History Fanfic / LetTheGalaxyBurn

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Sansa brutally murders both Arthur Dayne and Rhaegar Targaryen.]]
** [[spoiler:Tysha summons the demons that end up killing Jon Connington.]]

*** Exaggerated once he actually takes the home system of Jon Connington. Every single current or former member of the systems military, nobility or those who swore any kind of oath to Connington are killed or sent to the Wall, and the planets technological infrastructure is taken away to reduce them to agrarian labor.

* EpicFail: The military occupation of the Iron Sector is so incompetent that only one of its eight systems is not in open rebellion, and the troops are losing tens of thousands of soldiers every month to the Ironborn rebels.

* GoldDigger: GenderFlipped - Asha's first husband was going after her dowry. His death just minutes after the ceremony prevented him from claiming it. His family soon declared bankruptcy.

** The Reach has a larger fleet that any two other kingdoms put together. It's also so poorly lead that it is quickly annihilated.

** Turns out, there are nine Abominable Relics, and the Three Eyed Crow lists the [[JustForPun other]] ones as: the Horn of Winter, the Night’s Queen Crown, the Ring of Domination, the Mirror-Orb of Cursed Knowledge, the Armor of Damnation, the Keys of the Void, and the Grave of Unlife. The ninth one is unknown, but it is "not exactly... transportable". [[spoiler:Victarion Greyjoy finds the Ring, using it definitely affects his mind but gives him the power to raise and control wights. The Mirror-Orb makes its way to Sothoryos, where it kickstarts a civil war.]]

** Minor example for Balon Greyjoy. While he never good in the slightest in canon, the one redeeming feature Balon had was that he loved his daughter and planned to make her his heir. Which in itself contradicted the Old Way of the Ironborn. Here he’s just as sexist as the other Ironborn, and sneers at the thought of her as his heir.

* ProphecyTwist: Euron Greyjoy tells Tywin Lannister he will killed by a member of his family. [[spoiler:Tywin is ultimately killed by Tysha, who never having divorced Tyrion, is his daughter-in-law. Not the family member most people probably thought of, but still family.]]

** Robert's Rebellion as a whole for the Targaryens. Rhaegar manages to [[TheCoup take the throne]] and sign peace with the rebels, but he is left with an increasingly fractious and indebted Realm, he has become one of the most hated monarchs in the history of the Seven Sectors even before he even takes the throne, he is forced to have his sister Daenerys foster in Braavos... and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he has to marry Cersei Lannister as payment for her father's support in the Rebellion]].

** Stannis is TheStoic, hard-working, loves his family(even Renly, to a degree[[note]]He finds it painful to see the idiot the Reach has turned him into, and the Tyrells and Conningtons using him as leverage to force Stannis to go along with every unreasonable demand they come up with has left him hating them more than he ever thought possible[[/note]]), and does his best to help his people, encouraging austerity to help them through the economic difficulties brought on by the Targaryens and leading by example by also adopting an austere lifestyle (though he wasn't exactly known for his extravagance beforehand). His children are similar, if not as stoic. He has accepted the offers of every Targaryen claimant that has come to him requesting his aid in overthrowing Rhaegar. He plans to betray them all, and his children are fully on board with this.

* AssholeVictim: Normally you would not cheer on [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei Lannister]]... but when the objective of her [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps]] is her husband Rhaegar Targaryen, you (and Varys) are left wondering where's the popcorn.

** See the first example in DramaticIrony above. Rhaegar failed to consider that that prophecy could come true, and he could be ''unaware of it''.

** Rhaegar Targaryen gets this most of all. While in canon he was “Prince that was promised” and TheWisePrince who was admired yet remained a BrokenBase. Here he is petty, violent, prophecy obsessed nut job with extreme DisproportionateRetribution towards anything that insults his power. Virtually no one outside his most loyal followers like him and the 7 kingdoms actively plan to put him out of power.
** Arthur Dayne gets this as he was a KnightInShiningArmor who was widely respected by the kingdoms for his wisdom and prudence after Rhaegar himself. Here his JustFollowingOrders attitude is widely reviled by both the North and Dorne with no one respecting him for willfully murdering his sister and helping Rhaegar rape Lyanna.
** Minor example for Balon Greyjoy. While he never good in the slightest in canon, the one redeeming feature Balon had was that he loved his daughter and planned to make her his heir. Which in itself contradicted the Old Way of the ironborn. Here he’s just as sexist as the other Ironborn, and sneers at the thought of her as his heir.
** The Tyrells get this a lot in comparison to canon. Mace Tyrell was ambitious and foolish in canon, but he loved his family and would do anything to protect them. Here he’s far more interested in pleasing Rhaegar and is far less concerned about his family here. Rather than being sweet yet cunning, Margaery is an AlphaBitch, less charming than her canon self. As a whole they are far less scrupulous with their vassals, giving no credit to the Tarlys for winning the war undermining the very house that won them the war.
** In canon, Jorah Mormont was exiled from the westeroes when, after several years of marriage, he let the demands of his wife, Lynesse Hightower, drive him to committing crimes for additional money. In this story, Jorah let himself get seduced by Lynesse during their first meeting into committing outright treason by spying on the North for the Targaryens, who any good Northman has every reason to hate.

** Due to DyingAsYourself, [[spoiler:Aerys.]]

* TheAllegedCar: The Alleged Starship: The starfighters Visenya tests in Chapter 2 have so many troubles that they make the F-104[[note]]A UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era fighter with a fame for falling down whenever it malfunctioned[[/note]] look like a safe bet. WordOfGod has explicitly compared it to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II F-35 Lightning II]].

** Turns out, there are nine Abominable Relics, and the Three Eyed Crow lists the [[JustForPun other]] ones as: the Horn of Winter, the Night’s Queen Crown, the Ring of Domination, the Mirror-Orb of Cursed Knowledge, the Armor of Damnation, the Keys of the Void, and the Grave of Unlife. The ninth one is unknown, but it is "not exactly...transportable". [[spoiler:Victarion Greyjoy finds the Ring, using it definitely affects his mind but gives him the power to raise and control wights.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: The access to advanced medicine and bodyguards prevent Robin and Urrigon Greyjoy's deaths. [[spoiler:Robin dies in the Greyjoy Rebellion, though.]]

** In the battle of Nightsong, [[spoiler: the Dornish reveal their new weapon-the ion cannon, capable of destroying a battlecruiser [[OneHitKill in one shot]].]]
** Chapter 24 shows us that [[spoiler:the Seastone Chair is a weapon against the horrors of the Void. Using it costs Urrigon Greyjoy his life but allows Ayric Sarring, Asha Greyjoy-Tarly and Bronn to kill an empowered Victarion.]]

* UngratefulBastard: House Tyrell towards House Tarly. Without Randyll Tarly's suicidal attack against Robert, the Tyrells would have ended up in the losing side of Robert's Rebellion. All they did was to dedicate him a statue and a few streets - and then proceeded to hoard every piece of loot and pushing the Tarlys (and many others) to the sidelines.

* VillainHasAPoint: Before Elia Martell fights [[spoiler:a suddenly (relatively) sane]] Aerys, he points out that, yes, he ordered many atrocities and he is to blame for that - but why should the nobles and courtiers that never said a thing go unblamed?

** As usual, Mace Tyrell is held up as the greatest beacon of idiocy. [[spoiler:He leads the Grand Reach Fleet of over one hundred ships of the line, two hundred battlecruisers, close to a thousand escorts, and several thousand other vessels to invade Dorne after retaking the fallen Storm systems. In the first battle, the fleet is almost entirely destroyed by an enemy only a tenth its size. Little over a hundred ships survive due to Garlan Tyrell realizing they were about to be ambushed and ordering a retreat that a few ships obeyed. And the ultimate humiliation is that the Dornish then took specific pains to capture him. If he wasn't largely responsible for Rhaegar taking the throne and was now supporting Aegon, you'd almost feel sorry for him.]]

* JustForFun/RecycledInSpace:
** Pretty much everything from the books is adapted here. Cities become solar systems, kingdoms become sectors, raven-drones are used for communication, vibro-swords are the main melée weapon...

You may also read the Story Only version [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12015219/1/Let-the-Galaxy-Burn here]] or the Fanfiction Dot Net version [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12015219/1/Let-the-Galaxy-Burn here]].


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A rebellion is not going to be defeated just because its main leader was killed - particularly when the other leaders know the enemy is led by someone who will brutally murder your people.
** RammingAlwaysWorks is only true if the rammer can be fast enough to avoid getting destroyed from a distance, and usually if you can ram the enemy then you should get your ship out of the way - ships are expensive, after all.
** If you are the King and you try to make all your decisions fit prophecies you are either making up or that someone else is feeding you, the people that actually make policy will just think you are crazy and do their thing.
** The occupation of the Iron Sector, even after the Targaryens and their lackeys have destroyed anything visible the Ironborn could use to fight against them, becomes a bloody quagmire because most of the Targaryen-imposed governors are only interested in draining all the resources and money they can out of their planets, and some of them (like Gregor Clegane) will go out of their way to kill the local people just because.
** The Stormlands hate Jon Connington because he is the representative of the Targaryens, who have been piling taxes on them for no reason beyond punishing them, driving hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. Thus, the only major ally Connington has in the Stormlands is House Caron - and that's because the current lord is a teenager who is friends with his son and has been pretty much brainwashed into being a Targaryen loyalist.
** As much as he loves his brother Renly, when it becomes clear he would gleefully see Storm's End destroyed, Stannis decides to launch his plans even if they lead to Renly's death.
** QualityVSQuantity gets brought up several times. It is inevitably pointed out that while superior quality can cause disproportionate casualties, if the quantity is large enough, all the quality in the world won't be enough to win.
** Housing three billion Free Folk refugees is not an easy task: even the best prepared planet, White Knife, will need more than a year to be able to house two hundred million people. They could go faster, but the requirements from the war mean that the resources that can be dedicated to said rehousing are limited.
** Walter Whent is cloned and resurrected by Melisandre so he can rally his family behind Aegon, but Viserys sent the original body already - Whent's descendants thus consider him legally dead, so no matter what Walter says he cannot convince them of his identity.
** Doran learns too late that his complete lack of action, his self-isolation and his inability to trust others with anything more than vague hints of his supposedly big plans has caused people to lose faith in him, turning instead to others like Oberyn who are more willing to act and show themselves.
** True prophecies or not, you still need to keep informed of the present to be able to ''use'' those prophecies. Rhaegar gets blindsided by the Starks' second rebellion because one of his prophecies indicates that won't happen until certain signs have come true, and since the Crown's intelligence network in the North is terrible no-one is able to tell him the signs already ''have'' come true.

* TheBerserker: Take Gregor Clegane, give him an armor that cannot be penetrated nor damaged by anything, amp his blood thirst UpToEleven, and you get [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Beast]].

*** UpToEleven once he actually takes the home system of Jon Connington. Every single current or former member of the systems military, nobility or those who swore any kind of oath to Connington are killed or sent to the Wall, and the planets technological infrastructure is taken away to reduce them to agrarian labor.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Petyr Baelish has this UpToEleven. He first betrayed Jon Arryn to the Targaryens and turned Lysa and Robin Arryn against him. After the War of the Ten Warlords begins, starts to offer his loyalty to whichever of the many factions in the war that will give him the more benefit only to turn cloak and offer his services to another.

* CrapsackWorld: The Iron Sector is this after the Greyjoy Rebellion, ''[[UpToEleven ESPECIALLY]]'' during the War of the Ten Warlords. Ser Gregor Clegane killed millions of people EVERY MONTH [[spoiler: until he finally gets put down by Sandor and Colonel Sarring]], There are constant guerrilla wars between occupation troops and insurgents [[spoiler: that, when combined with Victarion Greyjoy's return, results in the destruction of Saltcliffe]], and [[spoiler: now [[FromBadToWorse Krakens are closing in to feast on the Iron Sector]] and Great Wyk must be evacuated]].

** The Northerners take this UpToEleven with their own version which, while only launching four hundred a piece, has four warheads per missile and can be linked en-masse to northern warships. And the missiles they fire are the updated versions of weapons that were designed to hurt and KILL dragons. Did we mention they also doubled the range range of those Roose used to spank the Lannisters at the Twins? [[spoiler:They prove their worth beyond a shadow of a doubt when a Night's Watch force of eight heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers, and sixteen scout cruisers ambushes an Other fleet of 130 cruisers, thirty-six battleships, twenty dragon-carriers, and Star Killer. While the Night's Watch is massacred, they destroy more than a hundred and fifty Other vessels and inflict severe damage to Star Killer. The missiles also prove their boasts by killing four ice dragons]].

** Oberyn Martell, as per canon. According to the story, he has ''[[UpToEleven thirty-three]]'' daughters in total.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic Not bringing your helmet into the battlefield]] is a very dumb idea in a galaxy where every soldier carries a rifle capable of blowing your head off.
** Killing someone brutally for no reason is hardly going to make you look good - particularly if you are now surrounded by a lot of people that carry guns and liked the person you just killed or just have enough reason to see you die.
** With the keeps and cities of the books being upgraded to planets, there are situations that change. For example, Storm's End ends up surrendering to the Tyrells because the planet is a net importer of food, and in spite of the efforts of several smugglers, trying to bring enough food for 800 million people with just a couple of ships is borderline impossible.
** A rebellion is not going to be defeated just because its main leader was killed - particularly when the other leaders know the enemy is led by someone who will brutally murder your people.
** JustFollowingOrders will only go so far, and even less when you clearly are not repentant for your actions. Arthur Dayne is thus under constant threat of being killed by either Northerner or Dornish assassins, the former because of how he helped in the kidnapping and rape of Lyanna Stark, the latter because he killed his own sister while trying to kidnap Eddard Stark's daughter in order to blackmail him.
** Putting an end to a rebellion with a rushed treaty won't immediately lead to everybody being happy - particularly when the rebels' legitimate grievances aren't addressed by the loyalists, those rebel elements that surrendered before do not receive the same terms and the houses that changed sides are left with no piece of the cake. Also, the loyalists' many divisions prevent them from negotiating as a whole and leads to immediate political infighting that benefits the rebels.
** When your main officer academies concern themselves more on brainwashing the officers into being completely loyal rather than teach them how to be good officers, and the higher echelons of the military taken over by nobles because of their connections, money and names, the result is a complete mess that only holds itself up because of inertia, numbers and the lack of an enemy that can truly destroy them.
** Balon Greyjoy thinks that just being Ironborn means his rebellion will be successful. As it turns out, all your good ships and crew mean zilch when you throw them into a fight without adequate preparation, don't warn your potential allies (or don't even try to treat them as equals) on time and when you are outnumbered by eighty to one. If most of your commanders are stupid, insane, both, or in Euron Greyjoy's case running a separate agenda, you have even less of a chance.

Creator/{{Antony444}}'s ''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/let-the-galaxy-burn-asoiaf-space-opera-au.396049/ Let The Galaxy Burn]]'' is an ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' fanfiction that deals with what would have happened if Robert died in the Battle of the Trident at the hands of Randyll Tarly... only that, instead of the Seven Kingdoms' fate being changed, it is the Seven Sectors of the Westeros Quadrant. Yes, this is ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' InSpace.

** Many of the Southern heirs who are [[UpperClassTwit Upper Class Twits]] regardless of personality in the books, due to being raised in the court.

* CruelMercy: When Robin Arryn returns with his tail between the legs and begs his father for mercy (after rebelling against him and claiming he would have him burned alive and his sister gang-raped and murdered) Jon... does ''not'' have him executed. He instead sends him to the [[SkyCell Sky Cells]] - which are known to drive a person insane to the point of suicide. That's when Alysanne orders him to be tied to the door so he will not escape too quickly.

* FeudalFuture: It's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' InSpace Did you think it would be different?

* RecycledInSpace:

''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/let-the-galaxy-burn-asoiaf-space-opera-au.396049/ Let The Galaxy Burn]]'' is an ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' fanfiction that deals with what would have happened if Robert died in the Battle of the Trident at the hands of Randyll Tarly... only that, instead of the Seven Kingdoms' fate being changed, it is the Seven Sectors of the Westeros Quadrant. Yes, this is ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' InSpace.

** [[spoiler: Victarion Greyjoy’s attempt to liberate the iron sector merely gets several planets destroyed by wights or krakens before he himself is killed at the end of the war of the ten warlords]].

* {{Plunder}}: WordOfGod is that after killing [[spoiler:Ser Arthur Dayne]] the Stark commandos took [[spoiler:[[CoolSword Dawn]]]] with them when they left. [[spoiler: Sansa gifts it to her half-sister Joanna.]]

* RecycledInSpace: Pretty much everything from the books is adapted here. Cities become solar systems, kingdoms become sectors, raven-drones are used for communication, vibro-swords are the main melée weapon...

** Willas Tyrell turns out to be a competent administrator and strategist, unfortunately for him things are too terrible for that to make much of a difference.
* RefugeInAudacity: After the Usurper's War, the North gives their new ships names as ''Robert Baratheon'', ''Lyanna Stark'', ''Brandon Stark''... or ''Flames of Rebellion''.