How the Coruscant Underworld became a LITERAL HELL (Legends) 

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Geez, this sounds more like 40k than Star Wars. Didn't know it got this dark in Legends.

I do love hearing about the Coruscant Underworld. It's quite literally a planet within a planet. Shame Lucas tv show idea never came to fruition.

Sounds like Courescant is a good place for an RPG with all kinds of tech levels, weapon types, environments, and endless foes for grinding.

The worst case of "out of sight, out of mind" ever.

Courusant is like a onion it has onions

I'm suprised you didn't talk about the blind canabalistic creatures that live on the lowest levels that might have been human at one point from one of the maul novels.

Imagine if the next Star Wars Battlefront were to have a map in an area of Coruscant that collapsed down to the lowest levels with multiple miles of rubble as essentially canyon walls surrounding the battlefield. The death clouds could be an excuse for enforcing play boundaries.

I'm just wondering how the hell the Coruscant undercities haven't become the biggest darkside nexus in the galaxy.

I like how Ecks said he was selling out even though he's sponsoring himself.

Post-Vong/Post Abeloth Coruscant is probably one of the most interesting settings in all of Star Wars. Shining Metropolis turned literal hell. Really wish we got some visual representation of that in media but so long legends

#AskEck Has there ever been an explanation given as to how the whole superstructure of Coruscant has remained standing? If the lowest levels of Coruscant have been abandoned for thousands of years with no upkeep, how have those areas, the very foundations of the higher levels, remained structurally sound and stable all this time? Likewise, if massive parts of the undercity are destroyed by supervolcanos, shouldn't everything above those areas on the surface just collapse into a giant hellpit?

I would never want to be poor on Coruscant lol

Damn this is the kinda thing that I love the most. A huge planet-sized city that's clean and glorious on the top levels but the deeper you go the more broken, ugly, corrupted and horrifying it gets

To me this sounds like Coruscant needs to be scrapped and abandoned.

Republic Era: Okay but not perfect Empire Era: Alright Yuzhan Yong Era: WELCOME TO HELL

Dex's Diner is still the most terrifying hellscape on Coruscant.

I might still take Corusant over Detroit any day

Coruscant underdweller during the Battle of Coruscant (CW): -So my holiday to kessel is cancelled because it's raining droids. God dammit. Coruscant underdweller during the order 66 and rise of the Empire: -So the guy up there has a new outfit. Neat. Coruscant underdweller during the new republic bombings: -The fuck they doing over there, I can't stop hearing some weird pounding. Coruscant underdweller during the Vong invasion and terramorhping: -I had a roaches problem. Now the roaches are somehow man sized. And they ate my neighbour. Neat. Coruscant underdweller during the Abaloth invasion. -Ok eugh no. I standed the roaches. I standed when the roaches turned into man sized human eating monsters, I standed the crime, I standed living on a fucking target of a planet. I AM NOT LIVING IN HELL.

Eck and fans: *Sponsors Eck* Raid: Shadow Legends: He can’t do that, shoot him or something!

I wonder if the massive towers are kept up by high strength materials or anti-gravity generators?

Eck have you ever thought about how Coruscant often has bright blue sunny skies, even though it is a planetary city so it should probably have haze? Is there an in-universe explanation or not?

I remember being so freaked out at all the crazy monsters on the bottom of Taris during the Kotor game.

Some people see Coruscant as a great planet with high advanced city where elites live and everything important happens... But I can only see Coruscant as a parfect definition of dystopia. It's an infinite giant decomposing hell. A cesspit of the galaxy. Also there are several things I really wonder about. When was the corrent surface level constructed? What about senate building and other major facilities? Did they always move them to the new surface level or they just built the new ones and abandoned the old? In my opinion giving Coruscant thousands of levels was bit too much and it causes big trouble and many holes in logic. Also the population of 3 TRILLION is extremely underestimated.

What is Coruscant? A MISERABLE PILE OF SECRETS!

That moment when you discover that sunlight exists and daily blaster fire isn't normal.

Abeloth is one of the most interesting villains in Legends. More than the Empire, more than the Sith, she's pure evil and a threat to the entire galaxy. I wonder how much of the events in the galaxy over the years she had influence over, or if she could only sense what was going on and not affect it. It's a real shame Disney had to go and get rid of it all. Legends went to some incredible places.

One solution to Coruscant Underworld turning into a literal Hell: *EXTERMINATUS!!!*

You know you're in for a fun time when the story seems to have reached it's lowest and bleakest point, before hearing "So then Abeloth shows up..."

So Corucsant is a Hive City light in essence

Here's something I've always wondered, is the Coruscant undercity under the ground, or is the very bottom of the lower levels the actual surface of Coruscant? #AskEck

“Near Demi god” I’d say she was a full on Star Wars god. She was so powerful.

The Yuuzhan-Vong War and the Abeloth’s Corruption incidents; or as some nerds know it, that time Star Wars got a glimpse of the 40k universe...

Ultor: "Welcome to Hell."

I always love it when someone on RU-vid talks about Coruscant Underworld it’s so damn interesting.

This looks like a job for DOOM GUY.

I’d love to see something about someone going so far down that they run into one of the earliest cities that could look similar to ours with wheeled vehicles using fossil fuels and normal kinetic firearms. Of course it’d all be abandoned and decayed to the point of almost being unrecognizable but it’d be extremely cool. Perhaps there could be scarce pockets of original flora and fauna? Something to show how overpopulation can destroy an entire planet?

To those who want an R-Rated Star Wars Show, Coruscant underground. I'll even go as far as going the Level 1 or Ground Level.

Personally I would be really interested in seeing what the Alsakan undercity looks like, since it's canonically almost as old as Coruscant, and almost as populated, but it seems to be better managed on the whole.

So the life of the underworld of Coruscant is basically a constant state of the year 2020

Eck: says stream „tonight“ Me watching this at 2 am: HÆHÆHÆHÆ

I miss the Expanded Universe. I want more, but I don't want Disney to get their filthy paws on it and ruin that too

Eckhart: uploads a video Me: this is where the fun begins

I've always wondered how with thousands of levels built one on top of the other over millions of years the base levels near the surface of coruscant haven't collapsed and the whole city structure crumbled? That's without factoring in all the wars and massive space ships crashing into the planet knocking out support structures. Also if they have built that high into the atmosphere of coruscant wouldn't there be a lack of oxygen, or are they artificially creating oxygen for everyone to breathe on the uppermost levels of the planet?

"Tell him about the death clouds!" THE WHAT

So they basically conducted a chaos ritual dedicated to Khorn... damn, wrong universe

I've always wondered if some new Darkside faction were to return, what if they took a bunch of nukes down into the depths of Coruscant and detonated them in key locations, cause the city to collapse inward! But this... this is definitely more terrifying!

I really like the idea of a City of layers after layers of newly build "citys" build on top of each other. I actually think that SWTOR did it quite well, with unknown Technology, aliens and more ancient stuff that no one understands due to its age buried in its depths

This whole video is basically "this was not helpful to the undercity"

Coruscant had like 1000 years without attack and was relatively well off. Then in a relatively short period of time it went through hell and eventually became hell

This gonna be Earth at the end of 2020

Here's a big problem with these ecumenopoli and their 'too vast to track' populations: Somebody is in charge of making sure enough food makes it to the planet to ensure stability.

New Jedi Order tells about underworld of Coruscant

At this point, abeloth has become the mascot for everything that is terrifying about star wars..

Canon: The galaxy is bleak, but there is light in the darkness! Legends: Everything is hell. It's just hell. No salvation. Only death.

The fall of Courscant is one of the most horrific moments in all of Star Wars. The first time I read Star by Star I almost outright cried. (I later did when a certain character dies) The imagery of the buildings collapsing, Vong dropships landing or air dropping down. The shields falling as the Vong rammed captured, fully loaded refugee ships into the shields.... It was a nightmare.

I really hope we get to see Abeloth in some future Star Wars property. In the hands of a competent writer or producer like Filoni I'm sure they could do a lot with her. Hell make she'd make a great antagonist for a future trilogy considering how terrifying and cerebral of a threat she is.

Could the Chimera of Resistance be able to beat back a demonic invasion with the demonic force that was invading Earth in Doom Eternal?

You know what, I’ve been playing a game called space engineers, and I decided to make a battlestar like the Pegasus, only I called it the battlestar Eckhart 😊😊 in honour of this amazing channel

Fun vid as always. Just a side note but you have the only outro I consistently watch. The pure doggy joy always make me feel better.

you know whats even better than the fact that this video is amazing? or the music? the fact that he keeps making amazing vids :)

How the hell can the lowerst/lower support pillars hold up all those millions of tons of building?

"This part is so funny": Tell then about the death clouds.

I actually started watching your videos and it's good ,nice knowledge about star wars .and it made me wanna learn more about the star wars stories

I remember watching someone's video, saying that Level 0 was actually inhabited by a species who could only live in the insane amounts of pollution that was down there. Also a jedi temple many levels down from thousands of years ago was destroyed by the Sith and tainted so that it would always be s wound in the Force .

It was a little refreshing to see halo gameplay in the background in the beginning

Very insightful. I'm trying to add Coruscant to TROS somehow as I love this planet. Great video!

Your videos and your song used make me really indulge into star wars and make it seem like a real Reality until the end, when the outro fades away, and so does all of my thoughts

So the coruscant underworld is my school?

Hey Eck, love your videos i just had a topic for another video i was wondering about: what happen to Dromun Kass and other old republic sith strongholds after the events of Star Wars: The old republic, as far as i know they are never mentioned again. Thanks!

I love your majestic description of the underworld, it reminds of the opening of a fan fic I read recently.

It's mind boggling to think of a city like this. An ecumenopolis. Over 5000 levels, built up over a period of 50-100 thousand years covering the entire planet. The lower levels _would_ be extremely hazardous. Our planet is gradually moving in this direction, every day I see "development" spreading, and the areas that are already developed gradually start building higher. Ancient cities were built in layers like this, it's just crazy to imagine this on a 100,000 year timespan, provided the technology exists to keep these buildings stable. They must be in the upper atmosphere by now

This was my favourite part of the Fate of the Jedi books just how much of a hell Coruscant became.

You should cover the entire War with the Yuuzhan Vong from how it started to how it ended

Long have I waited for a new Legends-themed video from Ecks... and when it came, awesome one it was!

Great video, love your content!

What do we know about the moons of Coruscant? I’d imagine they are strategically important at least given the location. #AskEck

If Disney wants us to believe Rey is the most powerful character in Star Wars History, then who would win? Rey, or Abeloth?

I love when u talk about the lower levels of Corasant or Abaloth so this video was a real treat

3:06 oh wow that reminds me of the Builders in the Tsutomu Nihei's "Blame!"

I love halo, great choice in gameplay

Imagine being an engineer on coruscant tasked to fix the buildings foundations, I would quit immediately

Great video! The more we learn about the lower levels the better! Please make more under city content!

really cool stuff, I remember one of my favorite books was one dealing with these underworld right before phantom menace

Cool story. I really want to see a game in the underworld. Not a set piece action game, something more RPG-like.

Well then. Never encountered one of your videos exactly 1 minute after you release it. Kinda weird but nice, as I’ve never seen a video of yours when it hasn’t gotten 100+ likes yet. Rest assured, I’m going to press that like button.

I love binging your videos man keep up the good work brother

The idea of an underground society so vast and gigantic actually horrifies me , just imagine living there, in those corridors and tunnels which calling a maze would be an understatement. Seeing the horros of the underground hearing the sound of the empty abandoned tunnels the terrifing sound of machinery howls of unimaginable creatures.

Such a fascinating aspect of Star Wars I wish we got to see explored more deeply in legends, especially post-Vong War. God 1313 would have been so awesome. What a shame

Just what I need on my day off😄

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Happy one year anniversary to this awesome vid!

Coruscant underworld is present day Minneapolis

Is there a video about how exactly Coruscant became a 2 layered planet??

It's funny, for all the crazy shit Abeloth does in Fate of the Jedi, the overwhelming gap in power really hit me when she casually started multiple volcanic eruptions, on Corruscant of all places, with absolutely no effort. You can know someone's a nigh-all-powerful force god, but I'll be damned if scenes like that don't drive the point home.

Awesome ending. I believe I enjoy your videos more then the movies. Speaking Star Wars. Deep details are intriguing to me always if handle properly.

I’d fight my way to the top by any means possible.

If you are you're own sponsor, it isn't so much selling out as it is self-advertising. ;P

"Enough selling out ... let's roll the intro." You ROCK! Fun, yes. And dark ... sad. It makes the imagination spin and reel ... and not in a hopeful way. And the loss of life being likely in the billions ... WOW. Dark, indeed. I can't wait to get to the Abeloth videos....

Yes i agree the underworld is very interesting . i would love to see a lot more of it, series would be the freaking awesoe Thanks very much great video