Awesome / A New Jedi in an Old Republic

• One for Palpatine right at the start: as soon as they realize they're in the past, Kyle and Jan decide they should kill him, start scouting the situation to prepare the hit... And realize they can't, as Palpatine has already put almost everything in place for Order 66 without anyone even suspecting anything and if Kyle kills him as a Jedi the Republic will turn on the Jedi for murdering their Chancellor, and if they assassinate him in other ways it will be blamed on the Separatists and ruin any chance to end the Clone Wars early and (relatively) peacefully. They can't even denounce him as they have no real evidence (they do convince Mon Mothma, but that required Jan to admit she was from the future and provide proof that only her would accept)...
  • That of course puts in this page the fact the DEMP gun sting operation came close to expose him, conclusively tracing an information leak to his office and forcing him to dispose of a lesser Trade Federation member as the spy.
• Before handing the DEMP gun to the Intelligence Senate Bureau for reverse engineering, Jan took care of filing off all markings to hide it came from the future and hide the manufacturer, so to make it look that whoever designed it wants to help the Republic but doesn't have the means to mass produce it and/or wants to hide. After it's reverse-engineered, Isard's report to Palpatine about it includes the correct identification of the manufacturer as Merr-Sonn Munitions, based exclusively on the design and parts.
• Tarkin with two Venator, two Acclamator and a Dreadnought versus Grievous with four Munificent and the Invisible Hand:
  • Here Tarkin reminds us why he ended the original timeline's Clone Wars as an admiral: first he anticipates where he's going to attack, and uses that to jump on his flank while having only a gas giant as the possible target of stray shots, allowing his mostly untested crews to fire with no fear of collateral damage; after that he fires all his guns at the nearest frigate to wipe it out, the aim to both remove a fifth of the enemy force and gain a decisive advantage in firepower in the opening seconds and to gain a psychological advantage by showing he could; when that gamble fails he methodically uses his fighter and bomber squadrons to hold off the enemy's superior numbers of droid fighters (the bombers using their missiles and then landing to reload) while concentrating fire on a single target and recording everything for use in the nascent officer training program; and when Grievous decides to cut his losses after losing a ship he asks a single question to his sensor operators-and anticipates correctly what Grievous is about to do.
  • While not a starship commander, Grievous is no slouch, first using his expendable droid fighters to absorb Tarkin's opening barrage, retreating when Tarkin gains a decisive advantage, and covering said retreat by throwing all his remaining fighters at Tarkin's flagship in a suicide attack, successfully shooting it down.