We had a good laugh about her telling friends about the hunts or asking store clerks which aisle has the Ewok jerky.
At my local store, they are in the same aisle as the Wookiee cookies.
So the one character from a desert planet gets a naval rank? I guess it’s because he fires torpedoes and the army guys (Han and Lando) shoot guns. But why does Luke only get the equivalent of lieutenant colonel?
It’s valid. He grew up on the shores of the Dune Sea.
I like how they made Lando a general, then put him in command of a single ship in a naval encounter. Pretty sure “general” was a sinecure he negotiated as part of turning over Cloud City’s bank account numbers, or something.
Generally, people flying military ships in SW seem to get naval ranks (see: Admiral Ackbar, as well). But, in RotJ, Lando was one of the leaders of the starship attack on Death Star II, but got a “General” rank anyway.
Yet more evidence that Lucas assigned titles based on what he thought sounded cool.
Based on what we see on-screen (discounting all the add-ins from games, books, etc.), there’s no way a Star Destroyer maps to a DD-Destroyer class vessel (typically one of the smaller classes of vessels in a fleet), with Light Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers, Battle Cruiser and Battleships/Dreadnaughts above it.
One thing to consider about Luke’s rank: there’s a wartime or post-war documentary regarding the P-47 Thunderbolt. It’s been a while since I watched it, but there’s a bit in it where the narrator is introducing some of the officers in the subject squadron, and mentions the Squadron Commander, either a Lieutenant Colonel or full-bird Colonel (I forget) as the real “Old Man” of the outfit. At 26 y/o.
Battlefield promotions are a real thing. Enlisted Pilot Officer (Candidate/Probationary) Skywalker probably got direct-commissioned to 2nd Lieutenant just for the Battle of Yavin. And he’s had 3-4 years of Force-assisted war-time combat experience by the time Hoth rolls around. Yeah. Commander Skywalker isn’t that big a stretch to me.
My headscratcher is why Red Leader put Luke in charge of Biggs and Wedge (both experienced veterans, and Biggs an actual trained officer from an Academy) for the final trench run. My head-canon post-prequel trilogy is that Red Leader (likely a Clone War veteran) recognized Luke’s last name, put two-and-two together, and thought, “If he’s half the pilot his old man was, we got this licked!”
This has always been my interpretation.
I think you mean “brevet” – that happens a lot when people start dropping like flies.
To a point. Once you hit Admiral, wartime or peace-time you had to wait for someone in the food chain above you to die in order to advance.
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Georg vonTrapp, of The Sound of Music fame, was a Corvette Captain (Lieutenant-Commander) in the Austro-Hungarian navy. Although not a desert, the A-H Empire was landlocked.
Part of the conflicts within the Aubrey-Maturin series. Aubrey is having continual money problems that would be relieved somewhat by making admiral (and eventually does) but he’s otherwise stuck waiting and hoping.
That’s weird because the Ewoks ate people. They were preparing to eat Han Solo before Threepio set them free. And I think there was an implication that they ate Stormtroopers, which is why they had their helmets as drums, the way they used skulls of animals they ate.
If an Ewok ate a Stormtrooper who had eaten a Ewok jerky, is he a cannibal? If an Stormtrooper ate Ewok jerky made from an Ewok who ate a Stormtrooper, is he a cannibal?
Then again, people eat sharks in real life (shark fin soup is famous), and sharks eat people, so I guess that sort of thing already happens.
Thresher shark steaks are delicious. Tastes like chicken tuna.
There was a line in a scene that was originally shot for Star Wars, that says pretty much exactly that. The scene, which was was partially used in the 1997 “Special Edition” of the film, depicts Red Leader talking with Biggs and Wedge in the hangar prior to the attack, and saying that he knew Luke’s father:
That particular line, however, didn’t make it into the Special Edition; Lucas stuck in an edit to remove the line, at least in part because he was establishing that Anakin was much younger in the Prequels than he might have originally pictured, when he wrote the first movie’s script.
I’m surprised we didn’t hear about the H Beam on Piper the Little Fuzzy Little Furry Ewok homeworld.
And the weapons that don’t have metal blades are going to weigh much less than a traditional sword.
It’s a light saber not a light saber.
The Republic gave Anakin the rank of general by the time of RotS and he was barely done being a teenager!
Austria and Hungary are inland, but the Austro-Hungarian empire controlled what is now Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. It had a considerable coastline.
…Saturday night in Modesto, California cruiser… I imagine George didn’t want to hear any American Graffiti jokes.
That’s why he called them bereft, rather than brevet promotions.
As the famous Jedi Teddy wan Kenobi said, “speak softly and carry a light saber.”