The Yavin system lies in the Gordian Reach sector of the Outer Rim Territories, reached primarily via the Hydian Way hyperlane. So remote and inhospitable that early Republic scouts dismissed it after only a cursory survey, Han Solo later called it "the left side of nowhere." A dense purple nebula nicknamed the "Shadow of the Alliance" drifts nearby, though it lies outside the system itself.
Three worlds orbit the orange star Yavin: the barren inner planet Fiddanl, the captured comet Stroiketcy, and the gas giant Yavin Prime, whose twenty-six moons include Yavin 4, first headquarters of the Rebel Alliance. This preset centers on the system's defining moment: the Battle of Yavin, when a scratch force of Rebel starfighters destroyed the Empire's first Death Star.
An orange K-class main-sequence star anchoring the Yavin system. As was customary among early Republic scouts, the same name was given to both the star and its largest world.
The innermost planet of the Yavin system, a barren world of mercury seas and unstable, shifting landmasses.
An unusual captured comet occupying the system's second orbit, rather than a true planet.
A massive red-orange gas giant nearly 200,000 km across, orbited by twenty-six moons—only three of which, Yavin 4, Yavin 8, and Yavin 13, are habitable. The Death Star famously approached through its cloud layer on its way to destroy the Rebel base.
A humid jungle moon, the largest of Yavin Prime's satellites and home to the Alliance to Restore the Republic's first major headquarters.
An ancient Massassi ziggurat built more than 5,000 years before the Battle of Yavin under the exiled Sith Lord Naga Sadow. Refitted by the Rebel Alliance as Base One, its ceremonial chamber, control room, and starfighter hangar served as Alliance headquarters, and the site where Leia Organa awarded medals to Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca.
A cold, arid moon of snow-covered tundra, home to the amphibious Melodies. Yavin 8 was also once home to a second sentient species, wiped out by order of Emperor Palpatine.
A hot, arid moon of desert and rocky plains, home to the rodent-like Gerbs and serpentine Sliths, with shallow seas spread across its southern hemisphere.
The Empire's ultimate superweapon, fresh from annihilating Alderaan, closing on Yavin 4.
Han Solo and Chewbacca's YT-1300f freighter, returning at the last possible moment to clear Luke Skywalker's tail during the final trench run.
The Rebel Alliance's entire strike force at the Battle of Yavin, launched from the Great Temple. Red Squadron (12 X-wings) flew under Red Leader Garven Dreis, with Red Two Wedge Antilles, Red Three Biggs Darklighter, and Red Five Luke Skywalker among its pilots. Gold Squadron (8 Y-wings) flew under Gold Leader Jon "Dutch" Vander, with Gold Two Dex Tiree and Gold Five Davish Krail. Green Squadron (10 X-wings) rounded out the group. By the battle's end, only Skywalker, Antilles, and a single Y-wing survived the run on the Death Star's thermal exhaust port.
Darth Vader's personal TIE fighter unit deployed against the Rebel assault. Vader flew a one-of-a-kind TIE Advanced X1, escorted by two standard TIE fighters. Vader personally shot down Gold Leader Vander and Red Three, Biggs Darklighter, during the trench run, closing on Luke Skywalker's X-wing before a collision with the Millennium Falcon sent his fighter tumbling away from the Death Star.