And to Vader of all people.
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Why was he such a prick?
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He left all his fricks on coruscant that day
Probably was just having a bad day, didn't sleep enough, and couldn't stop himself from speaking his mind
Motti and the rest of the dudes at the table are realist, career military types. I'm sure they view Vader as the Emperor's weird little catamite. So I can't blame him for mouthing off to Vader whose 'force' powers ARE impotent in achieving the goals that're in front of them.
>trying to have a meeting with your fellow moffs
>weird cyborg barges in uninvited and won't turn his annoying respirator off
>Having a serious military discussion about the massive space station you’ve built and the real world consequences of it.
>Weird cyborg chips in with JUST USE TEH FORCE BRO ITS MUCH BETTER LMAO!! For limo reason
I bet they were all secretly glad he said that to Vaders face
Don't know about you guys, but I can't wait for the inevitable disney+ series MOTTI which will explain the backstory of Admiral Motti and his daring exploits as a junior officer in the Empire.
To be fair Vader insulted him a little bit.
He's literally the Star Wars equivalent of a fedora tipper. He thinks the Jedi and the Sith are bullshit and the Force isn't real.
It's like if the average Cinemaphile Anon went and picked a fight with a Catholic priest, but then the priest was able to wave his hand and summon angels to torment the Anon. Star Wars has the handy feature in that its religious stuff has demonstrable effects.
Being able to blow up a planet in a few seconds is objectively more impressive and more conducive to ruling an intergalactic empire than slowly choking a guy.
Well depending on what's still canon in the EU at this point, you can use the Force to blow up planets too, if you're powerful enough.
what do the red and blue cough drops represent in rank?
This actually goes a long way in explaining why there was so much insubordination in the Imperial armed forces. No one could figure out anyone else's fricking rank.
>2 blue on the left and 4 red on the right
by this legend he is a senior captain in the navy?
He's supposed to be an admiral
my bad, i guess he could also be a FLIGHT S-CPT in the navy starfighter corps
>...So, Mister President, it appears that the Russian Federation is threatening a nuclear response on our NATO allies, we may have to station patriot systems across from the Dnieper river in order to intercept any potential warheads we can, but that will still leave our Black Sea ports open to attack submari-
>MISTER PRESIDENT, NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE NO MATCH FOR CHRIST'S LOVE
I'd find this shit annoying too. I don't know how Trump put up with Pence.
Reminder that Vader is right.
The Death Star is an over glorified vanity project and it fails in it's intended purpose.
The purpose of the Death Star was to create a weapon so terrifying and dangerous that it would pacify the galaxy and bring some measure of stability to the empire with it's mere presence alone. In reality, all it did was rally the galaxy against the empire, expose the empire as a truly heinous force willing to cross any moral lines, and create a singular target for the rebel forces to direct their hatred towards.
Not only does the Death Star fail in it's symbolic messaging or in it's role as a deterrent to rebellion, but it also fails from the standpoint of structural engineering and military application. The Death Star is a ludicrously huge space station that is the size of a small planet. The sheer amount of resources, military personnel, security measures, maintenance, and oversight required to successfully defend something of that scale is insane and would inevitably be a huge money+resource sink for the empire. We even see the failures and inherent weaknesses of the Death Star play out when a relatively small rebel air force manages to penetrate it's defenses, elude the imperial fighters, and exploit one of the openings on the exterior of the Death Star to destroy it one precise attack.
Well it's of a piece with what Tarkin is talking about in the full implementation of the New Order. The dissolving of the Senate, putting the sector governors in direct control of their systems. Using "fear" to keep the galaxy in line. But fear isn't always good enough, not at the galactic scale. The entire point is that the Empire is wrong, and Palpatine isn't as capable as he thinks of wrangling the entire galaxy.
They were seconds away from destroying the rebels though, and really Luke got really lucky twice. First with Han saving him then using the force.
I dunno, couldn’t they have just put some plywood over the hole or something?
Probably heard about Vader being a b***hy teen.
>Hey wait a minute...
>There's something familiar about you, Lord Vader
>I... I remember you
>You're...
>You're little Ani Skywalker, the famous pod racer!
>You won the Boonta Eve Classic!
>You were my favorite when I was a kid
>Every human boy I knew had your poster on their wall
>My dad and I we... we didn't have a lot of credits when I was growing up
>He pulled overtime in the spice mines for a month just to scrape together enough to take me to Tattooine to see you race
>Man, I loved how you hit those Mark IV air brakes on that second lap and really kicked in the Plug II thrust coil in the final stretch
>Everyone always said "No way, Sebulba always wins"
>But I never stopped believing in you
>You sure showed him
>Now THAT was podracing!
>I cheered and cheered for you that day and you won
>You're a credit to our entire race!
>Why did you retire from racing pods, man?
>You were my hero
>But then you just sort of... disappeared
>I'm like...
>I'm like your biggest fan
>Tarkin, come take my picture with the best podracer in the galaxy
>I just...
>*sniff*
>I just wish my ol' man were alive to see this...
I used to think that the timeline of the OT relative to the PT was fricky. But frankly, the last ten years have taught me that you actually can make the vast majority of people memory hole a preexisting era in less than a decade. And the people in charge now aren't evil space wizards with sci-fi magic powers.
True, also every time we see an ordinary citizen's perspective on things they don't have a clue what's really going on.
>the people in charge now aren't evil space wizards with sci-fi magic powers.
How does the expanded universe material generally handle the galaxy's knowledge on Vader and his previous identity?
Is it not common knowledge that Vader used to be a famous jedi? If someone finds out that Vader was Anakin, what's the protocol for dealing with someone who is privy to that information?
It certainly seems in this scene they seem to know who he is- the higher ups anyway. I doubt anyone really knows about The Sith though. And the rebels talk about the Force but they were started byJedis. It’s possible most people don’t know anything about this. I suspect if you did call Vader Anakin or Annie that would be an ass whooping’
Someone post the Monk hadouken screencap please I was looking for it last week and couldn't find it.
Because he’s seen Vader’s tik tok feed with him dancing like prepubescent girls and had, rightly so, zero respect for the man.