With the aid of the Force, the torpedoes shot along the trench and entered the shaft perfectly, as the two surviving X-wings, the lone surviving Y-wing and the aging freighter made for Yavin 4. The surviving rebel pilots included Skywalker, Antilles, and Gold Three (Evaan Verlaine).
The only survivor is Darth Vader, who participated in the battle; his TIE Advanced X1 fighter was damaged by Han Solo. On the rebel side, the losses are heavy. In addition to the Millennium Falcon, only three ships from the "Red" and "Gold" squadrons return, including those piloted by Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles.
Few Rebel pilots escaped with their lives from the battle, including Luke Skywalker, Wedge Antilles, Rookie One, Ru Murleen, Merrick Simms, Jake Farrell, Keyan Farlander, X2, and Shara. The Red Squadron survivors continued to fight for the Rebellion and eventually grew into two groups, Renegade Flight and Rogue Flight.
Verlaine was the only Y-wing pilot of Gold Squadron to survive the assault, and returned to the Rebellion's headquarters on Yavin 4 with the other survivors. Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, Wedge Antilles, R2-A3, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Verlaine were the only rebel survivors of the starfighter assault.
Lost Stars confirms Darth Vader was the only Imperial to survive the destruction of the Death Star; ironically, his life was saved by Han Solo, whose shots had sent Vader's TIE Fighter spinning away from the Death Star.
Out of the 2 billion inhabitants on Alderaan - with the modern-day populations of China and India having about 2.8 billion people combined - about 60,000 survived the destruction of the planet due to being outside of its star system at the time.
How many Jedi survived Order 66? A lot of Jedi were off planet. According to Imperial Estimates in Star Wars Inside #87, only about 100 of the Jedi survived Order 66. Most were subsequently hunted down and killed in the years following the Great Jedi Purge.
During the Galactic Civil War, Yavin 4 was a location of one of the Rebel Alliance's principal bases. The Ghost crew and other rebel cells from across the galaxy joined together there in the early days of the Rebellion.
Events. Princess Leia Organa receives the plans to the Death Star and gives them to R2-D2 before being captured by the Empire and imprisoned on the Death Star. Emperor Sheev Palpatine dissolves the Imperial Senate and establishes a royal dictatorship. The Trade Federation is then dissolved.
In Rogue One (2016), the original "Red Five" (Pedrin Gaul) was killed when his X-wing was destroyed by TIE fighters during the Battle of Scarif, leaving the callsign to be used by Luke Skywalker during the Battle of Yavin and ultimately destroying the Death Star.
An unknown clone trooper pilot went by the call sign of Red Five. He was killed during a mission to Tythe in 19 BBY. Luke Skywalker flying as Red Five during the Battle of Yavin.
The Battle of Yavin, also known as the Battle of the Death Star or the Miracle of Yavin, was a major and decisive battle of the Galactic Civil War, in which the Rebel Alliance was able to destroy the Death Star and was seen as one of the first major victories over the Galactic Empire.
Ahsoka Tano was born on Shili in 36 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin), but her exact birthdate is not provided in the official canon. However, based on available information, she was supposedly around 17 at the time.
If the Empire destroyed the Rebellion - including Luke and Leia - at Yavin IV then the war would be basically over before it even began. Yes, Mom Mothma would still be alive but without Alderaan and its resources, Leia, Luke, all those people on Yavin 4 and the Death Star's plans she would've no chance to resist.
But taking all these sources into account, the death toll of the first Death Star can be left as around 1.1 million and the one of the second Death Star as over two million, which is still a lot even for Star Wars – more so considering that this happened in the first three films of the franchise.
I ask after I looked on the wiki and it says that they were 19 at the Battle of Yavin. Which puts a different perspective on the Leia/Han relationship when the wiki shows that Han was 32 at the Battle of Yavin.
Qui-Gon Jinn appears to Kenobi for the first time as a Force spirit. The first known Jedi to learn the secret was Qui-Gon Jinn, who learned it from a Shaman of the Whills. His training remained incomplete at the time of his death, so he could only manifest as a disembodied voice.
His tactical genius and skill in the air made him a legend in his own time and inspired generations of pilots. Another notable ace is Erich Hartmann, a German fighter pilot during World War II. He is the highest-scoring fighter ace in history, with 352 confirmed kills.
Erich Hartmann, with 352 official kills the highest scoring fighter pilot of all time. In World War II many air forces adopted the British practice of crediting fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions or decimal scores, such as 11+1⁄2 or 26.83.
Most, if not all, of Blue Squadron's craft were destroyed at Scarif. The squadron's decimation at Scarif and the loss of its commanding officer meant that Blue Squadron would not be present at the following climactic battle at Yavin, leaving Red, Gold and Green Squadrons to take on that engagement.
Yes, a few Younglings are known to have survived Order 66, including an unnamed Rodian seen in Jedi: Fallen Order. The most famous Youngling survivor is “The Child,” Grogu.
