G E Predator said:
cap said:
I didn’t realize that Yavin was a gas giant. That’s a satisfying answer to that question.

Question #3: if Leia suspected that there was a homing beacon on the Falcon, why didn’t they go somewhere else and hire another ship to fly to Yavin? Did they want the Death Star to find their base?

That I can answer definetly. Leia is not the type of person to put innocent people at risk. Since the Empire was following the Falcon to the secret Rebel Base - which they were trying to find to begin with - they would have assumed that the first place that the Millennium Falcon lands.

That doesn’t make sense. If they had gone to a place where ships can be hired (Mos Eisley on Tatooine, or a similar place), Tarkin would have gone, “That must be where the Rebel base is! Destroy that planet!”?