Irregular webcomic atmospheric turns and Coruscant

[Adam Reynolds]

Irregular webcomic made a rather amusing strip about Luke's Death Star Run. Luke makes the comment that it would be just like Beggar's Canyon back home. To which Biggs points out to him that there is no air here, he can't bank into turns the way he could flying an atmospheric craft on Tatooine.

While I see the point he is making, for the specific purpose of getting out of the Death Star trench, would it matter what direction his initial velocity was? As long as he accelerated upwards quickly enough, it wouldn't affect his escaping.

His other main Star Wars criticism has an answer as well. He points out that it is physically impossible for Coruscant to exist. The solution here was suggested by Curtis Saxton in the AOTC ICS books. He posits that neutrino generators exist which allow Star Wars craft to easily dump their waste energy in a form that physically cannot affect the environment. If Coruscant also had these, it would be relatively straightforward for them to solve this problem.

The second solution to his problems is that he suggests a number for Coruscant's population that is not justified. The canon number is only a trillion. While that is often regarded as minimalist and that likely numbers should be higher, I would posit that Coruscant has a population density no higher than New York City or Macau. I would suggest that it is as low as Hong Kong. That would only give a population in the single digit trillions.

This is backed up by the fact that there were empty spaces on Coruscant large enough to land a literal fleet of Venator class and Acclamator class ships. In addition to an area sufficiently deserted that Count Dooku could land his starship, one that had just fled from a warzone at that, on Coruscant without anyone seeing him.

[Esquire]

First, no, the comic author is making a joke. Inability to airbrake has precisely nothing to do with ability to not run into a wall.

Second, there's multiple ways to explain Coruscant as a city-planet. The actual 'truth,' I suspect, is some mixture of all of the below:

a) The Empire actually can and does ship 'the output of 10,000 agricultural planets" to Coruscant every day. They can built a moon-sized battlestation without anybody noticing the freight capacity not being used for anything else; they can handle it.

b) Imperial food production techniques are massively more efficient than our own, and can do something similar to Firefly - what was it again, a week's food for a family of four in something the size of a brick? Food recycling is almost certainly performed more effectively and broadly than on Earth, too.

c) There are whole 'underground' layers dedicated to food production and/or waste disposal, say through algea tanks and artificial greenhouses.

On a side-note, there aren't huge empty spaces on Coruscant. There are flat sections on top of the city. And Dooku needn't land in an abandoned wilderness when he has access to stealth technology, Force manipulation, and bribery to stay undetected.

[SAMAS]

Actually, The Works(an abandoned ex-industrial sector) is actually a thing.

[Adam Reynolds]

Actually, The Works(an abandoned ex-industrial sector) is actually a thing.

Indeed. It would not make sense for Palpatine to have his lair in an area of the planet that people could see him coming from.

There are also areas large enough to literally land star destroyers.

[Esquire]

Yes and no - from Wookiepedia, it's not abandoned so much as dangerous; there's plenty of inhabitants, they're just more likely to kill or rob you than anything else. Plus the Empire put a starfighter factory there.

And, again, please show that the landing areas mentioned are on the planet's surface instead of its roof.