CT Was Vader/Anakin technically Emperor for the last couple minutes of his life?

After Vader/Anakin killed Palpatine in ROTJ, was he technically Emperor for the last couple minutes of his life?

 

No. No one was, the Empire had fallen.
Also, Anakin was renouncing his status anyway.

 

I was wondering if Anakin finally achieved the rank of Jedi master after he defeated Palpatine. Since he had turned away from the dark side, he would have been the most senior ranking Jedi alive, at least for a few minutes.

 

I think the status needs to be conferred by other Masters. I don't think he cared about that anyway.

 

I think he had more important things to care about

 

I don't think he was the "head honcho" Sith. I think technically he had gone back to being "good" about 5 minutes before he kicked the bucket.

 

Anakin was not the Emperor, since that is just a political title and not one that would be given to him. Nor was he the Dark Lord of the Sith either, since he had turned away from the dark side.

 

Yes
There was no time to make it official, though: he died, and he would have said No, anyway

 

Anakin was Emperor for a few minutes, until his heir, Luke took that title because he saw him die. Nobody in the movie saw Luke die, so now we need to have a tournament between all the viewers of TLJ.

Watch your back.

 

No one acknowledged him as the Emperor which includes Palpatine's hologram, so no.

 

I would say not. I would think the Grand Vizier, Mas Amedda would be first in line, Though had Vader remained, he probably would have asserted his authority and claimed the throne for himself.

 

The whole point of Vader repenting is that he recognises that he's been supporting evil for years, and wants now to oppose it.

Helping the Emperor create the Empire and destroying the Republic, was Vader's biggest mistake, and finally he's realised it. Becoming the next Emperor, would go against that whole "repentance" thing.

 

If he was it was unknown to everyone but Vader and Luke. I think there is an EU dude named...Prestage?...who claimed the title right after. Film-wise what was the line of succession? Palpatine to Vader to...Jerjerrod?

 

Sate Pestage (the Grand Vizier) claimed control of the Empire right after, though he never declared himself Emperor. In the Disneyverse, Mas Amedda fills the same "Grand Vizier who rules the Empire for a while after Palpatine's death" role.

Jerjerrod is just Death Star Commander, never a ruler.

 

He is a full on Moff, though put there as an easy to control stooge.

 

Interesting thought. But no, he wasn't. That was Palpatine's empire and at that point he quit the whole rule of 2 stuff

 

No.

Had Darth Vader survived, he COULD have declared himself the new Emperor and easily taken over the Empire by force, but he didn't. Along with saving his son, Vader killed Palpatine to end the Empire.

THAT scenario plays out in TLJ with Kylo Ren, Snoke, and the Order.

 

It's true that he was promoted to Moff (and that there was once only 20 of them):

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tiaan_Jerjerrod

however, his lack of the traditional Moff badge might not just be a blooper - it might be an indication that he doesn't rule sectors but confines his work purely to Getting The Death Star Running.

 

In his final moments, Vader was certainly not Emperor, it is not an inherited position per se. Neither was he Sith master. He was simply a Jedi, and a father.

 

I think if Anakin never turned back to the Light side, before his death, then yes. I can't picture Darth Vader not wanting that position.

 

There was a formal hierarchy and a secret plot by Palpatine so no. Vader was dying not sure what you mean would it go to him and it took Luke's every physical effort to drag his limp body to a shuttle. He wasnt Vader by the last time he said "Noooooooooooo!" in ROTJ or if you prefer the original when he picked up the Emperor. So certainly after his head was fried he was not gonna live long to claim any such title and had no authority or ability to pass it to Luke. Besides the Empire was designed to not outlive Palpatine, it was the contingency plan called Operation Cinder. So there would not of been any time.

I am curious if Snoke had something in the

Spoiler

posthumous order like Palpatine's Operation Cinder after his early premature demise at the hands of the treacherous Kylo Ren.

 

When he finally chucked the Emperor down the shaft, he was once again Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker.

He wasn’t a Sith Lord (either Apprentice or Master), as he had renounced the title.
He wasn’t an Emperor, as no one formally declared him as such.
He wasn’t a Jedi Master, as there were no Jedi to appoint him as such and I doubt Luke had such authority.

The man we saw dying on the ramp was Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight and father of Luke and Leia Skywalker.

 

Right, I doubt one good deed would erase the 24 years of horror and misery Vader dished out on the galaxy. However, we may be straying off — my point is that as far as Luke and the Force were concerned, Vader paid his dues by essentially offing himself and the Emperor at the same time (albeit with Vader dying a bit later.)

 

Vaders one act removing decades of death and misery? Would have made a great Hitchens essay.