History Fanfic / ANewJediInAnOldRepublic

* {{Cameo}}: [[Film/TheGreatDictator The Unnamed Barber]] makes an appearance as a anti-militarist demagogue in Coruscant's Undercity.

* NeverShallTheSelvesMeet: Averted, since Kyle visits his childhood home and holds the timeline's native Kyle with no negative effects.

* HopeSpot: Anakin has a brief one, when he realizes that Kyle and Jan's marriage is completely normal for them, and begs them to tell him how to keep both his Jedi career and his wife. They have to gently explain to him that yes, Kyle is considered a Jedi, but only by technicality, and his title as "Knight-Errant" reflects that. As far as the Council will admit, he is an extreme outlier and not a viable path for a Jedi. The best advice they can give him is that eventually, either his Jedi career or his marriage will end, and the most he can do is choose in advance and make the most of himself as long as he has both, but have a choice ready for when the break comes so he is ready for the break.

* FailedASpotCheck: In chapter 14, a Jedi training droid, having been designed for sparring with lightsabers, fails to register Kyle's blaster pistol as a weapon. This results in [[BoomHeadshot its head being blown off]] without it even trying to block the shot.

* CharacterDevelopment: Because Tarkin and Anakin meet much earlier in this story than they do in Canon, they start to affect each other differently. Anakin is given a military role model that appeals to his "Man of Action" tendencies, while also tempering him with the experiences of combat away from the Jedi. Tarkin encounters the Jedi in a far more positive light, as people who are searching for a way to act properly, which military discipline and the chain of command can help with; Anakin signs on as a Fighter Pilot, where his status as an AcePilot meets Tarkin's approval, as Anakin doesn't take on responsibilities that he isn't ready for, and is sticking with something that he ''is'' (as opposed to what would have happened if the Jedi had all blindly taken on the role the Senate was thrusting on them, that of Generals).

The story is hosted on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-new-jedi-in-an-old-republic-star-wars.315437/ Here.]] Dormant for a year, the fic is likely dead.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Numerous and well written.
** Kyle's attempt to blend into a temple full of telepathic space wizards who can sense emotions and are ''particularly'' on edge regarding the Dark Side – which Kyle has access to – goes off about as well as you could expect. Namely, he isn't in the temple for more than ten minutes before the Jedi Council ask to see him to ask "What the hell."
** Robots designed specifically to defend against lightsabers, and nothing else, can't really handle ''guns''. Kyle takes one out before admitting that "he didn't think that would work", and promises to use his lightsabers on the other two.
*** Kazdan Paratus, who had made the droids, accepts the lesson and designs his next droid to not only defend itself against guns but also includes a sniper rifle and a [[MoreDakka repeating blaster]] in the design.
** Kyle points out that the Jedi, for all their skills at individual combat, are not ideal ''commanders'', and shouldn't take the job of "Generals". He backs this up with information taught to him during his education at Imperial Academies, which point out the ''many'' military failures that the Jedi had before they could become acclimated to the role. To show he's not considering just them failures, he explains that with his soldier training, he's probably the one best trained to be a general... and that he would be terrible at it, his talents leaning more towards leading small squads.
** The Jedi don't have a Public Relations expert, which Yoda quickly realizes is a mistake – it leaves the Jedi out-of-touch with the common man, and themselves isolated from the galaxy's opinion of them.
** You have magical powers that allow you to hear the thoughts of others and rarely leave your secret base? Turns out that doesn't do wonders for others' perception of you. Many people don't trust Jedi, be it for their powers, or their mannerisms (their overly formal and traditional ways come across as insulting to many), or that almost no one has ever seen a Jedi.
** Palpatine is ''smart'', and a Chessmaster of epic proportions. Just because Kyle has future knowledge, doesn't mean that the plans of the Sith are going to come unraveling so easily, or that Palpatine won't be able to adapt to new information.
** Kazdan Paratus' new battle droid is far more formidable than the old sparring droids or any other droid active... But as it's made from a hodge-podge of other droids part and is incredibly expensive, isn't put into mass production, something Paratus fully accepts.
** One skill of Jedi is that they can feel death in the Force. Since the CIS don't use living beings in their army, and people form bonds when in stressful situations, Anakin points out that even the most hardened Jedi is going to have to deal with feeling the death of all of his allies – and ''only'' their allies – on the battlefield, and that strain could make them snap.
*** He also runs into an issue where he has a hard time getting equipment and outfits outfitted for him while on an assignment with the clones, because... well, they're clones. All their stuff is outfitted for exactly one body type. Anakin, not fitting it, needs to get his gear custom-fitted.
** Tarkin is informed that the refits of combat ships will be done in a few months... although it is noted that because it's so late in the design process, with no chance to build new, specialized ships to take advantage of combat lessons, most of the "upgrades" will be little more than "Bolt anti-air guns on every available spot on the hull."
** Kyle may be from the future, but he wasn't a historian, and a lot was lost following the purges, meaning he sometimes makes mistakes due to not knowing what has happened, like suggesting the Jedi hire Mandalorians to lead the Army of the Republic when most main-stream Mandalorians at the time were pacifists, and even when he gets Mace to agree that there ''are'' still warrior Mandalorians out there, he messes up by suggesting they hire Fett. Since Boba is still a relatively unknown child, the only Fett the Jedi know of is Jango… who Mace himself killed.

* RealityEnsues: Numerous and well written.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: More than a few:
** Upon taking Jan in her service as an agent, Mon Mothma makes sure to use her future knowledge at its best and doesn't ask any excessive service from her.
** As much as what he believes is Mon Mothma's initiatives irritate him, Armand Isard has no problem collaborating with her as soon as he's made aware of it, and during the sting operation has no problem with the locals' request that the factory for the DEMP weapons will be set up away from cities.
** ''Tarkin'', of all people, demonstrates himself one, asking and praising his men's sincere opinions, rewarding skills and initiative as long as it's within the boundaries of military discipline, refusing to use fighters as shields for his ships or ramming attacks because they're crewed by organics and not non-sentient droids, and, once he's injured when his ship is shot down, refusing treatment because there's only so many bacta tanks and medical beds and his injuries are quite light and he doesn't mind the scars.
** Even more unlikely than Tarkin, ''Grievous'' is one... With his organic crews and the expensive warships, as he uses quite cavalierly expendable droid starfighters as both shields and [[RammingAlwaysWorks improvised missiles]] to preserve his ships.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Played with. Thanks to some advice from Kyle, the Jedi decide to ''not'' become generals and admirals of the Clone Army in this story, under the justification that they are not at all suited for the position. They do promise to assist in the war effort however they can in areas to which they are more suited, such as [[{{Seers}} advisors]], [[MagicKnight special]] [[CombatClairvoyance forces]], [[AcePilot pilots]], medics, diplomats, etc.
* ResignedToTheCall: Before traveling into the past, the couple had intended to go on vacation. However, after realizing that they were now at the start of the Clone Wars, they realized they couldn't sit idly by.
* RunningBothSides: Palpatine, of course, is running both sides of the Separatist conflict.
* RunningGag: Kyle repeatedly insists, "Don't call me Captain[=/=]Master[=/=][Insert title here]." No one ever does.
* ShoutOut: A rabblerouser cribs heavily from the speech in ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' in chapter 40.
** Aside from the ships named for in-universe people and places, or have cannon names, all the Republic ships are named for ships from ''VideoGame/FreeSpace''. Including the ship Anakin was deployed on - the ''Sathanas''.

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* ArmorIsUseless: {{Averted}}: armor can be useful, and Jedi start rebuilding their old armor because of that.

** ''Tarkin'', of all people, demonstrates himself one, asking and praising his men's sincere opinions, rewarding skills and initiative as long as it's within the boundaries of military discipline, refusing to use fighters as shields for his ships or ramming attacks because they're crewed by organics and not non-sentient droids, and, once he's injured when his ship is shot down, refusing treatment because there's only so many bacta tanks and medical beds and lower-ranked crewmembers are more injured than he is.
** Even more unlikely than Tarkin, ''Grievous'' is one... With his organic crews and the expensive warships, as he uses quite cavalierly expensable droid starfighters as both shields and [[RammingAlwaysWorks improvised missiles]] to preserve his ships.

-->"And a Jedi never left their partner with a problem. Anakin may have caused more than his fair share of problems for Obi-Wan, but he never left his mentor to deal with all the fallout by himself."
-->"Mostly."
-->"Only when Obi-Wan could handle it."
-->"And when he was needed elsewhere."
-->"To do something important."
* [[HumanShield Droid Shield]]: In battle, Grievous used his droid starfighters to soak up a turbolaser barrage. Tarkin, whose ships had fired said barrage, considers it an acceptable use of the droids and would have done the same if his fighters hadn't been crewed by organics.

* WeaksauceWeakness: The armies of the CIS are droids. Implacable, able to operate in vacuum, tireless... Too bad that Kyle has a directed EMP gun that he just turned over to the Republic for reverse-engineering.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Kyle suggests that if the Jedi want to learn how to fight, they hire a Mandalorean. When he comes from, the only Mandaloreans he knows are of the classic "Warrior" type, who live up to the ProudWarriorRaceGuy archetype. Master Windu, however, knows that the Mandaloreans of his time have largely given up fighting, and thinks that Kyle is claiming that even total pacifists could fight better than the Jedi at this point.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When Greivous is called to explain his actions when facing Tarkin's fleet – specifically, fleeing, not recalling his fighters, and having them execute suicide attacks – Dooku reprimands him for quitting the field of battle, and for wasting the droid fighters, whose memories could have been used to help improve the next generation of fighters. Greivous counters that the Republic had already destroyed one of his capital ships, and his tactic preserved several hard-to-replace capital ships from being wrecked as well. He also points out that droid fighters, by their nature, are meant to be mass-produced. Sticking around to recover them could have resulted in them losing more capital ships instead of easily replaceable fighters.

** Returning to Anakin and Tarkin, in the wake of their mission together, Tarkin and Anakin have grown wiser. Anakin warns the Jedi Council that due to the empathic nature of their abilities, it is a massive emotional strain to constantly feel your allies dying around you. Tarkin, in turn, admits that he had misjudged the Jedi – while they have flaws, they're wise enough to know that they shouldn't lead and admits that empathic powers would be a hindrance on the battlefield. In short, Anakin isn't hotheadedly rushing into things now, and Tarkin sees the advantages of the Jedi, rather than the pessimistic view he had earlier.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Tarkin is usually calm and polite, but dealing with people who aren't doing their duty at their best, or at least trying to learn from their errors and acquire the skills they need to do their job, bring out his more sarcastic and offending side.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Anakin gets subjected to this on his return from Tarkin's mission. While his reasoning was good, was well-within the goals that the Council is trying to accomplish, and got a letter of reccomendation and personal words of support from Tarkin, he still left his post without telling anyone and ''technically'' went against the wishes of the Council. As a result, they have him be the one to work with the other Jedi sects while Kyle is out.

* AFatherToHisMen: Surprisingly enough, ''Tarkin'' gives the impression, as his utter pragmatisms means that, after being wounded in the destruction of his flagship, decides to not take bacta treatment or a medical bed in place of lower-ranked spacemen who need it more.

* WeaksauceWeakness: The armies of the CIS are droids. Implacable, able to operate in vacuum, tireless... too bad that Kyle has a directed EMP gun that he just turned over to the Republic for reverse-engineering.
** The Jedi's empathic abilities are a great strength... except that in battle against the droid armies, the only thing they'll be able to feel in the Force is the deaths of their friends and allies.

** Aside from the ships named for in-universe people and places, or have cannon names, all the Republic ships are named for ships from FreeSpace. Including the ship Anakin was deployed on - the ''Sathanas''.