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Core Worlds

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This article is about the central region of the galaxy sometimes known as the Core. You may be looking for the core as a military unit during the New Sith Wars.
"Who controls Coruscant controls the Core, and without the Core, the Alliance is nothing."
―Admiral Traest Kre'fey[src]
The Core.
The Core.[1]

The Core Worlds (also known as the Galactic Core and, during the Imperial era, the Imperial Core) were some of the most prestigious, well-developed, well-known, and heavily populated planets in the galaxy. In astrophysical terms, the Core denoted the central area of the galaxy, and in broad terms this was true enough, but the precise usage of the term was sometimes more complex.

The major Rimward hyperlanes radiated outwards around little more than half the galactic disk, and the Core Worlds occupied a C-shaped region of space around the Deep Core, the heart of the astrophysical core, which was considered as a separate outlier area, facing in the opposite direction, and extending outwards towards the Unknown Regions.

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Humans were believed to have come from one of the core worlds. It was most widely speculated that Coruscant was the birthplace of humanity, although there was little to no archeological evidence to support that theory. Before the invention of the hyperdrive, galactic civilization was limited to only the Core Worlds. Densely populated and heavily industrialized, the Core Worlds were a vital factor in any campaign to rule the galaxy.

The Galactic Republic therefore was born in the Core Worlds and spread out over the galaxy. These planets exchanged hands many times: First the Galactic Republic from 25,000 BBY, then some fell to the Sith Empire in the New Sith Wars only to be reclaimed. Eventually, all were united under the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, later the Rebel Alliance/New Republic reclaimed them throughout 5 and 6 ABY, then the Galactic Empire reconquered in 10 ABY, then the New Republic in the years after 11 ABY, the Yuuzhan Vong in the Yuuzhan Vong War and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances in 29 ABY. The Fel Empire gained control in 130 ABY, at the end of the Sith-Imperial War, only to lose it to a rejuvenated Sith Order in the following days.

During the later stages of the Galactic Civil War, the term Imperial Core, or sometimes even simply "the Core", was used by supporters of both sides to denote areas of remaining Imperial control around the Galactic Center. This usage persisted even when Coruscant and most of the historic Core Worlds had joined under New Republic, and the Imperial holdouts in the area were mostly restricted to the Deep Core and the fringes of the Unknown Regions.

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[edit] Planets of the Core Worlds

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[edit] Notes and references

  1. ↑ Dark Empire Sourcebook
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