Nova 3 was a Rebel Alliance space station near the Ferrous Aurora Nebula in the Yavin system. By 1.5 ABY, the station had already been destroyed long ago and was left to rot in the war-ridden system. The area around the station was littered with fragments of destroyed starships and asteroids, split by heavy fire from all sides. Imperial starfighters patrolled the area, searching for Rebel starfighters and Ni'lyahin Smugglers.