Although Tarkin didn't believe in the Force, he respected Vader a lot, as he was the Emperor's enforcer, and he even grew to admire Vader's way of inducing fear within others. Grand Moff Tarkin was one of the most feared forces within the empire.
Vader and Tarkin were often at odds with each other and only worked together because it was in the interests of the Galactic Empire. However, Vader's animosity towards him caused Tarkin to later suspect that the Sith Lord and the Jedi Knight who once saved his life were one and the same.
However there's also the possibility Tarkin was vested with direct authority over the military as he was respected by the Emperor and a close confident and favourite of his, an example would be when Palpatine promoted Tagge to Grand General and gave him full authority over the entire Imperial Military including over ...
the novel tarkin, written by James Lucino, confirmed that Grand Moff Tarkin. knew the true identity of Darth Vader. having identified anakin's lightsaber skills, military strategy, and interactions with his stormtroopers and the Sith, he was smart enough to not.
He Hated The Jedi
While working in the Republic Navy, Tarkin had to fight alongside the Jedi, which he grew to dislike. He believed the Jedi to be weak, as they kept failing to keep the peace in the galaxy. As shown in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he hated the fact that Jedi were generals in the Republic army.
Having learned about Tarkin's past as a hunter on Eriadu, Vader had asked him to hunt him in order to test whether he could still be challenged.
2 Grand Moff Tarkin Was All About Using Fear As A Weapon
In many ways, Tarkin was more ruthless than Palpatine. The destruction of Alderaan proves this— he wasn't ordered to do it, he just did it to prove a point to Leia and the galaxy. A man like that is evil personified.
Introduced in the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy, Governor Tarkin is the Grand Moff of the Galactic Empire and commander of the Death Star.
Regardless, Vader reported to Tarkin as Tarkin officially outranked him, as designed by the Emperor to limit his power within the Empire.
In many ways, Palpatine enslaved Vader and, over the years, Vader undoubtedly grew to resent his master. Because with any Sith duo, the relationship is always one of master and servant. And due to the history of the Sith, both these Dark Lords were probably constantly paranoid about being betrayed by one another.
Tarkin and TK-421 began a clandestine intimate relationship that progressed quickly. TK-421 was promoted to station security, a position that Tarkin believed would be safe, and the stormtrooper hoped he and his droid would soon be relocated to Tarkin's penthouse on Coruscant.
Nope. Some people got the impression that Grand Moff Tarkin did because it seemed like Vader was taking orders from him at some points in the original movie, but Tarkin didn't officially outrank Vader. In fact, Vader wasn't even a part of the official Imperial hierarchy.
18 Galen Marek. In Star Wars Legends and Canon, Galen Marek (Starkiller) is the only Jedi (other than Obi-Wan Kenobi) to put a beat down on Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker. Galen was secretly trained as a Sith Lord apprentice to Vader, but returned to the light side and the Jedi.
11 David Prowse
The very first actor to suit up as Darth Vader and make an appearance on the big screen was bodybuilder David Prowse.
As Supreme Commander, Darth Vader was the ranking leader of the Imperial Military.
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Timothy Zahn's novels have strongly suggested Thrawn - like Tarkin - swiftly deduced Palpatine's true identity as a Dark Lord of the Sith.
When Luke Skywalker fired the proton torpedo that destroyed the space station, Tarkin was killed in the explosion.
Wilhuff Tarkin
Like Vader, Tarkin was one of Palpatine's most trusted followers.
1. Emperor Palpatine. Darth Sidious infiltrated the heart of the Republic and twisted it into the Empire, sparked a terrible war that engulfed the entire galaxy in fire and ash, corrupted once-noble Jedi to his cause, and executed Order 66 to erase the Jedi Order from existence.
There has been no Sith, as powerful, meticulous, nor as evil as the Emperor himself, Darth Sidious. As previously mentioned, Sidious trained in the Dark Side by Darth Plagueis before Sidious killed Plagueis in his sleep, making Sidious a Sith Master.
In Star Wars: A New Hope, Princess Leia lied to Grand Moff Tarkin and told him that the Rebel base was located on Dantooine to try to stop him from destroying Alderaan. Technically, this statement was true -- from a certain point of view.
Leia was not prepared to give up the Rebels, but she also did not want to lose her homeworld and the millions of people who lived there. As a result, she lied to Tarkin and told him that the Rebel base was located on Dantooine.
In truth, Tarkin openly disliked the Clones after the end of the war, most likely because he was concerned that they might not support the Empire without their conditioning chips in place. That being said, this decision made extremely little sense from a military perspective.
Aside from agility and telekinesis, Yoda could absorb and redirect Force attacks, like lightning. Because of his higher understanding, he would easily overcome Darth Vader in a fight, though that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a difficult battle.