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Feb 5, 2016 at 14:35	comment	added	Deacon		Excellent analogy, @Oldcat! I would not have thought of the SS analogy, but when you dive right down into it, that's what he is.
Feb 3, 2016 at 17:53	comment	added	Oldcat		Think of him as an SS officer rather than a navy officer. Different organization, and a nastier one. You certainly would call a noble Lord "Lord" no matter what his rank - see British practice before WWI, when nobles bought rank in regiments. Lord is not a military rank. And Vader may be well known, but he wasn't well respected in that movie, by Leia or anyone else. Nobody showed him the deference that the second most powerful political actor would have, let alone an evil magician.
Feb 3, 2016 at 7:46	comment	added	Gaussler		Very interesting theory indeed. So Vader was supposed to be our image of the empire, personified by a mid-level officer. The three counterarguments I can see are (1) Vader does not have an ordinary military rank, unless Darth was meant to be a fictional military rank, like moff. But many things indicate that Darth was originally meant as a name. (2) I think that even in the first film, he is often called Lord Vader. Do you call a mid-level commander "lord?" And (3) Leia immediately recognises Vader, suggesting that he is quite well-known in the galaxy.
Feb 3, 2016 at 0:56	history	answered	Oldcat	CC BY-SA 3.0