the command structure of the GAR suffers so badly from “we haven’t had a standing galactic army for 1000 years, we had to invent all of this yesterday” syndrome it is so fucking funny. the jedi high council had no idea what they were doing and were like, okay, the jedi are all generals now. what general do you answer to if two generals give you conflicting orders? the general. which of the generals is in charge? the general. which of the generals is the general over all the other generals? also the general. anakin is both the general of just the 501st and also the commander of gold squadron, apparently, how does he manage to be so annoying that he’s in a position of command in two separate branches of service? i cannot emphasize enough that the idea of rex explaining that their general is locked in a dogfight with separatist ships, so they have to hold off on such things as “orders” is just a thing that does not happen to people, ever. this makes absolutely no sense but given that the republic handed a military to the local superpowered wizard monk order that coordinates battles at most in small groups, i guess that’s kind of a fair way to take it. you win this round, rave baloney
anakin gets way more annoying, also i really think common characterization of him should deviate from “devil-may-care himbo” to “wildly neurotic workaholic engineering nut with no time for friends” because in the gambit duology apparently anakin personally redesigned the programming in republic cruiser commlinks. i cannot emphasize to you enough that knowing how to build a droid probably does not prepare you at all for the prospect of programming a ship the size of a city. i cannot emphasize to you enough how ridiculous of a job redesigning the programming of a line of capital warships while you are both a general and an air commander (how is this a thing) would be. also, how much obscure engineering bullshit did he have to read from ages 9-20 to be able to make the leap from “can build a podracer” to “knows how massive warships work enough to be able to work on them” because, like, a guy who is good with cars is not automatically prepared to design jumbo jets. when in the entire fuck. how in the goddamn. how did he even have time to be motherfucking crazy. how did he have time to be married. he had engineering books to go read
anakin, seven days deep without sleep, downing the fifth space redbull of the hour and drawing a draft of a spaceship by moving a pencil with the force, because the caffeine makes his hands shake too bad to hold it: i know the color yellow is threatening so i reinvented hyperspace
rex, nodding his head: classic general skywalker
dave the new guy who had no idea what he was walking into: CLASSIC?
