History Fanfic / EarthARendezvousWithDestiny

** Barry Goldwater becomes the President of the United States in 1968 after winning the election in a landslide over Lyndon B. Johnson.
** Due to the success of Operation Valkyrie in this timeline, Ludwig Beck becomes the Chancellor of the provisional government of Germany until Soviet forces capture Berlin.
** Liu Shaoqi becomes the new Chairman of the Communist Party of China after Mao Zedong's death in 1961.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: The American Military doctrine used before the widespread acceptance of the M16 and Assault Rifle concept in actual history, the "Cult of the Rifleman" where Infantrymen of the United States Army were once trained to shoot out to six hundred yards, not to mention the United States Marine Corps even to date of course, is being upheld. Justified as the fatigues of the Imperial military are gray and the armor black, making them easy to spot from a distance, never mind the obvious benefit of dispatching Sith before they could dismember limbs.

* LoveInterestTraitor: Sara inadvertently betrayed Jake's trust after her true loyalties was discovered by Senator Krasul and Master Therin, forcing an immediate extraction. Despite attempting to prevent the "kidnapping", Jake was devastated at the revelation after watching Sara's confession on a holorecording, feeling as if he was used.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Some (in)famous and obscure individuals from history have been portrayed or are referenced in the story such as Field Marshal UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery, Senator Barry Goldwater, Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, Chicago Mobster boss UsefulNotes/AlCapone, Tank Ace Michael Wittmann, and even UsefulNotes/TELawrence to name a few examples.

* FlyoverCountry: Both Jake and Sam consider the small town of Acton, Indiana home and Acton[[https://kids.kiddle.co/Acton,_Indiana]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton,_Indiana]] is an actual small community located in the southeast corner of Marion County, Indiana.

* HistoricalFantasy: Essentially, the story takes place in an alternate Cold War mixing the hard sci-fi technology of the 50s and 60s with the explicitly ScienceFantasy and SpaceOpera trappings of ''Star Wars''.

* CivilWar: China's Reawakening War happens because of Mao Zedong's early death and the subsequent succession crisis over who would be his successor. The Maoist side seeks to continue his ideology while the pro-Soviet government led by Liu Shaoqi wants to increase ties with the Warsaw Pact. In the end, Shaoqi and his forces emerge victorious after they crush the Maoist rebels in Hunan by 1967.

* HollywoodTactics: The Earth Coalition cannot comprehend the tactics used by the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire with Patton himself comparing it to the early years of World War One despite these strategies being used in the galaxy for millennia. See OpposingCombatPhilosophies on this page for more.

** UsefulNotes/MaoZedong died from acute heart failure in 1961, a decade earlier than his OTL death. Because of his death, China is plunged into a full-blown civil war between Maoist loyalists and the pro-Soviet CCP communists, which lasts from 1963 to 1967, resulting in a victory for the latter side.

** UsefulNotes/MaoZedong died from acute heart failure in 1961, a decade earlier than his OTL death. Because of his death, China is plunged into a full-blown civil war between Maoist loyalists and the pro-Soviet CCP communists, which lasts from 1963 to 1967, resulting in a victory for the latter.

* CivilWar: China's Reawakening War happens because of Mao Zedong's early death and the subsequent succession crisis over who would be his successor. The Maoist side seeks to continue his ideology while the pro-Soviet government led by Liu Shaoqi wants to increase ties with the Warsaw Pact. In the end, Shaoqi and his forces emerge victorious after they crush the Maoist rebels in Hunan.

** Barry Goldwater won the presidency in 1968 by a landslide over the Democratic candidate Lyndon B. Johnson in a similar fashion to Richard Nixon being re-elected over George McGovern in 1972.

* HollywoodTactics: The Earth Coalition cannot comprehend the tactics used by the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire with Patton himself comparing it to the early years of World War One despite these strategies being used in the galaxy for millennia. See: OpposingCombatPhilosophies on this page for more.

** UsefulNotes/MaoZedong died from acute heart failure in 1961, a decade earlier than his OTL death. As a result, China is plunged into a full-blown civil war between Maoist loyalists and the pro-Soviet CCP communists

* ArbitrarySkepticism :One of the main characters, Jake, is deeply religious yet dismisses the concept of the Force and is intransigent with this viewpoint, which is also dramatically ironic as he formed a relationship with Lana Beniko, a Sith. Even more ironic is that his best friend, Sam, is described as being agnostic toward the existence of the Force as philosophically declared. To be fair, in the story, the Milky Way is explained to be completely devoid of the Force and anything native to or from the Milky Way is impervious to it.

* CivilWar: The Reawakening War in China happens because of Mao Zedong's early death and the subsequent succession crisis over who would be his successor. The Maoist side seeks to continue his ideology while the pro-Soviet government led by Liu Shaoqi wants to increase ties with the Warsaw Pact.
* ColdWar: The story is set during an alternate 1960s/1970s and it also technically falls under the trope SpaceColdWar as well due to congruently being placed in the events of VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic.

** Mao Zedong died from acute heart failure in 1961, a decade earlier than his OTL death. As a result, China is plunged into a full-blown civil war between Maoist loyalists and the pro-Soviet CCP communists

** Thomas Dewey actually defeats Truman in the 1948 election only to die in a plane crash early in his second term to be succeeded by his Vice President, UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower instead of Dewey's actual running mate Earl Warren

* CannonFodder: The Imperial Army, despite being technologically advanced, couldn't stand its ground against Earth's military forces due to a utilization of tactics to regarded as obsolete by Earth, not to mention the unified forces being led by legends such as nonother than UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel.

* ShowWithinAShow: Franchise/{{Star Wars}} in collaboration between Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, and even non-other than co-writer of the story Jacob Sailer.

* UsefulNotes/TheTeutonicKnights: Jake had a dream about the Teutonic Order fighting Sith that alligned themselves with a Pagan tribe in the Baltics and the Crusaders mistakenly thought the stranded Purebloods were Demons. Less than 24 hours later, back on Earth, a Soviet research team determined that a derelict spaceship they excavated in Kaliningrad Oblast was in fact a Derriphan-class battleship from the Great Hyperspace War, possibly one which fled from the Sith Holocaust, only for the castaways seeking refuge with the Old Prussians to be confronted by a lance of the Teutonic Order and put to the sword by the German crusaders.

* AlternateHistory: The whole setup of the timeline. Even before the arrival of the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire in 1967, there were already numerous points of divergences from our timeline:
** Operation Valkyrie, the German conspiracy against UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, suceeds.

** America won the UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar with a treaty being signed in early 1967, only for the fighting to rekindle between the North and South followed by ARVN troops raising the South Vietnamese banner over Hanoi

* AlternateHistory: The whole setup of the timeline. Even before the arrival of the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire in 1967, there were already numerous points of divergences from ourlibe:

The story is set in an alternate 1960's Earth placed in the same universe as ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' which by unsought circumstance was thrown into an intergalactic war against the Sith Empire.

* AlternateHistory: Operation Valkyrie, the German conspiracy against UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, suceeds; Dewey actually defeats Truman in the 1948 election only to die in a plane crash early in his second term to be succeeded by his Vice President, UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower instead of Dewey's actual running mate Earl Warren but the main plotpoint is America winning UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar with a treaty being signed in early 1967, only for the fighting to rekindle between the North and South followed by ARVN troops raising the South Vietnamese banner over Hanoi, not to mention that both UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel are still alive in addition to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy surviving the assassination attempt in Dallas. The counterculture is also portrayed as being more chaotic than it actually was historically with mainstream citizens having a harsher backlash against Hippies and other subversives. Then there's Barry Goldwater being the Republican Candidate for U.S. President in 1968 instead of 1964 and ironically he won in a landslide over UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: While it is primarily and predominantly a work of alternate history, characters from the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' games, the film ''Film/KellysHeroes'', even ''Franchise/JamesBond'' and ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', have appeared as cameos and that's just only a few of the listed franchises included.

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: It is mentioned that Jack Ruby was a Patrolman of the Dallas Police Department and he was off-duty on November 22nd of 1963 when Officer Ruby spotted a rifle being aimed out of the School Book Depository. Unfortunately, Ruby was later killed by Valerie Solanas when he intervened in another assassination attempt, but this time on Phyllis Schlafly.

* OutsideContextProblem: The entire ''Star Wars'' galaxy is this to Earth. Not only do they possess advanced technology but they came here out of nowhere.

* PunyEarthlings: Subverted after the Raid on Korriban and the Second Battle of Kuat, though there's still mixed opinions over whether Earth is a backwater with a tinge of shortsightedness or an indomitable superpower in the making, and then there's Saresh viewing the Earthlings as expendable tools.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: The American Military doctrine used before the widespread acceptance of the M16 and Assault Rifle concept in actual history, the "Cult of the Rifleman" where Infantrymen of the United States Army were once trained to shoot out to six hundred yards, not to mention the United States Marine Corps even to date of course, is being upheld. Justified as the fatigues of the Imperial military are gray and the armor black, making them easy to spot from a distance, nevermind the obvious benefit of dispatching Sith before they could dismember limbs.

* IrishmanAndAJew: The friendship between Jake and Sam through their maternal side of the family, though it is mentioned that Jake's paternal side is German-American and he also is partially of Scottish descent while Sam have a ancestor who arrived to America aboard the Mayflower.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter : The author apparently did his research as the M14 is, while not perfect, capable of striking man-sized targets out to 1,000 Yards/914.4 Meters, more so than the FAL and that's not to mention that the M2 Browning can hit point targets at a much further distance while within Star Wars lore: blasters, even sniper blasters, are stated to be limited to under 500 meters maximum, resulting in a potential standoff advantage and add the fact that "slugthrowers" cannot be deflected by lightsabers, the Sith and their troops are recieving major casualties before they can even use their personnel weapons.

* MagnificentBastard: Invoked as a direct, blunt reference to the 1970 hit film "Patton". Patton complimented Rommel on selecting Korriban as the planetary demonstration to showcase the fact that Earth meant business.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Famed, Obscure, and Infamous individuals from history have been portrayed or are referenced in the story such as Field Marshal UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery, Senator Barry Goldwater, Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, Chicago Mobster boss UsefulNotes/AlCapone, Tank Ace Michael Wittmann, and even UsefulNotes/TELawrence to name a few examples.

* Scotireland: Subverted somewhat as the author is attempting care to differentiate between Scotland and Ireland in regard to Jake's maternal ancestry.

* Scotirreland: Subverted somewhat as the author is attempting care to differentiate between Scotland and Ireland in regard to Jake's maternal ancestry.

* DownOnTheFarm : It is revealed to the readers that Jake is a farm boy from Franklin Township, Marion County, Indiana[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Township,_Marion_County,_Indiana]]; an area that used to be predominantly rural until recently despite being less than twenty miles away from the state capitol of UsefulNotes/{{Indianapolis}}.
* FlyoverCountry : Both Jake and Sam consider the small town of Acton, Indiana home and Acton[[https://kids.kiddle.co/Acton,_Indiana]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton,_Indiana]] is an actual small community located in the southeast corner of Marion County, Indiana.

* ScotIreland: Subverted somewhat as the author is attempting care to differentiate between Scotland and Ireland in regard to Jake's maternal ancestry.

* TheCameo: Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, and even co-writer of the story Jacob Sailer have all made an appearance in the work.

* UsefulNotes/WildWeasel : Legendary fighter ace Brigadier General UsefulNotes/RobinOlds of the United States Air Force led a Wild Weasel taskforce during the raid on Korriban to target the Imperial Anti-Air batteries before the main attack commenced.
* UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks: UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton, Patton's second cousin legendary Marine Chesty Puller, UsefulNotes/RobinOlds, Admiral Raymond Spruance, and Colonel Hal Moore. The Empire unleashed Pandora's Box from not just EagleLand of course but at the samewhile these are some of the American contributions as Mad Jack Churchill can't fight the war by himself afterall.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: While it is primarily and predominantly a work of alternate history, characters from the ''VideoGame/CallofDuty'' and ''VideoGame/MedalofHonor'' games, the film ''Film/KellysHeroes'', even ''Franchise/JamesBond'' and ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', have appeared as cameos and that's just only a few of the listed franchises included.

* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: The Earth Coalition and the Galactic Republic (and Jedi Order as well of course), which combined with UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton personality and views on warfare made cooperation tense at times to say the least. This trope also was upheld when Jake and Theron disagreed whether the Marine could've snuck passed the Rakatans by using camouflage without getting caught, going so far as to almost result in blows between them.

* MagnificentBastard : Invoked as a direct, blunt reference to the 1970 hit film "Patton". Patton complimented Rommel on selecting Korriban as the planetary demonstration to showcase the fact that Earth meant business.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover : While it is primarily and predominantly a work of alternate history, characters from the VideoGame/CallofDuty and VideoGame/MedalofHonor games, the film Film/KellysHeroes, even Franchise/JamesBond and Franchise/IndianaJones, have appeared as cameos and that's just only a few of the listed franchises included.

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman : It is mentioned that Jack Ruby was a Patrolman of the Dallas Police Department and he was off-duty on November 22nd of 1963 when Officer Ruby spotted a rifle being aimed out of the School Book Depository. Unfortunately, Ruby was later killed by Valerie Solanas when he intervened in another assassination attempt, but this time on Phyllis Schlafly.

* SantasExistenceClause: Santa exists and it is emphatically stated that he doesn't use the Force. In fact the Jedi Order are absolutely befuddled how Reindeer could possibly fly and previously considered flying deer to be hyperbole.

* WasItAllALie?: Sara and Jake during their unexpected reunion on Korriban. It was awkward to say the least...]]

* AlternateHistory: [[spoiler:Operation Valkyrie, the German conspiracy against UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, suceeds; Dewey actually defeats Truman in the 1948 election only to die in a plane crash early in his second term to be succeeded by his Vice President, UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower instead of Dewey's actual running mate Earl Warren but the main plotpoint is America winning UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar with a treaty being signed in early 1967, only for the fighting to rekindle between the North and South followed by ARVN troops raising the South Vietnamese banner over Hanoi, not to mention that both UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel are still alive in addition to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy surviving the assassination attempt in Dallas. The counterculture is also portrayed as being more chaotic than it actually was historically with mainstream citizens having a harsher backlash against Hippies and other subversives. Then there's Barry Goldwater being the Republican Candidate for U.S. President in 1968 instead of 1964 and ironically he won in a landslide over UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism :[[spoiler:One of the main characters, Jake, is deeply religious yet dismisses the concept of the Force and is intransigent with this viewpoint, which is also dramatically ironic as he formed a relationship with Lana Beniko, a Sith. Even more ironic is that his best friend, Sam, is described as being agnostic toward the existence of the Force as philosophically declared. To be fair, in the story, the Milky Way is explained to be completely devoid of the Force and anything native to or from the Milky Way is impervious to it.]]
* ArmorIsUseless[[spoiler: The durasteel armor of Imperial Troopers fails to prevent injury and even Mandalorian Bes'kar is being penetrated by large-caliber rifle rounds from Earth with ease.]]
* CoolGuns/BattleRifles:[[spoiler: It is revealed that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has officially adopted the United States Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm, M14 as their main service weapon over other contenders such as the Fabrique Nationale FAL, Heckler & Koch G3, and the Italian BM-59. As a sidenote, though while not technically a Battle Rifle, the M16 also fell on the wayside in the story due to reliability issues and it is hinted that Armalite officially shuttered their doors for good as a result of the failed marketing.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: Creator/GeorgeLucas is collaborating with Creator/GeneRoddenberry to produce a film about Revan and the crew of the Ebon Hawk to be titled as Franchise/{{Star Wars}}]]
* UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships: [[spoiler: The British Military and parts of the Commonwealth have a particular annoyance with the Sith Empire in addition to their planned scheme of annexing Earth, referring to them frequently as "Impostors".]]
* CannonFodder: [[spoiler: The Imperial Army, despite being technologically advanced, couldn't stand its ground against Earth's military forces due to a utilization of tactics to regarded as obsolete by Earth, not to mention the unified forces being led by legends such as nonother than UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel.]]
* UsefulNotes/CanucksWithChinooks: [[spoiler: One of the main characters in the story is Hanzo Nilsson who is assigned to the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry of the Canadian Army and it is hinted that the often derided historic "Unification of the Canadian Military" attempt was either not implemented or was never proposed.]]
* ColdWar: [[spoiler: The story is set during an alternate 1960s/1970s and it also technically falls under the trope SpaceColdWar as well due to congruently being placed in the events of VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic.]]
* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler:A Republic Corporal, Sara Kelrein, is actually revealed to be a spy for the Sith Empire planted inside the Republic's Special Forces Division.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Rommel killed Rakton in a badass western style duel after the Imperial General refused to surrender despite his army being on the run]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: [[spoiler: Invoked in the story with the failure of the 1960s Counterculture and a prohibition on female troops, even if they would be relegated to rear-line duties only, from being in the Galaxy.]]
* DownOnTheFarm : [[spoiler: It is revealed to the readers that Jake is a farm boy from Franklin Township, Marion County, Indiana[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Township,_Marion_County,_Indiana]]; an area that used to be predominantly rural until recently despite being less than twenty miles away from the state capitol of UsefulNotes/{{Indianapolis}}.]]
* FlyoverCountry : [[spoiler: Both Jake and Sam consider the small town of Acton, Indiana home and Acton[[https://kids.kiddle.co/Acton,_Indiana]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton,_Indiana]] is an actual small community located in the southeast corner of Marion County, Indiana.]]
* FriendlySniper: [[spoiler: Jake and in addition to his experience through shooting recreationally and hunting, it is mentioned that he was trained by the legendary Carlos Hathcock himself for the trade though it was circumstantially inverted in one scene during the Rakata Prime operation when Agent Theron Shan of the SIS dismissed his suggestion of providing support from a concealed perch as impractical.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[spoiler: Famed, Obscure, and Infamous individuals from history have been portrayed or are referenced in the story such as Field Marshal UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery, Senator Barry Goldwater, Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, Chicago Mobster boss UsefulNotes/AlCapone, Tank Ace Michael Wittmann, and even UsefulNotes/TELawrence to name a few examples.]]
* HollywoodTactics: [[spoiler:The Earth Coalition cannot comprehend the tactics used by the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire with Patton himself comparing it to the early years of World War One despite these strategies being used in the galaxy for millennia. See: OpposingCombatPhilosophies on this page for more.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler: General Arkos Rakton, when he attempted to go against Field Marshal UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel despite morale of the Imperial defenders being low and the fact that he fell for the Desert Fox's trap]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[spoiler: The American Military doctrine used before the widespread acceptance of the M16 and Assault Rifle concept in actual history, the "Cult of the Rifleman" where Infantrymen of the United States Army were once trained to shoot out to six hundred yards, not to mention the United States Marine Corps even to date of course, is being upheld. Justified as the fatigues of the Imperial military are gray and the armor black, making them easy to spot from a distance, nevermind the obvious benefit of dispatching Sith before they could dismember limbs.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: [[spoiler: There has been quite a few scenes portraying the traditional rivalry between the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps, including interfamilial banter between Jake and some of his relatives but there's also the neverending feud between UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery and cracks between other forces as well, not to mention per the timeline the United States Air Force is irked by both the alternate Key West Agreement of 1948 with the U.S. Army permitted to retain Close Air Support aircraft and the Army's continuing usage of the CV-2B Caribou over their objections.]]
* IrishmanAndAJew:[[spoiler:The friendship between Jake and Sam through their maternal side of the family, though it is mentioned that Jake's paternal side is German-American and he also is partially of Scottish descent while Sam have a ancestor who arrived to America aboard the Mayflower.]]
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter : [[spoiler: The author apparently did his research as the M14 is, while not perfect, capable of striking man-sized targets out to 1,000 Yards/914.4 Meters, more so than the FAL and that's not to mention that the M2 Browning can hit point targets at a much further distance while within Star Wars lore: blasters, even sniper blasters, are stated to be limited to under 500 meters maximum, resulting in a potential standoff advantage and add the fact that "slugthrowers" cannot be deflected by lightsabers, the Sith and their troops are recieving major casualties before they can even use their personnel weapons.]]
* LoveInterestTraitor: [[spoiler:Sara inadvertently betrayed Jake's trust after her true loyalties was discovered by Senator Krasul and Master Therin, forcing an immediate extraction. Despite attempting to prevent the "kidnapping", Jake was devastated at the revelation after watching Sara's confession on a holorecording, feeling as if he was used.]]
* MagnificentBastard : [[spoiler: Invoked as a direct, blunt reference to the 1970 hit film "Patton". Patton complimented Rommel on selecting Korriban as the planetary demonstration to showcase the fact that Earth meant business.]]
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover : [[spoiler: While it is primarily and predominantly a work of alternate history, characters from the VideoGame/CallofDuty and VideoGame/MedalofHonor games, the film Film/KellysHeroes, even Franchise/JamesBond and Franchise/IndianaJones, have appeared as cameos and that's just only a few of the listed franchises included.]]
* MoreDakka: [[spoiler: Averted significantly within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as the M14 Battle Rifle has become standardized across the alliance, displacing even the FAL, and the "Cult of the Rifleman" doctrine advocated by "Gravel Bellies" and the "Camp Perry Long Range Target Mafia"/"Bisley School" has been vindicated. Even the Hitchman Report has been discredited in-universe as the lack of camouflage meant that the Sith Empire unwittingly made their forces easy targets for aimed rifle fire from a distance of even 1,000 Yards (914 Meters) with open sights.]]
* OneTrueThreesome: [[spoiler: Invoked in the relationship between Jake, Sara, and Lana Beniko.]]
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: [[spoiler: The Earth Coalition and the Galactic Republic (and Jedi Order as well of course), which combined with UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton personality and views on warfare made cooperation tense at times to say the least. This trope also was upheld when Jake and Theron disagreed whether the Marine could've snuck passed the Rakatans by using camouflage without getting caught, going so far as to almost result in blows between them.]]
* PerilousOldFool:[[spoiler: Jake's maternal grandfather Grandpa Douglas, a career soldier of the United States Army who started out fighting Apaches after lying about his age and served in uniform until forcibly retired in the 1920s only to attempt to enlist once more during World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam. He also attempted to ride rails and stowaway on a Republic transport only to be caught attempting to sneak aboard a train by the Railroad Police.]]
* PunyEarthlings: [[spoiler: Subverted after the Raid on Korriban and the Second Battle of Kuat, though there's still mixed opinions over whether Earth is a backwater with a tinge of shortsightedness or an indomitable superpower in the making, and then there's Saresh viewing the Earthlings as expendable tools.]]
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman : [[spoiler: It is mentioned that Jack Ruby was a Patrolman of the Dallas Police Department and he was off-duty on November 22nd of 1963 when Officer Ruby spotted a rifle being aimed out of the School Book Depository. Unfortunately, Ruby was later killed by Valerie Solanas when he intervened in another assassination attempt, but this time on Phyllis Schlafly.]]
* RockBeatsLaser: [[spoiler: Earth proves itself to be more advanced militarily than the intergalactic superpowers, astonishing observers from both the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire alike.]]
* SalemIsWitchCountry: [[spoiler: It is revealed that Sam has relatives in Salem, Massachusetts and during Thanksgiving he joked about how four of Jake's eccentric maternal cousins might burn sorcerers, i.e. Jedi, at the stake, causing Jake and his paternal relative Cade to cringe at the thought.]]
* SantasExistenceClause: [[spoiler: Santa exists and it is emphatically stated that he doesn't use the Force. In fact the Jedi Order are absolutely befuddled how Reindeer could possibly fly and previously considered flying deer to be hyperbole.]]
* ScotIreland: [[spoiler: Subverted somewhat as the author is attempting care to differentiate between Scotland and Ireland in regard to Jake's maternal ancestry.]]
* SemperFi: [[spoiler: One of the main characters, Jake, is a Leatherneck of the United States Marine Corps who formerly was serving as a 5811 Military Policeman in the branch until the Marine Raiders [[https://marineraiderassociation.org/about-the-raiders/ww2-raiders/]] were reconstituted after the nations of Earth joined the conflict as an ally of the Galactic Republic. His two uncles, Stephen and Jack, were in the Second Raider Battalion under Evans Carlson during the Second World War and were later recalled to duty for the intergalactic conflict, while one of Jake's cousins on his father side, Zach, is a 2112 Rifle Team Equipment Repairman and a maternal cousin, Sean, is a 0311 Rifleman.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: [[spoiler: Franchise/{{Star Wars}} in collaboration between Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, and even non-other than co-writer of the story Jacob Sailer.]]
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, and even co-writer of the story Jacob Sailer have all made an appearance in the work.]]
* TheVietnamVet: [[spoiler:One of the main characters, Jake, suffered from PTSD triggered by the truth regarding his love interest. Another main character for the story, Hanzo Nilsson, had a recurrence in the midst of battle. Most of the American servicemen initially engaging the Sith Empire were veterans of the Vietnam War with recalled personnel from the Second World War and Korea filling the void, not to mention fresh recruits and draftees.]]
* TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: It has been referenced a few times that Jane Fonda was successfully convicted of treason by the Federal Government and was executed by electric chair due to her activities of giving aid and comfort to North Vietnamese forces in Vietnam.]]
* UsefulNotes/TheTeutonicKnights: [[spoiler: Jake had a dream about the Teutonic Order fighting Sith that alligned themselves with a Pagan tribe in the Baltics and the Crusaders mistakenly thought the stranded Purebloods were Demons. Less than 24 hours later, back on Earth, a Soviet research team determined that a derelict spaceship they excavated in Kaliningrad Oblast was in fact a Derriphan-class battleship from the Great Hyperspace War, possibly one which fled from the Sith Holocaust, only for the castaways seeking refuge with the Old Prussians to be confronted by a lance of the Teutonic Order and put to the sword by the German crusaders.]]
* WarIsHell: [[spoiler: The Earth Coalition and the Galactic Republic jointly invaded Korriban and Earth utterly thrashed the defenders, even impressing the Pubs with their might. The Soviets also committed a campaign of mass murder against the survivors of the second phase in which Rakton was killed by Rommel.]]
* WasItAllALie? : [[spoiler: Sara and Jake during their unexpected reunion on Korriban. It was awkward to say the least...]]
* UsefulNotes/WildWeasel : [[spoiler: Legendary fighter ace Brigadier General UsefulNotes/RobinOlds of the United States Air Force led a Wild Weasel taskforce during the raid on Korriban to target the Imperial Anti-Air batteries before the main attack commenced.]]
* UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks : [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton, Patton's second cousin legendary Marine Chesty Puller, UsefulNotes/RobinOlds, Admiral Raymond Spruance, and Colonel Hal Moore. The Empire unleashed Pandora's Box from not just EagleLand of course but at the samewhile these are some of the American contributions as Mad Jack Churchill can't fight the war by himself afterall.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Don't judge a book by its cover. Apparently we are more advanced militarily than the factions of Star Wars even with weapon systems that were state-of-the-art back in the '60s.]]

''Earth: A Rendezvous with Destiny'' (originally titled as ''Earth: A Forged Destiny'') is a fanwork created by author We'retheDesperateMeasures-ODST and collaborated with other authors on fanfiction.net.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12922465/1/Earth-A-Rendezvous-with-Destiny

It is posted on Archive of Our Own and alternatehistory.com as well.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16224692/chapters/37924808

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/earth-a-rendezvous-with-destiny.484140/

The story is set in an alternate 1960's Earth placed in the same universe as VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic which by unsought circumstance was thrown into an intergalactic war against the Sith Empire.