Luke blew up the freakin’ Death Star and he only gets to be commander. Han wants to skip out on the whole rebellion thing and he gets to be a general.

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    Han was a graduate of the Imperial Military Academy before being discharged for saving Chewbacca from slavery.

    He was awarded the Corellian Bloodstripes during that period of time.

    Unless the new Canon retconned all of that away.

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      Yeah but all the deep lore was written after the movies, so it can’t really be used to explain the movies. The lore is crafted to fit these exact kind of holes.

      Han Solo’s pants have a stripe on them in the movie and suddenly some novel spins it up into a whole thing - every family on his homeworld has a unique stripe, or some shit, and his exact one means such-and-such about him…

      No, the costume designer put a stripe on his pants.

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      It did. The Disney continuity does have him as an Imperial veteran, but an enlisted footsoldier lower ranked than Stormtroopers. He also deserted on what was probably his first deployment.