Did the emperor tell him to obey Tarkin? Tarkin barks orders at Vader and doesn't seem one bit intimidated. Was Tarkin just stupid? Did the emperor purposefully keep his top guys a little distrustful of one another so they couldn't join together and topple him? Seems like some Michael Corleone level maneuvering and manipulation on the part of Palpy.
Based on Rogue One and A New Hope, it seems like Palpatine kept Vader on a pretty short leash until shit really got out of hand with the rebels. Like at most, he was given his own star destroyer and a private army of stormtroopers. My theory is that Vader was kept in the shadows and that most of his jobs prior to A New Hope had involved missions like hunting former Jedi, that sort of thing. Plus he probably had to spend a lot of time on lava world designing and building that sweet dream castle home.
Then after the Battle of Yavin Palpatine basically made Vader a Grand Admiral with his own fleet and super star destroyer at his disposal.
Another question, were Grand Admirals above or below Grand Moffs, or were they roughly equivalent in rank? Not sure if EU or other sources have ever clarified this. We see a guy at the Death Star conference meeting in a white uniform similar to what grand admirals wore, but I'm not sure what his rank or role there actually was. My assumption is that a Grand Moff was more like a military base commander, usually staying put in one place, while Grand Admirals tended to command mobile forces and move around more. But otherwise seems like they had pretty similar roles and positions in the hierarchy.
I think when the first movie was being made, Vader was far less important than later. He wasn't even Luke's father back then it was only added in second draft of Empire Strikes Back scenario a year after A New Hope was released.
kind of an analog to Nazi Germany. A lot of Hitler's generals held similar sentiments. Some wanted Rommel to lead in the event of a successful coup. I think Hitler's military decisions frustrated a lot of his generals particularly toward the end. Like, who is this failed anti-Semitic artist parading around in a uniform like he thinks he understands how military tactics work?
Blaming Hitler was how these generals were saving/creating their reputations after the war. Hitler listened to his generals and if he didn't it was mainly because of strategic concerns. For example they wanted to do something that could be effective tactically or operationally but strategic situation didn't allow. Hitler only fell apart in the very end.
Germany had a thing where it had generals highly focused on tactics because of the German way of war which was highly aggressive mobile warfare. So often they didn't think about strategic reasons behind Hitler's choices.
This was a way of waging war that worked great against Poland and France but failed in Soviet Union because of its size and the transport network favouring the defenders. As Germans progressed into Soviet Union, their logistics worsened while Soviet logistics improved.
I recommend you Robert M. Citino's lectures on youtube (and his books) to see more modern views on WWII history.
Of course the whole war was insanity. Compare how WWI and WWII ended. WWI ended with Russia knocked out and German armies still in France, Belgium and Luxemburg. It ended because Germans had sane leadership that could accept defeat. Well, relatively sane.
Anakin expressing his fascist views even back then. What an alt right incel. I honestly don't understand what Padme saw in him, based on how he's portrayed.
I don't know what Anakin is supposed to have to do with incels. He has no problems getting into relationship with a woman he wants. Also, the anti-incel hate propaganda is ridiculous. As if there were no tons upon tons of noncel domestic abusers, cheaters and rapists out there, as if typical non-gang mass shooting wasn't a noncel killing his partner or ex and children.
Vast majority of incels are ugly or suffering from autism or severe social anxiety or all of these, nothing to do with any political views.
He's a tall handsome charismatic guy who just has some seriously traumatic experiences like being a child slave, being separated from his mother who remained a slave and induced into a cult and then seeing his mother brutally murdered. Anakin doesn't even become abusive towards Padme until the very end when he force-chokes her.
Also, 42% of Trumps voters were women.
