- "Great events happened here on Yavin 4. You can get a real sense of history."
- — Hoggon
Yavin IV is one of only three habitable moons orbiting the gas giant Yavin Prime. It is mainly covered in jungle and rainforest, and despite being remote and unheard of, it would play some pivotal roles in galactic events, serving as the place of the defeat of Exar Kun and, much later, the critical Battle of Yavin.
Geography[]
Yavin IV is composed of a molten metallic core with a thick, immobile low-relief silicate crust. The surface is made up of four continents which account for sixty-seven percent of the moon's surface. These continents are mostly covered in large sprawling tropical jungles with tall canopies though there are also a few mountain ridges dominated by volcanoes.
Yavin also has six interconnected oceans which cover the remaining thirty-three percent of the moon. There is also a large landlocked sea on the moon. As a relatively young world, the tiny jungle moon experiences a considerable amount of geothermal activity. Large rivers flow dramatically from volcanic heights and then follow a more meandering pace through the jungles.
Yavin 4 experiences two extreme seasons; a wet season which causes violent storms, and a corresponding dry season.
When scouts from discovered the moon, the colonists dubbed these continents the names of Starloft, Swivven, Koos and Wetyin though they eventually left the moon.
Species[]
Yavin IV's large, sprawling tropical jungles teem with an abundance of life. Whisper birds soar above the thick jungle canopy. Packs of arboreal Woolamanders feed on fruits in the thick jungle canopy. The trees are also home to another rodent species known as the Stintarils.
Large and shaggy herbivores known as runyips root through the underbrush beneath the trees. The moon's rivers also teem with life including pinkish salamanders, aquatic gundarks, mucous salamanders, crystal snakes, crustaceans known as anglers, crawlfish and eels. Swarms of vicious piranha-beetles scour the air in terrifying swarms hunting for prey.