The Establishment of the Rebel Alliance (I)
"Our cause has suffered the most devastating blow in its history. Come here, to Yavin. I will meet you there."
Garm Bel Iblis, who was piloting the ship, froze when he heard the transmission. He turned back and asked the equally stunned Mon Mothma, "The Leader wants to meet us? Has anyone ever seen her?"
"No. As far as I know, no one knows what she really looks like." Mon Mothma shook her head.
Iblis turned back to stare at the control panel and slowly said, "Indeed... the blow at Ukio was enough to bury all our efforts over these years. And now Palpatine is still spreading terrorism throughout the Core Worlds. If we don't do something soon, the flames of our resistance may truly be extinguished."
Mon Mothma lowered her head, her expression complicated.
"Ah..." Iblis sighed. "Let's go. We should settle, once and for all, where we go from here."
He entered the coordinates into the navigation system and pressed the button.
Amid a flash of white light, the shuttle vanished without a trace.
Yavin.
This was a gas giant located in the Northeastern sector of the galaxy. With a diameter of 198,500 kilometers, the planet appeared orange-red. Even among gas giants, it was exceptionally massive.
Terrifying gales raged through its atmosphere all year round, exceeding 2,000 kilometers per hour in speed and carrying unimaginable violence.
Such insane storms posed enormous dangers to spacecraft traveling around Yavin. And like most gas giants, its complex climate and magnetic field severely affected nearby sensor scans.
As a result, most ships were unwilling to approach Yavin too closely. Smaller vessels could easily be torn apart by the storms, while larger ships would suffer interference from the planet's powerful magnetic field, causing electronic components