatooine is part of the Empire)
Assuming Lord Vader didn't conquer Tatooine for sentimental reasons. :)
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Vympel wrote:(must be pretty shitty considering Tatooine is part of the Empire)
Assuming Lord Vader didn't conquer Tatooine for sentimental reasons. :)
We all know it was the personally capture Watto and go "Ya Mule, YA!!" as he pulls Vader's Speeder.
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Assuming there arent that many Coruscants out there (i think only a few are ever mentioned), that some hundreds of trillions right there per city-planet.

I couldnt imagine what teh whole galactic population is. Honestly it's a number starkly inconceivable to the human mind, tens of quadrillions or hundreds maybe?

I think the word 'countless' is as accurate as we'll ever really get without over/under guessing.

Countless beings across tens of millions of planets.
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