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I actually disagree, I think Grand Moff Tarkins position is very much the source of his power. The Empire has established itself in the former Separatist territories (which are mostly in the Outer Rim territories) which the Empire has direct rule over. Grand Moff Tarkin is the head of the Outer Rim territories so he wields direct feudal-like control of all the people there.

Which gives him authority unlike anyone else.

Why is Tarkin building the DS? Because he's the only man who can funnel enough resources and workers to the project.

 

Not true, since we learn in ANH, that "the regional governours - and Tarkin is one of those - have now direct control over their territories" - which means, that BEFORE ANH they didn't. And he also can't have much official power for his supervision of the DS-project, since that was top-secret.

 

That's kind of the thing. Before, Tarkin alone was the guy who had that kind of authority as we see in Rebels and in only one region.

It's also confirmed in a Rebels comic where a Senator is told the Outer Rim is the only place they have no authority.

 

Technically, Senator Tural isn't told she has no autjority in the OR, she's told that she doesn't have the right to contest an execution order given by a military commander outside of her jurisdiction.

 

I think this is the same as the EU, Tarkin is Grand Moff of the Outer Rim and there are sector moffs as well, such as Moff Pryce who is the governor of the Lothal sector. It's weird in Rebels that we never see the senator of the Lothal sector, though presumably they're just on Coruscant, much as Pryce herself was for the bulk of the show.


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Technically, she says, "The Senate has no jurisdiction here, especially in matters of treason."

Which could mean a lot.

But yes, I'm inclined to think Tarkin doesn't have any Senator to deal with, unlike say, Moff Panaka.

 

What I still don't get, however, is why Pryce has the cylinders and insignia of a Grand Moff.

 

Sometimes a production error is just a production error, even for Star Wars fans.

Albeit, I think she's just the Planetary Governor of Lothal versus Moff of its Sector.

There's a guy or girl between her and Tarkin going by the old EU ranks.

 

Databank says she governs the whole sector:

http://www.starwars.com/databank/governor-pryce

In Tarkin there were only twenty Moffs originally appointed - it's possible that there's still only twenty Moffs and they rule Oversectors, not Sectors.

 

Point taken. It's possible the rest of the Moffs are only appointed in ANH. Which would make Leona Tavira a very very recent addition.

Albeit, I'm now seeing her as Lothal's wife.

It's possible in Disney!

 

In the Legendsverse, the Oversectors were reorganised a bit at some point. Prior to Tarkin's promotion to Grand Moff and assignment to a greater Outer Rim Oversector though - I could see them having roughly the same boundaries in both the Legendsverse and the newcanon.

Given that Mon Cala is slap bang in the middle of the outer edge of the 12th "Cerulean Spear" Oversector (and Lothal's right near Mon Cala) - if Pryce is indeed one of the 20 Moffs, and Tarkin didn't change their boundaries after all, but simply became boss of every Oversector that included part of the Outer Rim, then that would be her oversector.

Presumably Delian Mors, Moff of the oversector that included Ryloth, in Lords of the Sith which predates Tarkin, would have the 14th "Red Tails" Oversector.

 

I already asked Pablo about this. He said that there is no such thing as a Grand Moff insignia or at least nothing labeled as such. The insignia doesn't mean Grand Moff but priority sector high commander.

 

Interesting, yes. Do you have a link?

 

Someone needs to do a book of Pablo statements.

He's already said some pretty radical stuff like the fact Luke was on Dagobah for years because of the "Mortis effect."

 

Link needs fixing.

However, the idea did exist in Legends:

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

 

Random bit of WEG trivia:

In the Legends universe, Moffs had the honorary rank of High Admiral and High General so they could command Imperial military troopers directly.

I wonder if this means that Grand Moff Tarkin is equal in rank to Grand Admiral Thrawn in a literal sense.

 

Maybe Krennic's "rank equivalent to Admiral" badge is an example of this "honorary rank" system - which is how he commands the Death Troopers.

 

I believe this is the link.

 

It would also explain why Ysanne Isard wore a (red) Grand Admiral's uniform.

 

This (canon) image depicts Tarkin as Moff.

Note that it has only 10 tiles instead of 12, so it's clearly different than the insignia he later wore as a Grand Moff (and the one also worn by Pryce).

EDIT: Ah, apparently, they "don't look at that stuff." Never mind.

 

So did Armand Isard - with the insignia the other way up. (Ysanne's badge is depicted both ways a lot - but often blue side up, whereas normal officers always have it red side up)

Without the epaulettes, how do you tell a red version of Admiral's Uniform from a red version of Grand Admiral's Uniform?

And there was a certain amount of movie-tie-in imagery which depicted ROTS Wayne Pygram Tarkin with it, too:

 

Yes that's the link.