Tobar said:

SilverWook said:

I don't think it's possible to avoid reference to anything from the prequels the way the rest of the Star Trek films essentially ignored the events of TMP. Coruscant is the hub of the Galaxy, unless events take the plot far from there.

Whatever government the Rebellion formed post Jedi would probably want to set up shop there.

Interesting choice of example in Coruscant seeing as it first appeared in the EU and was the center of the New Republic. =P

I thought it grew out of the concept of a capital for the Empire, that existed in Lucas' early script ideas. (Which Timothy Zahn expanded on and gave it a proper name?) There is pre-production art dating back to the OT.