What exactly is Leia's position in the Rebel Alliance? I don't think we ever find out in the movies.
At the beginning of ANH, it seems she's a spy: she uses "mercy missions" and "diplomatic missions to Alderaan" (if she's from Alderaan, why is she on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan, anyway?) to cloak her other activities, such as stealing top-
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It probably works best if the Rebellion took a long time to get going. Bail and Mon Mothma and the others who knew Palpatine and saw the Jedi teenagers get mowed down would know they had to oppose the Empire, but the average HoloNet viewer might have had no idea for years. So maybe they had no personnel to speak of until recently.
And even with the hodge-podge set-up, you'd still think that Leia would get some sort of title after three years of fighting, if Luke gets one after a single (albeit impressive) battle. Maybe she is a commander or a general, but everyone still calls her Princess because it's more impressive?
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Yeah, she should have gotten promoted to Queen, you would think. Though since her father was "Viceroy," maybe the Empire froze the monarchy at some point (and made Prince Bail Imperial Viceroy there to appease the locals?). Maybe Leia is technically in charge of the Alderaanian cell of the Rebellion, but there's not much left of it, so she ends up as a floating command person who takes on whatever needs doing?
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Come to think of it, I don't think Mon Mothma had a title in the Alliance. Would she retain Senator as a title (even through the Senate's disbanded)? Was Garm Bel Iblis referred to as Senator in the EU?
It's all very unclear. Perhaps the Alliance just weren't very organised. :p
Edited for typos. I should know better than to try to type coherently after midnight.
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I guess that would make sense, especially if the victory at Yavin 4 sort of galvanised things and they suddenly had more people joining up than they knew what to do with. :p
Oh, and I forgot to ask before, is it okay if I friend you? I keep missing fanfic you post (and I love your meta-type posts, too).
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Now I'm imagining the weeks after Yavin being swamped with tons of people signing up and the Rebels having no idea what to do with them. It almost sounds like a sitcom - pile a bunch of Rebels in sleeping bags on the floor because there's nowhere to put them and watch what happens XD
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