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Coruscant concept art
by Ralph McQuarrie
serving coruscunt, diverse and postindustrial
Watching Attack of The Clones and I just had a thought. When I was a teenager I had gotten altitude sickness as I was going down a mountain. And since Coruscant is a city plant, some of their buildings are in the sky. I was thinking about how some of the people 100% get altitude sickness.
It explains why speeders going down the levels move so slowly too. So I like the idea that the padwans and those who don’t go down there that often taken medicine and drink a lot of water. That is if they can afford the medicine.
I know damn well that Sidious would send Maul down there without water or medicine. He would punish Maul anytime the younger man would throw up from it. Meanwhile he made sure Anakin never got sick 😔
It explains why so many people don’t travel the different levels. It doesn’t just take money and time, but also you can sick from doing it. It just wasn’t worth it half the time
I wonder if having natural teeth is a status symbol on Coruscant?
Like you know how in our present day people go out and get veneers and crowns and such, for the illusion of perfect teeth? And it’s a status symbol because those things are expensive (if done correctly)?
In the Star Wars universe, they have the ability to mass-manufacture things incredibly quickly and cheaply. They also have droids, meaning less labour costs.
I imagine that the dental industry would mass-produce implants, just a standard set of replacement teeth that are given to all patients with tooth decay. I also imagine that this would likely be cheaper than taking the time to clean and repair the natural teeth, since the implants would be installed by droids. Pulling a tooth and screwing a new one in is less fiddly work than cleaning repeatedly, so I think you could get a droid to do it fairly easily.
The poor eat low-quality, high carb food which causes accelerated tooth decay. Most choose to have their decaying teeth replaced with artificial ones, because it’s a permanent treatment, meaning they won’t have to go back and spend more money.
The rich, on the other hand, have access to the most prestigious dental services on the planet. They also have the best food, which causes much less decay. The rich take much pride in having natural teeth, because they can AFFORD to have them. When they are damaged, they can repair them to look identical to how they used to, while the poor who opt for replacements are stuck with these uncannily identical sets. Sometimes, just to rub salt in the wound even more, the wealthy will repair or replace their broken teeth conspicuously, with gold crowns or fillings. They wear braces unashamedly because it’s a flex that they can afford to have a real living dentist REPOSITION THEIR TEETH rather than getting false ones.
In our world, rotten teeth are a sign of poverty, while perfect white identical veneers/crowns are wealth indicators. In such a technologically advanced society as Coruscant, the ladder has shifted, where the identical veneers are affordable enough to be used by the poor, while the rich flaunt their ability to maintain their natural, unique teeth.
Just a world-building thought.
I bet the people watching on Coruscant is especially fun
Coruscant - Jedi Survivor
