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Yavin 4 亞汶四號衛星from : Starwars
這顆遙遠的星球亞汶四號是個環繞在氣態行星亞汶上的叢林衛星，並成為銀河歷史中眾人的焦點。佈滿霧氣的森林蒼穹和廢棄的原住民神殿對於早期的反抗軍是個理想的藏身地點。當都東納將軍帶著反抗軍武力來此時，當地的馬沙西人神殿已經滅絕了數千年。
當帝國藉由放在千年鷹號上的追蹤器找到反抗軍時，死星就接著出現在亞汶星系。這個戰鬥基地部署在亞汶軌道上，以便瞄準此較小的衛星射擊。反抗軍只有不到半小時的時間發動一次反擊。
在了解死星的唯一弱點下，聯軍戰機飛行員呼嘯著沖向帝國超級武器，即為亞汶之役的開始。在路克‧天行者的功勞之下，造就了反抗軍的第一次輝煌勝利。
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亞汶四號衛星是星系內三個衛星中唯一可蘊育生命的地方，豐富的叢林生命交織著銀河長久以來爭奪撕裂的繡帷。數千年來至少有兩次事件發生在此，讓亞汶四號成為決定性的銀河攤牌點。亞汶四號的地熱活動十分活躍，地表有百分之六十九是分為四洲的大陸。六個內接的海洋覆蓋剩餘的表面，以及一個大到足以被稱為內海的封閉水域。數十年前，這些洲被Wetyin殖民地的偵查人員取了臨時的名稱：Starloft、Swivven、Koos和Wetyin。
因為亞汶四號環繞在一個氣態行星上，因此有兩種不同的傍晚。當衛星轉開恆星但面對行星時，叢林就會籠罩在柔和的微光內。若亞汶四號同時轉開恆星與行星的方向，或是位於日蝕位置，就會變成完全的黑夜。在自轉週期的每幾個月，會經歷一次極長的黑夜時期，導致氣溫驟降而產生嚴重的風暴。
亞汶四號另一個美麗的現象被稱為「彩虹風暴」。這在恆星光束穿透氣態行星的上層邊緣時，造成光線極化，在擊中亞汶四號的高大氣層結冰晶體時，形成異常閃爍的彩虹大雨降下。
亞汶四號的叢林從不安寧，夜晚可聽見高在樹上的woolamanders嗥叫，或是帶著鼻音搜尋糧秣的Yavinian runyip 或是stintaril。其他生命體包括琵琶魚、鰻魚、爬行魚、黏液蠑螈、火蜜峰、水虎魚甲蟲和水晶蛇。
數千年前，流亡的西斯大君納加‧沙度從超空間大戰逃往亞汶四號，躲避敵人追擊。沙度命令他的船員建造巨大的神殿，以作為自己在此施展西斯魔術的地點。沙度是個熟巧的鍊金術士，他把它的船隻藏在新建的火之西斯神殿下，並以船員的後裔創造了突變的馬沙西戰士。這些戰士守衛著他們建造的神殿，而在沙度死後，馬沙西人繼續發展了引以為傲的部落文化，以原力黑暗面增犟他們古老的武器。
數個世紀後，一位年輕的絕地伊薩‧亢在體驗原力的黑暗面後，跟隨古西斯著作來到亞汶四號。他奴隸了馬沙西人，並犟迫他們建造他的新神殿。在西斯戰爭的高峰期間，伊薩‧亢帶著二十位絕地來到亞汶四號，並用古西斯的邪惡精神腐化他們。藉由這些被控制的絕地，亢發動了殘忍的絕地大屠殺。為了報復，由烏立克‧奎卓馬率領的數千絕地湧向這個叢林衛星。
亢在明白自己會被擊敗下，將所有馬沙西人活埋並將自己的靈魂保存在他的神殿內，只留下用西斯鍊金術創造的夜獸保護他的遺產。絕地特遣隊雖然成功的殺死亢的身軀，但殺死殘存的馬沙西人的突擊也造成許多叢林的荒蕪。
就這樣過了數千年，亞汶四號被廣泛地遺忘。複製人戰爭期間，此星出現在一些圖表上，且只有知道一些古老知識的絕地或西斯才知道此處。Asajj Ventress曾引誘安納金‧天行者來到亞汶四號破舊的西斯神殿，在此爆發激烈的光劍對決。
這個衛星在成為反抗軍新的基地舞台後再次獲得重視。聯軍高層指揮部在放棄丹圖音的基地後設於此地的神殿內，雨林可當作反抗軍的掩護，且衛星又遠離哥帝爾斯區，限制了鄰近的交通。
反抗軍自然學家Dr'uun Unnh花了短短几星期整理亞汶四號的生命體種類，他也為許多所謂的馬沙西神殿取名。其中包括藍葉叢集、Woolamander的宮殿以及容納反抗軍基地的大聖殿。
反抗軍在亞汶之役不久後放棄了此處的基地，轉到如Thila和霍斯的秘密地點，亞汶四號因此又忽然被遺忘了。多年後，反抗軍再度於這個叢林衛星設立基地，後來成為新共和參議院星球情報網總部。
當絕地大師路克‧天行者在帝國於安鐸戰敗多年後，於此設立他的絕地學院，此叢林衛星再度成為數次攻擊的目標。最近的一次是遇戰瘋的佔領，摧毀了雄偉的馬沙西神殿並迫使絕地們遷移他處。
A remote world that became a focal point in galactic history, Yavin 4 is a jungle moon orbiting the gas giant of Yavin. Its steamy jungle canopy and abandoned native temples formed the perfect hiding place for an early Alliance base. The native Massassi had long been extinct by the time General Dodonna's Rebel forces erected a hidden fortress on the moon.
When the Empire discovered the location of the Rebels by following a homing beacon secreted aboard the Millennium Falcon, the Death Star soon appeared in the Yavin system. The battle station had to orbit the gas giant Yavin for a clear shot at the smaller moon. The Rebel forces had a scant 30 minutes to launch a counterattack.
Armed with knowledge of the Death Star's sole weakness, Alliance starfighter pilots soared toward the Imperial superweapon. Thus began the Battle of Yavin, which, due to the efforts of Luke Skywalker, became the first major victory of the Rebel Alliance.
One of three moons in the system capable of sustaining life, Yavin 4 has a long and strife-torn history interwoven into its tapestry of lush jungle life. On at least two occasions over thousands of years, Yavin 4 became the site of crucial galactic showdowns.
Yavin 4 is a young world with plenty of geothermal activity. Sixty-nine percent of its surface is landmass, divided into four continents. Six interconnected oceans cover the rest of the moon, along with one landlocked body large enough to be called a sea. Decades ago, the continents were given the temporary names of Starloft, Swivven, Koos and Wetyin by scouts from Wetyin's Colony.
Because Yavin 4 orbits a gas giant, it has two different types of nightfall. When the moon faces away from the sun, but still faces the gas giant, Yavin 4 experiences twilight night, as the jungle is flooded in a pastel glow. When Yavin 4 faces away from both the sun and the planet, or when the gas-giant eclipses the sun, the moon experiences dark night. Yavin 4's rotation is such that once every several months, it experiences excessively long dark nights. When this occurs, temperatures drop to generate severe storms.
The so-called "rainbow storms" are another beautiful phenomenon of Yavin 4. They occur when the sun pokes around the limb of the great gas giant, casting its beams through the giant's hazy upper atmosphere. This causes the sunlight to become polarized, and when it then strikes ice crystals in Yavin 4's upper atmosphere, great scintillating showers of rainbows appear.
The jungles of Yavin 4 are never quiet, as the night brings about the howls of the woolamanders high in their trees, or the snuffling foraging of a Yavinian runyip or stintaril. Other life-forms include the angler, the armored eel, the crawlfish, mucous salamanders, firebees, piranha-beetles, and crystal snakes.
Thousands of years ago, the Sith Lord exile Naga Sadow fled to Yavin 4, escaping enemy forces from the Great HyperSpace War. Sadow commanded his crew to erect massive temples to serve as focal points for his Sith magic. Sadow, a skilled alchemist, hid his vessel deep underneath the newly built Sith Temple of Fire. Using his Sith magic and alchemy, Sadow created the mutated Massassi warriors from descendents of his Sith crew. These Massassi guarded the new Sith temples they erected. As Sadow passed on, the Massassi continued, developing into a proud tribal culture that used the dark side of the Force to augment their archaic weapons.
Centuries later, a young Jedi named Exar Kun, who was experimenting with the dark side of the Force, followed ancient Sith scripture and came to Yavin 4. He Enslaved the Massassi, and forced them to construct new temples as focal points of Sith power. During the height of the Sith War, Exar Kun brought 20 Jedi initiates with him to Yavin 4, and infected them with the vile spirits of the ancient Sith. With the Jedi under control, Kun brought about a terrible Jedi holocaust. In retaliation, thousands of Jedi descended upon the jungle moon, led by Ulic Qel-Droma.
Knowing he would be defeated, Kun tapped the life forces of all the Massassi to seal and preserve his consciousness within his temple. As a last measure, Kun left behind the night beast, an alchemical creation, to guard his legacy. The Jedi task force succeeded in killing Kun's body, but the assault also laid waste to many of Yavin 4's jungles and killed what few Massassi were left. All that remained of the species were their massive monuments.
For millennia, Yavin 4 was largely ignored. During the Clone Wars, it existed on few charts, and only those with arcane knowledge of the Jedi or Sith knew of it. Asajj Ventress lured Anakin Skywalker to the decrepit Sith temples of Yavin 4, and engaged him in a blazing lightsaber duel.
The moon came into prominence once again when it became a staging ground for the Alliance's new Rebel base. After abandoning their Dantooine base, Alliance High Command set up in the temples. The rain forests provided the Alliance cover, and the moon's out-of-way location along the Gordian Reach limited nearby traffic.
Alliance naturalist Dr'uun Unnh had a brief few weeks to catalog the life-forms of Yavin 4. It was he who named many of the temples in the so-called Massassi site. These included the Temple of the Blueleaf Cluster, the Palace of the Woolamander, and the Great Temple that housed the Rebel base.
The Rebels abandoned Yavin 4 shortly after the Battle of Yavin in favor of other hidden bases, such as those on Thila and Hoth. Yavin 4 plunged into obscurity once again. Years later, the Rebels again set up base on the jungle moon, as it became the headquarters of the New Republic's Senate Planetary Intelligence Network.
When Jedi Master Luke Skywalker established his Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 years after the Empire's defeat at Endor, the jungle moon again became the target of several attacks. The most recent, undertaken by the Yuuzhan Vong, destroyed the great Massassi temples and forced the Jedi to relocate.
