History Fanfic / EarthARendezvousWithDestiny

* HistoricalDowngrade: Unique for a tale, the second term of UseFulNotes/JohnFKennedy was revealed to be full of turmoil before First Contact occurred and in one scene Kennedy was found lying next to empty bottles of liquor.

** The fact that elements of the Viet Cong infiltrators were active in the State of California and openly cooperated with collaborators which resulted in the United States of America becoming a front for the Vietnam War, did not help in the slightest in addition to the seemingly ceaseless rioting.

* 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 mob boss UsefulNotes/AlCapone, Tank Ace Michael Wittmann, and even a living UsefulNotes/TELawrence to name a few examples.

** Barry Goldwater became the President of the United States in 1968 after winning the election in a landslide over Lyndon B. Johnson.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Some historical figures lived much longer than in our timeline such as Erwin Rommel, George S. Patton and John F. Kennedy.

** Before the adoption of the M1 Garand and according to the "Provisional Small Arms Firing Manual: For the United States Army and for the Organized Militia of the United States, 1909" adopted by Uncle Sam five years before World War I the United States Army even fired out to 1,000 Yards (914.4 Meters) and soldiers who passed the 1,000 Yard course of fire qualified as Sharpshooter, not Expert! You can read the table for the Sharpshooter Course in the link[[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgEtAAAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false]]

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel are still alive in addition to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, who survived the assassination attempt in Dallas. Unexpectedly, even UsefulNotes/TELawrence appeared alive and well with Lawrence being mentioned to have conducted guerrilla warfare in Singapore against the Japanese, which led him to become known as 'The Lion of Singapore' in addition to being 'Lawrence of Arabia' of the previous World War.

* BritishNazis: The Sith Empire. The Imperials and at times the Sith are frequently referred to as 'Space Brits','Space Nazis', 'Goosesteppers', or some variation of derision. The miffed Tommies mostly call them 'Imposters'.

* Anti-Magic: Due to the fact that Earth is not located within the Star Wars Galaxy, anything and everything originating from the Milky Way Galaxy is unphased by the Force, the fact of which is handicapping the Sith from utilizing telekinesis directly on the outside threat.

** Before the adopted of the M1 Garand and according to the "Provisional Small Arms Firing Manual: For the United States Army and for the Organized Militia of the United States, 1909" adopted by Uncle Sam five years before World War I the United States Army even fired out to 1,000 Yards (914.4 Meters) and soldiers who passed the 1,000 Yard course of fire qualified as Sharpshooter, not Expert! You can read the table for the Sharpshooter Course in the link[[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgEtAAAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false]]

** Before the adopted of the M1 Garand and according to the "Provisional Small Arms Firing Manual: For the United States Army and for the Organized Militia of the United States, 1909" adopted by Uncle Sam five years before World War I the United States Army even fired out to 1,000 Yards (914.4 Meters) and soldiers who passed the 1,000 Yard course of fire qualified as Sharpshooter, not Expert! You can read the table for the Sharpshooter Course in the link[[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgEtAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Small+arms+manual+of+1909&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV7P3EwrX2AhU9j4kEHcpcDucQ6AF6BAgFEAM]]

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel are still alive in addition to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, who survived the assassination attempt in Dallas. Unexpectedly, even UsefulNotes/TELawrence appeared alive and well with Lawrence being mentioned to have conducted guerrilla warfare in Singapore against the Japanese, which led him to become known as 'The Lion of Singapore' in addition to being 'Lawrence of Arabia' from the previous World War.

* 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 mob boss UsefulNotes/AlCapone, Tank Ace Michael Wittmann, and even UsefulNotes/TELawrence to name a few examples.

* MoreDakka: 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.

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel are still alive in addition to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, who survived the assassination attempt in Dallas. Unexpectedly, even UsefulNotes/TELawrence appeared alive and well with Lawrence being mentioned to have conducted guerrilla warfare in Singapore against the Japanese, which led to becoming known as 'The Lion of Singapore' in addition to being 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

** 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. It results in a victory for Shaoqi and the pro-Soviet Chinese communists.

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton and UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel are still alive in addition to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, who survived 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.

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

** Due to the success of Operation Valkyrie in this timeline, Ludwig Beck was appointed by the conspirators as Chancellor of Germany until Soviet forces capture Berlin.

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

* AlternateHistory: The whole setup of the timeline. There were already numerous points of divergences from our timeline, both before and after the galaxy discovered Earth:

** 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.

** Like in OTL, Barry Goldwater becomes the Republican nominee for President and runs against the incumbent Democrat president. Only this time, it happens in 1968 instead of 1964 and he would win by a landslide over the Democratic candidate Lyndon Johnson.

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

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** 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 cndidate for U.S. President in 1968 instead of 1964 and ironically he won in a landslide over UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.

* 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 resulting in blows between them.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: So far, the U.S. Presidents that have been shown in this timeline are Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Barry Goldwater.
** Dewey became President in 1948 and only served out his first term in office before he died in a plane crash which led to Eisenhower, his Vice President, succeeding him.
** Kennedy avoided being assassinated by Oswald thanks to Ruby reporting him to Dallas police, when he found his gun. He went to serve a second term in the White House, signing important legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
** Goldwater won the 1968 election in a landslide over Kennedy's former VP Johnson.

** 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.

** 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.

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

* DefiantToTheEnd: Rommel killed Rakton in a badass western style duel after the Imperial General refused to surrender despite his army being on the run

** Due to the success of Operation Valkyrie in this timeline, Ludwig Beck was appointed as the Chancellor of Germany until Soviet forces capture Berlin.