Yavin 8 Yavin 8 was one of three habitable moons that orbited the gas giant world of Yavin Prime . Located in the Yavin system in the Gordian Reach sector of the Outer Rim Territories , it was a cold , arid yet terrestrial place that was the home of the Melodie species . Geographic features . Yavin 8 was an arid , cold world covered in vast expanses of snow and brown tundra . Though water was abundant on Yavin 8 because of its vast expanses of snow and tundra , it was only found in liquid form within the rivers and lakes of its equatorial purple mountain ranges . Occasionally , the snow and tundra melted during spring thaws which resulted in floods . Yavin 8 ' s equatorial mountain ranges were inhabited by the moon ' s sole sentient species , the Melodie s . They were amphibious humanoids that spent the rest of their lives underwater once having reached the age of twenty in which they changed their form during the Changing Ceremony . A humanoid race also lived on the moon . The race earned the enmity of Emperor Palpatine , who initiated its genocide . The only survivor was Tarron Neb . Other lifeforms native to the moon included various fish species that inhabited the moon ' s rivers and lakes and several predatory species including the bird - like Avril , the serpentine Reel , the rodent - like Raith and the spidery Purella . History . Due to its remote location , Yavin 8 was largely unknown to the rest of the galaxy . In 3997 BBY , during the Sith Lord Exar Kun ' s reign over the Massassi of nearby Yavin 4 , he imprisoned their children in a spherical Dark side device known as the Golden Globe for the purpose of both controlling the Massassi and to drain the life energies of its trapped captives . The desperate Massassi parents came to Yavin 8 to seek help and met the children of the Melodies . The children took them to their Elders but they could offer no help since they were unable to leave the waters . Thus , the Massassi engraved messages in the rocks and caves of Yavin 8 so that somebody may read them some day and come to their aid . However , these messages were written in the Massassi tongue , which made it difficult for non - speakers to understand them . Worse , the Massassi were wiped out in 3996 BBY during the Jedi / Republic asssault on the jungle moon . This piece of history would only be preserved in the form of legends by storytellers known as " Keeper of Legends " . Millennia later , during the Imperial Period , the Melodies were discovered by the Rodian Suz Tanwa though they were only officially discovered in 22 ABY by Luke Skywalker ' s New Jedi Order which had set up a Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 . On that same year , a young Melodie named Lyric left her home of Sistra to study at Master Luke Skywalker ' s Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 after being discovered to be Force - sensitive . Her parents allowed her to go because of the dangerous conditions of their homeworld . Later , when Lyric returned to Yavin 8 to undergo the Changing Ceremony in 22 ABY , Jedi trainees Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila escorted Lyric to her homeworld to undergo the Changing Ceremony . During their trip , they fell under attack by native carnivores including an avril , a reel , a purella and a number of raiths though Anakin , Tahiri and their Melodie allies fought them off . It was also from the Keeper of Legends Aragon that Anakin and Tahiri learned about the existence of the ancient Massassi carvings . They discovered these carvings in a cave . During their trip on Yavin 8 , Anakin and Tahiri also met Sannah , whom they discovered to be Force - sensitive and took her with them during their home trip to Yavin 4 . Later , Sannah assisted them in translating the ancient Massassi carvings . They then learned of the origins of the Golden Globe and how to defeat it . Shortly after the Yuuzhan Vong destroyed the Jedi Praxeum in 26 ABY , the Yuuzhan Vong presumably conquered Yavin 8 . The extragalactic invaders also unleashed deadly Jedi - hunting Voxyn on the moon . Among their victims were Lyric . Behind the scenes . " " was the first source to indicate three of Yavin Prime ' s moons could support life .