The Alderaan system was once a jewel of the Core Worlds, famed for its natural beauty and the pacifist culture of its people.
This snapshot is frozen at the moment of the Battle of Yavin (0 BBY), instants after the planet's destruction by the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station. The system is now defined by the Alderaanian Graveyard—a field of debris that serves as a haunting memorial to billions of lives lost—while its other four worlds continue on, unaffected.
A warm, yellow main-sequence star that once bathed a world of pacifists and philosophers in its light. Its system was originally home to five planets.
The innermost of the system's five planets.
Known to smugglers as the "Graveyard of Alderaan," this asteroid field is all that remains of Alderaan, obliterated by a single full-power blast from the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station. The Empire held it under blockade for years afterward, until its defeat at the Battle of Endor. Grieving Alderaanians risked capture performing "the Returning"—launching capsules of remembrance into the debris—while self-appointed "Guardians" patrolled to keep pirates from looting them.
A swarm of Twin Ion Engine fighters sweeping the freshly made debris field for survivors or rebel scouts.
A heavily modified YT-1300f Corellian light freighter that just dropped out of hyperspace into a field of meteors where a planet should have been. It is currently locked in an incredibly powerful magnetic tractor beam.
That's no moon. It's a space station. An armored, moon-sized superweapon capable of destroying entire planets.
Alderaan's industrial sister world and the third planet of the system. Alderaan outsourced much of its manufacturing here, and Delaya's smog-choked capital, Leilani, drew factory workers from across the galaxy.
A pale, ringed gas giant drifting silently in the outer reaches of the now-broken system.
A lonely, frozen rock marking the edge of the star's gravitational influence.