While much of Coruscant was filled with gleaming apartments and well-maintained skywalks, the entire moon that was Nar Shaddaa was dominated by decaying urban landscape and congested, polluted cities. The urban areas on Nar Shaddaa were known as vertical cities since new layers of housing and entertainment buildings were built on top of older layers, like Coruscant and Taris. In between these ports, massive vertical cities grew. But unlike Coruscant-which was only relatively rundown and dangerous on the lower and under levels of the world city-Nar Shaddaa was filthy, polluted, and infested with crime everywhere.Īncient refueling spires and loading docks reached out from the native soil and some built in the upper atmosphere. More commonly known as the Vertical City, the Smuggler's Moon and Little Coruscant, Nar Shaddaa was similar to Coruscant in that its surface was entirely overgrown with city sprawl for millennia.
Nar Shaddaa was the largest moon of Nal Hutta. Planetary Background and History 'Ah, the beautiful stench and decay of desperate living.'
