History Fanfic / EarthARendezvousWithDestiny

It is posted [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16224692/chapters/37924808 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/earth-a-rendezvous-with-destiny.484140/ here]] on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom as well.

But as of Halloween / October 31st, 2022, the story is on hold and undergoing a revision due to a change of background. This page will be updated and edited as applicable to correspond with the revised 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
** Operation Valkyrie, the German conspiracy against UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, succeeds.
** 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.
** UsefulNotes/MaoZedong died from acute heart failure in 1961, a decade earlier than his OTL death. Because of his death, China was plunged into a full-blown civil war between Maoist loyalists and the pro-Soviet CCP communists, the internal conflict lasting from 1963 to 1967. It results in a victory for Shaoqi and the pro-Soviet Chinese communists.
** America won 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.
** 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.
** Oh and UsefulNotes/AlCapone as well as Bugs Moran are still in the picture with Capone becoming the head of The Commission.
** Plus that's not to mention that UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy was vindicated due to finding actual Soviet spies and has been actively engaged in rooting out KGB Agents.
** 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 UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater being the Republican candidate for U.S. President in 1968 instead of 1964 and ironically he won in a landslide over UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** There is a serious crisis in Europe between the United States and the Soviet Union that threatens to escalate the Cold War into a nuclear conflict. It happens not in Berlin but in Warsaw.
** Thomas Dewey wins the 1948 election against Harry S. Truman. In real life, it was the other way around.
** 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 the election by a landslide over Lyndon Johnson.
** Once again, Jack Ruby is tied to Lee Harvey Oswald and John F. Kennedy. This time, Ruby reports to the Dallas Police Department that Oswald has a gun and he is later shot dead.
** Real-life radical feminist Valerie Solanas is involved in the attempted assassination of a prominent figure, but it's not Andy Warhol instead it is conservative icon Phyllis Schafly.

** Chicago had a major mob war due to a Hutt deciding that the city would be perfect for a distribution center for Spice and resulted in an unlikely alliance between Al Capone, Bugs Moran, and J. Edgar Hoover to evict the outsider.

* CannonFodder: The Imperial Army, despite being technologically advanced, couldn't stand its ground against Earth's military forces due to 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.

* 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. In the end, Shaoqi and his forces emerge victorious after they crush the Maoist rebels in Hunan by 1967.

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

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** Thomas Dewey dies in a plane crash during his second term. In real life, he lived out the rest of his life as a lawyer and senior partner in his law firm Dewey Ballentine until he died of a heart attack in 1971 while golfing in Miami.
** Mao Zedong succumbs to acute heart failure and dies in 1961, a decade before his OTL death.
** Lee Harvey Oswald dies during a shootout with the Dallas police after his weapon is discovered by Jack Ruby.
** Jack Ruby is killed by Valerie Solanas after preventing her from killing Phyllis Schaffly as opposed to suffering from pulmonary embolism and dying.
** Eleanor Roosevelt slips on a bar of soap after stepping out of the bathtub and dies afterward. In OTL, she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia after being struck by a car and would eventually succumb to the illness.
** Bella Abzug was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant in 1958 instead of dying from complications during open heart surgery in 1998.

* FlyoverCountry: Both Jake and Sam are from 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.

* 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 UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater, Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, Chicago mob boss UsefulNotes/AlCapone, Tank Ace Michael Wittmann, and even a living UsefulNotes/TELawrence to name a few examples.
* 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. In the subsequent scene it was also revealed that Jaqueline was reaching her breaking point herself and was considering divorcing her husband.

** The fact that Viet Cong infiltrators were active in the State of California and were openly cooperating with American collaborators comprised of disgruntled counterculture activists did not help in the slightest in addition to the seemingly ceaseless rioting by the counterculture.

* HonorBeforeReason: 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,

* InterserviceRivalry: 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: 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 has an ancestor who arrived in America aboard the ''Mayflower''.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: While it is primarily and predominantly a work of alternate history (albeit of the AlienSpaceBats variety), 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.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent:
** Thomas E. Dewey is President Personable, a beloved, well-respected leader who is mourned by the American people after he dies in a plane accident.
** Dwight D. Eisenhower is President Action, a U.S. military commander who becomes president after Dewey dies.
** John F. Kennedy is President Ace, a talented and charismatic politician that not only signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law but he successfully reunites Vietnam under a friendly regime.
** Barry Goldwater is a mixture of President Personable and Iron. His comments to Kennedy show that he is dedicated to preserving the liberties of all human beings as well as his policies of building F-106 starfighters and imposing tariffs on extraterrestrial-made products.

* PerilousOldFool: 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.

** 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.
** UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater became 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 was appointed by the conspirators as Chancellor of Germany until Soviet forces captured Berlin.

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

* StayInTheKitchen: Rebbeca Meyer, the mother of Jake, was revealed to be an adamant believer of staying in her place, and not only is she an upholder of the inveterate conventions, she is actively involved with Minute Women of the U.S.A. as well as its affiliated sister organization for Catholic women: the American Public Relations Forum, two organizations which once actually existed.
** It is confirmed by the author of the fanfic that the character is even more of a reactionary compared to her son and Jake in comparison was already on the fringe as it is. In other words, Jake is merely Archconservative in his beliefs while his mother is even more to the right.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Some historical figures lived much longer than in our timeline such as UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel, UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton,and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
* TheVietnamVet: 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: 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: Jake had a dream about the Teutonic Order fighting Sith that aligned 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.
** While ambiguous, it is revealed that a few of the Crusaders actually did endure a demonic incursion prior to this occurrence, hinting that there's another player yet to be revealed.
** Regarding the dream, as of this time it remains to be determined due to the factors as mentioned above if it is the Force getting through or - assuming that it is using elements Franchise/IndianaJones as well as directly from Literature/TheBible - a revelation from elsewhere with the latter being more probable.

* 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 same time, these are some of the American contributions as Mad Jack Churchill can't fight the war by himself after all.

* 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''.

* CoolGuns/BattleRifles: 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.

But as of Halloween / October 31st, 2022, the story is on hold and undergoing a revision due to a change of background. This page will be updated and edited as soon as the changes are completed.

* 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}}.

** It is also hinted that the chaos of TheSixties was not only condensed to 1965 - 1967 but was also TurnedUpToEleven as well.

** The United States Marine Corps also adopted the aforementioned manual in 1912 and it was the official course of fire for the Leathernecks until 1942 when it was dropped.

* TotallyNotAWerewolf: As revealed above, the stranded Sith survivors were mistaken to be Demons and while ambiguous, it is revealed that a few of the Crusaders actually did endure a demonic incursion prior to this occurrence, hinting that there's another player yet to be revealed.

* TotallyNotAWerewolf: As revealed above, the stranded Sith survivors were mistaken to be Demons and while ambiguous, it is mentioned that a few of the Crusaders actually did encounter a demonic incursion prior to this occurrence, hinting that there's another player yet to be revealed.

** It is confirmed by the author of the fanfic that the character is even more of a reactionary compared to her son and Jake is already on the fringe as it is.

** Plus that's not to mention that UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy waz vindicated due to finding actual Soviet spies and has been actively engaged in rooting out KGB Agents.

** 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.

** Plus that's not to mention that UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy is still in the picture, being vindicated due to finding actual Soviet spies.

* RunningGag: Quite a few such as the mixed reception of Series/StarTrek:TheOriginalSeries within the Star Wars Galaxy, Grandmaster Satele Shan becoming a Trekkie, Brits and Imperials referring to eachother as "Imposters", the fact that Jake consistently denies the existence of the Force, and even direct as well as subtle references to the Franchise/StarWars films.

* RunningGag: Quite a few such as the mixed reception of Series/StarTrek:TheOriginalSeries within the Star Wars Galaxy, Grandmaster Satele Shan becoming a Trekkie, Brits and Imperials referring to eachother as "Imposters", the fact that Jake consistently denies the existence of the Force, and even direct as well as subtle references to the Franchise/StarWars films. **BreakingTheFourthWall also counts as a running joke.

* Running Gag: Quite a few such as the mixed reception of Series/StarTrek:TheOriginalSeries within the Star Wars Galaxy, Grandmaster Satele Shan becoming a Trekkie, Brits and Imperials referring to eachother as "Imposters", the fact that Jake consistently denies the existence of the Force, and even direct as well as subtle references to the Franchise/StarWars films. **BreakingTheFourthWall also counts as a running joke.

* Running Gag: Quite a few such as the mixed reception of Series/StarTrek:TheOriginalSeries within the Star Wars Galaxy, Grandmaster Satele Shan becoming a Trekkie, the fact that Jake is unswayed by the existence of the Force, and even direct as well as subtle references to the Franchise/StarWars films. **BreakingTheFourthWall also counts as a running joke.

** The fact that Viet Cong infiltrators were active in the State of California and were openly cooperating with collaborators did not help in the slightest in addition to the seemingly ceaseless rioting by the counterculture.

* 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" due to obvious reasons.

* AntiMagic: 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.

** Oh and UsefulNotes/AlCapons as well as Bugs Moran are still in the picture with Capone becoming the head of The Commission.

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