Yavin Code

The Yavin Code was a protocol established at the Yavin Convention approximately a millennium prior to 19 BBY that dictated prisoners be blindfolded before their execution. The Code shared its name with the gas giant planet Yavin.

According to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was known to cite the Yavin Code, which he did prior to his own scheduled execution after being captured aboard a Separatist supply ship while on a mission to Utapau in 19 BBY. As Separatist battle droids escorted him to the ship's execution room, Kenobi noted the Yavin Code's stipulation about blindfolded prisoners—much to the droids' confusion—in order to stall them long enough for Skywalker to come free him. After Skywalker arrived and dispatched the droids, Kenobi stated that no one seemed to recall the Code, which Skywalker believed to be due to its old age.

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