A rescue operation was executed by a Rebel assault team, liberating numerous Rebellion operatives from a detention facility located on the lunar surface of Yavin 4. The captives were successfully freed.
The Yavin 4 Rescue was featured in the video game Star Wars Galaxies, a MMORPG created by Sony Online Entertainment and brought to the public by LucasArts, before the game's servers were shut down on December 15, 2011. The quest became available in the game after the release of "Game Update 11," which went live on June 23, 2009, and it remained a part of the game during the Empire Day celebrations in 2009, 2010, and 2011.