New Star Wars: TOR planet revealed - Coruscant, galaxy's 'greatest civilization'

During yesterday's completely packed Star Wars: The Old Republic demo at PAX, fans were rewarded for their hours of waiting (seriously, you had to be there really early) with not only a free copy of Knights of the Old Republic but with the very first glimpse of an entirely new area, located at hyperspace coordinates 0,0,0! If you looked that up on Wikipedia you may have learned those coordinates belong to Coruscant, the Star Wars galaxy's "greatest civilization." If you didn't look it up on Wikipedia and just knew it, well ...

While news that Coruscant will join dozens of other planets in the BioWare-developed MMO is about as surprising as the presence of Jedis ("Really?") and lightsabers ("No way!"), we're certain that being at the nexus of the galaxy's main trade routes will come in handy ... did you know that a bunch of fictional trade routes ran through Coruscant before reading Wikipedia? Be honest, we won't judge you.

SW: TOR fansite Darth Hater managed to snag some shakicam footage of the reveal (in less than twelve parsecs?) which we've smuggled over after the break. Not a Dagobah that we don't get even more Hoth and bothered, adding Kashyyyk to our piggy banks to buy a brand Naboo copy of Star Wars: The Old Republic, what's sure to be the Endor-be-all of Star Wars-based MMOs. Also, what planets could they possibly add next?