Massassi Station



Massassi Station was the Rebel Alliance's base on the moon Yavin IV. It was built within a Massassi Temple by Roons Sewell and Jan Dodonna. The Rebel Alliance launched its assault on the first Death Star from this facility. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebel Alliance was forced to abandon it. It later became the site of the Jedi Praxeum. It was partially demolished in 23 ABY during the Battle of the Jedi Praxeum, but promptly reconstructed by a joint New Republic-Jedi effort throughout 24 ABY. However, during the Yuuzhan Vong occupation of Yavin IV, it was destroyed for good.

Characteristics
The Station had a temple- like shape to it, most like the ziggurat of ancient Mesopotamia. The topmost level was almost entirely taken up by the Grand Audience Chamber, used as a ceremonial hall by the Alliance garrison and later employed by the Jedi Academy as a teaching space. Under the Alliance, the next level contained officers' quarters, and the base's security, communications and medical facilities, with the central room serving as a command center; the Jedi would later convert this level entirely to accommodation and storage. On the level below, the central chamber was outfitted by the Alliance as the War Room, later re-named as the Strategy Center by the Jedi: this was where the Alliance commanders coordinated the fighter attack on the first Death Star at the Battle of Yavin. The surrounding rooms on this level, used as stores and technical workshops by the Alliance, were converted by the Jedi to meeting-rooms, communications and computing bays, kitchens and dining halls.

The lowest level of the temple was used by the Rebels and the Jedi alike as a vast hangar bay to store starfighters and other vehicles; there was also a second hangar beneath, plus cellars and catacombs that remained largely unused in both phases of reoccupation. Access to the hangar was by a set of ground-level blast-doors, opening out onto a landing pad.

Behind the scenes
There are many different descriptions of the Massassi Station. In Star Wars: Battlefront and in Star Wars: Battlefront II, the station is depicted as being a small, grim-looking hangar with a control room in the back. However, in Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, it is depicted as being a vast, safe station, with hangars, training rooms, and The Grand Audience Chamber. In Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike, it is seen as containing a large hanger, and many rooms, including the room that Princess Leia and other Rebel leaders were in Star Wars IV: A New Hope.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * The Farlander Papers
 * Star Wars Empire: Darklighter
 * Star Wars Empire: The Short, Happy Life of Roons Sewell
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron ½
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * Tag & Bink Are Dead
 * Vader's Quest
 * Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Shown during last mission of Episode IV.)
 * Free Memory
 * Jedi Search
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Champions of the Force
 * I, Jedi
 * Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force
 * Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy
 * Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones
 * Young Jedi Knights: Lightsabers
 * Young Jedi Knights: Darkest Knight
 * Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Under Siege
 * Young Jedi Knights: Shards of Alderaan
 * Young Jedi Knights: Diversity Alliance
 * Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur
 * Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Bounty
 * Young Jedi Knights: The Emperor's Plague
 * Young Jedi Knights: Return to Ord Mantell
 * Young Jedi Knights: Trouble on Cloud City
 * Young Jedi Knights: Crisis at Crystal Reef