Maybe he was an admiral in the Alderaan Diplomatic Fleet. They have no weapons....but they keep losing ships to these Rebels.
Is Rogue One the first time we ever see Rebel Alliance rank insignia in green? (green meaning intelligence, as per Cassian)
Another thing: Why does Lyra come at Krennic and his men with a blaster? Is she just being impulsive? At first I wondered why she didn't go into the shelter with Jyn, but it looks like there's not a lot of room down there (and probably no provisions), so that must have been why the whole family doesn't just go down there and be done with it. Actually I thought Lyra should have just shot Krennic dead right away. Of course his troops would take her out, but she could still have done serious damage. I'm just wondering what Lyra really hoped to accomplish by simply waving a blaster in Krennic's face.
I thought it was her intent to try to kill Krennic. she was just hesitant on account of never having shot anyone before. so, yeah, "just being impulsive."
I just looked at that scene in the novelization, and it talks about how she thought of herself as the practical one, how she was going to save her daughter, stop them from going back to Krennic, and just before she tries to shoot him, she thinks about how she misjudged his cowardice.
Whose cowardice? Can't be Krennic, since he doesn't seem particularly cowardly. Does Lyra think her husband is a coward?
OK, that works. I'd hate to think that anyone, least of all his own wife, would consider Galen Erso a coward.
Do you read the books? If you do I highly recommend Catalyst, it focuses on the Ersos and Krennic from the later period of the Clone Wars up to the Ersos arriving on the planet they are living on in the prologue of the movie. It's a great book, and goes pretty deep on Lyra, Galen and Krennic.
At the end of RO we do see him continue to pursue Jyn even after his escort has been killed, so I think to a certain extent his arrogance can overpower his cowardice. Which of course is not saying he's not a coward, so much as he's *more* of an insecure egotist.
I do think that is a good description. I think, especially early on, he could appear as an extremely insecure bureaucrat which some might assume to be cowardice.
Just hit me: When the extraction team comes for Jyn on Wobani, why does she try to run? She doesn't seriously think she can get away, does she? The whole planet is an Imperial labor camp...there's literally nowhere for her to go.
She ran because she wants absolutely noting to do with ANY rebel group. As for a plan; there is no plan. She's had exactly five seconds to think. Plan later; right now the binders are off and troopers are down and she has a clear shot to the very much wide open door. Plans come later when she's put some distance between her and the juggernaut. Another possibility is that she thought they might have been there to kill her. Remember that up until very recently (certainly at the time she left Saw), very few rebel cells were cooperating, much less coordinating a cohesive alliance. Some were actively competing and feuding; little better than pirate gangs. Saw's wasn't the only guerrilla group willing to get it's hands dirty and he doubtlessly made a lot of enemies. The kind that would be more than willing to raid an Imperial labour camp in order to assassinate Saw's adopted daughter as revenge, or to capture her so they can torture her for information on one of the most elusive terrorists in the galaxy. Or maybe she thought Saw might have sent them to kill her precisely because she knows too much. Also worth remembering that not only was she trained by Saw Gerrera from childhood, but in his own words she was the finest soldier in his cadre. That was when she was a teenager and since then she's been surviving on her own. Granted, the odds of her stealing or stowing away on a ship and getting off Wobani without being recaptured and/or killed are slim, but she had a better chance at being free on her own out in the wilderness than in anyone's custody, Imperial or otherwise. Anyway; all of those possibilities zipping through her brain in just five or ten seconds quite reasonably results in one simple conclusion: run!