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Star Wars The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry
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Yeah it is true that Sam Jackson requested a purple lightsaber to distinguish himself from the rest of the Jedi and be unique, but I guess it has become cool, and it's possible that Anakin Solo is a Mace Windu fan himself 
The lightsaber colors of the Solo kids predate Lucas's dictate that Jedi (excepting Mace) only had blue or green lightsabers. The prequel-era comics published before Episode II featured Jedi with all manner of colors.
Admiral Motti tells General Tagge that the Rebellion is a danger to Tagge's starfleet (not the Death Star). "General" and "fleet"? Shouldn't it be an admiral in charge of the fleet?
The designations were made up after the filming, and no one realized that. Or there's some bizarre mixture of naval and army ranks like NuBSG.
Of course, gets shakey in the Star Wars universe where every leader is referred to as "commander" and the Rebel Alliance hands out general ranks like Halloween candy.
You gotta figure the average life expectancy of your average Rebel General probably wasn't to lengthy. Probably about as long as that of Darth Vader's staff officers.
Han and Lando in ROTJ.
There is some real world precedence, though I'm not positive of the specifics: during the American Civil War, many officers like Colonels and such were made brevet-generals:
http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=5419
Keep in mind, there four ranks under the overall group of "general", from lowest to highest:
Brigadier General
Major General
Lieutenant General
General
Han and Lando were most certainly the lowest form of general, as they were in charge of (relatively) small groups. Han was in charge of the Endor raid team, and Lando was in charge of the fighter wing, though he was still under Admiral Ackbar.
True, but in those Civil War cases, the promoted were usually already in the military (it gets shakey, IIRC, some upper crust types joined state militias as officers from the get-go).
Lando was known for that battle in the past, but hadn't shown any service to the Rebel Alliance besides rescuing Han Solo (which wasn't a rebel military operation, but a personal thing). His previous administration duties led him to collude with the Empire, sure he changed his mind later...
Han Solo had served with the Rebellion, but was a smuggler/ship's captain. How does that equal general? Sure he deserved promotion, but I mean, it's like the writer ignored there were ranks between captain and general.
Lando was known for that battle in the past, but hadn't shown any service to the Rebel Alliance besides rescuing Han Solo (which wasn't a rebel military operation, but a personal thing). His previous administration duties led him to collude with the Empire, sure he changed his mind later...
Han Solo had served with the Rebellion, but was a smuggler/ship's captain. How does that equal general? Sure he deserved promotion, but I mean, it's like the writer ignored there were ranks between captain and general.
An extensive interview with Jason Fry. We're one week away from this bad boy finally going on sale! I have had my copy on pre-order, pretty much since it was available, and am very excited about this book. This is of course the first Essential Guide since the Essential Atlas (which was truly awesome and I've still not gone completely through it). There is some art work that we haven't seen yet either I think.
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It is finally available for purchase. I'll be getting mine on Thursday.
Looks really neat. I may have to get this book at some point!
