Yavin 4 亚汶四号卫星
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这颗遥远的星球亚汶四号是个环绕在气态行星亚汶上的丛林卫星，并成为银河历史中众人的焦点。布满雾气的森林苍穹和废弃的原住民神殿对于早期的反抗军是个理想的藏身地点。当都东纳将军带著反抗军武力来此时，当地的马沙西人神殿已经灭绝了数千年。
当帝国藉由放在千年鹰号上的追踪器找到反抗军时，死星就接著出现在亚汶星系。这个战斗基地部署在亚汶轨道上，以便瞄准此较小的卫星射击。反抗军只有不到半小时的时间发动一次反击。
在了解死星的唯一弱点下，联军战机飞行员呼啸著冲向帝国超级武器，即为亚汶之役的开始。在路克‧天行者的功劳之下，造就了反抗军的第一次辉煌胜利。
亚汶四号卫星是星系内三个卫星中唯一可蕴育生命的地方，丰富的丛林生命交织著银河长久以来争夺撕裂的绣帷。数千年来至少有两次事件发生在此，让亚汶四号成为决定性的银河摊牌点。
亚汶四号的地热活动十分活跃，地表有百分之六十九是分为四洲的大陆。六个内接的海洋覆盖剩馀的表面，以及一个大到足以被称为内海的封闭水域。数十年前，这些洲被Wetyin殖民地的侦查人员取了临时的名称：Starloft、Swivven、Koos和Wetyin。
因为亚汶四号环绕在一个气态行星上，因此有两种不同的傍晚。当卫星转开恒星但面对行星时，丛林就会笼罩在柔和的微光内。若亚汶四号同时转开恒星与行星的方向，或是位于日食位置，就会变成完全的黑夜。在自转周期的每几个月，会经历一次极长的黑夜时期，导致气温骤降而产生严重的风暴。
亚汶四号另一个美丽的现象被称为「彩虹风暴」。这在恒星光束穿透气态行星的上层边缘时，造成光线极化，在击中亚汶四号的高大气层结冰晶体时，形成异常闪烁的彩虹大雨降下。
亚汶四号的丛林从不安宁，夜晚可听见高在树上的woolamanders嗥叫，或是带著鼻音搜索粮秣的Yavinian runyip 或是stintaril。其他生命体包括琵琶鱼、鳗鱼、爬行鱼、黏液蝾螈、火蜜峰、水虎鱼甲虫和水晶蛇。
数千年前，流亡的西斯大君纳加‧沙度从超空间大战逃往亚汶四号，躲避敌人追击。沙度命令他的船员建造巨大的神殿，以作为自己在此施展西斯魔术的地点。沙度是个熟巧的炼金术士，他把它的船只藏在新建的火之西斯神殿下，并以船员的後裔创造了突变的马沙西战士。这些战士守卫著他们建造的神殿，而在沙度死後，马沙西人继续发展了引以为傲的部落文化，以原力黑暗面增强他们古老的武器。
数个世纪後，一位年轻的绝地伊萨‧亢在体验原力的黑暗面後，跟随古西斯著作来到亚汶四号。他奴隶了马沙西人，并强迫他们建造他的新神殿。在西斯战争的高峰期间，伊萨‧亢带著二十位绝地来到亚汶四号，并用古西斯的邪恶精神腐化他们。藉由这些被控制的绝地，亢发动了残忍的绝地大屠杀。为了报复，由乌立克‧奎卓马率领的数千绝地涌向这个丛林卫星。
亢在明白自己会被击败下，将所有马沙西人活埋并将自己的灵魂保存在他的神殿内，只留下用西斯炼金术创造的夜兽保护他的遗产。绝地特遣队虽然成功的杀死亢的身躯，但杀死残存的马沙西人的突击也造成许多丛林的荒芜。
就这样过了数千年，亚汶四号被广泛地遗忘。复制人战争期间，此星出现在一些图表上，且只有知道一些古老知识的绝地或西斯才知道此处。Asajj Ventress曾引诱安纳金‧天行者来到亚汶四号破旧的西斯神殿，在此爆发激烈的光剑对决。
这个卫星在成为反抗军新的基地舞台後再次获得重视。联军高层指挥部在放弃丹图音的基地後设於此地的神殿内，雨林可当作反抗军的掩护，且卫星又远离哥帝尔斯区，限制了邻近的交通。
反抗军自然学家Dr'uun Unnh花了短短几星期整理亚汶四号的生命体种类，他也为许多所谓的马沙西神殿取名。其中包括蓝叶丛集、Woolamander的宫殿以及容纳反抗军基地的大圣殿。
反抗军在亚汶之役不久後放弃了此处的基地，转到如Thila和霍斯的秘密地点，亚汶四号因此又忽然被遗忘了。多年後，反抗军再度於这个丛林卫星设立基地，後来成为新共和参议院星球情报网总部。
当绝地大师路克‧天行者在帝国於安铎战败多年後，於此设立他的绝地学院，此丛林卫星再度成为数次攻击的目标。最近的一次是遇战疯的占领，摧毁了雄伟的马沙西神殿并迫使绝地们迁移他处。
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.
