>"Grand Moff Tarkin"
>create a completely made up title/profession ("Moff")
>immediately propose there can be a Grand version of this title (thus implying lesser Moffs exists, though we never see one?)
>never elaborate on it ever again
>the word probably comes from some 1960s fantasy novel, just like "jedi bendu" and "the force of others"
Why did George do this so much?
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I do this with my fantasy world.
based fun-enjoying dm. dorks like op overthink too much.
His name was Grand Muff Tarkin. He had a big muff.
>Grand Muff Merkin
BRAVO GEORGE
it's grand ma phh
Maybe "Grand" just emphasizes the position.
In Iran there's a Supreme Leader but as far as I know there are no lesser Leaders.
imagine your job title being inferior leader
It's called "Assistant Manager."
when I worked as a dishwasher my official title was Assistant Kitchen Manager in charge of Dishware & Dinnerware. I thought it was pretty funny
pretty based. i've fallen ass backwards up the slide of success by making my work history sound fancier than it was. Confidence is key. If you take things serioulsly, you get taken seriouusly.
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Thats why hierarchies don't work. Nobody wants to be the lackey/henchman/GOON NOW do they?
>rear admiral
>behind admiral
>"ass" admiral
lmao
the film Cool Running with the jamaican bobsled team led by john candy was based off an actual story of a carribean, no-snow nation that wanted to compete in the winter olympics
but because they where from the
>dutch lesser antilles
it was swapped to jamaica, which is more well known without the stupid name
Moff is a great word tho.
It’s my surname
I think it was harkening to the idea of grand wizards / kkk to subconsciously reinforce the idea that of empire being le bad guys.
He's good at world-building.
When Peter Cushion wanted to come back for the sequel, why didn't George simply create Lesser Moff Tarkin, Grand Moff Tarkin's twin brother?
>viceroy
>no regular roys
Why does reality have such poor writers?
"Roy" comes from "Roi"/"Rey" which means King.
So they're Vice Kings? Isn't that a gang from Saints Row?
The Vice in Vice Kings comes from the latin vitium, meaning fault, defect, offense, etc (e.g. the "vices" of alcohol, tobacco, prostitution, etc).
The Vice in Viceroy comes from the latin vicis meaning alternate or in place of.
Roy is a super gay name, you wouldn't expect to meet a roy outside a gay bar. But it comes from "royal" meaning kingly
Kingsley, is a very cool name though
And don't get me started on Magnus or Ceasar
How about Leroy?
This is on my shortlist for son names.
Try Alaric, Leroy sounds like a very mean junkyard dog
>Leroy in a post 2005 world
Do you hate your unborn son?
My son isn't just unborn, he's hypothetical.
There's no way anyone would remember that meme by the time he can talk.
Besides, it's a family thing.
Is Leroy short for Lesser Roy?
Lemon Roy
French for the roy
and you're mom comes from having sex with dogs
And "(you)" comes from homosexual which means gay
Why do jeets get so upset when languages are discussed?
>Rey meand King
Whoa... The clues about Rey being a Palpatine were there since the beginning... Take that, Chuds!!!
His profession was a Governor, which he's referred to by Leia at one point. I assume his first name is Moff and Grand is a title bestowed upon him by the Emperor.
>Only a master of evil, Moff
Moff is short for military officer
I just made that up
Lucassisters..
What I hate about modern mediia franchises is how they try to flesh out all those little things like titles, names, secondary and tertiary characters without bringing in anything interesting or inspired into the table.
It's like those SW picture books where you have a full page spread of c**t Dooku and captions with shit like "serious frown creates air of arrogance", "cape signifies aristocratic upbringing".
Frick offffff
I loved them as a kid (mostly thanks to cool ship crossections) but damn how sterile getting anal over tinest details gets
That's why all these spin off series ruin the franchise as a whole
>did you know what Obi Wan Kenobi got upto before he met luke? Turns out he got upto all sorts of wacky hijinks and even saw Darth Vader again!
>and remember that character with 2 seconds of screen time?
>well now he's got a whole episode of the Mandalorian dedicated to him!
>and remember Emperor Palpatine?
>well now he's used the force to come back and threaten the plucky underdogs after they won in the last film
>where did Han Solo get his name? It’s not because Ma and Pa Solo named him Han, it’s not because he picked a cool sounding fake name for his smuggler job, it’s actually because he was given the name “Solo” when he joined the imperial army with no family
>ignore the fact that families get killed a lot in Star Wars and the imperial army was huge so this implies a lot of people must be running around with the last name Solo, even though we’ve only seen and heard of one
>not only is this moronic scene in a movie, but it’s apparently the entire reason the movie was made
>ignore the fact that families get killed a lot in Star Wars and the imperial army was huge so this implies a lot of people must be running around with the last name Solo, even though we’ve only seen and heard of one
what a moronic leap of logic. why would that imply anything? other orphans would just use their own surnames or a recruitment officer would make up something different for them. or do you think literally every officer in the empire thinks the same?
it's because he uses his hand, solo
Yeah, it who needs that lol
Give me new ideas, new designs, new characters that aren't just soft reboots of already existing ones
the wookiepedia articles look moronic because of that
>in 7 bbc obi wan met kit diddler on a youranus moon. they teamed up to fight gigaBlack person. later obi wan encountered literally who, she warned him about troony beads in ywnbaw system which helped him in his fight against noname lord. in 10 bbc obiwan managed to capture dat waldo who told him about hut dildo who had information about bogged bob who killed cucked wiener who was a cousin of suck cuck who was a relative of obi wan and who asked him to help him. in 12 bbc obi wan met anakin skywalker
An opinion purely curated for you by watching other people post and b***h about it
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Because SW was always his homage to pulp sci-fi. He has always loved it, even THX1138 opens with a Buck Rogers segment, but in that case only to show how much that kind of idealized pulp world differs from the dystopia that is THX1138. SW is pure pulp.
He was a decent moff, but not a grand one imho
>grand milf tarkin
He was never referred to as grand moff in the movies though
The original Star Wars is a satire of Richard Nixon's America with the baddies being the military-industrial complex. The focus on the Empire's villainy changed to the Emperor when he decided to give character to Vader and a pathway to redemption. Before that the Emperor was little more than a political figurehead and not a full-blown evil space wizard.
it's just a combination of grand poobah and mufti, two arab/islam things because arabs/islam were the cool exotic thing of the 70s like dalali lama in the 90s, and in dune, herbert made shit like 'muadib' from mahdi (islam thing) so george just copied that
this
-t. lives in Giede Prime (it is a real place)
>thus implying lesser Moffs exists, though we never see one?
We see one in RotJ, Moff Jerjerrod.
there are plenty of moffs in star wars, it's a planet governing rank not a military, the special thing about tarkin is him wearing an uniform