Luke blew up the freakin’ Death Star and he only gets to be commander. Han wants to skip out on the whole rebellion thing and he gets to be a general.
Han was a graduate of the Imperial Military Academy before being discharged for saving Chewbacca from slavery.
He was awarded the Corellian Bloodstripes during that period of time.
Unless the new Canon retconned all of that away.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Keep in mind, Han was promoted for the mission on Endor, so he wasn’t a general the . The rebellion kind of promoted people as needed (or just straight up willy-nilly, see Lando being given a rank of general or whatever.)
Also, like in rebels, they promoted a teenager to “lieutenant”…. Because he was a half-trained Jedi… (yeah that went well,)
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Luke, after almost banging his sister: “Damn! This close to a promotion!”
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Chewie, realizing he never got that kiss: “RAWRRlRLrlrlrlrlrRLrlrlrLRRLlrRl.”
nitefox@sh.itjust.works [bot] 1 year ago
“You are in your sister… but we do not grant you the rank of general”
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Also, Han had a ship and could lead a squadron.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shooting womprats in beggars canyon is experience!
Yeah. Training by the Carida naval academy, flushing out and lots and lots of smuggling experience…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Endor was post-Empire.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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(this is the scene oblin99 is referring to, the morning after Han went out after Luke.) Han was a Captain at Hoth, and was outranked by Luke… who is a commander at the time.
also, the Emperor died on the 2nd death star, which is when most worlds finally shrugged off imperial occupation. (see the celebration montage of them toppling the statues and stuffs); this is generally when people say that the empire was gone, even if it took a while to, ah, tidy up.
oblin99@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When Rogue Squadron is using the com links and looking for them after they camped out for the night, doesn’t Rogue 2 refer to both as Captain though?
wjrii@kbin.social 1 year ago
This. It says a lot about the personnel available to the Alliance and the optics, namely the importance they placed on the ground mission, and the fact that they needed to set expectations for how Han would be treated by his new troops.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
I think it is more that Han Solo became general after ESB, not that he became one for Endor.
Even though Solo is captured, he does cause Cloud City to flip to the rebels, giving Han an army and navy. At the time, generals were both military leads and the people who were able to mobilize a fighting force. Even if Lando is kept as a high ranking officer, that would be enough to make Solo a general.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ESB ends with Han encased in carbonate and loaded onto fett’s ship,
RotJ starts with the gang rescuing him. ESB, he was “Captain Solo”, he spent the intervening time frozen in a block of space-slag, so he had to have been given that promotion for that mission.
roguetrick@kbin.social 1 year ago
Making a force sensitive a junior officer seems to be the standard.