Rogue One

[Mr Mystery]

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I'd be surprised if he is a Grand Admiral. There is an Imperial Officer wearing similar in ANH - although without the 6 wide double rank. Also, Thrawn is usually shown with the 3 yellow tabs identical to Grand Moff Tarkin.

Further edit - this chap is apparently Wullf Yularen, a Colonel with the ISB. So White don't guarantee Grand Admiral.

Spesh as the EU has been relegated to Legends status, and is thus non-canonical.

[Erik Setzer]

White is used by the ISB as well, but I do think he's meant to be a Grand Admiral. Not Thrawn, though... there's still those rumors floating he'll pop up in Rebels. Thrawn's rank might not have been displayed "accurately," and since it's non-canon, they can change it to work better if they want.

It would be cool if he's a Grand Admiral. But hey, maybe he is just ISB, but a super-high-ranking member of ISB, who shows up to look at all the wreckage and realizes, "Crap. They stole the Death Star plans. This could be bad. Better tell Lord Vader and hope he doesn't kill me."

[Rissan4ever]

He could be both a Grand Admiral and ISB. If I were the Emperor, and I had bunch of super-genius Grand Admirals, I would definitely put one in charge of ISB.

Either way, he looks totally bad@$$, and I am supremely stoked for this movie.

[Haighus]

Wullf Yularen? Isn't that the Admiral who is frequently Anakin Skywalkers' direct subordinate throughout much of the Clone Wars series?

[Denzark]

Apparently so - I only know this because I wookiepedia'd it.

[Mr Mystery]

There's been a small leak of images from a forthcoming 'visual guide' type book.

I've nabbed copies, but don't want to put them up at the time being for reasons.

1. I don't want to get BoLS into copyright trouble
2. This thread has no spoiler warning, and I can't spoiler tag images (and if you can, I don't know how)

Can probs PM them to people who'd like to see though, innit.

[CoffeeGrunt]

Oooh, oohh! Pick me!

[Mr Mystery]

Will get them over to you laterer on - am at work and off lunch!

[Darren Richardson]

There's been a small leak of images from a forthcoming 'visual guide' type book.

I've nabbed copies, but don't want to put them up at the time being for reasons.

1. I don't want to get BoLS into copyright trouble
2. This thread has no spoiler warning, and I can't spoiler tag images (and if you can, I don't know how)

Can probs PM them to people who'd like to see though, innit.

Having seen said images, I have to say I like the Tie Striker and the wierd Rebel fighter, wonder how it handles?

December can't come quick enough really....

[Mr Mystery]

Really hoping they continue to expand the planets things happen on.

I feel that among their various issues, the prequels particularly choked by including Tatooine so heavily. I know it's just one out of about 6 planets featured (Naboo, Coruscant, Tatooine, Kamino, Mustafar, and two others, so seven) but it managed to make the Galaxy feel an awful lot smaller than it should.

TFA of course featured four planets (and one of them for mere seconds before it got it splatted, but it still expanded the universe!