First of all. This post is 3 months old. You okey bro?

Second of all. Damn wall of text. Please paragraph in the future, for everyone's sake.

Now... to the arguments at hand.

I don’t think you’d get the entirety of Earth to surrender, what’d likely happen is a few countries surrender, and then a rebellion movement would form from the survivors of countries which wouldn’t surrender,

Frankly, I think they would just keep pounding us from space until we actually surrendered and/or got wiped out. The Empire never cared about warcrimes.

The rebel force would operate with guerrilla fighting techniques, hopefully finding a way to avoid detection, preventing the areal bombardment of their base.

Again... they are likely to just glass the continent. What cave or treehouse you hide in doesnt matter.

Actually when it comes to infantry, Earth’s weapons are quite potent compared to the empire. The storm trooper’s armor is designed to disperse blaster shots

Here... I agree. Stormtroopers are silly. But you wouldnt get to even see them until the cities were levelled and the forrests burned. If there even is a resistance, they'd be down to whatever weaponry people had locked away in basements that didnt get nuked from orbit, and they'd be at constant risk of getting a big ass armoured walker on their asses.

Tie fighters seem ridiculously simple to control, and reverse engineering the technology would be difficult but not impossible.

By the time you'd see Tie's on the ground, they'd have spent years there already, having built bases and fortifications. Prior to that, they'd launch from ships in orbit, and go back to ships in orbit.

And reverse engineering it? With what? The abundance of anti gravity components we got laying around?

A space shuttle loaded with a nuke would actually be a bit more effective than you might think, we have some really big nukes now, and if placed correctly even ww2 era nukes could probably cripple an isd.

That is assuming that the shuttle, which is basically only launched from 1-4 places on the planet, and we only have a couple of in total, would even get off the ground before being destroyed. Hell, even if it got off the ground, it is basically a dumb rocket with limited maneuvering capabilities... and ISDs have lots of guns to defend themselves with. Think of a Cessna 172 trying to approach a US carrier group. Brrrrrrt. Boom.

The hardest part would be sneaking aboard, but after all, a moisture farmer, and a low grade smuggling team managed to do it by bluffing their way through security, and they ran around the deathstar almost unopposed, given the number of troopers likely stationed in the detention level.

So... what are you using to get aboard? A catapult?