# Season 2
# E13 - Armistar
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR0X44MGY/armistar)
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***SIGN*** The Star Amritsar
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Navy 8th Fleet
**[00:08] Na**
After losing three of its fleets
as a result of a major offensive
**[00:13] Na**
launched by the Imperial Navy
under Reinhard von Lohengramm,
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Navy 3rd Fleet
**[00:16] Na**
the Alliance Navy chose the
Amritsar Starzone as a new battlefield
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Navy 9th Fleet
**[00:20] Na**
and had all of its surviving
fleets gather there.
**[00:26] Na**
While all the other fleets
sustained heavy damages,
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Navy 5th Fleet
**[00:30] Na**
the 13th Fleet, led by Yang,
still retained about 90% of its fighting strength.
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Navy 13th Fleet
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[02:18] Bewcock**
* Per our orders from headquarters,*
* the minefield has been laid behind us.*
**[02:23] Yang**
I appreciate it.
**[02:26] Bewcock**
* That should stop any pincer*
* attacks from our rear...*
**[02:29] Yang**
But our backs are literally to the wall.
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Commander
Vice Admiral Yang Wen-li
**[02:31] Yang**
We've left ourselves no escape route.
***SIGN*** 5th Fleet Commander
Vice Admiral Alexandre Bewcock
**[02:34] Bewcock**
*This is no laughing matter.*
**[02:37] Bewcock**
* By the way, are the survivors from the*
* 10th Fleet under your command now?*
**[02:43] Yang**
Yes. I've certainly developed a talent
for dealing with loss, at least.
**[02:47] Yang**
Honestly, what did I do to
deserve such hardship?
**[02:51] Bewcock**
* You're starting to sound*
* like Yusuf the Complainer.*
**[02:56] Yang**
Though most of its ships have been damaged,
**[02:58] Yang**
the surviving forces from the
10th Fleet will be essential
**[03:02] Yang**
when we carry out our plan.
**[03:05] Bewcock**
*We must be grateful to Admiral Ulanhu.*
**[03:10] Bewcock**
* Well, Admiral, I'll see*
* you on the battlefield.*
**[03:13] Yang**
Yes.
**[03:16] Dusty**
I'm going to head back to my ship now.
**[03:20] Yang**
Attenborough, I'm glad you're here.
**[03:24] Dusty**
Well, someone has to look
after you, you know.
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Division Commander
Commodore Dusty Attenborough
**[03:30] Dusty**
I'll be going, then.
**[03:37] Frederica**
Admiral, Commodore Fischer reports
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Adjutant
Sub-lieutenant Frederica Greenhill
**[03:40] Frederica**
that the mobilization plan for the
surviving fleets is complete.
**[03:44] Yang**
Thank you. That was fast.
**[03:47] Frederica**
Also, you should really
eat something, Admiral.
**[03:51] Yang**
Sorry, but I don't have any appetite.
**[03:53] Yang**
I'd rather have a glass of brandy.
**[03:56] Frederica**
Didn't Julian tell you
that you drink too much?
**[04:00] Yang**
What? You and Julian are
ganging up on me now?
**[04:04] Frederica**
Admiral!
**[04:06] Guy**
Patrol craft 09 has
detected an enemy fleet!
**[04:09] Guy**
It's heading toward us in close formation!
**[04:18] Yang**
You heard the alert, everyone.
**[04:21] Yang**
All hands to battle stations, condition one.
**[04:23] Guy**
Roger.
**[04:25] Guy**
All hands to battle
stations, condition one!
**[04:25] Yang**
Sub-lieutenant, if we survive this,
I'll eat healthy for the rest of my life.
***SIGN*** Episode 13
***SIGN*** Amritsar
**[04:36] Paul**
Reuenthal, Mittermeyer,
**[04:39] Paul**
and all other admirals' fleets have
arrived at their designated sectors.
**[04:43] Paul**
The enemy appears to be organizing
behind some mined-out asteroids
***SIGN*** Chief Advisor
Commodore Paul von Oberstein
***SIGN*** Galactic Imperial Navy Space Fleet Commander-in-Chief
Reinhard von Lohengramm
**[04:47] Paul**
that were abandoned in the days
of the Galactic Federation.
**[04:51] Reinhard**
Is that why they chose Amritsar
for their battleground?
**[04:54] Paul**
It seems likely.
**[05:00] Reinhard**
Feuer.
**[05:15] Murai**
The enemy attacks are focused
on the 3rd and 8th Fleets,
**[05:19] Murai**
the ones stationed in the vicinity of the asteroid mines.
**[05:22] Yang**
It makes sense to aim where
there are the fewest targets.
**[05:25] Yang**
All ships, advance.
**[05:27] Yang**
We'll draw their attention.
**[05:30] Yang**
Send a message to Admiral Bewcock.
**[05:32] Frederica**
Yes, sir.
***SIGN*** Mittermeyer Fleet Flagship
Beowulf
**[05:35] Guy**
Fleet approaching at ten o'clock!
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Wolfgang Mittermeyer
**[05:38] Guy**
Enemy's 5th Fleet flagship,
*Rio Grande*, identified!
**[05:42] Bewcock**
Damn kids, pushing their elders
around like slaves...
**[05:45] Wolfgang**
All ships, change target
to enemy's 5th Fleet.
**[05:52] Guy**
We've taken a hit to our right flank!
**[05:54] Guy**
It appears to be a new enemy force!
**[05:57] Adjutant**
Attack sustained from our right flank.
**[05:59] Adjutant**
It's the 13th Fleet.
**[06:03] Wolfgang**
They attacked in the brief moment we were
preoccupied with changing targets...
**[06:07] Wolfgang**
Impressive.
**[06:09] Wolfgang**
It seems the enemy has someone on their
side who excels at commanding fleets.
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Vice Commander
Commodore Edwin Fischer
**[06:14] Wolfgang**
All ships, withdraw for now.
**[06:17] Wolfgang**
We will regroup.
**[06:19] Murai**
The enemy fleet is withdrawing.
**[06:22] Yang**
It benefits us as well,
when the enemy is so capable.
**[06:25] Guy**
Search system has identified a
new enemy fleet approaching!
***SIGN*** Galactic Imperial Navy
The Black Lancers (Schwarz Lanzenreiter)
**[06:33] Fritz**
This will be the Schwarz Lanzenreiter's
hunting ground.
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Fritz Joseph Bittenfeld
**[06:38] Fritz**
Blast the hell out of them!
***SIGN*** The Black Lancers Flagship
Königstiger
**[06:49] Paul**
Our navy is overwhelming the
enemy in all theaters.
**[06:56] Reinhard**
It looks like we've won.
**[06:59] Yang**
It looks like we've lost.
**[07:07] Fritz**
Our next quarry will be the
notorious Yang Wen-li's fleet.
**[07:12] Fritz**
If we defeat him, any reward we desire will be ours.
**[07:16] Fritz**
Glory will be ours!
**[07:18] Fritz**
The goddess of victory is flashing
her underwear at all of you!
**[07:27] Fyodor**
Admiral, they're coming!
**[07:29] Yang**
Increase shields to max output.
**[07:32] Yang**
Attack while withdrawing in sync
with the enemy's advance.
**[07:40] Yang**
Adjust our retreat speed.
**[07:42] Yang**
Just slow enough that they think they have us.
Tease their commanders.
**[07:48] Eugen**
The enemy is keeping a cleverly
calculated distance.
**[07:50] Eugen**
We have dealt almost no damage at all.
**[07:53] Fritz**
Halt all fire!
**[07:55] Fritz**
Deploy all Walküres!
**[07:57] Fritz**
We will take control of this sector!
**[08:08] Guy**
Enemy carrier-based crafts
approaching at high speed!
**[08:11] Fyodor**
Admiral!
**[08:12] Yang**
Not yet. We need to draw
them as close as possible.
**[08:15] Guy**
They're right on top of us!
**[08:17] Yang**
All destroyers to small target defense.
**[08:20] Yang**
Have our capital ships divert all power
from the shields to the cannons.
**[08:23] Murai**
Isn't that a dangerous move?
**[08:26] Yang**
Don't worry.
**[08:28] Yang**
Fire!
**[08:36] Fritz**
What are you doing?!
**[08:37] Fritz**
Counter with our own ships' guns!
**[08:40] Eugen**
We can't.
**[08:41] Fritz**
Why not?!
**[08:42] Eugen**
If we fire now, we'll hit the Walküres.
**[08:46] Eugen**
The enemy knows that we can't fire back.
**[08:54] Guy**
Incoming message from Admiral Bittenfeld.
**[08:57] Guy**
"Immediate backup requested."
**[08:59] Reinhard**
Backup?
**[09:01] Reinhard**
Does he think I have a magic lamp
**[09:03] Reinhard**
from which I can produce
new fleets on command?
**[09:08] Reinhard**
Send a message to the Bittenfeld Fleet.
**[09:10] Reinhard**
I have no spare forces to send.
**[09:12] Reinhard**
He is to carry out his duty as a soldier
with the forces available to him.
**[09:16] Guy**
Yes, sir.
**[09:19] Reinhard**
Kircheis still isn't here?
**[09:22] Paul**
Is Your Excellency worried about him?
**[09:25] Reinhard**
I'm not worried.
**[09:27] Paul**
I'd wager Admiral Kircheis has already
***SIGN*** Directional Seffle Particle Discharge Devices
**[09:29] Paul**
navigated the special ops craft into
position and begun the operation by now.
**[09:38] Guy**
The Seffle particles have penetrated
the enemy's minefield.
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Siegfried Kircheis
**[09:41] Kircheis**
Ignite immediately.
**[09:55] Guy**
Enemy fleet to our rear!
**[09:56] Guy**
They number approximately 30,000!
**[09:59] Bewcock**
They got through the minefield
we left behind us?!
**[10:04] Yang**
An ambush led by the tactician
in that red ship...
**[10:08] Yang**
I was wondering where he was.
**[10:11] Murai**
What shall we do, Admiral?
**[10:13] Yang**
Indeed...
**[10:15] Yang**
If we're going to run, we should take
as many allies with us as possible.
**[10:19] Yang**
I'll give it my best effort.
**[10:22] Guy**
The Reuenthal Fleet is performing
search-and-destroy on the enemy's 9th Fleet.
**[10:26] Guy**
The Mittermeyer Fleet
**[10:28] Guy**
has disabled all organized enemy
activity in the area of operation.
**[10:32] Reinhard**
Order to all forces.
**[10:34] Reinhard**
Switch from pincer formation
to encirclement.
**[10:36] Reinhard**
Don't let a single soldier escape.
**[10:38] Paul**
Shall our own ship advance
as well, Your Excellency?
**[10:42] Reinhard**
No, I don't think so.
**[10:44] Reinhard**
They'd say I was trying to steal
the glory from my subordinates.
**[10:57] Paul**
The Bittenfeld Fleet appears
to be low in number...
**[11:03] Paul**
If the encirclement is incomplete,
we'll be giving the enemy an escape route.
**[11:07] Paul**
Unlike before, we now have forces to spare.
**[11:12] Paul**
We should send backup
to Admiral Bittenfeld.
**[11:16] Reinhard**
Damn that Bittenfeld...
**[11:18] Reinhard**
His failures always ruin things for us.
**[11:23] Guy**
Message from command.
**[11:24] Guy**
Admiral Kircheis is to provide backup
to the Schwarz Lanzenreiter immediately.
**[11:32] Guy**
The enemy fleet behind us has
deployed to our left flank!
**[11:37] Murai**
They're trying to fill the
gap in their encirclement.
**[11:40] Guy**
Urgent encrypted transmission
from Commodore Attenborough.
**[11:44] Dusty**
Sorry for the wait.
We're ready to carry out the plan.
**[11:49] Yang**
Begin at once.
***SIGN*** Former 10th Fleet
Unmanned Special Attack Force
**[12:06] Guy**
Part of the enemy fleet is
moving to our right flank!
**[12:10] Fritz**
Don't let them get past us!
**[12:11] Fritz**
Expand the encirclement to our right!
**[12:14] Kircheis**
No!
**[12:15] Yang**
Proceed to stage two of the plan.
**[12:19] Guy**
Message from Admiral Kircheis.
**[12:21] Guy**
"The enemies to the right are a diversion.
**[12:23] Guy**
Maintain formation until my fleet arrives."
**[12:27] Fritz**
What?!
**[12:28] Guy**
Enemy sighted in front of us!
**[12:31] Guy**
But... what is this?!
**[12:37] Guy**
The mined-out asteroids are coming
toward us at high speed!
**[12:41] Eugen**
What?!
**[12:46] Dusty**
I've done my part, old friend.
**[12:55] Eugen**
Our encirclement...
**[13:01] Yang**
No need to think about anything else.
**[13:04] Yang**
Hit that fleet of black ships
with all the force we have.
**[13:20] Eugen**
We've lost over 70% of our fleet!
**[13:24] Fritz**
And what of it?
**[13:26] Eugen**
Admiral...
**[13:27] Fritz**
We will defend this sector with our lives!
**[13:30] Fritz**
Down to the last man, if we must!
**[13:32] Eugen**
You mustn't!
**[13:33] Eugen**
Our fleet is the weak link in the encirclement.
**[13:37] Eugen**
As its admiral, it is your duty to
report to the commander-in-chief.
**[13:41] Eugen**
Or will you put an end to the history
of the Schwarz Lanzenreiter here?
**[13:53] Na**
The second major battle of the invasion,
which took place in the Amritsar star zone,
**[13:57] Na**
ended with an overwhelming advantage
for the Imperial Navy.
**[14:01] Na**
However, due to the efforts of the Alliance
commanders, with Yang at their center,
**[14:06] Na**
they failed to complete their encirclement,
**[14:11] Na**
and the surviving Alliance fleets
just barely succeeded in escaping.
**[14:16] Wolfgang**
* I guess the rebels have some pretty*
* impressive men in their ranks, too.*
**[14:21] Oskar**
Yes. I look forward to the
day we meet them again.
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Oskar von Reuenthal
**[14:25] Oskar**
But I doubt that will happen for some time.
**[14:28] Wolfgang**
True.
**[14:30] Wolfgang**
I'd say they've lost both the will and the
strength to attempt another invasion.
**[15:15] Reinhard**
I'd like to say that you
fought bravely as well,
**[15:18] Reinhard**
but I cannot.
**[15:20] Fritz**
Yes, sir!
**[15:21] Reinhard**
I'm sure you know why.
**[15:23] Reinhard**
In your haste to achieve success,
**[15:25] Reinhard**
you recklessly rushed forward
when you should not have.
**[15:28] Reinhard**
As a result, your fleet
suffered great losses,
**[15:31] Reinhard**
and our perfect victory was lost because
our encirclement was incomplete.
**[15:35] Reinhard**
Do you object to anything I've said?
**[15:38] Fritz**
I do not.
**[15:41] Reinhard**
Our military is founded upon its
rules of reward and punishment.
**[15:44] Reinhard**
Once we return to Odin, I will see
that you are held responsible.
**[15:49] Reinhard**
You are confined to your quarters.
**[15:51] Reinhard**
Dismissed.
**[16:05] Paul**
*You are a capable man,*
**[16:07] Paul**
* but you shouldn't assume your*
* friendship with Count Lohengramm*
**[16:11] Paul**
*gives you any kind of privilege.*
**[16:14] Paul**
* A ruler should not let personal*
* feelings influence his decisions.*
**[16:25] Kircheis**
Your Excellency, please reconsider.
**[16:29] Reinhard**
Why are you trying to stop me?
**[16:31] Reinhard**
Bittenfeld failed to fulfill his duty!
**[16:34] Reinhard**
Why shouldn't he be punished?!
**[16:37] Kircheis**
Your Excellency, are you angry?
**[16:39] Reinhard**
Am I wrong to be angry?!
**[16:42] Kircheis**
What I'm asking is what your anger is
directed toward, Your Excellency.
**[16:48] Reinhard**
Stop calling me that.
**[16:50] Reinhard**
What are you trying to say, Kircheis?
**[16:53] Kircheis**
Then, Reinhard...
**[16:56] Kircheis**
Could it be that the one you
are angry with is yourself?
**[17:02] Kircheis**
Admiral Bittenfeld is merely a victim
of your own misplaced anger.
**[17:10] Kircheis**
Are you that upset to be the one
who gave Admiral Yang his fame?
**[17:14] Reinhard**
Yes!
**[17:15] Reinhard**
You're damn right I'm upset!
**[17:17] Reinhard**
I managed to put up with it at Astarte,
**[17:19] Reinhard**
but twice in a row is too much!
**[17:22] Reinhard**
He always shows up right when
my victory should be assured
**[17:26] Reinhard**
and gets in my way!
**[17:28] Kircheis**
He must have his reasons
to be upset, as well.
**[17:31] Kircheis**
I'm sure he wonders
**[17:32] Kircheis**
why he couldn't face you on equal
footing from the very beginning.
**[17:39] Kircheis**
You have already made two powerful enemies:
**[17:43] Kircheis**
Admiral Yang in front of you,
and the pure-blood nobility behind you.
**[17:48] Kircheis**
You cannot afford to make enemies
of your own men.
**[17:56] Reinhard**
Fine.
**[17:58] Reinhard**
I was wrong.
**[18:01] Reinhard**
I won't seek punishment for Bittenfeld.
**[18:04] Reinhard**
Would you inform him of that?
**[18:07] Kircheis**
No, I can't do that.
**[18:11] Reinhard**
You're right. It means nothing
if I don't tell him myself.
**[18:19] Reinhard**
Kircheis...
**[18:21] Kircheis**
Yes, Reinhard?
**[18:25] Reinhard**
Do you think I am capable of
conquering the universe?
**[18:30] Kircheis**
If you are not capable of
conquering it, no one is.
**[18:59] Yang**
Forgive me for looking like
this in a lady's presence.
**[19:02] Frederica**
Don't mind me. Would you like some tea?
**[19:05] Yang**
Yes... with plenty of brandy
in it, if possible.
**[19:09] Frederica**
Of course.
**[19:11] Yang**
Sub-lieutenant...
**[19:13] Yang**
I've studied a bit of history.
**[19:17] Yang**
And I learned that,
**[19:19] Yang**
in human society, there are
two ways of thinking.
**[19:23] Yang**
There's the idea that there exists
something more valuable than life
**[19:27] Yang**
and the idea that nothing is
more valuable than life.
**[19:31] Yang**
When people begin to fight,
they claim the former,
**[19:35] Yang**
and when they stop, they claim the latter.
**[19:38] Yang**
This has been true for hundreds...
no, thousands of years.
**[19:44] Yang**
Will it continue to be the
case for thousands more?
**[19:49] Frederica**
Admiral...
**[19:52] Yang**
No, humanity as a whole
doesn't matter to me.
**[19:57] Yang**
I just wonder if there's anything I can do
**[19:59] Yang**
that will make all the blood
I've shed worthwhile.
**[20:06] Yang**
Sorry... Pay no attention to me.
**[20:09] Frederica**
No, it's all right.
**[20:11] Frederica**
A bit of brandy in your tea, was it?
**[20:14] Yang**
A lot of it.
**[20:16] Frederica**
Right, a lot of it.
**[20:31] Na**
To assume responsibility for
the worst defeat in history,
**[20:34] Na**
the entire Alliance High Council resigned.
**[20:37] Na**
But one member who voted in
opposition to the invasion, Job Trunicht,
***SIGN*** Job Trunicht
**[20:43] Na**
resigned as National Defense
Committee Chairman
**[20:45] Na**
and was immediately appointed as the
head of the interim government.
**[20:51] Na**
In the military division,
***SIGN*** Fleet Admiral Sidney Sithole
**[20:52] Na**
Fleet Admiral Sithole, the Integrated
Tactical Operations Center Chief,
**[20:55] Na**
and Fleet Admiral Lobos, the Space Fleet
commander-in-chief, both resigned.
***SIGN*** Admiral Lassalle Lobos
**[21:00] Na**
Admiral Dwight Greenhill was relegated
**[21:04] Na**
to inspector general of the National
Defense Committee General Secretariat,
***SIGN*** Admiral Dwight Greenhill
**[21:08] Na**
and was removed from the
military's front line.
**[21:11] Na**
Rear Admiral Alex Caselnes, bearing the
responsibility for the supply line failure,
**[21:16] Na**
was relegated to the frontier lands
***SIGN*** Rear Admiral Alex Caselnes
**[21:18] Na**
far away from Heinessen,
leaving his family behind.
**[21:24] Na**
Commodore Falk,
former operations staff officer,
**[21:27] Na**
was reassigned to reserve duty
after medical treatment.
***SIGN*** Reserve Commodore Andrew Falk
**[21:31] Na**
The 1st Fleet commander, Cubersly,
became the new Operations Center Chief,
***SIGN*** Integrated Tactical Operations Center Chief
Admiral Cubersly
**[21:36] Na**
and Bewcock, after a promotion to Admiral,
**[21:39] Na**
was named the new
Space Fleet Commander-in-Chief.
***SIGN*** Space Fleet Commander-in-Chief
Admiral Alexandre Bewcock
**[21:43] Na**
Meanwhile, the decision on what to do with
Yang was made after his three-week vacation.
**[21:51] Na**
He was promoted to Iserlohn Fortress
commander and garrison commander,
**[21:56] Na**
and also received a promotion to admiral
**[21:59] Na**
along with orders to relocate
immediately to Iserlohn Fortress.
***SIGN*** Adjutant
Lieutenant Frederica Greenhill
**[22:04] Na**
He was joined by his adjutant,
Lieutenant Frederica Greenhill;
**[22:07] Na**
garrison vice commander,
Rear Admiral Edwin Fischer;
***SIGN*** Garrison Vice Commander
Rear Admiral Edwin Fischer
**[22:11] Na**
fortress defense commander,
Commodore Walter von Schönkopf;
***SIGN*** Fortress Defense Commander
Commodore Walter von Schönkopf
**[22:16] Na**
chief of staff, Rear Admiral Murai;
***SIGN*** Chief of Staff
Rear Admiral Murai
**[22:19] Na**
vice chief of staff,
Commodore Fyodor Patrichev;
***SIGN*** Vice Chief of Staff
Commodore Fyodor Patrichev
**[22:22] Na**
division commander,
Rear Admiral Dusty Attenborough;
***SIGN*** Division Commander
Rear Admiral Dusty Attenborough
***SIGN*** Division Commander
Rear Admiral Nguyen Van Huu
**[22:26] Na**
division commander,
Rear Admiral Nguyen Van Huu;
***SIGN*** Staff Officer
Commander Lao
**[22:28] Na**
staff officer, Commander Lao;
**[22:31] Na**
first Fortress Space Squadron captain,
Lieutenant Commander Olivier Poplin;
***SIGN*** First Fortress Space Squadron Captain
Lieutenant Commander Olivier Poplin
***SIGN*** Second Fortress Space Squadron Captain
Lieutenant Commander Ivan Konev
**[22:35] Na**
second Fortress Space Squadron captain,
Lieutenant Commander Ivan Konev;
**[22:40] Na**
and Julian Mintz, who joined the military as
a civilian and was paid a spaceman's salary.
***SIGN*** Civilian Employee
Julian Mintz
**[22:45] Na**
As the new Yang Fleet that would take
charge of Iserlohn Fortress came together,
**[22:51] Na**
the fortress commander was concerned
about the Imperial Navy's movements.
**[22:56] Na**
Now that the Alliance Navy was weakened,
**[22:59] Na**
he feared his foe might go on the offensive.
**[23:06] Na**
However, his fears proved
to be unnecessary...
**[23:13] Na**
with the sudden death of
Emperor Friedrich IV.
***SIGN*** Episode 14
***SIGN*** Demise of the Emperor
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of
the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:55] Na**
episode fourteen, "Demise of the Emperor."
# E14 - Demise of the Emperor
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**[00:07] Reinhard**
A heart attack?
**[00:09] Reinhard**
He didn't deserve such a kind death.
**[00:12] Reinhard**
If he had just lived a bit longer,
**[00:14] Reinhard**
I could have given him a
death befitting his crimes.
**[00:18] Paul**
Your Excellency, the emperor died
without naming a successor.
**[00:25] Paul**
Why are you so surprised?
**[00:27] Paul**
I have sworn my loyalty to
Imperial Fleet Admiral Lohengramm alone.
**[00:34] Paul**
No one else, even the emperor,
is worthy of respectful titles.
**[00:41] Paul**
Your Excellency, the emperor died
without naming a successor.
**[00:47] Paul**
There is no doubt that
fighting will break out
**[00:49] Paul**
among his three grandchildren
for the throne.
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[02:30] Sabine**
Erwin is still very young.
**[02:32] Sabine**
So they're going to make
me the next emperor.
**[02:35] Beth**
Goodness, how silly.
**[02:38] Beth**
I will be the one to take
Grandfather's place as emperor.
**[02:41] Sabine**
But Father said it would be me!
**[02:44] Beth**
He was lying.
**[02:46] Sabine**
You're the one who's lying.
**[02:52] Beth**
Why, you...
**[02:53] Nanny**
Lady Sabine!
**[02:53] Nanny**
Lady Elizabeth!
**[02:55] Nanny**
Are you here?
**[02:55] Nanny**
Lady Sabine!
**[02:57] Nanny**
Lady Sabine!
**[02:57] Nanny**
Lady Elizabeth!
***SIGN*** Episode 14
***SIGN*** Demise of the Emperor
***SIGN*** Duchess Amarie von Braunschweig
***SIGN*** Duke Otho von Braunschweig
***SIGN*** Elizabeth, Daughter of Duke Braunschweig
***SIGN*** Marquis Wilhelm von Littenheim
***SIGN*** Marquise Christine von Littenheim
***SIGN*** Sabine, Daughter of Marquis Littenheim
**[03:44] Erwin**
Let go!
***SIGN*** Erwin Josef II, Legitimate Grandson of Friedrich IV
**[03:45] Nanny**
Mind your manners, now.
***SIGN*** Annerose von Grünewald
**[04:33] Paul**
*He has only one direct male descendant,*
**[04:36] Paul**
* but he is five years old and not backed*
* by an influential noble family.*
**[04:42] Paul**
* That leaves the two daughters of*
* Braunschweig and Littenheim,*
**[04:47] Paul**
* the men who married the*
* emperor's daughters.*
**[04:49] Paul**
*If either of them becomes the empress,*
**[04:51] Paul**
*her father would become the regent.*
**[04:54] (Flashback) Paul**
No matter how it ends up, it won't last,
**[04:57] (Flashback) Paul**
and it will not end without bloodshed.
**[05:03] (Flashback) Reinhard**
What you say is accurate.
**[05:05] (Flashback) Reinhard**
This means my fate depends upon which
grandchild I choose to stand behind.
**[05:11] (Flashback) Reinhard**
And of the men backing these
three grandchildren,
**[05:14] (Flashback) Reinhard**
which do you think is most likely
to extend his hand to me?
**[05:18] (Flashback) Paul**
I would say... Marquis Lichtenlade.
**[05:26] (Flashback) Reinhard**
I see.
**[05:27] (Flashback) Reinhard**
So the minister of state will
seek to shake my hand.
**[05:31] (Flashback) Reinhard**
In that case, I will sell
it to him at a high price.
***SIGN*** Baron Flegel
**[06:07] Na**
The funeral of Friedrich IV
was a solemn affair.
**[06:14] Na**
But while it appeared quiet on the surface,
**[06:16] Na**
the minds of the nobles who sought
to be next in line for supremacy
**[06:21] Na**
were already swirling with strategies
for the imminent power struggle.
**[06:40] Flegel**
We should eliminate that
blond boy immediately!
**[06:44] Flegel**
Why was someone of such low
birth permitted to attend
**[06:48] Flegel**
the funeral of our holy
and inviolable emperor?!
**[06:52] Flegel**
To allow such injustice to stand will
be of no benefit to this empire!
**[06:58] Otho**
Listen to me, Flegel.
**[07:00] Otho**
It's true that the blond boy
is an eyesore to all of us.
**[07:04] Flegel**
Then—
**[07:05] Otho**
But this is not the time to be
distracted by such things.
**[07:11] Flegel**
Are you talking about Littenheim?
**[07:14] Otho**
Yes.
**[07:15] Otho**
Just as we are putting our
support behind our daughter,
**[07:18] Ohto**
I'm sure Littenheim plans
to do the same for his.
**[07:23] Ohto**
If Littenheim wins, eliminating the boy
will be the least of our worries.
**[07:27] Ohto**
Our status itself will be at risk.
**[07:31] Flegel**
I understand, Uncle.
**[07:34] Ohto**
This is a crucial time.
**[07:36] Ohto**
We want as many allies as we can get.
**[07:40] Ohto**
Say, Flegel... I've been thinking.
**[07:44] Ohto**
Of the influential noble families
with sons who are of age,
**[07:49] Ohto**
which is the best?
**[07:51] Ohto**
We will offer them this proposal:
**[07:54] Ohto**
"If Elizabeth assumes the throne,
**[07:57] Ohto**
we are willing to give her your son
as the husband of the new empress."
**[08:03] Flegel**
That is a fine idea, Uncle.
**[08:06] Flegel**
In that case, we should
quietly make that offer
**[08:10] Flegel**
to as many of them as possible.
**[08:15] Reinhard**
Have you heard, Kircheis?
**[08:18] Reinhard**
All the nobles are clamoring to maneuver
their way into the imperial court.
**[08:22] Reinhard**
Braunschweig is promising multiple nobles
that their sons can marry his daughter,
**[08:28] Reinhard**
and now it seems Littenheim
is doing the same thing.
**[08:33] Reinhard**
If either of the granddaughters
becomes the empress,
**[08:36] Reinhard**
just how many husbands will she end up with?
**[08:40] Reinhard**
But the more all these nobles scramble,
**[08:42] Reinhard**
the better it suits us.
**[08:47] Reinhard**
More importantly, Kircheis,
I have a favor to ask of you.
**[08:54] Reinhard**
My sister is leaving the palace.
**[08:57] Kircheis**
Yes.
**[09:00] Reinhard**
I want to find a nice
place for her to live.
**[09:03] Reinhard**
Will you help me?
**[09:06] Kircheis**
Of course.
**[09:12] Kircheis**
*That's right...*
**[09:14] Kircheis**
* From now on, Annerose and*
* Reinhard will be able*
**[09:18] Kircheis**
*to see each other whenever they want.*
**[09:25] Klaus**
Be it Braunschweig or Littenheim,
**[09:29] Klaus**
we cannot allow these greedy relatives
***SIGN*** Private Secretary Weitz
**[09:32] Klaus**
to take over the politics of this empire.
***SIGN*** Minister of State and Acting Prime Minister
Klaus von Lichtenlade
**[09:36] Klaus**
We must restore order in the imperial
court as quickly as possible.
**[09:41] Weitz**
If this is about the successor issue,
**[09:43] Weitz**
it doesn't seem all that complicated to me.
**[09:47] Klaus**
What?
**[09:51] Weitz**
You need only do as you have done all along,
**[09:53] Weitz**
as both minster of state and
acting Prime Minister.
**[09:59] Klaus**
You're saying I should adhere
to convention, then?
**[10:03] Klaus**
Of course, I would prefer to do that.
**[10:05] Klaus**
But even if I chose Master Erwin Josef,
**[10:09] Klaus**
the only direct successor, to be emperor,
**[10:12] Klaus**
I would have no way to protect him
from Braunschweig and Littenheim.
**[10:18] Weitz**
Indeed. He would require a watchdog.
**[10:22] Weitz**
A very strong, easily controlled watchdog.
**[10:26] Weitz**
And have you not already chosen one?
**[10:32] Klaus**
I'm not sure I can call him
"easily controlled," but...
**[10:36] Klaus**
I certainly can't deny his strength.
**[10:51] Wolfgang**
I hear the admiral was summoned
by Marquis Lichtenlade.
**[10:57] Oskar**
He was? So Oberstein was right.
**[11:02] Wolfgang**
What do you think of him?
**[11:05] Oskar**
I don't like him, but he's sharp.
**[11:12] Oskar**
What? What's bothering you?
**[11:15] Wolfgang**
I'm not sure how to put it.
**[11:17] Wolfgang**
When the admiral is talking to him,
**[11:20] Wolfgang**
there are times when he doesn't seem
at all like the admiral I know.
**[11:27] Wolfgang**
There's something different about him.
**[11:31] Wolfgang**
So long as he serves the admiral,
**[11:33] Wolfgang**
he should want the same things as us, but...
**[11:36] Oskar**
Even if we want the same things,
**[11:39] Oskar**
how he feels and how we
feel about the admiral
**[11:42] Oskar**
are as different as night and day.
**[11:45] Wolfgang**
True.
**[11:47] Wolfgang**
We just need to do our own jobs, I suppose.
**[12:03] Na**
When Erwin Josef's succession
to the throne was announced,
**[12:07] Na**
the higher nobles were
astonished, disappointed,
**[12:13] Na**
and maddened with rage.
**[12:27] Flegel**
That blond boy... That blond boy...
That blond boy... That blond boy...
**[12:33] Flegel**
That blond boy... That blond boy...
That blond boy...
**[12:38] Flegel**
That blond boy!
***SIGN*** Dominion of Fezzan
Leader's Home
**[12:59] Adrian**
Grand Bishop,
I hope the day finds you in good cheer.
**[13:04] Bishop**
*What reason have I to be in good cheer?*
**[13:08] Bishop**
Only when Earth is again
revered by all humanity,
**[13:11] Bishop**
as it was in days of old,
will my heart feel cheer.
**[13:16] Adrian**
Of course...
**[13:17] Bishop**
* The ingrates who abandoned their*
* mother planet will come to realize*
**[13:20] Bishop**
* within three years that Earth*
* is the cradle of humanity,*
**[13:26] Bishop**
* and that it is the center of the*
* universe with supremacy over all.*
***SIGN*** Dominion of Fezzan Leader
Adrian Rubinsky
**[13:31] Adrian**
It will happen that quickly?
**[13:34] Bishop**
*The flow of history can be accelerated.*
**[13:38] Bishop**
* Both the Galactic Empire and*
* the Free Planets Alliance*
**[13:42] Bishop**
* continue to amass more*
* power and military might.*
**[13:46] Bishop**
* In addition, there will soon*
* be a surge of new citizens.*
**[13:51] Bishop**
* You have neglected nothing in the task*
* with which I have entrusted you?*
**[13:55] Adrian**
Of course, Your Lordship.
**[13:58] Bishop**
* It is for this purpose that*
* our precursors chose Fezzan,*
**[14:02] Bishop**
* sent Earth's faithful there,*
* and began to accumulate wealth.*
**[14:09] Bishop**
*Rubinsky.*
**[14:11] Adrian**
Your Lordship?
**[14:13] Bishop**
*Do not betray me.*
**[14:15] Adrian**
I-I would never dream of it, Your Lordship.
**[14:19] Adrian**
I became leader of this dominion
thanks to Your Lordship's support.
**[14:24] Adrian**
I am not an ingrate.
**[14:27] Bishop**
*Good.*
**[14:29] Bishop**
* Your admirable character*
* will surely protect you.*
**[14:33] Adrian**
Yes, Your Lordship.
**[14:51] Adrian**
Now, who will win in the end?
**[14:56] Adrian**
The Empire, the Alliance...
**[14:59] Adrian**
or Earth?
**[15:02] Adrian**
Or perhaps...
**[15:05] Adrian**
me?
**[15:24] Nanny**
Your Highness.
**[15:26] Nanny**
It is time.
**[15:33] Na**
Erwin Josef II's coronation was,
**[15:36] Na**
out of respect for the new emperor's
age, quite a brief ceremony.
**[15:49] Na**
Per the decision of the
new regent, Lichtenlade,
**[15:52] Na**
Reinhard was promoted from count to marquis
**[15:58] Na**
and assumed the position of
commander-in-chief of the Imperial Space Fleet.
**[16:04] Na**
Reinhard then promoted Kircheis
two ranks, to high admiral,
**[16:11] Na**
and appointed him vice commander
of the Imperial Space Fleet.
**[16:23] Paul**
It is good to have a long-time
friend at your side,
**[16:25] Paul**
and just as well to have a
capable second-in-command.
**[16:28] Paul**
But to have the same person filling
both of those roles is risky.
**[16:33] Reinhard**
Watch yourself, Oberstein.
**[16:35] Reinhard**
I've made my decision.
**[16:49] Na**
As for Oberstein, he was
promoted to vice admiral
**[16:53] Na**
and appointed the concurrent positions of
chief of staff of the Imperial Space Fleet
**[16:56] Na**
and chief director of the Lohengramm
Fleet Admiral's Mansion.
**[16:59] Na**
Mückenberger resigned as commander-in-chief
of the Imperial Space Fleet
**[17:04] Na**
and retired from the military.
***SIGN*** Former Imperial Space Fleet Commander-in-Chief
Gregor von Mückenberger
**[17:37] Gregor**
I tried to resign at the time
of the fall of Iserlohn.
**[17:42] Gregor**
I knew this day would come sooner or later.
**[17:47] Gregor**
I suspect you knew it, as well.
**[18:59] Reinhard**
Is it to your liking?
**[19:02] Reinhard**
You said you wanted the
smallest mansion possible.
**[19:06] Annerose**
Thank you, Reinhard.
**[19:08] Annerose**
It truly is lovely, just as I'd heard.
**[19:19] Reinhard**
I will not put you through
any more suffering.
**[19:26] Reinhard**
From now on,
**[19:28] Reinhard**
I pray you will be happy.
**[19:45] Reinhard**
This won't be the end of it.
**[19:48] Reinhard**
We won't be able to avoid
conflict with the nobles.
**[19:54] Reinhard**
The battle may split the Empire in two.
**[19:58] Kircheis**
I am in consultation with Admirals
Mittermeyer and Reuenthal.
**[20:02] Kircheis**
The formulation of our strategy
is proceeding smoothly.
**[20:06] Kircheis**
But there is one thing that concerns me.
**[20:10] Reinhard**
What the rebels will do, right?
**[20:13] Kircheis**
Indeed.
**[20:14] Reinhard**
Don't worry, Kircheis.
**[20:16] Reinhard**
I have an idea.
**[20:18] Reinhard**
No matter how clever
Yang Wen-li's tactics may be,
**[20:21] Reinhard**
I have a plan to ensure
he can't leave Iserlohn.
**[20:24] Kircheis**
What is it?
**[20:27] Reinhard**
Basically, this...
**[21:02] Yang**
*To think, a five-year-old emperor...*
**[21:07] Yang**
* In any case, this will most likely*
* mean civil war in the Empire.*
**[21:18] Yang**
I find myself feeling tempted.
**[21:20] Julius**
Huh?
**[21:21] Yang**
Oh, nothing.
**[21:24] Yang**
Honestly, when all people
think about is winning,
**[21:28] Yang**
they become absolutely despicable.
**[21:38] Yang**
Thanks.
**[21:40] Yang**
By the way, I hear Schönkopf has
been teaching you how to shoot.
**[21:44] Yang**
How's that going?
**[21:45] Julius**
The commodore says I have a knack for it.
**[21:49] Yang**
Oh? That's good to hear.
**[21:52] Julius**
You don't practice shooting
at all. Shouldn't you?
**[21:58] Yang**
Apparently, I don't have the talent for it.
**[22:02] Julius**
Then how do you protect yourself?
**[22:05] Yang**
If a commanding officer had to take
up firearms to protect himself,
**[22:10] Yang**
he'd never win any wars.
**[22:12] Yang**
I'm always thinking about how to avoid
being caught in that situation.
**[22:18] Julius**
That's true.
**[22:19] Julius**
Okay, then I'll protect you.
**[22:22] Yang**
I'll be counting on it.
**[22:24] Julius**
Of course!
**[22:26] Julius**
All right, first...
**[22:27] Na**
Carrying many thoughts, the universe turns...
**[23:00] Na**
In the year UC 796,
**[23:03] Na**
or IC 487,
**[23:06] Na**
neither Marquis Reinhard von
Lohengramm nor Yang Wen-li
**[23:10] Na**
could foresee all that
lay in their own future.
***SIGN*** Episode 15
***SIGN*** Before the Storm
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of
the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:55] Na**
episode fifteen, "Before the Storm."
# E15 - Before the Storm
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**[00:02] Na**
The Iserlohn Corridor is a safe passage
through the nonnavigable sector of space
**[00:06] Na**
that lies between the Galactic Empire
and the Free Planets Alliance.
***SIGN*** Alliance Navy Iserlohn Garrison Force
Ulysses
**[00:12] Na**
Within this corridor
***SIGN*** Iserlohn Fortress
**[00:13] Na**
is a man-made planet that sits squarely
on the border between the two nations:
**[00:17] Na**
Iserlohn Fortress.
**[00:20] Na**
This fortress, built by the Empire
and usurped by the Alliance,
**[00:23] Na**
measures sixty kilometers in diameter
**[00:26] Na**
and is a highly important strategic
location, with a space harbor
**[00:30] Na**
that can accommodate up
to 20,000 battleships.
**[00:37] Yang**
I hope your time in the frontier
enabled you to recharge.
**[00:40] Yang**
We have a lot of work to do.
**[00:42] Alex**
I thought being demoted would
give me some time to unwind.
**[00:45] Alex**
I didn't expect to be called back so soon.
***SIGN*** Iserlohn Fortress Administrator
Rear Admiral Alex Caselnes
**[00:50] Alex**
Hell of a slave-driving
commander you've got here.
**[00:57] Yang**
What's the matter?
**[00:58] Frederica**
*Urgent message from patrolling
battleship* Ulysses*.*
**[01:03] Frederica**
* They have encountered an enemy*
* ship carrying a special envoy.*
**[01:05] Frederica**
*The ship is trying to establish contact.*
**[01:08] Yang**
That came sooner than I expected.
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[02:55] Yang**
As you all know,
**[02:57] Yang**
the special envoy from the Empire has
brought us an interesting proposal.
**[03:00] Yang**
Our navy, when it took this
fortress from the Empire,
**[03:04] Yang**
and the Imperial Navy,
during the Battle of Amritsar,
**[03:08] Yang**
both took many war prisoners.
**[03:11] Yang**
They have proposed that we trade them here.
**[03:14] Alex**
They're framing this as an amnesty out of
respect to the death of their emperor,
**[03:18] Alex**
but it's not easy for either side
to keep two million prisoners fed.
**[03:24] Yang**
But that's not their true intention.
**[03:28] Yang**
I suspect they're facing a situation far
more serious than feeding prisoners.
**[03:34] Dusty**
What do you mean?
**[03:36] Yang**
Reinhard von Lohengramm, who's been
raised to the rank of a marquis,
**[03:42] Yang**
has made up his mind to initiate
armed conflict with the nobility.
**[03:47] Yang**
I believe that's a fair assumption.
**[03:49] Yang**
The exchange of war prisoners
**[03:51] Yang**
would be one step in his
preparations for that.
***SIGN*** The returned Imperial soldiers would follow Marquis Lohengramm, their savior.
***SIGN*** I see. He *is* thorough.
**[04:04] Yang**
Of course, our options at
the moment are limited,
**[04:08] Yang**
but getting our war prisoners back
safely is never a bad thing.
**[04:12] Yang**
Let's do the best we possibly can.
**[04:15] All**
Yes, sir.
***SIGN*** Episode 15
***SIGN*** Before the Storm
**[04:21] Na**
The Alliance government
approved the proposal.
**[04:25] Na**
Soon, a convoy of transport ships
**[04:27] Na**
carrying the two million Alliance
soldiers who had been taken prisoner,
**[04:32] Na**
led by the Imperial Navy
flagship* Barbarossa*,
**[04:36] Na**
approached Iserlohn Fortress
from Imperial territory.
**[04:50] Girl**
Isn't the guy in the middle kind of hot?
**[04:52] Girl**
Yeah!
**[04:54] Poplin**
Oh, that's the type you're into?
**[04:57] Konev**
Looks like an honest sort of guy.
**[04:59] Poplin**
Does he? I think he looks
like a cocky bastard.
**[05:03] Konev**
That's because your eyes and
heart are all clouded over.
**[05:06] Poplin**
Say what?!
**[05:08] Dusty**
You can tell he's here to
represent Marquis Lohengramm.
**[05:11] Dusty**
He has that dignified look.
**[05:13] Fyodor**
To be the vice commander of the
Space Fleet at such a young age...
**[05:18] Frederica**
Your Excellency, it's time to
go to the ceremonial hall.
**[05:22] Yang**
Ah, of course.
**[05:28] Yang**
Julian.
**[05:29] Julian**
Yes, sir?
**[05:30] Yang**
I hear Admiral Kircheis is a man of integrity.
**[05:34] Yang**
This could be a decent lesson in good taste.
**[05:38] Yang**
I want you to attend the ceremony.
**[05:42] Julian**
Yes, sir! I will!
**[06:09] Kircheis**
I am High Admiral Siegfried Kircheis
of the Galactic Imperial Navy.
**[06:14] Yang**
I am Admiral Yang Wen-li of the
Free Planets Alliance Navy.
**[06:18] Yang**
We are grateful for your proposal.
**[06:21] Kircheis**
And we are grateful for your acceptance.
**[06:32] Na**
The exchange of prisoners was carried out
**[06:37] Na**
with such an air of dignity that it
was hard to believe the two nations
**[06:41] Na**
had been at war for 150 years.
**[06:55] Kircheis**
I suppose all this formality is necessary,
**[06:59] Kircheis**
but it seems rather ridiculous,
doesn't it, Admiral Yang?
**[07:02] Yang**
I agree with that.
**[07:04] Kircheis**
I consider myself fortunate to have had
the opportunity to meet you in this way.
**[07:11] Yang**
This is the sort of deal for human lives
**[07:15] Yang**
that I would welcome anytime.
**[07:18] Kircheis**
I agree.
**[07:38] Kircheis**
How old might you be?
**[07:41] Julian**
I'll turn fifteen this year, sir.
**[07:44] Kircheis**
Is that right?
**[07:46] Kircheis**
I fought in my first battle
at age fifteen, as well.
**[07:50] Kircheis**
I may be in no place to wish you luck...
**[07:56] Kircheis**
but I pray for your well being.
***SIGN*** He did seem like an upright, honest sort of guy.
***SIGN*** Can't hold a candle to me, though.
**[08:11] Alex**
Don't get all emotional on us
and defect to the Empire.
**[08:14] Julian**
Huh?!
**[08:27] Yang**
Siegfried Kircheis...
**[08:30] Julian**
He was quite a pleasant man.
**[08:32] Yang**
Yeah.
**[08:33] Yang**
It seems wrong to have a better impression
of an enemy commander than of
**[08:37] Yang**
our own nation's politicians, though.
**[08:41] Yang**
Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm...
**[08:45] Yang**
I'm interested in meeting him now.
**[08:57] Reinhard**
Good work.
**[09:00] Reinhard**
So?
**[09:01] Reinhard**
What was Yang Wen-li like?
**[09:04] Kircheis**
Yes, sir.
**[09:06] Kircheis**
To be frank, he seemed a far cry from
the great admiral he's celebrated as.
**[09:11] Kircheis**
He has an air of
immeasurable prudence,
**[09:14] Kircheis**
but gave no clues as to where
his true intentions lie.
**[09:18] Kircheis**
That's what makes him so intimidating.
**[09:20] Kircheis**
That was my impression.
**[09:23] Reinhard**
Oh?
**[09:25] Kircheis**
I may be giving him too much credit,
**[09:28] Kircheis**
but it's possible he's
figured out our plan.
**[09:34] Reinhard**
I'd certainly like to meet...
**[09:38] Reinhard**
this Yang Wen-li.
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Capital Planet Heinessen
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Integrated Tactical Operations Center
**[09:47] Trunicht**
Men, you must not forget
that you are soldiers
**[09:51] Trunicht**
whose mission is to defend our republic.
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Head of State
Job Trunicht
**[09:54] Trunicht**
In order to take down the
treacherous Empire,
**[09:57] Trunicht**
we need you to step up again.
**[10:00] Trunicht**
Engrave upon your hearts the many who
were so regrettably sacrificed.
**[10:06] Trunicht**
Until the day we share an era of great
joy with our future compatriots,
**[10:10] Trunicht**
you must not forget your iron-clad mission!
**[10:22] Dwight**
Admiral Yang.
***SIGN*** Inspector General of the National Defense Committee Secretariat
Admiral Dwight Greenhill
**[10:25] Dwight**
Is my daughter fulfilling
her professional duties?
**[10:31] Yang**
Yes, of course.
**[10:32] Yang**
She has been a tremendous help.
**[10:37] Dwight**
By the way, do you have some time after this?
**[10:40] Yang**
Actually, I have some business to attend to.
**[10:43] Yang**
You'll have to forgive me.
**[10:45] Yang**
Please enjoy your time together
as father and daughter.
**[10:48] Dwight**
I see. That's too bad.
**[10:51] Yang**
Until next time.
**[10:55] Frederica**
Admiral, please take care.
**[11:05] Julian**
You must be exhausted.
**[11:07] Yang**
Yeah...
**[11:08] Yang**
If I'd been forced to listen to
Trunicht speaking any longer,
**[11:12] Yang**
I would've burned through my whole
lifetime's worth of patience.
**[11:18] Crowd**
Earth belongs to us!
**[11:21] Yang**
What's that about?
**[11:21] Crowd**
Earth is our home!
**[11:23] Julian**
It looks like the Earth Cult is protesting.
**[11:26] Yang**
Earth Cult?
**[11:27] Julian**
Yes.
**[11:29] Julian**
Some of them were gathered outside
the ceremonial hall earlier, too.
**[11:32] Julian**
"The holy planet Earth is the
human beings' homeland.
**[11:36] Julian**
Take part in the holy war to emancipate
Earth from the Galactic Empire.
**[11:40] Julian**
Build the cathedral to guide all of our souls."
**[11:46] Yang**
Imagine that...
**[11:49] Yang**
Earth hasn't been the center of human
society for eight centuries now.
**[12:07] Julian**
I bet no one would even imagine
**[12:09] Julian**
an admiral of the Alliance Navy
eating street food in a place like this.
**[12:13] Yang**
This is the kind of food
that's familiar to me.
**[12:16] Yang**
Back in cadet school, this was the best
stuff to eat when breaking curfew.
**[12:24] Julian**
I guess even you lived
like that at one time.
**[12:43] Yang**
I just keep adding more to the list
of things I can never get back.
**[12:53] Yang**
Julian, this is Admiral Bewcock.
**[12:56] Julian**
Huh?!
**[12:58] Bewcock**
Were you waiting long?
**[13:00] Yang**
Not at all.
**[13:01] Yang**
Julian.
**[13:03] Yang**
Would you keep an eye on the area for me?
**[13:05] Julian**
Yes, sir.
**[13:12] Bewcock**
So, let's hear what you have to say.
**[13:15] Yang**
Yes, sir.
**[13:17] Yang**
It's possible that a coup d'état
will occur in this country soon.
**[13:23] Bewcock**
A coup d'état, you say?
**[13:25] Yang**
Yes.
**[13:28] Yang**
Marquis Lohengramm's true intention in
proposing the exchange of war prisoners
**[13:33] Yang**
was to prepare for a battle against
the nobility for supremacy.
**[13:39] Yang**
Once the Empire enters a state of civil war,
**[13:42] Yang**
they'll want to avoid allowing any
openings for our navy to attack.
**[13:48] Yang**
However, they can't spare
precious military strength
**[13:51] Yang**
to keep our forces in check.
**[13:55] Yang**
So they won't go into this without a strategy.
**[13:58] Bewcock**
I see... And that's where
the coup d'état comes in.
**[14:02] Bewcock**
The Empire will pull the strings to start
an uprising within the Alliance.
**[14:07] Yang**
And they'll most likely start
simultaneous revolts in the frontier.
**[14:13] Bewcock**
And while our forces are
deployed to suppress them,
**[14:16] Bewcock**
they'll seize the capital, the center of power.
**[14:19] Bewcock**
If that works, everything will go their way,
**[14:22] Bewcock**
but can a theoretical plan
like that really succeed?
**[14:26] Yang**
As far as Marquis Lohengramm is concerned,
**[14:28] Yang**
the coup d'état doesn't need to be successful.
**[14:32] Yang**
His goal is to divide the
Alliance forces and cause chaos.
**[14:37] Bewcock**
But how does he expect to do all
that within the Alliance itself?
**[14:42] Bewcock**
Of course! The war prisoner exchange!
**[14:45] Yang**
Yes.
**[14:47] Yang**
Mixing spies in with the soldiers they
returned would be the simplest way.
**[14:51] Bewcock**
Two million suspects...
**[14:54] Bewcock**
It's just too many.
**[14:56] Bewcock**
It'll be extremely difficult to learn
of anything before it happens.
**[15:02] Bewcock**
Damn, what a lot of hassle
he's causing us...
**[15:05] Yang**
True, but if others do it all for him,
he won't have to do much work at all.
**[15:12] Bewcock**
So I need to prevent a coup d'état without
knowing who's going to cause it, or when.
**[15:20] Bewcock**
That's a big responsibility.
**[15:24] Yang**
I have one other favor to ask.
**[15:26] Bewcock**
There's more?!
**[15:28] Yang**
I'm sorry...
**[15:33] Julian**
*Will the day ever come when I get to know*
**[15:36] Julian**
*what the admirals are talking about?*
**[15:43] Bewcock**
I'll have the thing you asked for delivered
to you before you leave Heinessen.
**[15:48] Yang**
I appreciate it.
**[15:51] Bewcock**
Tell me just one last thing.
**[15:55] Bewcock**
You guessed the strategy
Marquis Lohengramm would use.
**[15:59] Bewcock**
Could that be because you've considered
doing something similar to the Empire?
**[16:08] Yang**
If I'm being honest, I've felt tempted before.
**[16:13] Yang**
But I'm just one soldier.
**[16:16] Yang**
I can only do what is possible
for me within that position.
**[16:23] Bewcock**
I see. All right, then.
**[16:27] Bewcock**
I'll be going.
**[16:29] Yang**
Please take care.
**[16:42] Dwight**
Beginning with the planet Nephthys,
**[16:44] Dwight**
we will start military uprisings sequentially
on these four frontier planets,
**[16:49] Dwight**
leaving the capital of Heinessen
without its fighting forces.
**[16:53] Dwight**
A few of our best soldiers will then
take control of the most vital points,
**[16:57] Dwight**
and we will seize the political center.
**[17:01] Dwight**
Now, there is one person
who poses a problem:
**[17:05] Dwight**
Admiral Yang Wen-li, the commander
of Iserlohn Fortress.
**[17:10] Dwight**
We haven't made him one of us yet.
**[17:13] Dwight**
Any opinions on that?
**[17:15] Bronze**
His intelligence and popularity
would certainly be useful...
**[17:19] Guy**
We can't ignore Iserlohn's valuable
military potential, either.
**[17:23] Legrange**
If we can get him on our side,
**[17:26] Legrange**
we'll be able to take control of the entire
territory from both Heinessen and Iserlohn.
**[17:30] Guy**
But we're short on time.
**[17:31] Guy**
Do you think we can talk him into it?
**[17:34] Falk**
That man?
**[17:36] Falk**
I don't see why we need him on our side.
**[17:40] Dwight**
Don't let your emotions get the better of you.
**[17:42] Dwight**
It's true that we're short on time—
**[17:44] Gatty**
But, sir...
**[17:45] Gatty**
It's also true that the Yang Fleet
would be a threat to us.
**[17:50] Dwight**
Based on our advantage in distance,
I think we should strike first,
**[17:54] Dwight**
then deal with Yang and his fleet
after we take over the capital.
**[17:59] Dwight**
Artemis's Necklace is set up throughout
Planet Heinessen's orbit.
**[18:06] Dwight**
Even the Yang Fleet won't be able
to enter the capital easily
**[18:09] Dwight**
with that air defense system in place.
**[18:12] Dwight**
That alone gives us room to negotiate.
**[18:16] Falk**
Then, just to be safe,
**[18:18] Falk**
I suggest we send some
of our men to Iserlohn.
**[18:22] Falk**
If he does anything that would
put us at a disadvantage,
**[18:26] Falk**
having eyes on him would enable
us to eliminate him immediately.
**[18:30] Bronze**
He's right. If we do that,
we'll be prepared to act if necessary.
**[18:34] Gatty**
That might actually be a good idea.
**[18:41] Dwight**
Fine. We'll adopt that suggestion.
**[18:45] Dwight**
Let's choose who to send immediately.
**[18:48] Dwight**
But first, I must confirm this with all of you.
**[18:52] Dwight**
Our goal is to purge the
current political system,
**[18:57] Dwight**
which has lost its ideals
and become corrupt.
**[19:02] Dwight**
To restore the freedom and
democracy this nation once had
**[19:06] Dwight**
and start a new political system
**[19:08] Dwight**
is what drives us to take action now.
**[19:12] Dwight**
This is a battle for justice
that cannot be avoided
**[19:16] Dwight**
if we are to rebuild this nation.
**[19:22] Dwight**
I will now give an overview of our strategy.
**[19:26] Dwight**
The first step takes place
on the planet Nephthys.
**[19:28] Lynch**
*Purge... Rebuild... Battle for justice...*
**[19:33] Lynch**
*You fools.*
**[19:35] Lynch**
*You don't know anything.*
**[19:39] Lynch**
*Not a damn thing.*
**[19:49] (Flashback) Paul**
Alliance Navy Rear Admiral Arthur Lynch.
**[19:54] (Flashback) Paul**
Nine years since our navy
took you prisoner.
**[19:57] (Flashback) Paul**
Currently undergoing correction
in our internment camp.
**[20:00] (Flashback) Paul**
Your behavior and attitude
are extremely poor.
**[20:06] (Flashback) Paul**
So this is what has become
of the coward of El Facil.
**[20:10] (Flashback) Lynch**
What the hell do you know?!
**[20:26] (Flashback) Lynch**
Who are you?
**[20:28] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Reinhard von Lohengramm.
**[20:31] (Flashback) Lynch**
Oh? So you're Lohengramm?
**[20:34] (Flashback) Lynch**
You're young. Too young.
**[20:37] (Flashback) Lynch**
You're practically just a kid.
**[20:40] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Nine years ago, just before the
fall of the planet El Facil,
**[20:44] (Flashback) Reinhard**
you shamelessly abandoned the soldiers
and the people you were to protect,
**[20:47] (Flashback) Reinhard**
ran away to save yourself,
and ended up our prisoner.
**[20:51] (Flashback) Lynch**
I didn't run away!
**[20:53] (Flashback) Lynch**
I just went to request reinforcements!
**[20:57] (Flashback) Lynch**
And then... And then,
that damned Yang Wen-li...
**[21:01] (Flashback) Reinhard**
If that excuse had worked
for you even once,
**[21:04] (Flashback) Reinhard**
would your former men in the internment
camp have shown you such contempt?
**[21:16] (Flashback) Lynch**
I wasn't wrong.
**[21:18] (Flashback) Lynch**
I know my plan was right.
**[21:18] (Flashback) Kircheis**
Can a man like this really be useful to us?
**[21:21] (Flashback) Lynch**
Given the situation, I needed
to call for reinforcements.
**[21:22] (Flashback) Reinhard**
I'll make him useful, Kircheis.
**[21:24] (Flashback) Lynch**
That's why I got out of there so
that the enemy wouldn't see me.
**[21:25] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Otherwise, this man...
**[21:28] (Flashback) Reinhard**
doesn't deserve to live.
**[21:29] (Flashback) Lynch**
If I could've called reinforcements,
**[21:30] (Flashback) Lynch**
we could've turned the Imperial Navy back
**[21:32] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Listen to me, Lynch.
**[21:33] (Flashback) Lynch**
and we could've easily reclaimed El Facil.
**[21:34] (Flashback) Reinhard**
I'm going to give you a job.
You are to complete it.
**[21:37] (Flashback) Lynch**
Yeah. Nothing I did was wrong.
**[21:38] (Flashback) Reinhard**
If you're successful,
**[21:39] (Flashback) Reinhard**
I'll grant you the position of rear
admiral in the Imperial Navy.
**[21:43] (Flashback) Lynch**
Rear admiral?
**[21:47] (Flashback) Lynch**
Rear admiral, you say?
**[21:49] (Flashback) Lynch**
Well, that doesn't sound half bad.
**[21:51] (Flashback) Lynch**
And what do you want me to do?
**[21:56] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Infiltrate the Free Planets Alliance Navy,
**[21:58] (Flashback) Reinhard**
agitate any discontented members
you find among their ranks,
**[22:01] (Flashback) Reinhard**
and lead them in a coup d'état.
**[22:03] (Flashback) Reinhard**
You'll find the details in that book.
**[22:05] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Do as it says, and you're sure to succeed.
**[22:10] (Flashback) Lynch**
You're a liar.
**[22:12] (Flashback) Lynch**
If I mess up, I guarantee I'll be killed.
**[22:17] (Flashback) Reinhard**
If that happens, go ahead and die!
**[22:20] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Right now, you are worth
less than an insect.
**[22:23] (Flashback) Reinhard**
You're a coward.
**[22:25] (Flashback) Reinhard**
No one understands you.
**[22:27] (Flashback) Reinhard**
If anyone scorns you,
there's no one to stand up for you.
**[22:31] (Flashback) Reinhard**
No one!
**[22:32] (Flashback) Reinhard**
Even then, do you still value your life?!
**[22:50] Lynch**
*That's right. I'm a coward.*
**[22:55] Lynch**
*I have nothing to offer you now.*
**[22:59] Lynch**
*So I might as well keep living like a coward,*
**[23:02] Lynch**
*shameless to the very end.*
**[23:05] Lynch**
* The moment you learn how worthless and*
* futile your so-called battle for justice is...*
**[23:10] Lynch**
* I'm truly going to enjoy*
* the looks on your faces.*
***SIGN*** Episode 16
***SIGN*** Ignition Point
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of
the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:55] Na**
episode sixteen, "Ignition Point."
# E16 - Ignition Point
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***SIGN*** County of Mariendorf
**[00:19] Hans**
I have been awaiting your arrival, milady.
**[00:22] Hilda**
Hans!
**[00:23] Hans**
I am glad you arrived here safely.
**[00:26] Hans**
But what led you to return
home so abruptly?
***SIGN*** Hildegard von Mariendorf
**[00:32] Hilda**
Is Father doing well?
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
***SIGN*** Franz von Mariendorf
**[02:15] Hilda**
Father.
**[02:18] Franz**
Oh, Hilda.
**[02:20] Hilda**
I've just returned home.
**[02:22] Franz**
Welcome home.
**[02:23] Franz**
How are things going at college?
**[02:25] Hilda**
Just fine.
**[02:27] Franz**
What were you thinking about, Father?
**[02:30] Franz**
Oh, nothing of importance.
**[02:33] Hilda**
Well, that's certainly reassuring.
**[02:37] Hilda**
So I suppose the fate
of the Galactic Empire
**[02:39] Hilda**
and the future of the Mariendorf
family are "nothing of importance."
**[02:46] Hilda**
Living on Odin, I hear all about it
whether I want to or not.
**[02:50] Hilda**
The nobles are all in a panic over
whom they should be siding with.
**[02:55] Franz**
I see.
**[02:57] Hilda**
Have you decided what you'll do?
**[03:05] Franz**
I would prefer to remain neutral.
**[03:07] Franz**
But if I absolutely must choose a side,
**[03:12] Franz**
then we...
**[03:14] Franz**
will side with Duke Braunschweig.
**[03:16] Franz**
As imperial nobility, that would be—
**[03:18] Hilda**
Father.
**[03:24] Hilda**
There is a fact that nearly all of
the nobles refuse to acknowledge.
**[03:29] Hilda**
Just as all people born will eventually die,
**[03:31] Hilda**
nations also face unavoidable death.
**[03:35] Hilda**
Ever since civilization was
born on Planet Earth,
**[03:39] Hilda**
there hasn't been a single nation
that didn't fall.
**[03:43] Hilda**
Why should the Goldenbaum Dynasty of the
Galactic Empire be the only exception?
**[03:50] Franz**
Hilda, you...
**[03:52] Hilda**
The Goldenbaum Dynasty has
survived for nearly 500 years.
**[03:56] Hilda**
During that time, they have controlled the
people with their warped power structure
**[04:01] Hilda**
and done everything out of a
desire for wealth and power.
**[04:05] Hilda**
They have killed people,
stolen other families' daughters,
**[04:08] Hilda**
and created laws for their own benefit.
**[04:13] Hilda**
It wouldn't be surprising
in the least if such a nation
**[04:17] Hilda**
were on the verge of collapse.
**[04:20] Franz**
Perhaps, but still,
**[04:23] Franz**
is there any reason we should
side with Marquis Lohengramm?
**[04:26] Hilda**
There is.
**[04:32] Franz**
Very well, Hilda.
I leave the decision to you.
**[04:41] Hilda**
Thank you, Father.
**[04:45] Hilda**
I'm truly grateful that you brought me into
this life during such an exciting age.
***SIGN*** Episode 16
***SIGN*** Ignition Point
***SIGN*** Lohengramm Fleet Admiral's Mansion
**[05:04] Rücke**
I apologize for the wait.
***SIGN*** Sub-lieutenant Theodor von Rücke
**[05:07] Rücke**
He has agreed to meet you.
**[05:09] Rücke**
This way, please.
**[05:12] Reinhard**
It's a shame Kircheis isn't here.
**[05:14] Reinhard**
He has something of a connection
to the Mariendorf household.
**[05:18] Reinhard**
Do you know of it?
**[05:19] Hilda**
Yes, of course.
**[05:21] Hilda**
He saved my father's life during
the Castrop Rebellion.
**[05:26] Reinhard**
And? What is your business with me?
**[05:29] Hilda**
The Mariendorf family would like
to ally with you in this civil war.
**[05:37] Reinhard**
Civil war?
**[05:38] Hilda**
The one you might start at any
moment with Duke Braunschweig.
**[05:42] Reinhard**
You're a bold woman.
**[05:44] Reinhard**
Even if that does happen,
there's no guarantee I will win.
**[05:48] Reinhard**
You still wish to ally with me?
**[05:51] Hilda**
Yes. Your Excellency will win.
**[05:54] Reinhard**
Oh?
**[05:55] Reinhard**
Is there a reason you're so confident?
**[05:57] Hilda**
Yes, of course.
**[06:01] Hilda**
First, Your Excellency and
Marquis Lichtenlade have the new emperor
**[06:06] Hilda**
and the just cause of subjugating
any who defy that emperor.
**[06:11] Hilda**
Duke Braunschweig and
Marquis Littenheim, on the other hand,
**[06:15] Hilda**
are only trying to start a war
for their own glory and profit.
**[06:20] Hilda**
For that reason...
**[06:22] (Flashback) Hilda**
They have only temporarily joined forces,
**[06:25] (Flashback) Hilda**
but they lack the will to work together.
**[06:28] (Flashback) Hilda**
They cannot defeat the unified will and
chain of command of the Lohengramm forces.
**[06:34] (Flashback) Hilda**
And finally...
**[06:36] (Flashback) Hilda**
Marquis Lohengramm was born into
a noble family of low standing,
**[06:40] (Flashback) Hilda**
but I believe his low birth will be
the primary reason for his victory.
**[06:45] (Flashback) Hilda**
That is because all his
soldiers are commoners.
**[06:50] Hilda**
I believe Your Excellency will
do away with old values
**[06:54] Hilda**
and build a new age through this civil war.
**[06:59] Reinhard**
I see. Very well.
**[07:01] Reinhard**
If that is the case, I do want an ally.
**[07:05] Reinhard**
I will be certain to return this favor.
**[07:09] Reinhard**
Of course, I will treat the
Mariendorf family well,
**[07:12] Reinhard**
and I promise to extend the same treatment
to any families you recommend.
**[07:16] Hilda**
I'm sure your generous words
**[07:18] Hilda**
will make it easy to persuade
my friends and relatives.
**[07:22] Reinhard**
Of course. You kindly offered
to become my ally.
**[07:26] Reinhard**
This is the least I can do to
repay your effort and courage.
**[07:30] Reinhard**
If there is anything at all I can do, just ask.
**[07:34] Reinhard**
No need to hesitate.
**[07:36] Hilda**
In that case, there is one
favor I'd like to ask of you.
**[07:41] Reinhard**
Go ahead.
**[07:42] Hilda**
As a reward for the
Mariendorf family's loyalty,
**[07:47] Hilda**
I would like an official document
guaranteeing us the rights
**[07:50] Hilda**
to our family's property and territory.
**[07:55] Reinhard**
Oh? An official document?
**[07:58] Hilda**
Yes.
**[08:01] Reinhard**
Very well.
**[08:03] Reinhard**
I will have it ready for you today.
**[08:07] Hilda**
Thank you very much.
**[08:08] Hilda**
The Mariendorf family swears
absolute loyalty to you.
**[08:16] Reinhard**
By the way, Fraulein Mariendorf,
**[08:19] Reinhard**
will the other households
you persuade to join us
**[08:22] Reinhard**
require the same thing?
**[08:24] Hilda**
I would appreciate it if you would
provide it for those who ask for it.
**[08:29] Hilda**
Those who don't, I believe,
have no real need of it.
**[08:33] Reinhard**
Well, then...
**[08:35] Hilda**
I believe Your Excellency has
the insight to recognize
**[08:39] Hilda**
those with the strength
to live in the new age.
**[08:42] Reinhard**
Then that's exactly what I shall do.
**[08:45] Reinhard**
All that aside, you are
quite the shrewd woman.
**[08:49] Reinhard**
I had no idea there were nobles like you.
**[08:55] Reinhard**
Enter.
**[08:57] Paul**
Your Excellency, we have received a report.
**[09:00] Reinhard**
Ah, it's here.
**[09:01] Reinhard**
Fraulein Mariendorf, this has been enjoyable.
**[09:04] Reinhard**
I hope we meet again.
**[09:07] Hilda**
Of course.
**[09:24] Na**
In what would be known
as the Lippstadt Pact,
**[09:28] Na**
the nobles who opposed the
Lohengramm-Lichtenlade axis came together
**[09:34] Na**
and established an alliance.
**[09:36] Na**
Its leader was Duke Otho von Braunschweig,
**[09:40] Na**
and under him was
Marquis Wilhelm von Littenheim.
**[09:44] Na**
Participating nobles numbered around 3,740,
**[09:47] Na**
and their soldiers outnumbered
Reinhard's regular force.
**[09:54] Na**
They dubbed their alliance the
Lippstadt Nobles Coalition.
***SIGN*** Galactic Imperial Navy Armored Grenadier Commander
High Admiral Ovlesser
**[10:08] Otho**
Why the long face?
**[10:11] Otho**
That isn't like you.
***SIGN*** Gregor von Mückenberger
**[10:32] (Flashback) Gregor**
No need to salute me.
**[10:34] (Flashback) Gregor**
I've left the military.
**[10:37] (Flashback) Ovlesser**
A gathering, titled a garden
party for official purposes,
**[10:41] (Flashback) Ovlesser**
will be held at
Duke Braunschweig's nearby villa.
**[10:44] (Flashback) Ovlesser**
I'm sure you can guess
as to its true purpose.
**[10:47] (Flashback) Gregor**
I have no intention of getting involved.
**[10:50] (Flashback) Ovlesser**
But, Your Excellency...
**[10:53] (Flashback) Gregor**
Don't call me that, either.
**[10:56] (Flashback) Gregor**
You still can't understand his talent?
**[10:59] (Flashback) Ovlesser**
Why do you insist on taking his side?
**[11:01] (Flashback) Gregor**
I can see the truth. That's all.
**[11:04] (Flashback) Ovlesser**
Your Excellency!
**[11:06] (Flashback) Gregor**
As a retired, free man,
**[11:08] (Flashback) Gregor**
let me give you one word of advice.
**[11:11] (Flashback) Gregor**
He intends to eradicate all those
who refuse to see the truth.
**[11:23] Flegel**
How dare he say such a thing?
**[11:26] Flegel**
He's mocking us!
**[11:28] Wilhelm**
I guess Mückenberger is getting on in years.
**[11:30] Otho**
In any case, you shouldn't take
such action on your own.
**[11:34] Otho**
As the leader of this alliance, so long
as I'm in command on the front lines—
**[11:37] Wilhelm**
No, I don't think the alliance leader
should be on the front lines.
**[11:42] Wilhelm**
I think a commander-in-chief should
employ a specialist in tactics.
***SIGN*** Galactic Imperial Navy High Admiral
Willibald Joachim von Merkatz
**[12:04] Otho**
Admiral Merkatz.
**[12:07] Otho**
Please, come right in.
**[12:09] Merkatz**
You can ask all you like,
but my answer won't change.
**[12:13] Merkatz**
Won't you reconsider fighting
such a fruitless battle?
**[12:18] Otho**
Admiral, this is a righteous battle
to protect the Goldenbaum Dynasty.
**[12:24] Otho**
Calling that fruitless or
meaningless makes you a traitor.
**[12:29] Flegel**
And not just you, Admiral Merkatz,
**[12:33] Flegel**
but your family, as well.
**[12:39] Otho**
Flegel.
**[12:41] Otho**
It seems the young folks are
brimming with the desire to fight.
**[12:45] Otho**
They have said that all
traitors should be punished.
**[12:50] Merkatz**
Then I accept your request,
though my abilities are modest.
**[12:54] Merkatz**
However...
**[12:59] Schneider**
He agreed to your condition that he
would follow military regulations.
**[13:02] Schneider**
Is that not good enough?
**[13:06] Merkatz**
Lieutenant Commander Schneider,
you are still young.
**[13:10] Merkatz**
Duke Braunschweig's response
was mere lip service.
**[13:14] Merkatz**
Soon, I will be hated even more
than Marquis Lohengramm.
***SIGN*** Lieutenant Commander Bernhard von Schneider
**[13:19] Schneider**
S-Surely not...
**[13:23] Merkatz**
Privilege is the worst poison of all.
It rots away a person's spirit.
**[13:27] Merkatz**
And those high nobles have been steeped
in it for dozens of generations.
**[13:33] Merkatz**
Justifying themselves while blaming others
has become instinctive for them.
**[13:39] Merkatz**
I didn't even realize that until I came into
contact with the lower-ranked soldiers.
**[13:50] Na**
In all his life,
**[13:53] Na**
Merkatz had never struggled so much to find
the right words as he did that night.
**[13:58] Na**
The letter that he wrote with
so much love in every word
**[14:02] Na**
was a farewell letter to
his wife and children.
**[14:08] Otho**
Don't be ridiculous!
**[14:10] Otho**
Assassinate him?!
**[14:12] Otho**
The 3,000 nobles who answered
my call to gather here
**[14:16] Otho**
are already on the move.
***SIGN*** Captain Anton Fellner
**[14:18] Otho**
And in this righteous initiative,
**[14:20] Otho**
you suggest such a cowardly
method as assassinating—
***SIGN*** Commodore Arthur von Streit
**[14:23] Streit**
But, Your Excellency...
**[14:24] Otho**
I intend to defeat that blond boy
in a head-to-head confrontation.
**[14:29] Otho**
Doing this will prove my righteousness
and ability to all the Empire.
**[14:35] Otho**
And you want to sully my honor
with such a suggestion?!
**[14:39] Streit**
Your Excellency!
**[14:41] Streit**
This is difficult for me to say,
**[14:43] Streit**
but Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm
is a genius tactician.
**[14:46] Streit**
Even if we fight him and win,
there will be many sacrifices,
**[14:49] Streit**
and harm will come to the people...
**[14:52] Otho**
What do you mean by "*even* if we win"?!
**[14:55] Otho**
I have no need for men who
lack faith in our victory!
**[14:58] Otho**
Ansbach, where are you?!
**[15:00] Otho**
Remove this useless trash at once!
**[15:13] Fellner**
Thank you all for coming.
**[15:14] Fellner**
I appreciate it.
**[15:16] Fellner**
What we're about to do will be a
secret to the alliance leader.
**[15:21] Fellner**
We can't get close to
Marquis Lohengramm with these numbers,
**[15:25] Fellner**
but we should be able to take his sister,
Countess Grünewald, hostage.
**[15:42] Fellner**
The plan's off!
**[15:45] Fellner**
Retreat immediately!
**[15:47] Fellner**
Retre—
**[16:08] Reinhard**
You want to serve under my command?
**[16:13] Reinhard**
In that case, how did your
sense of loyalty permit you
**[16:17] Reinhard**
to make the decision to desert
your lord of many years?
**[16:21] Fellner**
Loyalty should be offered to one
who understands its worth.
**[16:27] Reinhard**
Such impudent words...
**[16:29] Reinhard**
Very well.
**[16:31] Reinhard**
Oberstein.
**[16:32] Reinhard**
Take him under your command.
**[16:35] Paul**
Yes, sir.
**[16:39] Flegel**
What a disgrace!
**[16:41] Flegel**
What treachery!
**[16:42] Flegel**
What a shameless display!
**[16:45] Flegel**
Uncle, soldiers who defy our will
**[16:47] Flegel**
and act of their own accord
should be severely punished!
**[16:51] Otho**
Yes. I will punish him myself.
**[16:55] Ansbach**
Your Grace.
**[16:56] Ansbach**
Departing from Odin is far more
important than this right now.
**[17:02] Ansbach**
Now that this has happened,
the enemy could move at any time.
***SIGN*** Commodore Ansbach
**[17:05] Ansbach**
We should return to the domain and regroup.
**[17:09] Otho**
Hurry it up, then!
Don't waste a moment, Ansbach!
**[17:16] Paul**
Duke Braunschweig has escaped
Odin with his family.
**[17:21] Paul**
The remaining nobles will soon do the same.
**[17:24] Paul**
Their most likely destination is Geiersburg.
**[17:28] Kircheis**
Our operation to send a spy
to the Free Planets Alliance
**[17:32] Kircheis**
is proceeding according to plan, as well.
**[17:34] Kircheis**
I believe the time is ripe for battle.
**[17:41] Na**
All the admirals who received
the order from Reinhard
**[17:44] Na**
launched into action at once.
**[17:48] Na**
First, Bittenfeld led armed soldiers
in occupying the Ministry of War.
**[18:05] Ehrenberg**
Who gave you permission to enter here?
**[18:08] Ehrenberg**
I don't know what it is you want,
**[18:11] Ehrenberg**
but it's clear you have no interest
in observing proper decorum.
***SIGN*** Galactic Empire Military Chief of Staff
Fleet Admiral Ehrenberg
**[18:15] Fritz**
My apologies.
**[18:17] Fritz**
What I want is
**[18:19] Fritz**
for all people to be aware
that the times are changing.
**[18:25] Na**
They detained Military Chief
of Staff Ehrenberg,
**[18:28] Na**
then they occupied the
Supreme Command Headquarters
***SIGN*** Galactic Imperial Navy Supreme Command Headquarters Chief
Fleet Admiral Steinhof
**[18:31] Na**
and detained its chief,
Fleet Admiral Steinhof.
**[18:51] Klaus**
What of the outcome?
**[18:53] Oskar**
Without flaw, sir.
**[19:01] Na**
At the same time, at the space harbor,
**[19:03] Na**
soldiers under Mittermeyer's command
**[19:05] Na**
were waiting to catch the nobles
who attempted to flee.
**[19:09] Na**
And the satellite orbit above Odin
**[19:13] Na**
was completely secured by the
fleets led by Wahlen and Kempff.
**[19:19] Na**
Among the nobles they captured was Streit.
**[19:24] Reinhard**
I've received intelligence that you advised
Duke Braunschweig to assassinate me.
**[19:30] Reinhard**
Is this true?
**[19:31] Streit**
It is true.
**[19:33] Reinhard**
Ah, so you admit it?
**[19:35] Reinhard**
Why did you suggest such a thing?
**[19:37] Streit**
Because I knew that this would
happen if we left you alive.
**[19:42] Streit**
If only my lord were more decisive...
**[19:45] Streit**
It is regrettable not only for
the house of Duke Braunschweig,
**[19:51] Streit**
but for all of the Goldenbaum Dynasty.
**[19:55] Reinhard**
Remove his handcuffs.
**[20:00] Reinhard**
It would be a shame to kill him.
**[20:03] Reinhard**
I will issue a permit of passage.
**[20:05] Reinhard**
Return to Duke Braunschweig
**[20:07] Reinhard**
and prove your loyalty to him.
**[20:11] Streit**
Actually, if it pleases Your Excellency,
**[20:15] Streit**
might I have permission
to remain here on Odin?
**[20:19] Reinhard**
Why?
**[20:20] Streit**
If I return to my lord,
**[20:22] Streit**
he would suspect me of
collusion and punish me.
**[20:25] Streit**
He is the kind of man
**[20:27] Streit**
who abandoned many of his subordinates
and retainers in his escape from Odin.
**[20:30] Streit**
The loyalty of his men means nothing.
**[20:33] Reinhard**
Fine.
**[20:35] Reinhard**
Why don't you become one of my men, then?
**[20:39] Streit**
I appreciate the offer,
**[20:41] Streit**
but I have no desire to see my lord
until today be my enemy tomorrow.
**[20:45] Streit**
Please forgive me.
**[20:52] Na**
Emperor Erwin Josef II gave Reinhard the
title of Imperial Fleet Commander-in-Chief.
**[21:01] Klaus**
By imperial order,
**[21:03] Klaus**
you are to subjugate Duke Braunschweig
**[21:05] Klaus**
and his followers for plotting
treason against the emperor.
**[21:10] Reinhard**
Yes, sir.
**[21:14] Guy**
Your Excellency, please wait!
**[21:20] Guy**
I need Your Excellency to provide a
public name for the enemy forces.
**[21:25] Reinhard**
A public name?
**[21:27] Guy**
Yes.
**[21:28] Guy**
This is necessary for our official records.
**[21:31] Guy**
They have called themselves
"Lords for Justice"...
**[21:36] Reinhard**
There is only one fitting name for them.
**[21:39] Reinhard**
Call them the traitors.
**[21:40] Guy**
The... traitors?
**[21:44] Reinhard**
Inform all in the Empire that
this is what I have decided.
**[21:49] Reinhard**
Make sure the ones going by
that name are informed, too.
**[21:52] Reinhard**
Tell them, "You are traitors."
**[22:34] Reinhard**
We'll be parting ways for a while, Kircheis.
**[22:38] Kircheis**
Yes.
**[22:40] Reinhard**
Soon...
**[22:42] Reinhard**
Soon, the entire universe will be ours.
**[22:46] Kircheis**
Indeed. It will all belong to you.
**[22:52] Kircheis**
I wish you the best, Reinhard.
***SIGN*** Episode 17
***SIGN*** The Yang Fleet Mobilizes
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of
the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:54] Na**
episode seventeen,
"The Yang Fleet Mobilizes."
# E17 - The Yang Fleet Mobilizes
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***SIGN*** Capital Planet Heinessen
***SIGN*** Integrated Tactical Operations Center
**[00:25] Whitty**
You have a lunch meeting scheduled
with Chairman Trunicht at 11:00.
***SIGN*** Captain Whitty
***SIGN*** Integrated Tactical Operations Center Chief
Admiral Cubersly
**[00:31] Cubersly**
All right.
**[00:33] Falk**
Chief Cubersly!
**[00:37] Falk**
It's good to see you again. I'm Falk.
**[00:40] Cubersly**
I heard you were away on medical leave.
**[00:44] Falk**
As you can see, I've fully recovered.
***SIGN*** Reserve Commodore Andrew Falk
**[00:47] Falk**
I'm here today to request
a return to active duty.
**[00:52] Cubersly**
Active duty? Has your doctor approved this?
**[00:56] Falk**
Of course. He says I've fully recovered.
**[00:58] Falk**
He has no objections to my return.
**[01:01] Cubersly**
I see. Then you should go
through the formal procedure.
**[01:05] Cubersly**
Submit your request to
**[01:06] Cubersly**
the National Defense Committee
along with a statement from your doctor.
**[01:09] Cubersly**
Only when that is approved
will you be formally—
**[01:13] Falk**
But that will take too long.
**[01:15] Falk**
I want to start today, if possible,
and be of use to the nation.
**[01:19] Cubersly**
Formal procedures always take
time, Reserve Commander.
**[01:24] Falk**
Which is why I hoped you could—
**[01:27] Cubersly**
You seem to misunderstand.
**[01:30] Cubersly**
My job is to see that procedures
are followed, not broken.
**[01:36] Cubersly**
You seem to think you're entitled
to special treatment,
**[01:40] Cubersly**
but it looks to me like you
haven't fully recovered yet.
**[01:44] Cubersly**
If you return to active duty now,
your lack of cooperation will bring disorder.
**[01:49] Cubersly**
That would be bad for both
you and those around you.
**[01:53] Cubersly**
Take my advice and try again later.
**[01:56] Whitty**
Chief, it's almost time.
**[01:59] Cubersly**
All right. So long, then.
**[02:11] Whitty**
Sir!
**[02:19] Whitty**
Sir!
**[02:22] Whitty**
A doctor! Get a doctor!
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[04:05] Na**
Reserve Commander Andrew Falk's
unprecedented assassination attempt
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Bronze
**[04:11] Na**
on Integrated Tactical Operations Center
Chief Cubersly, a key military figure,
**[04:16] Na**
deepened the despair felt in the aftermath
of the failed invasion of the Empire
**[04:22] Na**
and further fueled the people's anxieties.
**[04:29] Bewcock**
They want me, the fleet commander-in-chief,
to act as the interim chief?
**[04:33] Pfeifer**
Yes, sir.
**[04:34] Pfeifer**
We received a confidential request
from the National Defense Committee.
**[04:38] Bewcock**
Tell them I decline.
**[04:40] Bewcock**
Having the Integrated Tactical
Operations Center chief
**[04:42] Bewcock**
and the fleet commander-in-chief be the
same person would be problematic.
**[04:47] Bewcock**
We must disperse any risks.
***SIGN*** Lieutenant Commander Pfeifer
***SIGN*** Sub-lieutenant Gatty
**[04:52] Na**
In such a turbulent state of affairs,
**[04:54] Na**
it was thought that selecting an
interim chief would not be easy,
**[04:57] Na**
but one man volunteered for the position:
**[05:00] Na**
a man of meager popularity
at best, Admiral Dawson.
***SIGN*** Admiral Dawson
**[05:06] Bewcock**
*Maybe I should've taken the job after all.*
**[05:10] Na**
Unfortunately, the very next
day, an accident occurred.
**[05:15] Na**
There was an explosion at the maintenance
center of the Heinessen Air Defense Base.
**[05:22] Na**
There were fourteen casualties,
**[05:24] Na**
and all of them were young
soldiers in their teens.
**[05:28] Na**
This was a terrible shock to everyone.
**[05:33] Jessica**
* This is the result of the war*
* with the Galactic Empire*
**[05:37] Jessica**
*that has dragged on for 150 years.*
**[05:40] Jessica**
* Sacrificing young soldiers*
* to continue a war...*
**[05:43] Jessica**
* Can we truly say a society*
* that allows this is normal?*
**[05:47] Jessica**
* What we must do right now is*
* question what is truly realistic.*
**[05:53] Jessica**
*There is only one answer,*
**[05:55] Jessica**
*and it is peace!*
**[05:58] Gatty**
She really doesn't hold back.
**[06:00] Bewcock**
No, she's absolutely right.
**[06:04] Bewcock**
There's something wrong
with a society in which
**[06:07] Bewcock**
an old soldier like me lives
while the young ones die.
**[06:11] Bewcock**
If no one brings attention to that,
things will only get worse.
**[06:16] Bewcock**
People like her are essential
**[06:18] Bewcock**
in ensuring that the Alliance
doesn't lose all reason.
***SIGN*** Episode 17
***SIGN*** The Yang Fleet Mobilizes
***SIGN*** Iserlohn Fortress
**[06:31] Dawson**
*You know that in the past half-month,*
**[06:33] Dawson**
* armed revolts have broken*
* out on the planets Nephthys,*
**[06:37] Dawson**
*Kaffa, Purmerend, and Shampool, yes?*
**[06:41] Yang**
Yes, sir.
**[06:42] Dawson**
* You are to lead the Iserlohn*
* Fortress garrison fleet*
**[06:45] Dawson**
* and put an end to all the revolts*
* as quickly as possible.*
**[06:49] Yang**
All revolts on all four planets?
**[06:52] Yang**
That would leave Iserlohn Fortress
unguarded for an extended period.
**[06:57] Dawson**
* The Empire is currently embroiled*
* in a large-scale civil war.*
**[07:00] Dawson**
* There is very little danger of them*
* invading Iserlohn with a large force.*
**[07:05] Dawson**
* Commander Yang, you can fulfill your duty*
* as a soldier with no reservations.*
**[07:13] Julian**
How old is this Dawson?
**[07:16] Yang**
In his mid-forties, I'd say.
**[07:19] Yang**
Interim Chief Dawson's goal is to
work us as hard as he possibly can.
**[07:25] Yang**
But I don't understand why that is.
**[07:28] Yang**
I hear he's a man who never
lets go of a grudge,
**[07:31] Yang**
but I don't recall doing
anything to anger him.
**[07:34] Julian**
You're turning thirty this year, right?
**[07:38] Yang**
Yeah, I guess I've hit that age.
**[07:40] Julian**
That's why.
**[07:43] Julian**
You're so much younger than him,
but you're also an admiral.
**[07:47] Julian**
So long as you're not someone like
Admiral Bewcock, he would be jealous.
**[07:52] Yang**
So that's it...
**[07:54] Yang**
Now it makes sense.
I completely missed that.
**[07:57] Yang**
Still, the chief wasn't able to
foresee the assassination attempt,
**[08:01] Yang**
but he did guess what
Marquis Lohengramm was planning.
**[08:04] Yang**
He intends to toy with the
Alliance as much as he can,
**[08:08] Yang**
with as little risk as possible.
**[08:11] Julian**
What's going to happen now?
**[08:14] Yang**
A coup d'état in the capital.
**[08:18] Yang**
But I can't even guess at
anything beyond that.
**[08:21] Yang**
I don't think Marquis Lohengramm
actually knows, either.
**[08:25] Yang**
Who's going to be the mastermind
behind the coup d'état?
**[08:27] Yang**
That's the question.
**[08:30] Julian**
Who could it be?
**[08:32] Yang**
No idea.
**[08:33] Yang**
But we'll know soon enough.
**[08:36] Fyodor**
He wants us to stop revolts on four
different planets ourselves, then?
***SIGN*** So he wants to preserve the capital's forces and put us to work.
***SIGN*** He's jealous, all right.
**[08:48] Murai**
In any case, we can't refuse an order from
the Integrated Tactical Operations Center.
**[08:54] Guy**
Emergency in the capital!
**[08:56] Murai**
Report in detail!
**[08:57] Guy**
Yes, sir.
**[08:58] Guy**
An emergency has broken out on
the capital planet Heinessen.
**[09:02] Guy**
I-It's a coup d'état!
**[09:10] Bronze**
* As of this day, April 13th*
* of the year UC 797,*
**[09:15] Bronze**
*we announce the establishment of*
**[09:17] Bronze**
* the National Salvation Military Council*
* as the provisional government.*
**[09:21] Bronze**
* We hereby place Heinessen*
* under martial law,*
**[09:24] Bronze**
* and our forces assume full*
* control over the capital.*
**[09:27] Yang**
National Salvation Military Council, eh?
**[09:29] Bronze**
*The Alliance Constitution is suspended,*
**[09:31] Bronze**
* and the following National Salvation*
* Military Council decrees will take its place.*
**[09:36] Bronze**
* First, a unified national regime is*
* established with the noble goal*
**[09:40] Bronze**
*of overthrowing the Galactic Empire.*
**[09:43] Bronze**
*Second, political activities and speeches*
**[09:46] Bronze**
* contrary to the national interest*
* are subject to regulation.*
**[09:49] Bronze**
* Third, military personnel are granted*
* judicial and police powers.*
**[09:53] Bronze**
* Fourth, unnecessary social*
* services will be halted*
**[09:57] Bronze**
*to prevent the weakening of society.*
**[09:59] Bronze**
*Fifth, conscientious objectors
will be subject to punishment.*
**[10:01] Yang**
Well, isn't this brilliant?
**[10:04] Yang**
It's no different from what Rudolf
von Goldenbaum did 500 years ago.
**[10:04] Bronze**
*Sixth, corruption among politicians and civil
servants will be severely punished.*
**[10:10] Bronze**
* I will now introduce to all citizens*
* and soldiers of the Alliance*
**[10:14] Bronze**
* the chairman of the*
* National Salvation Military Council.*
**[10:35] Bronze**
*Admiral Dwight Greenhill.*
**[10:40] Dwight**
* Citizens, as well as soldiers*
* in the Alliance Navy.*
**[10:43] Dwight**
* There is no need to be*
* frightened by our actions.*
**[10:46] Dwight**
* Our goal is to create a world in which all*
* people can have a righteous lifestyle,*
**[10:50] Dwight**
*enjoy a righteous reputation,*
**[10:51] Dwight**
* and live righteous lives*
* until their final days—*
**[10:54] Dwight**
*exactly the way our world should be.*
**[10:57] Dwight**
*If you examine history,*
**[10:59] Dwight**
* you will surely see that when governments*
* grow corrupt and society loses its way,*
**[11:05] Dwight**
* there will always be those who*
* rise up to correct the system.*
**[11:10] Dwight**
*That is what we are,*
**[11:11] Dwight**
*and this is one of those times.*
**[11:14] Dwight**
*As of this day,*
**[11:16] Dwight**
* the history of the*
* Free Planets Alliance will change.*
**[11:20] Bewcock**
I suppose I've grown senile.
**[11:23] Gatty**
Please forgive us.
This is for the greater good.
**[11:28] Bewcock**
So the Departments of
Intelligence and Inspection,
**[11:31] Bewcock**
and even men who served me directly,
**[11:34] Bewcock**
had already been contaminated.
**[11:38] Bewcock**
You there. I recognize you.
**[11:42] Bewcock**
You're Rear Admiral Lynch.
**[11:45] Lynch**
I'm so honored that you remember me.
**[11:51] Bewcock**
I thought you were one of
**[11:53] Bewcock**
the most reasonable,
sensible men in the service.
**[11:58] Bewcock**
But it looks like I overestimated you.
**[12:02] Bewcock**
I never imagined you would be a
part of such a careless act.
**[12:05] Bewcock**
I can only believe that your reason
and sensibility have fallen asleep.
**[12:09] Dwight**
I believe you are well aware, Admiral,
**[12:13] Dwight**
of how corrupted the current government is
**[12:16] Dwight**
and how stifled our society is.
**[12:18] Dwight**
Mob rule is running rampant
in the guise of democracy,
**[12:22] Dwight**
and it's showing no signs of being able to control itself.
**[12:25] Dwight**
How else can we correct and reform it?
**[12:33] Bewcock**
I see.
**[12:34] Bewcock**
The current system is indeed
corrupt and stifled.
**[12:39] Bewcock**
Which is why you think the answer is to
conquer it with military force, right?
**[12:44] Bewcock**
Then if I may venture to ask...
**[12:47] Bewcock**
When you and your military
forces become corrupt,
**[12:50] Bewcock**
who is going to correct you, and how?
**[12:55] Gatty**
We had no choice but to take a stand.
**[12:57] Gatty**
Unlike those who merely speak of peace,
**[13:00] Gatty**
we are going to make it happen.
**[13:03] Gatty**
Corruption arises from self-interest.
**[13:05] Gatty**
There's no way we can ever become corrupt.
**[13:09] Bewcock**
Is that so?
**[13:11] Bewcock**
It seems to me as if you're trying
to justify a lawless power grab
**[13:15] Bewcock**
under the cover of terms like
"salvation" and "passion."
**[13:20] Bronze**
Admiral Bewcock, we have every intention
of behaving as courteously as possible.
**[13:28] Bewcock**
Courteous?
**[13:30] Bewcock**
Since the first humans
crawled upon the land,
**[13:32] Bewcock**
breaking rules with violent force
has never been called "courteous."
**[13:37] Bewcock**
If you want people to call it that,
why not use this power you've gained
**[13:42] BewcocK**
and use it to write a new
dictionary before you lose it?
**[13:49] Dwight**
Unfortunately,
**[13:50] Dwight**
it appears that no matter how much we
talk, we'll find no common ground.
**[13:55] Dwight**
Our only choice is to let
history be the judge.
**[14:04] Dwight**
Take him to another room.
**[14:06] Dwight**
And be respectful.
**[14:08] Bewcock**
History might not give you any answers,
**[14:12] Bewcock**
Admiral Greenhill.
**[14:16] Na**
The crucial location of Heinessen,
the Alliance capital,
**[14:18] Na**
was taken over by the coup d'état force.
**[14:23] Na**
Even Admiral Dawson,
**[14:25] Na**
interim chief of the Integrated Tactical
Operations Center, was detained.
**[14:29] Na**
However, the top target of the attack,
**[14:32] Na**
High Council Chairman Trunicht,
**[14:36] Na**
was not in his official residence.
**[14:47] Yang**
You seem well.
**[14:54] Frederica**
What can I do for you?
**[14:57] Yang**
I'm mobilizing my fleet tomorrow.
**[15:00] Yang**
Will you be joining me?
**[15:02] Frederica**
I...
**[15:04] Frederica**
N-No.
**[15:06] Frederica**
I thought I would be relieved
of my position as adjutant.
**[15:12] Yang**
You want to quit?
**[15:14] Frederica**
N-No!
**[15:16] Frederica**
But...
**[15:20] Yang**
I'm a lazy man, you know.
**[15:23] Yang**
I need a capable adjutant by my side.
**[15:29] Yang**
I'd be lost without you.
**[15:37] Frederica**
Th-Then...
**[15:39] Frederica**
I will fulfill the role to the
best of my ability, Admiral.
***SIGN*** So you didn't fire Miss Greenhill?
**[16:05] Yang**
Of course not.
**[16:08] Yang**
Not until I find someone as
talented as she is, anyway.
***SIGN*** Can't you just be honest?
**[16:17] Yang**
What does that mean?
***SIGN*** Well, I was just thinking about what she thinks of you.
**[16:23] Yang**
And what do you think?
***SIGN*** Who knows?
***SIGN*** Frankly, I'm not entirely sure myself.
***SIGN*** You're a walking contradiction, after all.
***SIGN*** No one despises the foolishness of war as much as you do,
***SIGN*** but at the same time, there's no greater master of war than you.
***SIGN*** Am I wrong?
**[16:51] Yang**
And what about
Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm?
***SIGN*** I'm sure it'd be interesting to see you two face off.
***SIGN*** If you both mobilized your forces in equal numbers,
***SIGN*** I'm confident that you'd win, personally.
**[17:04] Yang**
Assumptions like that don't mean a thing.
***SIGN*** Then let's move on to the next topic.
***SIGN*** You have a very intimate knowledge of just how bad
***SIGN*** the Free Planets Alliance's current power structure is.
***SIGN*** And yet you're devoting all of your strength to trying to save it.
***SIGN*** That's another huge contradiction.
**[17:33] Yang**
I prefer to choose "better" over "best."
**[17:36] Yang**
I do realize that the current
Alliance is no good.
**[17:40] Yang**
But you saw the National Salvation
Military Council's slogan, didn't you?
**[17:45] Yang**
They're worse than the current regime.
***SIGN*** If I may say so,
***SIGN*** we should let those clowns in the National Salvation Military Council
***SIGN*** clean out the guys who are currently in power.
***SIGN*** Completely and thoroughly.
***SIGN*** When they're done, they'll show their true, useless colors
***SIGN*** and lose control of the situation.
***SIGN*** That's when you make your entrance,
***SIGN*** chase out the cleaners,
***SIGN*** and seize control as the one who'll restore democracy.
***SIGN*** Now *that* would be "better."
***SIGN*** What do you say? It doesn't matter what title we give you.
***SIGN*** Why not become a dictator who protects the practical parts of democracy?
**[18:32] Yang**
Yang Wen-li the dictator, eh?
**[18:38] Yang**
I really don't think that's my style.
***SIGN*** Just being a military man isn't your style, honestly.
***SIGN*** And despite that, you're doing remarkably well at it.
***SIGN*** I bet you'd be pretty good at being a dictator, too.
**[19:00] Yang**
Commodore Schönkopf.
***SIGN*** Yes?
**[19:04] Yang**
Have you shared your ideas
with anyone other than me?
***SIGN*** Of course not.
**[19:12] Yang**
Very well, then.
**[19:21] Dwight**
Yang Wen-li refused to be a part of the
National Salvation Military Council.
**[19:27] Dwight**
Admiral Legrange.
**[19:29] Legrange**
Sir.
**[19:30] Dwight**
You will lead the 11th Fleet in
a battle with Admiral Yang.
***SIGN*** 11th Fleet Commander
Vice Admiral Legrange
**[19:36] Legrange**
Understood, sir.
**[19:38] Legrange**
But what about your daughter?
**[19:40] Dwight**
I gave up on my daughter the moment
I started working on these plans.
**[19:45] Legrange**
Yes, sir.
**[19:46] Legrange**
Then I will not fail to
either annihilate Yang
**[19:49] Legrange**
or force him into submission.
**[19:57] Yang**
I never realized you had so
much talent as a spokesman.
**[20:02] Julian**
But I wasn't bluffing when I said that.
**[20:06] Julian**
It was the truth.
**[20:11] Guy**
Hey, kid...
**[20:13] Guy**
You live with Admiral Yang, don't you?
**[20:16] Julian**
Yes.
**[20:17] Guy**
What do you think?
**[20:19] Guy**
Does he have any chance of winning?
**[20:27] Julian**
Admiral Yang Wen-li doesn't fight battles
that he has no chance of winning.
**[20:32] Guy**
He's right! Admiral Yang never makes mistakes!
**[20:35] Guy**
Exactly! He's Miracle Yang!
**[20:38] Julian**
Isn't that right, Admiral?
**[20:47] Yang**
How does Julian look in your eyes?
**[20:50] Yang**
In both shooting and hand-to-hand combat?
***SIGN*** Speaking as his teacher,
***SIGN*** he is more than qualified as a stand-alone soldier.
***SIGN*** I imagine he'll be far more useful than you.
***SIGN*** But what you actually want for Julian
***SIGN*** is far from this sort of thing, is it not?
**[21:12] Yang**
There are limits to human abilities.
**[21:15] Yang**
But they can still set destiny in motion
with the abilities they do have.
**[21:20] Yang**
I want Julian to set destiny in motion
in as many ways as possible.
**[21:25] Yang**
Even if he doesn't actually do that,
**[21:27] Yang**
I want him to have that potential.
***SIGN*** And what about you?
**[21:32] Yang**
Oh, I can't do it.
**[21:34] Yang**
I'm too deeply involved with the
Free Planets Alliance now.
**[21:38] Yang**
I have obligations to fulfill
for the people who pay me.
***SIGN*** I see.
***SIGN*** So that's why you won't officially make Julian a soldier.
***SIGN*** So he won't feel any obligation toward the Free Planets Alliance.
**[21:55] Yang**
I hadn't given it *that* much thought.
**[21:58] Frederica**
Admiral.
**[22:00] Frederica**
All ships have completed
preparations to depart.
**[22:04] Yang**
Roger.
**[22:08] Murai**
What shall we set as our destination?
**[22:13] Yang**
Let's see...
**[22:17] Yang**
Our final stop will be Heinessen.
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Squadron Flagship
Triglav
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Squadron Flagship
Manannan Mac Lir
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Squadron Flagship
Maurya
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Squadron Flagship
Hyperion
**[22:54] Na**
On April 20th, Yang named Caselnes the
interim commander of Iserlohn Fortress
**[23:00] Na**
and ordered all ships in the fortress
garrison fleet to mobilize.
**[23:08] Na**
At this moment, the future of
the Free Planets Alliance
**[23:12] Na**
depended heavily upon the
actions of the Yang Fleet.
***SIGN*** Episode 18
***SIGN*** Bloodshed in Space
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of
the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:55] Na**
episode eighteen, "Bloodshed in Space."
# E18 - Bloodshed in Space
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***SIGN*** Geiersburg Fortress
**[00:10] Wilhelm**
The blond boy has led his fleet
out of the Imperial capital.
***SIGN*** Lippstadt Nobles Coalition Vice Leader
Marquis Wilhelm von Littenheim
**[00:14] Wilhelm**
He had the nerve to call us "traitors,"
**[00:17] Wilhelm**
a title that calls for our subjugation!
**[00:20] Guy**
What?!
**[00:21] Guy**
Utter insolence!
**[00:25] Otho**
Now is the time for the
Lippstadt Nobles Coalition
***SIGN*** Lippstadt Nobles Coalition Leader
Duke Otho von Braunschweig
**[00:29] Otho**
to put that upstart in his
place once and for all!
**[00:33] Otho**
We will dispatch forces in multiple positions
along the corridor to Geiersburg Fortress
**[00:38] Otho**
to chip away at the blond
boy's strength in numbers.
**[00:41] Otho**
Once he is weakened, we will strike
his remaining forces all at once
**[00:45] Otho**
and completely annihilate
every last one of them.
**[00:49] Otho**
May the great god Odin
grant us his protection!
**[00:53] Guy**
Victory will be ours!
**[01:00] Merkatz**
Wait a moment.
***SIGN*** Lippstadt Nobles Coalition Fleet Commander-in-Chief
Willibald Joachim von Merkatz
**[01:04] Merkatz**
Dividing our forces would not
be in our best interests.
**[01:09] Otho**
Then what do you suggest we do?
**[01:11] Merkatz**
Assemble our principal forces at Geiersburg
**[01:14] Merkatz**
to intercept the enemy there.
**[01:17] Otho**
So we should engage the brat here,
where we have the positional advantage?
**[01:22] Merkatz**
Correct.
**[01:24] Staden**
No, there is an even better way.
**[01:28] Staden**
Draw the enemy to Geiersburg,
**[01:31] Staden**
then send a detached force
***SIGN*** Admiral Staden
**[01:33] Staden**
to capture the Imperial capital, Odin,
when their defenses are spread thin.
**[01:37] Staden**
After that, the emperor will
be in our possession.
**[01:44] Staden**
Then we'll have the emperor declare that
Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm is the traitor,
**[01:51] Staden**
and our positions will be reversed.
**[01:55] Staden**
The blond boy will become an orphan lost
in space, with no home to return to.
**[02:08] Alfred**
Fantastic!
***SIGN*** Count Alfred von Landsberg
**[02:10] Alfred**
A strategy befitting the true
heirs to the Goldenbaum Dynasty!
**[02:14] Alfred**
Please permit me to lead the detached force!
**[02:19] Guy**
No, let me!
**[02:20] Guy**
Please, allow me!
**[02:23] Guy**
Let me be the one to carry out the plan!
**[02:24] Hildesheim**
Admiral Staden.
***SIGN*** Count Hildesheim
**[02:27] Hildesheim**
I need to speak with you later.
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[04:01] Merkatz**
That plan is foolish.
**[04:03] Schneider**
What do you mean?
**[04:05] Schneider**
From a purely militaristic perspective,
it seems viable to me.
**[04:09] Merkatz**
It's not viable for this coalition.
***SIGN*** Lieutenant Commander Bernhard von Schneider
**[04:12] Merkatz**
They're only thinking about the power
they'd gain after completing it
**[04:16] Merkatz**
and how desperate they are
to outdo each other.
**[04:19] Merkatz**
Without unwavering trust between the
main force and the detached force,
**[04:23] Merkatz**
that strategy is doomed to fail.
**[04:26] Schneider**
Is that why Marquis Lohengramm
left the Imperial capital empty?
**[04:31] Schneider**
But, Admiral,
**[04:32] Schneider**
there are some among the nobles who
are already preparing for battle
**[04:36] Schneider**
in hopes of getting ahead of the
others to lead the detached force.
**[04:45] Schneider**
Aren't you going to stop them?
**[04:47] Merkatz**
It's essentially impossible to
restrain the egos of noblemen.
**[04:52] Merkatz**
They wouldn't listen if I tried to warn them.
**[04:56] Schneider**
You're saying they need to be
defeated once to learn a lesson?
***SIGN*** Episode 18
***SIGN*** Bloodshed in Space
**[05:10] Reinhard**
The traitors are on the move.
**[05:13] Wolfgang**
Oh? At last?
**[05:15] Reinhard**
My spy has informed me that their
vanguard commander is Staden.
**[05:20] Reinhard**
I hear you learned tactical theory
from him at cadet school.
**[05:25] Reinhard**
Do you think we can beat him?
**[05:27] Wolfgang**
Instructor Staden had such abundant knowledge
**[05:31] Wolfgang**
that he tended to lean too heavily on theory.
**[05:34] Wolfgang**
We cadets often ridiculed him for
being undone by his own theories.
**[05:41] Reinhard**
Then, Mittermeyer, you will deploy to the
Altena Starzone as our advance guard
**[05:46] Reinhard**
and have a reunion with
your former teacher.
**[05:48] Wolfgang**
Yes, sir.
**[05:51] Na**
In the year UC 797,
**[05:54] Na**
or the 488th year of the Imperial
Calendar, on April 19th,
**[05:58] Na**
a war that would later be
called the Lippstadt War began.
***SIGN*** Hildesheim Fleet
**[06:07] Na**
Hildesheim and Staden deployed before
the other nobles in hopes of earning
**[06:13] Na**
the right of leadership in the
operation to capture the emperor,
**[06:18] Na**
but a minefield laid by the
Mittermeyer Fleet impeded their course.
**[06:27] Guy**
Compressed data received
from patrol craft T07.
**[06:30] Guy**
Movement of Hildesheim Fleet confirmed
on the enemy's left flank.
**[06:33] Guy**
The Staden Fleet has also begun
to move on the right flank.
**[06:37] Na**
Directional Seffle particles were
the Reinhard camp's secret weapon
**[06:42] Na**
for breaking through the Alliance Navy's
minefield in the Battle of Amritsar.
**[06:47] Na**
Without access to them, the Hildesheim and Staden fleets
**[06:52] Na**
had no choice but to detour around
the minefield to its left and right.
**[06:58] Armsdorf**
They're on the move.
**[07:00] Wolfgang**
They should know we're not just going
to sit in the same place forever.
**[07:05] Wolfgang**
Our fleet will also begin its advance!
**[07:14] Guy**
We're entering the minefield!
***SIGN*** Cleared Route
**[07:26] Guy**
This is a live minefield, isn't it?
**[07:29] Guy**
If we slip off course in the slightest...
**[07:32] Guy**
Admiral Mittermeyer has trained
this fleet himself. Have faith.
**[07:43] Na**
The Mittermeyer Fleet passed through an cleared
route so narrow that Staden didn't even see it,
**[07:49] Na**
and succeeded in striking the
Hildesheim Fleet from behind.
**[07:53] Hildesheim**
What?!
**[07:55] Staden**
The minefield was definitely live.
**[07:58] Staden**
How did they...
**[07:59] Wolfgang**
Swift movement is my fleet's specialty.
**[08:05] Wolfgang**
Feuer!
**[08:26] Guy**
The propulsion engine's been hit!
We're losing control!
**[08:34] Staden**
We've lost contact with
the Hildesheim Fleet!
**[08:37] Staden**
How could this be?
**[08:39] Staden**
Given our numbers, we have
no chance of winning now.
**[08:43] Staden**
Retreat! We'll head to
Rentenberg and request aid!
**[08:47] Armsdorf**
The Staden Fleet is leaving the starzone.
**[08:52] Wolfgang**
He got away, huh?
**[08:54] Wolfgang**
I guess my former teacher has
the sense to know when to run.
**[09:00] Na**
The Battle of Altena, the first
clash of the Lippstadt War,
**[09:07] Na**
ended in victory for Mittermeyer.
**[09:13] Otho**
What?!
**[09:14] Otho**
Not only did he lose, but he
fled to Rentenberg, as well?!
**[09:18] Wilhelm**
That fortress is a vital logistics center.
**[09:21] Wilhelm**
We must avoid losing it at any cost!
***SIGN*** Galactic Imperial Navy Armored Grenadier Commander
High Admiral Ovlesser
**[09:28] Schneider**
It ended just the way you said it would.
**[09:31] Schneider**
Do we have any hope of defeating
Marquis Lohengramm like this?
**[09:35] Schneider**
Admiral, what are we fighting for?
**[09:38] Schneider**
*Who* are we fighting for?
**[09:41] Merkatz**
Stop it.
**[09:42] Merkatz**
All we can do is defend our honor as soldiers.
**[09:47] Merkatz**
Nothing more.
**[09:53] Wolfgang**
*I apologize, sir.*
**[09:54] Wolfgang**
*I let Staden get away.*
**[09:57] Reinhard**
No matter.
**[09:58] Reinhard**
Our goal was to put a damper on their
spirits, and we achieved that.
**[10:02] Paul**
The Staden Fleet, the one that
left the Altena Starzone,
**[10:05] Paul**
fled to Rentenberg Fortress,
a key location on the front lines.
**[10:11] Paul**
The strength of its garrison
force should not be ignored.
**[10:16] Reinhard**
Our navy will seize Rentenberg Fortress
**[10:20] Reinhard**
and make it our bridgehead
for taking down Geiersburg.
**[10:23] Reinhard**
Reuenthal, Mittermeyer,
**[10:26] Reinhard**
occupy Rentenberg and take full
control without doing any damage.
**[10:29] Both**
*Yes, sir.*
***SIGN*** Rentenberg Fortress
***SIGN*** Amphibious Assault Ships
**[11:11] Paul**
Rentenberg Fortress gets all of its energy
from a power reactor in its center.
**[11:18] Paul**
The only way to get there
is via the No. 6 passage.
**[11:22] Paul**
Only when it is under our control can we
take over all functions of the fortress.
**[11:31] Oskar**
It makes sense that we'd have
to use hand-to-hand combat,
**[11:34] Oskar**
but he sure makes it sound easy.
**[11:36] Wolfgang**
You can say that again.
***SIGN*** Seffle Particles Detected
Weapon Use Prohibited
**[11:46] Wolfgang**
The No. 6 passage is full
of Seffle particles.
**[11:50] Wolfgang**
He wants a primitive fight to the
death, like the barbarian he is.
**[11:59] Oskar**
If only Rentenberg's defensive
commander wasn't *him*...
***SIGN*** Galactic Imperial Navy Armored Grenadiers
**[12:30] Oskar**
He was basically born to
beat people to death.
**[12:46] Wolfgang**
The Armored Grenadier Commander...
**[12:50] Wolfgang**
High Admiral Ovlesser.
***SIGN*** Mittermeyer Fleet Flagship
Beowulf
**[13:06] Wolfgang**
They've been fighting in full
armor for eight hours.
**[13:11] Oskar**
It appears they're using some kind of drug.
**[13:14] Reinhard**
*I understand the situation.*
**[13:16] Reinhard**
*Ovlesser is brave,*
**[13:18] Reinhard**
*but he is a Neanderthal.*
**[13:20] Reinhard**
*He'll be of no use if we let him live,*
**[13:22] Reinhard**
* and I'm certain he wouldn't want*
* to be kept alive at our mercy.*
**[13:26] Reinhard**
*Give him a glorious death.*
**[13:28] Both**
Yes, sir.
**[13:29] Armsdorf**
Your Excellency.
**[13:31] Armsdorf**
There is a transmission
from the enemy commander.
**[13:33] Wolfgang**
What?
**[13:34] Reinhard**
*Connect him to me.*
**[13:35] Armsdorf**
Yes, sir... But...
**[13:37] Reinhard**
*It's fine.*
**[13:38] Ovlesser**
*Blond boy!*
**[13:40] Ovlesser**
* Do you even have the guts to*
* look at my face on a screen?*
**[13:44] Ovlesser**
* You were born into good fortune,*
* but you've achieved nothing!*
**[13:50] Ovlesser**
* I will never allow a brat like*
* you to have the Imperial Navy!*
**[13:53] Ovlesser**
* And the idea that you'd take*
* advantage of the emperor's favor*
**[13:56] Ovlesser**
* to monopolize the Imperial*
* government is outrageous!*
**[13:59] Ovlesser**
* Despite your low birth,*
* both you and your sister*
**[14:02] Ovlesser**
* deceived the previous emperor*
* with your good looks!*
**[14:06] Ovlesser**
*That kind of insolence is worthy of death!*
**[14:09] Reinhard**
Cut the transmission!
**[14:11] Guy**
*Yes, sir!*
**[14:12] Reinhard**
Reuenthal! Mittermeyer!
**[14:14] Both**
Yes, sir!
**[14:15] Reinhard**
Bring that scumbag to me!
**[14:19] Reinhard**
*Yes... Don't you dare kill him.*
**[14:21] Reinhard**
* Bring him alive, even if you*
* have to rip off his limbs!*
**[14:24] Reinhard**
I will tear that bastard's filthy
mouth off with my own hands!
**[14:28] Both**
*Yes, sir!*
**[14:31] Wolfgang**
This is a problem.
**[14:33] Oskar**
Yeah.
**[14:34] Oskar**
This means even
His Excellency acts on his emotions.
**[14:40] Wolfgang**
Armsdorf, bring the commander
of the engineering corps here.
**[14:44] Oskar**
Yes, and one more thing...
**[14:50] Ovlesser**
Come at me if you dare, you cowardly mice!
**[14:53] Ovlesser**
I'll throw your corpses in a pot
and make you into fricassee!
**[14:58] Ovlesser**
I'm sure the flesh of lowly
peasants like yourselves
**[15:00] Ovlesser**
would taste foul, though!
**[15:08] Oskar**
* I guess barbarians don't know*
* the meaning of moderation.*
**[15:14] Ovlesser**
Reuenthal the Odd-eyed and the Gale Wolf...
**[15:18] Ovlesser**
Looks like you've grown impatient
with the incompetence of your men.
**[15:20] Ovlesser**
Do you think the two of
you alone can defeat me?
**[15:25] Wolfgang**
We won't know until we try.
**[15:27] Oskar**
We are admirals, and you are a high admiral.
**[15:31] Oskar**
I'd say we're a good match for you.
**[15:33] Ovlesser**
*So you do know your place!*
**[15:35] Ovlesser**
* Out of respect to your courtesy, I'll pass*
* the fleet admiral's baton along to you!*
**[15:39] Ovlesser**
You can collect it in Valhalla!
**[15:57] Ovlesser**
Is that all you've got?!
**[16:03] Ovlesser**
You won't get away!
**[16:17] Oskar**
Now!
**[16:30] Ovlesser**
You cowards!
**[16:32] Oskar**
We'll take that as a compliment.
**[16:34] Wolfgang**
*We've got Ovlesser.*
**[16:36] Wolfgang**
* There aren't enough of them*
* left to waste time on.*
**[16:39] Wolfgang**
*Proceed to seize control!*
**[16:42] Guy**
Yes, sir!
**[16:43] Na**
Thus, control of the No. 6 passage was seized,
**[16:47] Na**
while it was still covered in
the blood of their comrades.
**[17:04] Wolfgang**
Oberstein? What are you doing here?
**[17:09] Paul**
I will be setting High Admiral Ovlesser free.
**[17:14] Wolfgang**
You're joking!
**[17:15] Wolfgang**
Do you know how many of our
men died capturing him?!
**[17:19] Paul**
I am acting with Marquis
Lohengramm's approval.
**[17:23] Paul**
His Excellency has deeply
acknowledged both of your efforts.
**[17:28] Paul**
Is that not sufficient for you?
**[17:34] Paul**
For now, I would like you all to leave
me alone with the high admiral.
**[17:45] Paul**
Now, High Admiral Ovlesser...
**[17:48] Paul**
We would like you to return to the
Nobles Coalition as an envoy.
**[17:54] Ovlesser**
What did you say?
**[17:55] Paul**
No matter which side wins this civil war,
**[17:59] Paul**
it will inevitably cause
great harm to the Empire.
**[18:02] Paul**
Marquis Lohengramm does not wish to
see the Empire as a whole grow weak.
**[18:08] Paul**
We'd like you to give us
a third option to end this conflict quickly.
**[18:14] Ovlesser**
Hah! You really think our leader
will agree to make peace now?
**[18:18] Paul**
If it comes from a warrior of such
distinguished service as yourself,
**[18:22] Paul**
perhaps even the nobles will listen.
**[18:26] Ovlesser**
I understand what you're saying.
**[18:28] Ovlesser**
But if I do return to Geiersburg,
**[18:31] Ovlesser**
you have no guarantee that
I'll do what the brat wants.
**[18:43] Ansbach**
You are High Admiral Ovlesser, correct?
**[18:47] Ovlesser**
You can't tell just by looking at me?
**[18:50] Ansbach**
Right this way, please.
**[18:52] Ansbach**
The leader awaits.
**[18:55] Otho**
High Admiral Ovlesser.
Congratulations on returning alive.
**[19:00] Ovlesser**
Yes, sir.
**[19:02] Otho**
Incidentally, did you know
**[19:04] Otho**
that all of your men were captured
and publicly executed?
**[19:09] Ovlesser**
P-Publicly executed?!
**[19:11] Otho**
Why, then, are you the only one
who was set free to return here?
**[19:22] Ovlesser**
This is a trap!
The blond brat set this up to trick me!
**[19:27] Otho**
Silence, traitor!
**[19:30] Otho**
You were the only one to return alive
**[19:33] Otho**
because you sold yourself out to him!
**[19:36] Otho**
Did you promise to bring
him my severed head?!
**[19:41] Ovlesser**
No! I haven't betrayed you!
**[19:44] Ovlesser**
This is a trap!
The blond brat set this up to trick me!
**[19:50] Otho**
Shoot! Shoot him!
**[19:59] Ovlesser**
Why? This is a trap!
**[20:06] Ovlesser**
Why don't you get it?!
**[20:08] Ovlesser**
This is a trap!
**[20:12] Ovlesser**
It's a trap!
**[20:19] Ovlesser**
I didn't betray you!
**[20:21] Otho**
Kill him! Kill him at once!
**[20:23] Ovlesser**
I did not—
**[20:28] (Flashback) Gregor**
He intends to eradicate all those
who refuse to see the truth.
**[20:36] Ovlesser**
*Refuse to... see the truth...*
**[20:44] Otho**
Damned fool.
**[20:47] Ansbach**
What shall we say was the cause of
High Admiral Ovlesser's death?
**[20:51] Otho**
There's no need to cover this up.
**[20:54] Otho**
He was executed for betraying his comrades.
**[20:56] Otho**
Let the whole Empire know!
**[21:03] Ansbach**
*Don't make such a bitter face.*
**[21:07] Ansbach**
*I don't know what tomorrow will bring, either.*
**[21:10] Ansbach**
* Maybe you should be grateful that*
* you died before this day ended.*
**[21:19] Paul**
Ovlesser, the foremost of those
who see us as the enemy,
**[21:23] Paul**
was executed as a traitor.
**[21:25] Paul**
This should foster agitation and
mistrust among the nobles.
**[21:34] Na**
In the year UC 797,
**[21:37] Na**
or the 488th year of the
Imperial Calendar, in May,
**[21:41] Na**
Reinhard took control of Rentenberg Fortress
**[21:45] Na**
and further advanced the war
against the coalition of nobles.
**[22:00] Guy**
Ship spotted ahead. ID code known.
**[22:04] Guy**
It's the Fezzan merchant ship *Berezka*.
**[22:07] Hans**
It may be carrying the nobles who escaped.
**[22:11] Kircheis**
Order it to stop.
We will conduct an inspection.
***SIGN*** Fezzan Merchant Ship
Berezka
**[22:18] Guy**
*It's a migrant farmer and his family.*
**[22:21] Guy**
*We don't see anyone suspicious.*
**[22:23] Marinesk**
* We don't have money, so they're*
* transporting us as cargo.*
**[22:27] Kircheis**
As cargo?
**[22:29] Kircheis**
There appear to be several
women and children there.
**[22:33] Kircheis**
Is there anything you need?
**[22:35] Marinesk**
* We're low on medicine,*
* as well as milk for the babies.*
**[22:39] Kircheis**
Very well. I will have some delivered.
**[22:43] Kircheis**
*Please take care of yourselves.*
**[22:45] Marinesk**
Thank you so much for your help.
***SIGN*** Manager Marinesk
***SIGN*** Captain Boris Konev
**[23:00] Marinesk**
We managed to get through
that in one piece.
**[23:02] Konev**
Well, we couldn't tell them that we're
carrying Earth Cultists on a pilgrimage.
**[23:06] Marinesk**
That Kircheis is a good man.
**[23:10] Konev**
I pity him.
**[23:12] Konev**
Good men never live long.
**[23:16] Konev**
Especially not in times like these.
***SIGN*** Episode 19
***SIGN*** The Battle of the Doria Starzone
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of
the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:57] Na**
episode nineteen, "The Battle of the Doria Starzone."
# E19 - The Battle of the Doria Starzone
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**[00:13] Yang**
Our fleet will now head for Shampool.
**[00:17] Yang**
They may be traitors, but before we
exchange fire with fellow Alliancemen,
**[00:22] Yang**
there's something I'd like to say.
**[00:25] Yang**
Not long ago, when visiting
the capital planet Heinessen,
**[00:28] Yang**
I made a request of Space Fleet
Commander-in-Chief Bewcock.
**[00:32] Yang**
He then granted me a decree stating that,
**[00:34] Yang**
in the event of a coup d'état such as this,
**[00:37] Yang**
our fleet would strike it down
and restore law and order.
**[00:43] Julian**
Why are we going to Shampool
instead of Heinessen?
**[00:49] Yang**
They could break our communication and
supply lines using guerrilla tactics.
**[00:54] Yang**
To prevent that, we need
to establish supply bases.
**[00:58] Julian**
I see.
**[01:00] Julian**
But their commander isn't Yang Wen-li.
**[01:04] Yang**
But there may be a future Yang Wen-li.
**[01:08] Yang**
Who even knew the name
"Yang Wen-li" before El Facil?
**[01:13] Yang**
If we lived in peaceful times,
I'd still be nameless.
**[01:16] Yang**
I'd still be just an aspiring historian.
**[01:20] Julian**
And now you're one of the subjects
for historians to study.
**[01:26] Yang**
That Yang Wen-li is, apparently,
a pretty big deal.
**[01:30] Yang**
He's nothing like me.
We just happen to have the same name.
**[01:34] Julian**
That's what makes you so respectable.
**[01:38] Julian**
Most people would have been lost in
their own self-importance by now.
**[01:43] Yang**
Julian, you shouldn't flatter
your superiors too much.
**[01:48] Yang**
If they're weak, they'll start to believe
you and end up ruining themselves.
**[01:56] Julian**
Yes, sir. Understood.
**[02:00] Yang**
As long as we're clear.
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
***SIGN*** The Planet Shampool
**[03:34] Na**
On April 26th of the year UC 797,
**[03:38] Na**
the Yang Fleet began its assault
on the planet Shampool.
**[03:42] Na**
Since the traitors on Shampool
had no garrison fleet,
**[03:45] Na**
the battle was fought
primarily on the ground.
**[03:49] Na**
Yang's ground forces, with the
Rosen Ritter at their center,
**[03:52] Na**
subjugated the traitors with
their far superior strength.
**[03:56] Na**
Shampool was set free within only three days.
**[04:10] Yang**
Good work today.
**[04:12] Yang**
They gave you quite the
warm welcome, didn't they?
***SIGN*** Well, the job's gotta come with *some* perks.
***SIGN*** Anyway, what brings you all here together?
**[04:24] Murai**
Someone from the Department
of Intelligence who fled here
**[04:28] Murai**
from Heinessen has requested an audience.
**[04:30] Murai**
We're awaiting his arrival.
***SIGN*** Oh? Intelligence?
***SIGN*** By the way, I don't see Lieutenant Greenhill.
**[04:44] Murai**
Looks like he's here.
**[04:47] Yang**
Has anyone been purged?
**[04:50] Baghdash**
Not at the moment.
**[04:52] Baghdash**
However...
***SIGN*** Commander Baghdash
**[04:53] Baghdash**
Chief Cubersly,
Fleet Commander-in-Chief Bewcock,
**[04:57] Baghdash**
and other key officials have been detained.
**[05:00] Yang**
I see.
**[05:03] Yang**
And what is the status of each fleet?
**[05:05] Baghdash**
I came here because there is something I
must tell you immediately regarding that.
**[05:11] Baghdash**
The 11th Fleet has joined the coup d'état,
**[05:16] Baghdash**
and it is now on its way here.
**[05:19] Yang**
I appreciate that information.
**[05:21] Yang**
If we're prepared for their arrival,
we can minimize losses.
**[05:25] Baghdash**
Is that so?
**[05:26] Baghdash**
I'm glad I could be of some help.
**[05:30] Yang**
Is something wrong?
**[05:32] Baghdash**
Well... I heard that your adjutant
was Admiral Greenhill's daughter.
**[05:40] Yang**
She's aware of her position.
**[05:43] Yang**
I've left her in Iserlohn.
**[05:44] Baghdash**
I see.
**[05:46] Baghdash**
That was truly a wise decision.
***SIGN*** Oh, darn it!
***SIGN*** Jeez...
***SIGN*** I just ruined all these kiss marks.
***SIGN*** Please excuse me.
**[06:00] Yang**
Now...
**[06:02] Frederica**
Yes, I have met Commander Baghdash. Just once.
**[06:08] Frederica**
He was in my father's study,
**[06:10] Frederica**
voicing his discontent with
the current political system.
***SIGN*** I see.
**[06:19] Rainer**
The mission has been completed.
***SIGN*** Good work.
***SIGN*** Continue to keep a close eye on the situation.
**[06:26] Rainer**
Yes, sir.
**[06:27] Yang**
Commodore, where is Commander Baghdash?
***SIGN*** Oh, he's asleep.
***SIGN*** I used a special sleeping drug.
***SIGN*** It'll be a while before he wakes up.
***SIGN*** We can't be careless with a man who claims
***SIGN*** to be from Intelligence, even if he's kept confined.
**[06:46] Yang**
You certainly work fast.
**[06:51] Fyodor**
The 11th Fleet is heading this way
to trap us in a pincer attack.
**[06:56] Murai**
It looks like Commander Baghdash's
information was correct.
**[07:00] Murai**
He probably wanted to
guarantee his own safety.
**[07:04] Yang**
All right. Thank you for the report.
***SIGN*** Episode 19
***SIGN*** The Battle of the Doria Starzone
***SIGN*** 11th Fleet Flagship
Leonidas II
**[07:19] Legrange**
Any word from Commander Baghdash?
**[07:21] Adjutant**
Not yet.
***SIGN*** 11th Fleet Commander
Vice Admiral Legrange
**[07:25] Legrange**
That useless fool.
**[07:27] Legrange**
Why did he infiltrate their fleet, then?
**[07:30] Legrange**
Connect me to all ships!
**[07:33] Legrange**
*Attention, all men.*
**[07:35] Legrange**
* The success or failure of*
* this military revolution*
**[07:37] Legrange**
* and our homeland's destiny*
* depend on this battle.*
**[07:41] Legrange**
* You must all give your*
* utmost to fulfill your duty*
**[07:45] Legrange**
*and give this gift to our homeland.*
**[07:49] Legrange**
I sincerely hope I can count on your
courage and love for your homeland.
**[07:53] Legrange**
You are all to exert your best efforts!
**[07:58] Frederica**
Your Excellency.
**[08:01] Frederica**
If you would, please.
**[08:03] Yang**
Sure.
**[08:05] Yang**
* All right, everyone,*
* the battle is about to begin.*
**[08:09] Yang**
*This is our fleet's first campaign.*
**[08:11] Yang**
*It's a meaningless fight,*
**[08:13] Yang**
* which means losing would*
* be even more meaningless.*
**[08:16] Yang**
*I've devised a way for us to win,*
**[08:19] Yang**
* so just take it easy and*
* don't push yourselves.*
**[08:22] Yang**
The only thing riding on this is
the life or death of a nation.
**[08:26] Yang**
Compared to our individual
freedoms and rights,
**[08:29] Yang**
a nation isn't worth that much.
**[08:32] Guy**
Enemy fleet detected at twelve o'clock!
**[08:35] Yang**
All right, everyone...
**[08:37] Yang**
I guess it's time to get started.
**[08:42] Na**
Thus the battle between the
Yang Fleet and the 11th Fleet began.
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Squadron Flagship
Maurya
**[08:47] Na**
With the information he
obtained from Baghdash,
**[08:50] Na**
Yang used the enemy's strategy against them,
**[08:52] Na**
focusing all efforts on the
main fleet at their left flank.
**[08:55] Na**
This gave him the advantage in numbers.
**[08:59] Nguyen**
Our squadron is the spearhead
of this operation.
***SIGN*** Rear Admiral Nguyen Van Huu
**[09:02] Nguyen**
We'll charge straight into
the heart of the enemy!
**[09:05] Nguyen**
Fire! Fire! Fire everything you've got!
**[09:12] Guy**
We're being attacked from three o'clock!
**[09:14] Guy**
It's the Yang Fleet!
**[09:15] Legrange**
How did he know what we were going to do?
**[09:18] Legrange**
Is it possible that Baghdash...
**[09:21] Legrange**
Contact the detached force
on our right flank at once!
**[09:23] Adjutant**
Yes, sir!
**[09:24] Guy**
We're being attacked from eleven o'clock!
**[09:27] Adjutant**
The main fleet on the left flank
has encountered the enemy, as well.
**[09:29] Adjutant**
They believe it to be Yang's squadron.
**[09:32] Commander**
Commence counterattack!
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Squadron Flagship
Manannan Mac Lir
**[09:35] Fischer**
There's no need to defeat the enemy.
***SIGN*** Rear Admiral Edwin Fischer
**[09:37] Fischer**
We only need to slow them down so
they can't join the main fleet.
**[09:45] Nguyen**
This is great!
**[09:46] Nguyen**
We don't even need to aim!
**[09:49] Nguyen**
Keep firing until there's
nothing left to fire at!
**[09:52] Nguyen**
We're gonna blast right through their flank!
**[09:56] Nguyen**
Charge! Charge!
**[09:59] Adjutant**
Our fleet will be divided from the
front to the rear at this rate.
**[10:02] Legrange**
Don't be afraid of their tricks!
**[10:04] Legrange**
Get all of our gunships to the battle sector
**[10:06] Legrange**
and do whatever it takes to stop them!
**[10:14] Poplin**
We're going to stop the
enemy from regrouping.
**[10:17] Poplin**
Rum and Applejack, go for
the squadron commander.
**[10:20] Poplin**
Sherry and Cognac, you're with me.
**[10:22] All**
Roger!
**[10:32] Adjutant**
The rear of our fleet was
separated from the line,
**[10:33] Adjutant**
and now they're taking concentrated fire!
**[10:37] Legrange**
Turn around! We're going
to back up the rear ships!
**[10:46] Legrange**
What's happening?!
***SIGN*** 13th Fleet Squadron Flagship
Triglav
**[10:48] Dusty**
Keep these ships where they are
until their rear is taken care of.
**[10:52] Dusty**
There's no need to go along with their setup.
***SIGN*** Rear Admiral Dusty Attenborough
**[10:55] Dusty**
Let's just hang around for now.
**[10:57] Lao**
Yes, sir.
**[11:19] Murai**
It's been two hours since combat commenced.
**[11:21] Murai**
The rear of the enemy line is
mostly under our control, but...
**[11:24] Yang**
It's taking more work than I thought.
**[11:27] Yang**
Have we advised them to surrender?
**[11:28] Murai**
We have,
**[11:29] Murai**
but they haven't responded yet.
**[11:31] Yang**
I see.
**[11:51] Nguyen**
The outcome is already decided, and yet...
**[11:57] Lao**
Please, hurry up and surrender.
**[12:03] Poplin**
Booze and women are the staples of life!
**[12:06] Poplin**
Not even a dog would agree to a
double suicide with an ideology!
**[12:09] Yang**
Advise them to surrender again.
**[12:12] Guy**
Transmission from the 11th Fleet flagship!
**[12:14] Yang**
Connect us.
**[12:19] Yang**
Admiral Legrange.
**[12:22] Legrange**
*I, Legrange, have taken the responsibility*
**[12:24] Legrange**
* of giving all ships in the*
* 11th Fleet the order to surrender.*
**[12:29] Legrange**
* I consider it an honor to*
* have fought my final battle*
**[12:32] Legrange**
*against such a renowned admiral as yourself.*
**[12:36] Legrange**
*However, though our fleet may be defeated,*
**[12:40] Legrange**
*the National Salvation Military Council*
**[12:42] Legrange**
* will not fail to carry out*
* its long-desired ambition.*
**[12:45] Legrange**
* I wish to take this opportunity*
* to plead with you*
**[12:47] Legrange**
*to reconsider your plans for the future.*
**[12:52] Legrange**
Long live the National
Salvation Military Council!
**[13:07] Na**
With Legrange's suicide,
**[13:09] Na**
the Battle of the
Doria Starzone came to an end.
**[13:12] Na**
The goal of the battle was to
minimize losses on both sides,
**[13:17] Na**
but the coup d'état faction's
faith remained steadfast,
**[13:19] Na**
resulting in a bitter conclusion.
**[13:30] Fyodor**
Baghdash's behavior since he
woke up has been insufferable.
**[13:34] Fyodor**
He demands wine with his meals,
**[13:37] Fyodor**
insists we have a female
soldier wait on him...
**[13:39] Dusty**
But the admiral's seeing
him at the moment, right?
**[13:42] Dusty**
I'm sure he's setting him straight.
**[13:45] Dusty**
Right, Lao?
**[13:46] Lao**
Huh?
**[13:50] Yang**
Then...
**[13:52] Baghdash**
Yes, I was hoping you would
allow me to work for you.
**[13:56] Yang**
Is it really that easy for a
man to change his principles?
**[14:00] Baghdash**
Of course it is.
**[14:02] Baghdash**
A man's principles are his
means of staying alive.
**[14:05] Baghdash**
If they get in the way of staying alive,
one need only get rid of them.
**[14:09] Yang**
I see.
**[14:11] Yang**
Could you tell me in detail
what you had in mind?
**[14:14] Baghdash**
My ultimate goal as a covert agent
**[14:17] Baghdash**
was to assassinate you, Admiral Yang.
**[14:22] Baghdash**
I thought this coup d'état had
a chance at being successful,
**[14:26] Baghdash**
and that's why I accepted this risky mission.
**[14:29] Baghdash**
But... my judgment was wrong.
**[14:33] Baghdash**
Your strength far surpassed my expectations
**[14:36] Baghdash**
and those of the
National Salvation Military Council.
**[14:40] Baghdash**
I have been left with no choice
**[14:42] Baghdash**
but to accept reality.
**[14:45] Yang**
No choice, eh?
**[14:47] Yang**
And that's why you want to work for me?
**[14:50] Baghdash**
Yes, that's right.
**[14:51] Baghdash**
In all honesty,
**[14:53] Baghdash**
I've grown tired of idling my life away.
**[14:55] Baghdash**
I don't hate working, honestly.
**[14:58] Baghdash**
Won't you consider giving
me a job of some kind?
**[15:01] Yang**
A job, huh?
**[15:04] Yang**
All right. I'll find a use for you eventually.
**[15:08] Yang**
For now, I'll return this to you.
**[15:23] Baghdash**
Admiral Yang...
**[15:44] Julian**
Commander Baghdash, drop your blaster
**[15:47] Julian**
and put your hands in the air!
**[15:49] Baghdash**
H-Hey, it was just a joke.
**[15:52] Baghdash**
I owe Admiral Yang my life.
I would never shoot him.
**[15:55] Julian**
If you killed the admiral,
**[15:57] Julian**
your name would go down in history,
even if only in notoriety.
**[16:00] Julian**
Can you honestly say you didn't feel
that temptation, even for a moment?
**[16:04] Baghdash**
H-Hey, now...
**[16:06] Julian**
Admiral! I don't trust this man!
**[16:10] Julian**
He may swear his loyalty to you now,
**[16:13] Julian**
but there's no telling what
he'll do in the future!
**[16:16] Yang**
Future danger is not a reason to
take someone's life now, Julian.
**[16:22] Julian**
I know that!
**[16:24] Julian**
But...
**[16:29] Yang**
Just let him off the hook.
**[16:31] Yang**
You've spooked him enough.
**[16:34] Yang**
Commander, you can go.
**[16:44] Baghdash**
I'll try to remember that you'll
always be watching me.
**[16:50] Baghdash**
If you'll excuse me.
**[16:58] Julian**
Admiral!
**[16:59] Yang**
Baghdash is a calculating man.
**[17:02] Yang**
So long as I keep winning,
he won't turn on me.
**[17:06] Yang**
For the moment, that's good enough.
**[17:10] Yang**
Besides...
**[17:11] Yang**
I don't want to let you kill
anyone if I can avoid it.
**[17:19] Na**
Meanwhile, on Heinessen,
**[17:21] Na**
a multitude of citizens were
assembling at a stadium
**[17:24] Na**
for a rally to protest the
National Salvation Military Council.
**[17:35] Guy**
It's about to start!
**[17:36] Guy**
Everything ready over there?
**[17:38] Guy**
Give us just a little more time!
***SIGN*** Jessica Edwards
**[17:40] Guy**
We'll let you know as soon as we receive word!
**[17:43] Jessica**
May this assembly be the beginning
of a new era for the Alliance.
**[17:50] Jessica**
Jean Robert...
**[18:09] Christian**
Now,
***SIGN*** Captain Christian
**[18:10] Christian**
you citizens who cling to
such arrogant ideals...
**[18:13] Christian**
Have you assembled here with awareness
that you are under martial law?
**[18:23] Christian**
Hey. Drag ten of them up on the stage.
**[18:27] Guy**
Yes, sir!
**[18:32] Christian**
Now, how about some answers?
**[18:34] Christian**
Is your leader Jessica Edwards?
**[18:39] Guy**
I don't know.
**[18:41] Christian**
Is that so?
**[18:43] Christian**
Then... let me jog your memory!
**[18:49] Christian**
Goodness, what's wrong? Do you feel unwell?
**[18:54] Christian**
I'll ask you now.
**[18:58] Christian**
Is your leader Jessica Edwa—
**[18:59] Jessica**
Captain Christian!
**[19:05] Christian**
Well, well! If it isn't
Representative Edwards!
**[19:09] Jessica**
Why are armed soldiers interfering
with a peaceful assembly?
**[19:14] Christian**
To restore order, of course.
**[19:17] Jessica**
Wouldn't you say you're the ones
disturbing order with violence?
**[19:23] Jessica**
Exactly what part of all
this do you call "order"?
**[19:29] Christian**
We are the ones who decide what "order" is.
**[19:33] Christian**
End this assembly at once.
**[19:36] Christian**
If you don't know what "order" is,
we will be happy to show you.
**[19:41] Jessica**
Enough!
**[19:44] Christian**
Out of my way!
**[19:50] Christian**
None of you are even prepared to die,
**[19:53] Christian**
and you dare run your big mouths to me?!
**[19:57] Jessica**
So if you're prepared to die...
**[20:00] Jessica**
you can do whatever you want,
no matter how stupid?
**[20:04] Christian**
What?
**[20:06] Jessica**
There have been others... who used violence
**[20:10] Jessica**
to force their ideas of justice on others.
**[20:14] Jessica**
One of the great ones... was the
founder of the Galactic Empire...
**[20:18] Jessica**
Rudolf von Goldenbaum.
**[20:20] Jessica**
And among the least of them... is you.
**[20:26] Jessica**
You're an unworthy disciple of Rudolf.
**[20:30] Jessica**
Figure that out for yourself.
**[20:33] Jessica**
You have... no right to be here now.
**[20:38] Jessica**
So...
**[20:40] Jessica**
Take your soldiers and leave here at once!
**[20:46] Christian**
Those eyes...
**[20:49] Christian**
Who the hell do you think you are?!
**[21:06] Guy**
Stop!
**[21:07] Guy**
Stop or we'll shoot!
**[21:08] Guy**
Stop!
**[21:10] Christian**
It doesn't matter! Shoot them! Shoot them!
**[21:16] Guy**
Someone has a blaster!
**[21:18] Guy**
We can't handle this!
**[21:20] Guy**
We have no choice!
Permission to fire granted!
**[21:22] Guy**
Don't move! Move and I'll shoot!
**[21:35] Na**
In this incident, which would later
be known as the Stadium Massacre,
**[21:40] Na**
20,000 citizens and 1,500
soldiers lost their lives,
**[21:46] Na**
all fellow citizens of the
Free Planets Alliance.
**[22:00] Gatty**
I can't believe he acted so rashly.
**[22:02] Gatty**
If this drives all of the
citizens to revolt at once...
**[22:07] Bronze**
We would lose the citizens' support.
**[22:10] Bronze**
We'd become a minority.
**[22:16] Dwight**
Why?
**[22:21] Na**
The news of the Stadium Massacre
did not reach the* Hyperion*
**[22:26] Na**
until a month later.
**[22:30] Yang**
Okay. Then deliver this notice to all ships.
**[22:34] Frederica**
Understood.
**[22:37] Na**
When he learned of Jessica's death,
**[22:41] Na**
Yang wore sunglasses for a whole
day to conceal his expression.
**[23:06] Na**
At the end of July in the year UC 797,
**[23:11] Na**
Yang's fleet was about to arrive at Heinessen.
***SIGN*** Episode 20
***SIGN*** Tragedy
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of the
Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:54] Na**
episode twenty, "Tragedy."
# E20 - Tragedy
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**[00:04] Na**
With Reinhard's fleet away to
subjugate the nobles' coalition,
**[00:10] Na**
the Kircheis Fleet was acting as a detached
force to subjugate a frontier starzone.
**[00:17] Reinhard**
*Littenheim of the traitor force*
**[00:19] Reinhard**
* is leading a fleet of 50,000*
* ships in your direction.*
**[00:23] Kircheis**
Littenheim, the vice leader
of the coalition?
**[00:26] Reinhard**
* He probably hopes to claim the glory*
* before their leader, Braunschweig, can.*
**[00:32] Reinhard**
*Crush them.*
**[00:35] Kircheis**
Understood.
**[00:37] Reinhard**
*You're doing good work for me, Kircheis.*
**[00:40] Reinhard**
* I've heard some referring to you*
* as the King of the Frontier.*
**[00:47] Kircheis**
I only want to end this
conflict as soon as possible
**[00:51] Kircheis**
so that I can return to your side quickly.
**[00:55] Reinhard**
*I'm sure it won't be long at all*
**[00:58] ReinharD**
* before you and I get to have some*
* of my sister's Kelsey plum cake.*
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[02:40] Wahlen**
The final battle with Littenheim
**[02:43] Wahlen**
will most likely be at the
Kyffhäuser Starzone.
**[02:47] Kircheis**
I will lead 800 ships as our main force.
**[02:51] Lutz**
Only 800 ships?
***SIGN*** Littenheim Fleet Flagship
Ostmark
**[03:05] Guy**
Enemy signal detected!
**[03:07] Wilhelm**
The red-haired boy is
Lohengramm's right hand.
**[03:11] Wilhelm**
Let us bring home the scoundrel's head
**[03:14] Wilhelm**
and cement our honor as nobles.
**[03:17] Wilhelm**
*With this victory,*
**[03:19] Wilhelm**
*I will usurp Braunschweig's position.*
**[03:23] Wilhelm**
Feuer!
**[03:28] Na**
The first shots fired in this battle
**[03:30] Na**
came in the form of a volley from the
Littenheim Fleet's main artillery.
***SIGN*** Lutz Fleet Flagship
Herðubreið
**[03:37] Lutz**
Keep the counterfire to a minimum
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Cornelius Lutz
**[03:39] Lutz**
until we receive the signal
from Admiral Kircheis.
***SIGN*** Wahlen Fleet Flagship
Salamander
**[03:43] Wahlen**
Concentrate on defense.
**[03:44] Wahlen**
Be prepared to counterattack
immediately when the order is given.
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral August Samuel Wahlen
**[03:48] Adjutant**
The enemy is fighting defensively.
**[03:50] Adjutant**
They have countered us only minimally.
**[03:54] Wilhelm**
How absurd.
**[03:56] Wilhelm**
Strike them down in one fell swoop!
**[04:16] Kircheis**
We will continue into their center
**[04:18] Kircheis**
and stop this conflict at its source.
**[04:21] Guy**
Enemy's detached force
approaching at high speed!
**[04:24] Wilhelm**
What?! Recall our allies on the front line!
**[04:28] Adjutant**
But they're deep in the enemy ranks!
They won't get here in time!
**[04:31] Wilhelm**
Then fall back!
**[04:33] Adjutant**
Our supply fleet is on standby behind us.
**[04:37] Wilhelm**
Nonsense! If they're on our side,
why would they block my esca—
**[04:40] Wilhelm**
I mean, my temporary retreat?!
**[04:42] Adjutant**
But Your Excellency...
**[04:51] Guy**
The enemy flagship has shot
down its own supply fleet.
**[04:54] Guy**
It's on the run.
**[04:58] Kircheis**
What a foolish move...
***SIGN*** Episode 20
***SIGN*** Tragedy
***SIGN*** Littenheim Fleet Supply Ship
**[05:19] Modell**
Oh, no!
**[05:20] Modell**
Are you all right?
**[05:23] Rinnesal**
What is a child doing here?
**[05:26] Modell**
I'm a student.
**[05:29] Modell**
I was dispatched to Garmisch
to serve as a cabin boy.
**[05:33] Rinnesal**
I see.
**[05:35] Rinnesal**
What's the world coming to?
**[05:37] Rinnesal**
Sending a child onto the battlefield...
**[05:41] Modell**
Enemies!
**[05:45] Rinnesal**
Who are the enemies here?
**[05:55] Modell**
You're going to surrender?
**[05:58] Rinnesal**
Do you oppose that, little boy?
***SIGN*** Konrad von Modell
**[06:00] Modell**
Please don't call me that.
**[06:02] Modell**
I have a very good name.
It's Konrad von Modell.
***SIGN*** Lieutenant Konrad Rinnesal
**[06:08] Rinnesal**
What a coincidence.
**[06:10] Rinnesal**
My name is Konrad Rinnesal.
**[06:12] Rinnesal**
So, younger Konrad, if you don't want
to surrender, then what would you do?
**[06:18] Modell**
I don't know.
**[06:21] Rinnesal**
Then let me handle this.
**[06:24] Rinnesal**
I've been alive longer than you have,
**[06:26] Rinnesal**
and I know a few things.
**[06:29] Rinnesal**
Though that wasn't enough to tell me who
**[06:32] Rinnesal**
the man I swore loyalty to
really was, I suppose.
**[06:37] Na**
Having escaped from the battlefield,
**[06:40] Na**
Littenheim holed up in Garmisch Fortress.
**[06:43] Na**
Kircheis quickly surrounded the fortress.
**[06:51] Rinnesal**
Forgive me for saluting with my left
arm, as I have lost my right.
**[06:56] Kircheis**
I heard you were on that supply ship.
**[06:59] Rinnesal**
I believe I can be of use to you.
**[07:02] Rinnesal**
I am a living witness to the fact that
**[07:04] Rinnesal**
Marquis Littenheim killed his
own men to save himself.
**[07:09] Kircheis**
I would appreciate your help.
**[07:11] Kircheis**
Please send a message advising the
forces at Garmisch to surrender.
**[07:15] Rinnesal**
My arm was blown off by my own lord.
**[07:19] Rinnesal**
I will inform those at Garmisch
of this fact, as well.
**[07:23] Rinnesal**
Of course,
**[07:25] Rinnesal**
if there are even five people
there who feel the same way I do,
**[07:28] Rinnesal**
that may not be necessary.
**[07:34] Wilhem**
Damn that red-haired boy...
**[07:37] Guy**
Hold it!
**[07:38] Guy**
Stop right there!
**[07:40] Guy**
Have you lost your mind?!
***SIGN*** Commander Laudisch
**[07:43] Wilhelm**
What is that filthy thing?!
**[07:46] Laudisch**
Filthy?
**[07:47] Laudisch**
This is the body of a man
who was loyal to you!
**[07:50] Laudisch**
One of your own men,
who died so you could escape!
**[07:53] Wilhelm**
Escape? How dare you?!
**[07:56] Wilhelm**
Who do you think you're speaking to?!
**[07:59] Laudisch**
Spaceman First Class Paulus...
**[08:01] Laudisch**
This is Marquis Littenheim,
the man you gave your life to protect.
**[08:09] Wilhelm**
Look what you've done!
**[08:12] Wilhelm**
Kill him!
**[08:14] Wilhelm**
Kill this insolent fool!
**[08:16] Wilhelm**
What are you doing?! Kill him!
**[08:19] Wilhelm**
Fire at once!
***SIGN*** Seffle Particles Detected
***SIGN*** Weapon Use Prohibited
**[08:23] Guy**
Don't!
**[08:36] Volker**
What was that?
**[08:37] Guy**
Confirmed that the explosion
occurred in the command center.
**[08:41] Kircheis**
It looks like there are indeed others
who agree with you, Lieutenant.
**[08:46] Na**
Meanwhile,
**[08:47] Na**
the nobles' coalition, which hadn't
yet learned of Littenheim's defeat,
**[08:51] Na**
was engaged in battle
with Reinhard's fleet
**[08:54] Na**
in the starzone surrounding
Geiersburg Fortress.
***SIGN*** Reuenthal Fleet Flagship
Tristan
**[09:00] Oskar**
Such vigor, as usual.
**[09:03] Oskar**
But you're being masterfully controlled.
**[09:08] Oskar**
Admiral Merkatz, eh?
**[09:11] Schneider**
The enemy is retreating.
**[09:16] Reinhard**
Damn that Reuenthal.
**[09:18] Reinhard**
He just gave me some homework to do.
**[09:21] Paul**
Admiral Merkatz was a highly renowned
soldier even before you were born.
**[09:28] Paul**
It will make things rather difficult
if he is allowed free rein.
**[09:35] Reinhard**
Free rein, eh? That is the issue here.
**[09:39] Reinhard**
I doubt that Braunschweig has the
capacity to let him do that.
**[09:45] Paul**
Understood.
**[09:46] Paul**
Rather than taking on Admiral Merkatz himself,
**[09:49] Paul**
it may be more prudent to deal
with the one behind him,
**[09:52] Paul**
who is the cause of all his problems.
**[09:58] Reinhard**
*Hear me, you ignorant, cowardly nobles.*
**[10:02] Reinhard**
* Come out of that fortress and*
* fight me like real men.*
**[10:05] Reinhard**
*If you don't have the guts to do that,*
**[10:07] Reinhard**
* then throw away your baseless*
* pride and surrender.*
**[10:11] Reinhard**
*Not only will I spare your lives,*
**[10:14] Reinhard**
* I'll even let you keep enough of your*
* wealth to keep yourselves alive*
**[10:17] Reinhard**
*in spite of your incompetence.*
**[10:19] Reinhard**
* Make use of what little intelligence*
* you have to make the best choice.*
**[10:24] Otho**
Cut the image!
**[10:27] Flegel**
That insufferable brat!
**[10:29] Otho**
First, shoot down that insolent
Mittermeyer's fleet!
**[10:33] Ansbach**
But it's outside the fortress's firing range.
**[10:37] Otho**
Hmph! Who's really the coward here?
**[10:40] Flegel**
Uncle, please give me the
order to deploy at once!
**[10:44] Otho**
Oh! You'll do this for me?
**[10:46] Merkatz**
You mustn't.
**[10:51] Merkatz**
This is a clear attempt to provoke us.
**[10:54] Merkatz**
I forbid anyone to deploy at this time.
**[10:57] Flegel**
Are you giving orders to my uncle,
the leader of this coalition?!
**[11:00] Merkatz**
I have full authority in military matters.
**[11:03] Merkatz**
That was our agreement.
**[11:14] Alfred**
Lord Flegel!
**[11:17] Guy**
Please wait, Lord Flegel!
**[11:19] Guy**
Baron Flegel!
**[11:26] Na**
Ignoring Merkatz's warning,
**[11:28] Na**
Flegel and the other young nobles deployed,
**[11:31] Na**
and the Mittermeyer Fleet quickly fled.
**[11:36] Na**
Flegel was fully confident in his victory.
**[11:46] Otho**
What?!
**[11:47] Otho**
Garmisch Fortress has fallen
into the enemy's hands?!
**[11:51] Ansbach**
Yes, sir.
**[11:51] Otho**
That damned Littenheim was a pain
in my side to the very end!
**[11:57] Otho**
However...
**[11:59] Otho**
This means I alone am worthy to bear
the future of the Goldenbaum Dynasty.
**[12:06] Ansbach**
But we have lost half of our forces.
**[12:13] Guy**
Lord Flegel!
**[12:15] Guy**
Baron Flegel!
**[12:20] Flegel**
Did you bear witness to our victory, Uncle?
**[12:24] Otho**
You did splendidly, Flegel!
**[12:27] Flegel**
They were certainly quick to run away.
**[12:31] Flegel**
I guess that's what the nickname
"Gale Wolf" truly meant.
**[12:37] Merkatz**
I have a message for all of you.
**[12:40] Merkatz**
Surrender your rank insignias and weapons
**[12:42] Merkatz**
and prepare yourselves
to be court-martialed.
**[12:45] Merkatz**
Violation of orders will be judged in
accordance with military regulations.
**[12:49] Flegel**
As a proud noble, I would
rather die in battle
**[12:53] Flegel**
than be judged by a commander with
no courage or self-respect!
**[12:59] Flegel**
If I must be unjustly court-martialed,
**[13:01] Flegel**
I'll just end my life right here and now!
**[13:04] Flegel**
I do not fear death!
**[13:08] Alfred**
We can't let Rear Admiral Flegel die alone!
**[13:12] Alfred**
Let us all take our lives right here
**[13:15] Alfred**
so that future generations will see
our pride as Imperial nobility!
**[13:19] Otho**
Now, wait a moment.
**[13:22] Otho**
Admiral Merkatz does have full
authority in military matters.
**[13:25] Otho**
But it is I, the coalition leader,
who decides whether or not we fight.
**[13:31] Otho**
I'm sure that makes sense to you, yes?
**[13:35] Otho**
Your courage and self-respect
**[13:38] Otho**
have shown everyone the true
spirit of Imperial nobility
**[13:42] Otho**
and dealt a crushing blow to
those conceited peasants.
**[13:47] Flegel**
Uncle...
**[13:50] Otho**
There is no need to fear Lohengramm!
**[13:53] Otho**
We will be victorious!
**[13:55] Otho**
Long live the Galactic Empire!
**[13:58] All**
Long live the Galactic Empire!
**[14:02] All**
Long live the Galactic Empire!
**[14:03] Both**
Long live the Empire!
**[14:05] Alfred**
Long live the Galactic Empire!
**[14:07] Flegel**
...Empire!
**[14:08] Flegel**
Long live the Galactic Empire!
**[14:12] All**
Long live the Galactic Empire!
***SIGN*** Braunschweig Fleet Flagship
Alvíss
**[14:17] Na**
Braunschweig, having fallen
for Reinhard's provocation,
**[14:20] Na**
led the coalition's forces into battle himself.
**[14:29] Paul**
This has gone exactly as we planned.
**[14:32] Otho**
Crush those lowly peasants to dust!
**[14:36] Otho**
Feuer!
**[14:48] Flegel**
Look at that. They're running away again.
**[14:52] Flegel**
Once you get used to running away,
I suppose you feel no shame in it anymore.
**[14:57] Flegel**
But I won't let them escape this time.
**[15:01] Wolfgang**
I think it's time.
**[15:03] Wolfgang**
Let's show those moronic
nobles how to fight a war.
**[15:10] Guy**
Enemy fleets have appeared
on both sides of us!
**[15:13] Flegel**
What?!
***SIGN*** Mecklinger Fleet Flagship
Gandharva
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Ernest Mecklinger
***SIGN*** Kempff Fleet Flagship
Galdhøpiggen
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Karl Gustav Kempff
***SIGN*** Merkatz Fleet Flagship
Minerva
**[15:59] Wolfgang**
Is that...
**[16:04] Wolfgang**
Admiral Merkatz!
**[16:07] Wolfgang**
Fall back! We're going to regroup!
**[16:13] Merkatz**
Don't pursue them too far.
**[16:15] Merkatz**
We need to use this opening to get
Duke Braunschweig to safety.
**[16:19] Schneider**
Yes, sir.
**[16:21] Guy**
Incoming transmission
from flagship *Alvíss*.
**[16:23] Guy**
Connecting.
**[16:26] Otho**
* Merkatz! Why didn't you*
* come to help us sooner?!*
**[16:30] Otho**
*What kind of commander-in-chief are you?!*
**[16:32] Otho**
You put your leader in danger,
you useless fool!
**[16:37] Otho**
Cut the transmission!
**[16:41] Merkatz**
Don't be too angry,
Lieutenant Commander Schneider.
**[16:45] Merkatz**
Duke Braunschweig is a sick man.
**[16:48] Merkatz**
His sickness was fostered by a 500-year
tradition of noble privilege.
**[16:54] Merkatz**
In truth, he is a victim.
**[16:57] Merkatz**
A century ago, that might
have worked, but now...
**[17:01] Merkatz**
What an unfortunate man.
**[17:07] Na**
To make matters worse for
the routed Braunschweig,
**[17:11] Na**
he then received some bad news.
***SIGN*** Planet Westerland
**[17:16] Na**
A revolt had broken out in Westerland,
the planet he ruled over.
**[17:29] Na**
Dissatisfaction with the many years of
tyrannical rule by the duke and nobles
**[17:34] Na**
had finally come to a head.
**[17:37] Na**
Braunschweig's nephew, Baron Scheidt,
**[17:41] Na**
who had been ruling the planet in
his stead, was gravely injured
**[17:44] Na**
and died shortly thereafter.
**[17:51] Otho**
Those lowly peasants...
**[17:54] Otho**
How dare they harm a member of my
family with their filthy hands?!
**[18:01] Otho**
We will launch a nuclear
strike on Westerland.
**[18:05] Ansbach**
Your Excellency, no! Not that!
**[18:08] Otho**
Don't let a single one of
those peasants escape alive!
**[18:11] Ansbach**
I beg you to reconsider!
**[18:13] Ansbach**
That planet is your own domain!
**[18:16] Ansbach**
If we just take out their leader—
**[18:17] Otho**
Silence!
**[18:18] Otho**
I decide what happens in my own domain!
**[18:21] Otho**
When Emperor Rudolf executed
hundreds of millions of insurgents,
**[18:26] Otho**
he laid the foundation for
the Galactic Empire itself!
**[18:32] Ansbach**
In that case...
**[18:34] Ansbach**
This is the end of the Goldenbaum Dynasty.
**[18:37] Otho**
What?!
**[18:38] Ansbach**
How can one continue to stand after
cutting off one's own limbs?
**[18:43] Otho**
What did you say?
**[18:45] Otho**
You dare insult not only me,
but Emperor Rudolf, as well?
**[18:51] Otho**
Is anyone there?!
**[18:53] Otho**
This man is a traitor to the Emperor!
**[18:55] Otho**
Throw him in prison at once!
**[19:01] Reinhard**
Are you certain about that?
**[19:03] Paul**
Yes, there is no doubt.
**[19:06] Reinhard**
Send a fleet to Westerland
right away and stop him.
**[19:10] Reinhard**
I will lead it myself.
**[19:14] Paul**
Please wait, Your Excellency.
**[19:18] Paul**
We should allow Duke Braunschweig to carry out
**[19:21] Paul**
this cruel plan he has devised in his madness.
**[19:25] Reihard**
What?
**[19:27] Paul**
We will film what happens and show
it to everyone in the Empire.
**[19:32] Paul**
By showing the Empire how evil they are,
**[19:34] Paul**
we can declare that these people have
no right to rule the universe.
**[19:39] Paul**
That would be more profitable
to us than stopping them.
**[19:44] Reinhard**
Are you telling me to overlook the
deaths of two million people?
**[19:47] Reinhard**
There are women and children among them!
**[19:49] Paul**
If this civil wars drags on,
even more will die.
**[19:53] Paul**
It is for the sake of the 25 billion
citizens of the Empire, Your Excellency,
**[19:57] Paul**
and for the swift assurance
of our supremacy.
**[20:25] (Flashback) Kircheis**
Ow!
**[20:30] (Flashback) Annerose**
Goodness, Sieg!
**[20:35] (Flashback) Annerose**
Sieg...
**[20:40] Annerose**
*Sieg...*
**[20:43] Annerose**
*Sieg...*
**[20:45] Annerose**
*Sieg!*
**[20:52] Guy**
We were set free,
**[20:55] Guy**
but we have to think about
what we're going to do next.
**[20:59] Guy**
They say Marquis Lohengramm
is an ally of the people.
**[21:02] Guy**
We should have him protect us.
**[21:05] Guy**
You're right. That would be best.
**[21:08] Kid**
Mom, what are those?
**[21:21] Na**
This image inspired tremendous shock
and outrage throughout the Empire.
**[21:29] Na**
Public sentiment rapidly turned away from
the old regime of the high nobility.
**[21:37] Wahlen**
It's truly heartbreaking...
**[21:40] Kircheis**
How could he do such a thing?
**[21:44] Wahlen**
Actually, a noble who came
to us in surrender earlier
**[21:47] Wahlen**
said something that bothered me.
**[21:50] Wahlen**
He said Marquis Lohengramm had been
informed that this was going to happen.
**[21:57] Wahlen**
But he ignored it and let those people
die to make a political statement.
**[22:04] Kircheis**
It can't be...
**[22:06] Wahlen**
I asked him if he had proof of this,
**[22:09] Wahlen**
and he said the very existence of this
footage was all the proof we needed.
**[22:17] Kircheis**
Vice Admiral Wahlen,
**[22:19] Kircheis**
impose a gag order with
regard to this incident.
**[22:23] Wahlen**
Yes, sir.
**[22:38] Kircheis**
*I'll be seeing Reinhard again soon.*
**[22:42] Kircheis**
*When I do, I need only ask him for the truth.*
**[22:48] Kircheis**
*But what good would that do?*
**[22:51] Kircheis**
*If it does turn out to be true...*
**[22:59] (Flashback) Kircheis**
Ow!
**[23:03] (Flashback) Annerose**
Goodness, Sieg!
***SIGN*** Episode 21
***SIGN*** Victory for Whose Sake?
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of the
Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:54] Na**
episode twenty-one, "Victory for Whose Sake?"
# E21 - Victory for Whose Sake?
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***SIGN*** Capital Planet Defense System Artemis's Necklace
**[00:48] Dwight**
The twelve jewels that protect
the capital planet Heinessen...
**[00:55] Dwight**
We still have Artemis's Necklace.
**[00:59] Dwight**
So long as we have that,
not even Yang Wen-li
**[01:02] Dwight**
can penetrate Heinessen's
gravitational field.
**[01:07] Dwight**
We haven't lost yet.
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[02:51] Yang**
Enter.
**[02:57] Baghdash**
Commander Baghdash reporting.
**[03:00] Yang**
There's something I'd like you to do for me.
**[03:03] Baghdash**
Yes, sir. I'm at your service.
**[03:05] Yang**
If you ordered it, I would
even infiltrate Heinessen.
**[03:08] Yang**
And would you then run right
back to Admiral Greenhill?
**[03:12] Baghdash**
Please, sir. I wouldn't
dream of such a thing.
**[03:16] Yang**
I was joking.
**[03:18] Yang**
I'd like you to act as a witness.
**[03:20] Baghdash**
A witness? To what?
**[03:24] Yang**
This coup d'état by the
National Salvation Military Council
**[03:27] Yang**
was orchestrated by Marquis Reinhard
von Lohengramm of the Galactic Empire.
**[03:32] Yang**
I want you to bear witness to this.
**[03:35] Baghdash**
That's quite a preposterous
idea you've come up with.
**[03:38] Yang**
It's true.
**[03:40] Yang**
I don't have any physical evidence as of yet,
**[03:44] Yang**
but it is a fact.
***SIGN*** Episode 21
***SIGN*** Victory for Whose Sake?
**[03:59] Baghdash**
* I am Commander Baghdash of the Free Planets*
* Alliance Department of Intelligence.*
**[04:06] Baghdash**
* I must convey to all of you a fact*
* that will be of utmost importance*
**[04:10] Baghdash**
*to the future of the Free Planets Alliance.*
**[04:13] Dwight**
What's the meaning of this?!
**[04:16] Dwight**
Wasn't all network access blocked?!
**[04:19] Gatty**
The 13th Fleet is transmitting
this video directly
**[04:22] Gatty**
using the frequency reserved
for emergency broadcasts.
**[04:25] Dwight**
Wha—
**[04:27] Baghdash**
* I was sent by the National Salvation*
* Military Council to assassinate Yang Wen-li.*
**[04:34] Baghdash**
*However, I have seen the error in my actions*
**[04:37] Baghdash**
* and am now on the side of*
* the Free Planets Alliance.*
**[04:41] Baghdash**
* This is because I learned*
* that this coup d'état*
**[04:44] Baghdash**
* was executed per the will of*
* Marquis Lohengramm of the Galactic Empire.*
**[04:51] Baghdash**
* The Galactic Empire is currently*
* embroiled in a massive civil war itself.*
**[04:56] Baghdash**
*This is no coincidence.*
**[04:58] Baghdash**
* Marquis Lohengramm initiated*
* this coup d'état*
**[05:01] Baghdash**
* to prevent the Alliance from*
* exploiting the Empire's weakness.*
**[05:06] Baghdash**
* In other words, the National*
* Salvation Military Council*
**[05:08] Baghdash**
*is no more than a puppet of the Empire.*
**[05:11] Gatty**
Baghdash... That shameless traitor!
**[05:15] Ebense**
Is he saying we're just the Empire's pawns?
**[05:18] Ebense**
How can he spout such obvious
political propaganda?
**[05:23] Dwight**
Perhaps I misjudged Yang Wen-li.
**[05:28] Dwight**
We started this movement of our own volition,
**[05:32] Dwight**
and it was realized thanks
to the brilliant strategy
**[05:36] Dwight**
provided by Rear Admiral Lynch.
**[05:39] Dwight**
To utter such a blatant lie,
calling us puppets...
**[05:48] Dwight**
What's so funny, Rear Admiral Lynch?
**[05:50] Lynch**
I'm honored by your praise,
**[05:53] Lynch**
but I'm not the one who
came up with this plan.
**[05:56] Dwight**
Then who devised such an elaborate plan?
**[06:11] Lynch**
Yang Wen-li was right.
**[06:15] Lynch**
This coup d'état was all
that blond boy's idea...
**[06:22] Lynch**
The Galactic Imperial Fleet Admiral,
**[06:25] Lynch**
Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm.
**[06:30] Lynch**
He wanted to instigate
infighting within the Alliance
**[06:34] Lynch**
while he takes care of the
nobles through the civil war.
**[06:38] Dwight**
Are you saying we've been dancing like clowns
**[06:42] Dwight**
in Marquis Lohengramm's palm this whole time?
**[06:46] Lynch**
And you all danced quite divinely.
**[06:50] Lynch**
All was proceeding according to his scenario,
**[06:52] Lynch**
but he found himself stuck in a corner...
**[06:56] Lynch**
because you were such incompetent actors.
**[07:02] Dwight**
Rear Admiral Lynch, why did you do this?
**[07:04] Dwight**
Did he offer you some irresistible condition?
**[07:07] Lynch**
There was that, but that wasn't all of it.
**[07:12] Lynch**
It wasn't about anything
that any one person did.
**[07:15] Lynch**
I just wanted to make a lot of
irredeemably self-righteous people
**[07:18] Lynch**
experience humiliation that no
amount of excuses could justify.
**[07:25] Lynch**
So how does it feel, Admiral Greenhill,
**[07:27] Lynch**
knowing that your wonderful
National Salvation Military Council
**[07:31] Lynch**
was just a tool for the most
ambitious man in the Empire?
**[07:41] Guy**
*Chairman!*
**[07:42] Guy**
* Multiple flying objects*
* incoming at high speed!*
**[07:45] Guy**
* Trajectory analysis shows that*
* their target is not this planet,*
**[07:48] Guy**
*but Artemis's Necklace!*
**[07:50] Guy**
*There are twelve in number!*
***SIGN*** Altair VII
**[08:10] Na**
Three hundred years ago
in the Galactic Empire,
**[08:13] Na**
on the bitterly cold planet Altair VII,
**[08:16] Na**
there was a young republican who was
forced to work like a slave in the mines.
**[08:22] Na**
His name was Arle Heinessen.
***SIGN*** Arle Heinessen
**[08:25] Na**
His deepest desire was to escape Altair VII
**[08:28] Na**
and start a new nation with
a republican government.
**[08:32] Na**
The only obstacle in his way
was acquiring the materials
**[08:35] Na**
to build a spacecraft that
would carry people there.
**[08:39] Yang**
One day, he saw some children
playing with boats made from ice,
**[08:44] Yang**
and it came to him.
**[08:45] Yang**
He made ships out of the unlimited
supply of dry ice on Altair VII
**[08:50] Yang**
and embarked on what would later be called
the Ten Thousand Light-Year Exodus.
**[08:55] Yang**
This operation mimics this legend forged
by Heinessen, the founder of our nation.
**[09:00] Yang**
We carved a dozen ice floes
out of Planet Srinagar.
**[09:03] Yang**
Each has a volume of one cubic kilometer
**[09:06] Yang**
and weighs one billion tons.
**[09:09] Yang**
We added engines so that the ice
floes can fly at near light speed.
**[09:15] Yang**
An object's effective mass increases
as it approaches light speed,
**[09:20] Yang**
so if a billion-ton ice floe were to
crash into something at light speed...
**[09:25] Yang**
No military satellite stands a chance.
**[09:28] Yang**
But the ice floes and
satellites are both unmanned.
**[09:32] Yang**
If this is successful, we can take out
Artemis's Necklace without bloodshed.
**[09:38] Murai**
But should we really destroy
all twelve of them?
**[09:42] Murai**
Shouldn't we keep a few
serviceable for later?
**[09:46] Yang**
No need.
**[09:47] Yang**
The presence of those things
**[09:49] Yang**
is what gave people the illusion that
they could pull off a coup d'état.
**[09:54] Yang**
We'll destroy all of them.
**[11:02] Gatty**
Artemis's Necklace... is destroyed...
**[11:09] Dwight**
It's all over.
**[11:11] Dwight**
Our military revolution has failed.
**[11:13] Dwight**
We've lost.
**[11:16] Dwight**
We need to accept that.
**[11:17] Ebense**
No, it's not over yet!
**[11:19] Ebense**
We still have Heinessen's billion citizens,
**[11:21] Ebense**
as well as its key military
and political personnel!
**[11:25] Ebense**
The 13th Fleet can't—
**[11:26] Dwight**
Give it up.
**[11:29] Dwight**
Further resistance would
not only prove futile,
**[11:32] Dwight**
it would also hinder the reunification
of the nation and its people.
**[11:37] Gatty**
In that case...
**[11:39] Gatty**
What do we do now?
**[11:41] Gatty**
Will we surrender and face judgment?
**[11:44] Dwight**
Those who want to are welcome to do so.
**[11:47] Dwight**
I choose another path.
**[11:51] Dwight**
But there is something I must do first.
**[11:56] Dwight**
We must not leave behind
any evidence or witnesses
**[12:01] Dwight**
to the fact that our noble uprising
was a scheme by the Empire.
**[12:08] Dwight**
Rear Admiral Lynch, I always
had high hopes for you,
**[12:13] Dwight**
ever since cadet school,
when you were two classes behind me.
**[12:18] Dwight**
What happened at El Facil nine
years ago was truly regrettable.
**[12:23] Dwight**
I had hoped that what we did here
would help to restore your honor.
**[12:33] Lynch**
You never had very good judgment.
**[12:54] Lynch**
You fools...
**[12:59] Lynch**
I did it to save his honor!
**[13:04] Lynch**
Couldn't you even figure that out?
**[13:06] Lynch**
Dying was better for him than living
**[13:09] Lynch**
and being put on trial, wasn't it?
**[13:14] Lynch**
Honor... What a useless concept...
**[13:26] Ebense**
* I, Alliance Navy Captain Ebense,*
* wish to speak with you*
**[13:29] Ebense**
* on behalf of the National Salvation*
* Military Council chairman.*
**[13:33] Ebense**
*There's no point in attacking us.*
**[13:35] Ebense**
* We have accepted our defeat and*
* will offer no pointless resistance.*
**[13:40] Ebense**
*Everything is over.*
**[13:42] Yang**
I'm glad to hear that,
**[13:45] Yang**
* but where is the National Salvation Military*
* Council chairman, Admiral Greenhill?*
**[13:49] Yang**
*I don't see him there.*
**[13:53] Ebense**
He took his own life.
**[13:55] Ebense**
His was a perfect ending.
**[13:59] Ebense**
*Admiral Yang, our objective*
**[14:03] Ebense**
*was to purify our democratic republic*
**[14:05] Ebense**
* and wipe the Galactic Empire's*
* autocracy out of existence.*
**[14:10] Ebense**
* It is unfortunate that we*
* failed to realize this ideal.*
**[14:14] Ebense**
* Admiral Yang, you have just contributed*
* to the survival of autocracy!*
**[14:20] Yang**
And what, exactly, is autocracy?
**[14:23] Yang**
It is when politicians who
weren't chosen by the people
**[14:25] Yang**
use power and violence to
take everyone's freedom away
**[14:28] Yang**
in an effort to rule over them, is it not?
**[14:31] Yang**
That is precisely what all of
you are doing on Heinessen.
**[14:35] Yang**
You are the autocracy.
**[14:38] Yang**
Am I wrong?
**[14:39] Ebense**
*You are wrong!*
**[14:40] Ebense**
*Everyone knows our government is corrupt.*
**[14:43] Ebense**
*What other way was there to fix that?*
**[14:47] Yang**
Corruption in government is not
politicians accepting bribes.
**[14:51] Yang**
That is corruption in the individual.
**[14:54] Yang**
Being unable to speak out against
such acts is the true corruption.
**[14:59] Yang**
You ordered the regulation of speech.
**[15:02] Yang**
That alone disqualifies you from
criticizing the Empire's autocracy
**[15:06] Yang**
or the corruption in the Alliance's
current government. Do you not agree?
**[15:11] Ebense**
*We put our lives and honor on the line.*
**[15:14] Ebense**
* I won't allow anyone to*
* slander our names for that.*
**[15:18] Ebense**
*We were not lacking in justice.*
**[15:21] Ebense**
* The only things we lacked*
* were luck and competence.*
**[15:24] Ebense**
*Nothing more than that.*
**[15:27] Yang**
Captain Ebense...
**[15:30] Ebense**
* Long live the National*
* Salvation Military Council!*
**[15:38] Murai**
Even in the bitter end, he couldn't
admit to his own mistakes.
**[15:42] Yang**
Proceed with preparations to land.
***SIGN*** Yes, sir.
**[15:50] Frederica**
Admiral.
**[15:53] Frederica**
May I have an hour... no, two hours?
**[15:58] Frederica**
I know that I can get back on my own feet,
**[16:02] Frederica**
but I don't think I can do so immediately.
**[16:06] Frederica**
So, please...
**[16:07] Yang**
Of course.
**[17:10] Bewcock**
I'm so ashamed.
**[17:12] Bewcock**
I had the information,
but I couldn't help you at all.
**[17:18] Yang**
Please, sir.
**[17:19] Yang**
I'm the one who caused
problems by taking too long.
**[17:23] Yang**
Is there anything you need?
**[17:26] Bewcock**
Well, at the moment,
I sure wouldn't mind a bottle of whiskey.
**[17:31] Yang**
I'll have it brought to you right away.
**[17:35] Bewcock**
So, what happened to Admiral Greenhill?
**[17:40] Yang**
He's dead.
**[17:42] Bewcock**
I see.
**[17:44] Bewcock**
The old man has outlived the youth again...
**[18:02] Frederica**
There is much we need to do.
**[18:04] Frederica**
Informing the nation of
**[18:06] Frederica**
the coup d'état's failure and the
restoration of constitutional rule,
**[18:09] Frederica**
assessing the damage,
**[18:11] Frederica**
apprehending the surviving members of
the National Salvation Military Council,
**[18:14] Frederica**
and also...
**[18:16] Yang**
My head hurts.
**[18:18] Frederica**
You don't have time for headaches.
**[18:22] Frederica**
It's Commodore Schönkopf.
**[18:25] Yang**
What is it?
**[18:26] Walter**
* Julian's just found someone*
* we didn't expect to see.*
**[18:29] Yang**
Who is it?
**[18:31] Walter**
*I don't think you want to hear his name,*
**[18:33] Walter**
*but it's the High Council chairman.*
**[18:37] Yang**
Trunicht...
**[18:40] Walter**
* He found him on his way back from*
* seeing Admiral Bewcock home.*
**[18:46] Julian**
Warrant Officer Machungo, is that...
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Head of State
Job Trunicht
**[18:56] Walter**
* He said Chairman Trunicht was*
* surrounded by Earth Cultists.*
**[19:03] Yang**
Good grief...
**[19:05] Yang**
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, huh?
**[19:10] Yang**
Earth Cultists...
**[19:14] Guy**
**Berezka*, alter your route
to the western course.*
**[19:17] Guy**
*Cargo is being unloaded on the C deck.*
**[19:20] Konev**
Roger.
***SIGN*** Dominique Saint-Pierre
**[19:41] Adrian**
You seem to be in a bad mood.
**[19:43] Konev**
No, I always look like this.
**[19:46] Konev**
It certainly isn't because I'm with you.
**[19:49] Adrian**
You transported the
Earth Cultists to Terra, yes?
**[19:53] Konev**
Yes, sir.
***SIGN*** Dominion of Fezzan Leader
Adrian Rubinsky
**[19:54] Adrian**
Considering the dangers of carrying
them through a battlefield,
**[19:57] Adrian**
I hear the resulting gains
were hardly worth it.
**[20:00] Adrian**
Is that why you seem so displeased?
***SIGN*** Boris Konev
**[20:04] Konev**
Perhaps.
**[20:05] Adrian**
Incidentally, what do you think
about the Earth Cultists?
**[20:09] Konev**
I'm not quite sure, but in
terms of religion in general,
**[20:14] Konev**
I think the idea that poor people trust God
to be impartial seems quite contradictory.
**[20:19] Konev**
It's because God is biased
that people become poor.
**[20:23] Adrian**
You have a point.
**[20:24] Adrian**
You don't believe in God, then?
**[20:27] Konev**
Not in the least.
**[20:30] Konev**
Whoever came up with the idea of God
**[20:33] Konev**
was the greatest con artist in history.
**[20:37] Konev**
I only admire that person's
imagination and business sense.
**[20:40] Konev**
From ancient times all the way up to today,
**[20:43] Konev**
the wealthiest ones in
every country have been
**[20:45] Konev**
nobles, landowners,
and religious organizations.
**[20:49] Adrian**
As interesting as that is,
**[20:51] Adrian**
isn't it just your own personal opinion?
**[20:55] Konev**
No, I actually heard most of it second-hand.
**[20:59] Konev**
I traveled from planet to planet with
my father when I was growing up.
**[21:04] Konev**
At one point, I met another child
who lived in similar circumstances.
**[21:08] Konev**
He was two years older
than me and very smart,
**[21:11] Konev**
and he spent a lot of time thinking.
**[21:13] Konev**
He's the one who told me that.
**[21:15] Adrian**
Oh? And what was his name?
**[21:19] Konev**
Yang Wen-li.
**[21:20] Konev**
I hear he's working some
useless military job now.
**[21:25] Konev**
As a free man, I can't help
feeling some pity for him.
**[21:30] Adrian**
Captain Boris Konev...
**[21:32] Konev**
Yes, sir?
**[21:34] Adrian**
The government of the Dominion of Fezzan
has a very important job for you.
**[21:41] Konev**
Sir?
**[21:49] Marinesk**
We received a notice from
the energy agency earlier.
***SIGN*** Manager Marinesk
**[21:52] Marinesk**
They said we'd never have
to worry about fuel again.
**[21:56] Marinesk**
What sorcery did you use on them?
**[21:59] Konev**
I sold myself to the government.
**[22:01] Marinesk**
Huh?
**[22:01] Konev**
They're sending me to the Free Planets Alliance
as an intelligence officer.
**[22:06] Marinesk**
Oh...
**[22:08] Konev**
You know, the one thing the
Konev family was most proud of
**[22:11] Konev**
was that we've produced no criminals
or bureaucrats in 200 years!
**[22:15] Konev**
We are free citizens! Free citizens!
**[22:17] Konev**
And now they want me to
be a spy, of all things?!
**[22:21] Konev**
That's both of those things at once!
**[22:23] Marinesk**
That's "intelligence officer," not "spy."
**[22:27] Konev**
Calling it by a different name doesn't change it!
**[22:29] Konev**
If you called cancer a cold,
would that make it a cold?
**[22:34] Konev**
If you called a lion a mouse,
would you survive a bite from one?
**[22:38] Konev**
They knew I was acquainted with
Yang Wen-li before I even said it!
**[22:43] Konev**
This isn't funny! Maybe I should
just tell Yang everything!
**[22:48] Marinesk**
I don't think that'll work.
**[22:50] Marinesk**
They'll have eyes on you at all times.
**[22:52] Marinesk**
Eyes of both observation and sanction.
**[22:56] Konev**
That Black Fox thinks he's doing me a favor.
**[23:02] Konev**
Well, let him. No, I'll make sure
he keeps thinking that... for now.
***SIGN*** "You are being watched"
**[23:11] Konev**
Damn that Rubinsky!
I'm going to take him down one day!
**[23:15] Marinesk**
What are you, a child?
***SIGN*** The Fall of Goldenbaum
***SIGN*** Episode 22
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of the
Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:54] Na**
episode twenty-two, "The Fall of Goldenbaum."
# E22 - The Fall of Goldenbaum
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**[00:19] (Flashback) Annerose**
Sieg, I hope you'll be good
friends with my brother.
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[01:56] Annerose**
*It's been a long time, Reinhard.*
**[01:58] Annerose**
*Are you well?*
**[02:00] Annerose**
* I'm living my days in peace*
* and quiet, thanks to you.*
**[02:06] Annerose**
*I made a Kelsey plum cake the other day.*
**[02:10] Annerose**
* It reminded me of you two*
* boys when you were little,*
**[02:13] Annerose**
* and you would eat my cake while*
* saying how delicious it was.*
**[02:17] Annerose**
* It was so long ago that it*
* seems almost like a dream now.*
**[02:24] Annerose**
*Did such a thing really happen?*
**[02:29] Annerose**
* Please, Reinhard, never forget what*
* it is that's most important to you.*
**[02:39] Annerose**
* I'm sure you'll find that*
* troublesome at times,*
**[02:43] Annerose**
* but rather than regretting*
* it after you lose it,*
**[02:45] Annerose**
* I want you to realize how precious*
* it is while you still have it.*
**[02:50] Annerose**
*You have a friend you can rely on.*
**[02:54] Annerose**
*Talk to Sieg about all decisions you face,*
**[02:56] Annerose**
*and listen to his opinions.*
**[02:58] Annerose**
*Please take good care of yourself.*
**[03:02] Annerose**
* I look forward to the day*
* you both return home.*
**[03:05] Annerose**
*Until we meet again.*
**[03:09] Kircheis**
*High Admiral Kircheis entering.*
**[03:17] Reinhard**
Good work, Kircheis.
**[03:20] Reinhard**
You must be tired.
**[03:21] Reinhard**
Would you prefer wine or coffee?
**[03:24] Reinhard**
If only we had some of
my sister's cake, too...
**[03:27] Kircheis**
Reinhard, I need to speak with you.
**[03:35] Reinhard**
About what?
**[03:36] Kircheis**
About the two million citizens
who were massacred on Westerland.
**[03:42] Reinhard**
What about them?
**[03:44] Kircheis**
I have been told that
you knew about this plan
**[03:46] Kircheis**
and gave tacit consent to execute
it for political reasons.
**[03:50] Kircheis**
Is that true?
**[03:56] Kircheis**
I thought the reason you sought supremacy was
**[03:58] Kircheis**
because you saw meaning in an impartiality
that does not exist in the current Empire,
**[04:04] Kircheis**
in the Goldenbaum Dynasty.
**[04:06] Reinhard**
I don't need you to remind me of that.
**[04:08] Kircheis**
The downfall of the high nobility
is a historical inevitability.
**[04:12] Kircheis**
We are settling a debt five
centuries in the making,
**[04:15] Kircheis**
so some bloodshed is unavoidable.
**[04:17] Kircheis**
Still,
**[04:19] Kircheis**
it is never right to sacrifice citizens.
**[04:22] Kircheis**
The new order must be established with the
liberated citizenry as its foundation.
**[04:27] Kircheis**
Is sacrificing those citizens
not comparable to
**[04:31] Kircheis**
digging the ground out
from under your own feet?
**[04:34] Reinhard**
I told you, I know that!
**[04:36] Kircheis**
If you sacrifice citizens,
there will be blood on your hands
**[04:40] Kircheis**
that no amount of flowery
rhetoric can ever wash off.
**[04:45] Kircheis**
Why would a man of your
standing shame himself so
**[04:49] Reinhard**
for the sake of temporary gain?
**[04:51] Reinhard**
I've had enough of your lectures!
**[04:54] Reinhard**
First of all, Kircheis, when did I
ask for your opinion on this matter?
**[05:01] Reinhard**
I said, when did I ask for your opinion?!
**[05:04] Kircheis**
You did not ask for it.
**[05:07] Reinhard**
You only need to give me your
opinions when I ask for them.
**[05:12] Reinhard**
This matter is in the past. Leave it.
**[05:14] Kircheis**
But, Reinhard, although the nobles
have done something unforgivable,
**[05:18] Kircheis**
you did not do what you needed to do.
**[05:22] Kircheis**
Which is the greater sin?
**[05:24] Reinhard**
Kircheis!
**[05:26] Kircheis**
Yes, sir?
**[05:28] Reinhard**
What are you to me?
**[05:32] Kircheis**
I am your faithful subordinate,
Marquis Lohengramm.
***SIGN*** Episode 22
***SIGN*** The Fall of Goldenbaum
**[05:56] Guy**
Another suicide?
**[05:59] Guy**
There are countless fugitives, as well.
**[06:01] Guy**
If only they had surrendered...
**[06:03] Guy**
Even if they had surrendered,
would Marquis Lohengramm have accepted it?
**[06:08] Guy**
Why did this happen?
**[06:10] Guy**
What is the coalition leader thinking?
**[06:15] Otho**
No matter, no matter!
**[06:20] Otho**
They just happened to have good luck
on their side in the last battle.
**[06:26] Otho**
But the real battle has yet to begin!
**[06:29] Flegel**
You're absolutely right, Uncle!
**[06:31] Alfred**
Next time, we'll give them
the battle of the century!
**[06:37] Otho**
Very good.
**[06:38] Otho**
We will kill that blond upstart
**[06:41] Otho**
and make a wine goblet out of his skull!
**[06:44] All**
Yeah!
**[06:48] Hilda**
*Since the Westerland incident,*
**[06:50] Hilda**
* distrust in Duke Braunschweig has been*
* growing among the nobles and bureaucrats.*
***SIGN*** Hildegard von Mariendorf
**[06:58] Hilda**
*In addition,*
**[06:59] Hilda**
* Marquis Lichtenlade has been visiting*
* all the nobles in the Imperial capital.*
**[07:04] Hilda**
*Please be careful.*
**[07:05] Hilda**
*I'll be praying for your success.*
**[07:11] Paul**
I'm not sure you should be giving
Admiral Kircheis special treatment.
**[07:17] Paul**
His military deeds are too great.
**[07:20] Paul**
It is true that you were able to focus
on fighting the nobles' coalition
**[07:24] Paul**
largely because he subjugated
that frontier starzone.
**[07:30] Paul**
But to make him the vanguard in
the final battle on top of that...
**[07:34] Reinhard**
I am not giving him special treatment.
**[07:37] Reinhard**
Even if the entire universe
turned against me,
**[07:40] Reinhard**
Kircheis would remain on my side.
**[07:42] Reinhard**
That has always been the case.
**[07:45] Reinhard**
So I have been repaying him for that.
**[07:48] Reinhard**
What's wrong with that?
**[07:49] Paul**
Your Excellency, I am not suggesting
you purge or banish Admiral Kircheis.
**[07:58] Paul**
But an organization has
no need for a number two.
**[08:02] Paul**
Whether they are competent or not,
they are a detriment to the organization.
**[08:07] Paul**
There is no substitute for the loyalty given
to the number one by all his subordinates.
**[08:13] Reinhard**
Enough. You are growing tedious.
**[08:18] Paul**
We believe the cornered nobles' coalition
will launch an all-out attack soon.
**[08:24] Paul**
This will most likely be the final battle.
**[08:28] Paul**
I will now explain to you our strategy
for dealing with the traitors.
**[08:36] Paul**
Admiral Kircheis.
**[08:37] Kircheis**
Yes, sir.
**[08:38] Paul**
You will serve as the vanguard
in this operation...
**[08:46] Wolfgang**
Marquis Lohengramm and Kircheis
seemed different today.
**[08:51] Wolfgang**
Normally, the fleet admiral would
have given him orders himself.
**[08:55] Oskar**
This time, though,
Oberstein stepped in between them.
**[08:59] Oskar**
Our strategist doesn't seem fond
**[09:01] Oskar**
of the fact that his Excellency values Kircheis
on both official and personal levels.
**[09:06] Oskar**
Of course, it's not that I
don't understand his reasoning.
**[09:10] Wolfgang**
He's a sharp man. I admit that.
**[09:13] Wolfgang**
Although, isn't he just bringing conflict
where there was always peace?
**[09:18] Wolfgang**
There's no need to change something
that's always worked just fine.
**[09:23] Wolfgang**
Especially when it comes
to human relationships.
**[09:27] Oskar**
Regardless, the first thing we
need to do is win this battle.
**[09:30] Oskar**
Nothing can happen until then.
**[09:34] Fahrenheit**
What? We're deploying?!
**[09:38] Otho**
What is your issue with that?
**[09:40] Fahrenheit**
We should use the fortress to our advantage
**[09:43] Fahrenheit**
and wait for our chance to drag
the enemy into a prolonged battle.
***SIGN*** Vice Admiral Adalbert von Fahrenheit
**[09:47] Fahrenheit**
What purpose would it serve to deploy now?
**[09:49] Flegel**
That "von" in your name is the only
thing that makes you a high noble!
**[09:52] Flegel**
Know your place!
**[09:54] Fahrenheit**
Nonsense!
**[09:55] Fahrenheit**
I'll have you know the duke and I are
comrades, not master and servant.
**[09:59] Fahrenheit**
Regardless of status, we are fellow
courtiers of the Galactic Empire
**[10:03] Fahrenheit**
who protect the Goldenbaum Dynasty
from Marquis Lohengramm's tyranny.
**[10:08] Fahrenheit**
We should be bound by this shared goal.
**[10:11] Fahrenheit**
I am merely offering a warning as
a specialist in military affairs
**[10:14] Fahrenheit**
in hopes of preventing
the worst-case scenario.
**[10:17] Fahrenheit**
Yet you would force your will
upon us, as if giving orders?
**[10:21] Fahrenheit**
You seem to be operating on a
misunderstanding, Duke Braunschweig.
**[10:27] Otho**
I have no use for cowards!
**[10:29] Otho**
All ships, deploy!
**[10:30] Otho**
Bring that blond brat's head
back to me without delay!
**[10:51] Paul**
They appear to be on the
move, Your Excellency.
**[10:54] Reinhard**
Order Kircheis to deploy.
**[11:00] Kircheis**
All ships, full speed ahead!
***SIGN*** Lippstadt Nobles Coalition Navy Flagship
Alvíss
**[11:10] Na**
The nobles' coalition deployed
with the Flegel Fleet at its head,
**[11:15] Na**
rushing forward with all
their ships' bows aligned.
**[11:18] Flegel**
Tonight, they will taste the outrage
we have endured for so many years!
**[11:24] Flegel**
Feuer!
**[11:34] Flegel**
The *Barbarossa?*
**[11:46] Paul**
The enemy's advance guard has collapsed.
**[11:48] Reinhard**
Good.
**[11:49] Reinhard**
Second wave: Mittermeyer, Reuenthal,
Bittenfeld, and Kempff Fleets, deploy.
**[11:56] Reinhard**
Wahlen and Mecklinger Fleets
to the front of the rear line.
**[11:59] Reinhard**
Lutz Fleet to the back of the rear line.
**[12:02] Reinhard**
Attack in waves and crush
the enemy's will to fight.
***SIGN*** Merkatz Fleet Flagship
Minerva
**[12:41] Guy**
Transmission from enemy ship!
**[12:43] Emil**
Could they be surrendering?
***SIGN*** Lieutenant Commander Emil von Reckendorf
**[12:46] Oskar**
Open the comm lines.
**[12:48] Flegel**
*I presume you are Admiral Reuenthal.*
**[12:51] Flegel**
*I am Baron Flegel.*
**[12:54] Flegel**
* I request a one-on-one battle*
* between my battleship and yours.*
**[12:58] Flegel**
* Our noble spirit and loyalty*
* to the Empire are true.*
**[13:03] Flegel**
*I must prove this personally.*
**[13:05] Oskar**
There's no point.
**[13:07] Oskar**
Cut him off.
**[13:08] Flegel**
*Wait! You must also—*
**[13:10] Flegel**
That bastard!
**[13:12] Flegel**
A filthy low-born could never
understand the pride of the nobility!
**[13:16] Flegel**
Is there no one among the enemy ranks
with the backbone to give his life
**[13:20] Flegel**
in a noble one-on-one battle with me?!
**[13:23] Flegel**
Find someone, whatever it takes!
**[13:25] Leopold**
Please stop this.
***SIGN*** Captain Leopold Schumacher
**[13:31] Leopold**
No one is going to fight you.
**[13:34] Leopold**
It is as Admiral Reuenthal said.
**[13:37] Leopold**
There would be no point.
**[13:39] Leopold**
We should just be grateful to be alive,
**[13:42] Leopold**
flee somewhere safe, and plan our recovery.
**[13:45] Flegel**
Silence!
**[13:46] Flegel**
I am not afraid to die!
**[13:49] Flegel**
I only wish for a glorious death
befitting an Imperial noble!
**[13:54] Leopold**
It's because you speak such
nonsense that you lose in battle.
**[13:58] Flegel**
Excuse me?
**[13:59] Leopold**
If what you want is a "glorious death,"
**[14:01] Leopold**
then just grant that wish for yourself.
**[14:04] Leopold**
We have no reason to follow
you and throw away our lives.
**[14:11] Flegel**
You bastard!
**[14:35] Flegel**
L-Long... live...
**[14:38] Flegel**
the Emp...ire...
**[14:54] Schneider**
Please don't, Your Excellency.
**[14:58] Merkatz**
Lieutenant Commander Schneider...
**[15:00] Schneider**
I thought you might do this, so I removed
the energy capsule from your blaster.
**[15:05] Merkatz**
I had a feeling things would end this way,
**[15:07] Merkatz**
but all I could do was delay the
arrival of this day by a tiny bit.
**[15:13] Merkatz**
Still, I didn't notice you removing
the capsule. When did you do it?
**[15:23] Merkatz**
You really fooled me.
**[15:25] Merkatz**
You're that determined not to let me die?
**[15:28] Schneider**
Yes, I am.
**[15:30] Merkatz**
But what am I supposed
to do with my life now?
**[15:34] Schneider**
Marquis Lohengramm has not taken
control of the entire universe.
**[15:39] Schneider**
There are still places that
have not fallen into his hands.
**[15:42] Schneider**
Go to such a place to preserve your
life and rebuild your strength!
**[15:47] Merkatz**
Are you telling me to defect?
**[15:49] Schneider**
Yes, Your Excellency.
**[15:51] Merkatz**
Since you're suggesting
I rebuild my strength,
**[15:54] Merkatz**
I assume you're not talking
about defecting to Fezzan.
**[15:58] Merkatz**
The Free Planets Alliance?
**[16:01] Schneider**
Yes.
**[16:03] Merkatz**
I've been fighting them
for over forty years now.
**[16:08] Merkatz**
Many of my men have died by their hands,
as many of theirs died by ours.
**[16:12] Merkatz**
Would they even accept me?
**[16:16] Schneider**
We should trust in the renowned Yang Wen-li.
**[16:19] Schneider**
He may be slightly eccentric,
**[16:21] Schneider**
but I have heard that he is a benevolent man.
**[16:23] Schneider**
If he refuses,
**[16:25] Schneider**
then I will accompany you in death.
**[16:28] Merkatz**
Don't be a fool. You have to live.
**[16:31] Merkatz**
With your talent, Marquis Lohengramm is
sure to give you an esteemed position.
**[16:36] Schneider**
I do not dislike Marquis Lohengramm,
**[16:39] Schneider**
but I've made up my mind that you
are the only superior I answer to.
**[16:43] Schneider**
Please, give me your decision.
**[16:50] Merkatz**
Then I'll entrust myself to you.
**[16:53] Merkatz**
Let's contact Yang Wen-li.
**[16:58] Reinhard**
It's just as Fraulein Mariendorf said.
**[17:01] Reinhard**
She said an uprising by the common soldiers
would be one reason for my victory.
**[17:06] Reinhard**
She was right on the mark.
**[17:08] Paul**
This ended even more quickly than I expected.
**[17:12] Paul**
Of course, that only goes for the traitors.
**[17:16] Reinhard**
The enemies in front of us
have lost their strength.
**[17:19] Reinhard**
Return to Odin and begin preparations
to face those at the rear.
**[17:23] Paul**
Understood.
***SIGN*** Geiersburg Fortress
**[17:37] Ansbach**
Your Excellency.
**[17:38] Otho**
Ah, Ansbach.
**[17:40] Otho**
I thought you had been imprisoned.
**[17:42] Ansbach**
My men rescued me.
**[17:45] Otho**
What has become of my family?
**[17:47] Ansbach**
They are safe.
**[17:49] Ansbach**
I have already taken them to a safe location.
**[17:52] Otho**
Oh, good. Then I'll also—
**[17:54] Ansbach**
First, come this way.
**[18:13] Otho**
Ansbach, exactly what have you arranged?
**[18:17] Ansbach**
I am truly sorry,
**[18:19] Ansbach**
but given the position we are currently in,
**[18:21] Ansbach**
Your Excellency must make a decision.
**[18:26] Otho**
I suppose our only choice is to make peace.
**[18:29] Ansbach**
By which you mean...
**[18:30] Otho**
I'll offer him favorable conditions.
**[18:33] Otho**
I will recognize his supremacy and
give him my daughter Elizabeth.
**[18:38] Otho**
He would then be the previous
emperor's grandson by marriage,
**[18:41] Otho**
giving him the proper status to
legitimately succeed the imperial line.
**[18:45] Ansbach**
This is futile, Your Excellency.
**[18:48] Ansbach**
It may have worked six months ago,
**[18:50] Ansbach**
but Marquis Lohengramm has no
need of your assistance now.
**[18:57] Ansbach**
He will gain status through his own merits,
**[19:00] Ansbach**
and it is unlikely anyone can stop him.
**[19:03] Otho**
I am Duke Braunschweig,
**[19:06] Otho**
head of the most prestigious
noble family in the Empire!
**[19:10] Otho**
Are you saying that blond
brat would kill *me*?!
**[19:14] Ansbach**
That is exactly why he has
no reason to let you live.
**[19:18] Ansbach**
You are an enemy of humanity.
**[19:20] Otho**
An enemy... of humanity?
**[19:23] Ansbach**
I refer to Westerland.
**[19:25] Ansbach**
I'm sure you haven't forgotten about that.
**[19:27] Otho**
Are you saying that killing a
bunch of low-borns is a crime?!
**[19:31] Otho**
I merely exercised my natural
rights as a noble, as their ruler!
**[19:37] Ansbach**
Until now, the Galactic Empire has operated
on the logic of the nobility, as you say.
**[19:42] Ansbach**
But from now on, it will
operate on different logic.
**[19:46] Ansbach**
To demonstrate that,
**[19:48] Ansbach**
Marquis Lohengramm will have
no choice but to kill you.
**[19:59] Ansbach**
As the last leader of
the Braunschweig family,
**[20:03] Ansbach**
I implore you to end your
own life with dignity.
**[20:12] Otho**
Very well. I will die.
**[20:15] Otho**
But I cannot bear to let the
blond brat usurp the throne!
**[20:20] Otho**
He should accompany me to hell!
**[20:24] Otho**
Ansbach, do whatever it takes to stop him!
**[20:29] Otho**
If you'll promise me that, I will
end my own life without regrets!
**[20:33] Otho**
Please, kill him!
**[20:37] Ansbach**
Very well. I promise to
kill Marquis Lohengramm.
**[20:42] Otho**
I see...
**[20:45] Otho**
Good.
**[20:48] Otho**
I'd like my death to be
as painless as possible.
**[20:57] Ansbach**
Your Excellency.
**[20:59] Ansbach**
You will suddenly feel sleepy
and die without suffering.
**[21:14] Otho**
No!
**[21:15] Otho**
I won't! I don't want to die!
**[21:18] Otho**
I'll surrender to him!
**[21:19] Otho**
He can have my domain and
my status, but not my life!
**[21:27] Otho**
What are you doing?! Insolence!
**[21:29] Otho**
Get your filthy hands off me!
**[21:43] Ansbach**
Your Excellency.
**[22:13] Ansbach**
Call the physician and
take him to the infirmary.
**[22:15] Guy**
But he has already passed.
**[22:18] Ansbach**
Do as you're told.
**[22:20] Guy**
Very well, sir.
**[22:26] Ansbach**
* With this, the Goldenbaum Dynasty*
* has truly fallen.*
**[22:30] Ansbach**
* It will be followed by*
* the age of Grünewald...*
**[22:35] Ansbach**
*Or will it?*
***SIGN*** Episode 23
***SIGN*** Farewell to the Days of Old
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of the
Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:54] Na**
episode twenty-three,
"Farewell to the Days of Old."
# E23 - Farewell to the Days of Old
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**[00:12] Guy**
Pardon me, sir.
**[00:14] Kircheis**
What is it?
**[00:15] Guy**
Weapons are not permitted beyond this point.
**[00:17] Guy**
I must ask you to leave your blaster here.
**[00:20] Kircheis**
I am High Admiral Kircheis.
**[00:23] Kirchies**
Am I still forbidden to carry a weapon?
**[00:26] Guy**
There are no exceptions,
not even for you, sir.
**[00:30] Guy**
These are our orders.
**[00:32] Guy**
I do apologize.
**[00:34] Kircheis**
Very well. No need to apologize.
**[00:45] Hans**
Didn't Admiral Kircheis have special
permission to carry weapons?
**[00:53] Volker**
Seems the circumstances have changed.
**[01:18] Kircheis**
*I can put up with this for now.*
**[01:20] Kircheis**
* Reinhard may have moments when*
* he hesitates or makes mistakes,*
**[01:23] Kircheis**
*but he'll understand in time.*
**[01:26] Kircheis**
*He has all this time, for the past eleven years.*
**[01:30] Kircheis**
* All this time? That has been*
* the case all this time,*
**[01:34] Kircheis**
*and I believed it would be forever.*
**[01:37] Kircheis**
*But...*
**[01:39] Guy**
The highest commander in the Galactic Empire,
**[01:41] Guy**
His Excellency Marquis Reinhard
von Lohengramm, enters!
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[03:35] Na**
In the year IC 488,
**[03:38] Na**
a celebration of victory and
audience with war prisoners
**[03:41] Na**
was held on this day at Geiersburg Fortress.
**[03:47] Reinhard**
Fahrenheit. It has been a long time.
**[03:50] Reinhard**
Since the Battle of Astarte, I think.
**[03:53] Fahrenheit**
Indeed.
**[03:54] Reinhard**
Allying with the likes of Duke Braunschweig
was a mistake unbefitting of you.
**[04:00] Reinhard**
Why don't you follow me and live
the rest of your life as a warrior?
**[04:05] Fahrenheit**
I am a soldier of the Empire.
**[04:07] Fahrenheit**
Now that you have seized authority
over the Imperial military,
**[04:10] Fahrenheit**
I shall humbly serve you.
**[04:13] Fahrenheit**
I do realize I took the long way here...
**[04:16] Fahrenheit**
but I intend to make up for the time I lost.
**[04:20] Reinhard**
Then you should join my ranks as admiral.
**[04:48] Fritz**
Imagine presenting your own
master's body in surrender.
**[05:11] Ansbach**
Marquis Lohengramm!
**[05:15] Ansbach**
I will avenge my lord, Duke Braunschweig!
**[05:49] Hans**
Physician! Call the physician!
**[05:51] Kircheis**
It's... too late...
**[05:59] Ansbach**
Forgive me, Duke Braunschweig.
**[06:03] Ansbach**
I have failed to keep the
promise I made to you.
**[06:07] Ansbach**
It may be a few years before the
blond brat follows you to Hell!
**[06:13] Kempff**
What are you talking about, you fool?!
**[06:16] Ansbach**
Though I am powerless...
**[06:18] Ansbach**
I shall accompany you myself.
**[06:21] Oskar**
Stop him!
**[06:37] Reinhard**
Kircheis?
**[06:41] Kircheis**
Rein...hard...
**[06:45] Kircheis**
You're safe...
**[06:49] Kircheis**
I don't think... I can be
of use to you... any longer.
**[06:59] Kircheis**
Please forgive me.
**[07:00] Reinhard**
You idiot! What are you saying?
**[07:03] Reinhard**
The doctor will be here soon.
This little wound will heal in no time!
**[07:06] Reinhard**
When it does, let's go inform
my sister of our victory.
**[07:10] Reinhard**
All right? Let's do that.
**[07:13] Kircheis**
Rein...hard...
**[07:14] Reinhard**
Don't talk until the doctor gets here!
**[07:19] Kircheis**
Make the universe... yours.
**[07:24] Reinhard**
I will.
**[07:25] Kircheis**
And...
**[07:27] Kircheis**
tell Annerose...
**[07:32] Kircheis**
that Sieg kept the promise...
he made so long ago...
**[07:37] Reinhard**
No!
**[07:38] Reinhard**
I'm not going to tell her that!
**[07:40] Reinhard**
You can tell her yourself! In person!
**[07:43] Reinhard**
I won't say it! You hear me?! We'll go...
**[07:46] Reinhard**
We'll go see my sister together!
**[07:48] Reinhard**
All right, Kircheis?!
**[07:50] Reinhard**
Kir...
**[08:01] Reinhard**
Kircheis...
**[08:03] Reinhard**
Answer me!
**[08:06] Reinhard**
Kircheis!
**[08:08] Reinhard**
Why won't you speak?
**[08:11] Reinhard**
Kircheis!
**[08:13] Reinhard**
Kircheis!
**[08:15] Wolfgang**
Don't. He's gone.
**[08:18] Wolfgang**
We should let him rest in peace.
**[08:20] Reinhard**
Don't lie to me, Mittermeyer.
**[08:23] Reinhard**
You are lying!
**[08:27] Reinhard**
Kircheis would never die and leave me behind!
**[08:31] Reinhard**
Right, Kircheis?
**[08:33] Reinhard**
Open your eyes.
**[08:36] Reinhard**
Kircheis...
**[08:43] Reinhard**
Kircheis!
**[09:00] Oskar**
It's been three days since
he imposed the gag order.
**[09:03] Oskar**
We can't keep this up any longer.
**[09:05] Oskar**
It's not as if we can remain
silent toward Odin forever.
**[09:10] Lutz**
But to be honest,
**[09:12] Lutz**
I never realized the marquis
had such a fragile side.
**[09:16] Wolfgang**
He wouldn't be like this if it
had been you or me who died.
**[09:22] Wolfgang**
Siegfried Kircheis is special.
**[09:25] Wolfgang**
*Was* special.
**[09:28] Wolfgang**
He has essentially lost half of himself.
**[09:32] Wolfgang**
Because of his own mistake, no less.
**[09:36] Oskar**
We have to hope
Marquis Lohengramm will bounce back.
**[09:39] Oskar**
No, we need him to.
**[09:43] Oskar**
If he doesn't, we'll all end up singing
an elegy into the galactic abyss.
**[09:50] Fritz**
But what are we supposed to do?
**[09:53] Fritz**
How do we get him back on his feet?
**[09:55] Ernest**
If there's anyone who can offer a solution,
**[09:57] Ernest**
it's him.
**[09:59] Fritz**
Him?
**[10:00] Lutz**
You know who.
**[10:02] Lutz**
The man who isn't here right now.
**[10:04] Wolfgang**
We'll have to seek out his wisdom?
**[10:07] Oskar**
We have no choice.
**[10:08] Oskar**
I'm sure even he is well aware that he is
who he is because of Marquis Lohengramm.
**[10:15] Wolfgang**
This would mean we'll owe him a favor.
**[10:19] Wolfgang**
What if he demands that we grant
him preferential privileges?
**[10:24] Oskar**
All of us, including Oberstein,
are aboard the ship Lohengramm.
**[10:30] Oskar**
We have to save the ship if
we want to save ourselves.
**[10:35] Oskar**
If Oberstein tries to turn this
crisis into his own profit,
**[10:41] Oskar**
we'll just have to retaliate
with the appropriate measures.
**[10:49] Guy**
*Vice Admiral Oberstein has arrived.*
**[10:55] Paul**
You've been in council for quite a long
time to have not arrived at a conclusion.
**[11:00] Oskar**
Well, with our navy's number one and
number two absent, we do lack leadership.
**[11:06] Oskar**
So, do you have any good
ideas, chief of staff?
**[11:10] Paul**
I just might.
**[11:15] Paul**
Ask Marquis Lohengramm's sister to help.
**[11:19] Wolfgang**
Countess Grünewald?
**[11:22] Wolfgang**
We thought of that, but...
**[11:24] Paul**
You can leave that part to me.
**[11:26] Paul**
But there is something
I'll need all of you to do.
**[11:30] Paul**
I need you to capture the man who
killed High Admiral Kircheis.
**[11:35] Oskar**
What a strange thing to say.
**[11:37] Oskar**
Wasn't Ansbach the killer?
**[11:39] Paul**
He is merely a bit actor.
**[11:41] Paul**
We will officially say that the
principal offender is someone else.
**[11:44] Paul**
Someone much more significant.
**[11:47] Wolfgang**
Who?
**[11:48] Paul**
The Imperial Prime Minister,
Marquis Lichtenlade.
**[11:55] Wolfgang**
I wouldn't want to have you as an enemy.
**[11:58] Wolfgang**
There's no way I'd win.
**[12:01] Paul**
Marquis Lichtenlade must be
eliminated sooner or later.
**[12:05] Paul**
Besides, it's not as if his
heart is as pure as an angel's.
**[12:11] Paul**
There's no doubt that he's been working on
his own plot to eliminate Marquis Lohengramm.
**[12:17] Oskar**
So you're saying it wouldn't
be a completely false charge.
**[12:21] Paul**
You must return to Odin as soon as possible,
**[12:24] Paul**
capture Marquis Lichtenlade,
and steal the state seal.
**[12:28] Paul**
Then we can establish
Marquis Lohengramm as dictator.
**[12:33] Wolfgang**
But what if the one who steals
the state seal stays on Odin
**[12:38] Wolfgang**
and tries to become the dictator himself?
**[12:41] Paul**
No need to worry.
**[12:43] Paul**
Even if one of you has such an ambition,
**[12:46] Paul**
the other admirals who are
of equal rank will stop him.
**[12:49] Paul**
None of you are the type to resign yourself
**[12:52] Paul**
to being subordinate to
someone who was your equal.
**[12:55] Paul**
That's exactly the reason why I believe
having a number two is unnecessary.
**[13:02] Oskar**
Power is not determined by
the means used to acquire it.
**[13:06] Oskar**
It is justified by the manner
in which one exercises it.
**[13:10] Wolfgang**
Which means some scheming and
swindling are inevitable.
**[13:20] Oskar**
We will use this opportunity
**[13:22] Oskar**
to purge the enemies of
Marquis Lohengramm hiding in the palace
**[13:25] Oskar**
and take back all political authority.
**[13:32] Wolfgang**
Leave the deserters behind.
**[13:34] Wolfgang**
All that matters is that
they reach Odin eventually.
**[13:37] Na**
The fleet that was 20,000 ships strong
when it left Geiersburg Fortress
**[13:42] Na**
was reduced in numbers with
each warp it passed through.
***SIGN*** Capital Planet Odin
**[13:45] Na**
By the time it reached
the capital planet Odin,
**[13:48] Na**
it was down to just 3,000 ships.
**[13:52] Fritz**
The situation is urgent!
**[13:54] Fritz**
Land wherever you can,
even if it's in a lake!
**[14:24] Klaus**
What's the meaning of this?
***SIGN*** Minister of State and Prime Minister of the Empire
Klaus von Lichtenlade
**[14:26] Klaus**
Why are you riffraff making such a ruckus?
**[14:28] Oskar**
Marquis Lichtenlade...
**[14:32] Oskar**
We are here to arrest you.
**[14:35] Klaus**
On what charges?
**[14:37] Oskar**
The charge of being the principal
offender in the attempted assassination
**[14:40] Oskar**
of Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm.
**[14:44] Klaus**
You fool!
**[14:45] Klaus**
What evidence do you have
to prove such nonsense?
**[14:49] Klaus**
I am the Imperial Prime Minister!
**[14:51] Klaus**
I stand above all of you as the one
who gives counsel to the emperor!
**[14:55] Oskar**
And at the same time,
you are an irreverent conspirator.
**[15:00] Oskar**
Restrain him!
**[15:04] Wolfgang**
Where is the state seal?
**[15:06] Guy**
On what authority do you ask that?
**[15:10] Guy**
This is the room where the prime
minister keeps the state seal.
**[15:16] Guy**
Stop this at once!
**[15:17] Guy**
What do you perceive the power of the Empire,
of the Imperial household, to be?
**[15:23] Guy**
Your behavior is
unbecoming of Imperial subjects!
**[15:25] Guy**
You should be ashamed!
**[15:27] Wolfgang**
The power of the Empire, eh?
**[15:29] Wolfgang**
I suppose such a thing
existed once upon a time.
**[15:31] Wolfgang**
But in the end, power is
determined by one's capability.
**[15:35] Wolfgang**
Capability is not determined by power.
**[15:37] Guy**
It's open!
**[15:41] Guy**
This is it.
**[15:44] Wolfgang**
This is the state seal?
**[15:54] Maid**
What army is that, milady?
**[15:57] Hilda**
*Armies don't just appear out of nowhere.*
**[16:00] Hilda**
* No army but Marquis Lohengramm's*
* could have so many people.*
**[16:06] Hilda**
*It looks like a very lively age is coming.*
**[16:09] Hilda**
*It may be a bit turbulent,*
**[16:12] Hilda**
* but that's far better*
* than remaining stagnant.*
**[16:51] Reinhard**
Kircheis!
**[17:12] Paul**
Your Excellency, it's Oberstein.
**[17:15] Paul**
We've received a message from
the Imperial capital Odin.
**[17:20] Reinhard**
From whom?
**[17:21] Paul**
From your sister, Countess Grünewald.
**[17:29] Reinhard**
Damn you! You told her!
**[17:32] Reinhard**
You told my sister about Kircheis!
**[17:34] Paul**
Yes, I did.
**[17:35] Reinhard**
How dare you?!
**[17:37] Paul**
But you cannot remain in hiding forever.
**[17:41] Reinhard**
Shut up!
**[17:42] Paul**
Are you afraid of your sister?
**[17:45] Reinhard**
What?!
**[17:46] Paul**
If not, then please see her, Your Excellency.
**[17:49] Paul**
I have not yet abandoned you.
**[17:52] Paul**
It is admirable of you to blame yourself
**[17:55] Paul**
and not try to force the
responsibility onto me,
**[17:59] Paul**
but if you continue to look only at the past
**[18:03] Paul**
and refuse to face the future, then you
are truly no more of a man than that.
**[18:08] Paul**
The universe will fall
into someone else's hands.
**[18:11] Paul**
Admiral Kircheis must be
feeling ashamed in Valhalla.
**[18:35] Reinhard**
Sister...
**[18:36] Annerose**
*My poor Reinhard...*
**[18:40] Annerose**
* There is no one left for*
* you to lose, Reinhard.*
**[18:47] Reinhard**
No. I still have you.
**[18:50] Reinhard**
Don't I, Sister? I still have you, don't I?
**[18:54] Annerose**
* Yes, the two of us now have*
* nothing left but each other.*
**[19:01] Annerose**
* Reinhard, I'm going to leave*
* the Schwarzen mansion.*
**[19:05] Annerose**
*Could you give me a small house somewhere?*
**[19:08] Reinhard**
Sister...
**[19:09] Annerose**
* Also, I think we should not*
* see each other for a while.*
**[19:13] Reinhard**
Sister!
**[19:15] Annerose**
*It's better that I'm not beside you.*
**[19:19] Annerose**
*We live very different lives.*
**[19:22] Annerose**
*I have nothing but the past,*
**[19:25] Annerose**
*but you have a future.*
**[19:29] Annerose**
*If you ever get tired, come see me.*
**[19:34] Annerose**
*But you must not get tired yet.*
**[19:40] Reinhard**
I understand.
**[19:42] Reinhard**
If you insist, Sister,
then I'll do as you wish.
**[19:47] Reinhard**
I'll come for you after
I make the universe mine.
**[19:51] Reinhard**
But before you go, tell me one thing.
**[19:57] Reinhard**
Did you... love Kircheis?
**[20:17] Reinhard**
*I'm aware of the situation.*
**[20:19] Reinhard**
*I heard from Oberstein on the day you left.*
**[20:23] Oskar**
Yes, sir.
**[20:24] Reinhard**
* I'm sure your achievements*
* will be generously rewarded.*
**[20:27] Reinhard**
*I will soon return to Odin, as well.*
**[20:31] Oskar**
We have arrested and confined
Marquis Lichtenlade's entire family.
**[20:36] Oskar**
Please give us your
judgment upon your return.
**[20:38] Reinhard**
*You don't need to wait for me to return.*
**[20:42] Reinhard**
* I'm entrusting all of you to carry*
* out their punishment. Understood?*
**[20:45] Oskar**
Then what shall we do with
Marquis Lichtenlade himself?
**[20:50] Reinhard**
*We can't execute the Imperial Prime Minister.*
**[20:53] Reinhard**
*Encourage him to commit suicide*
**[20:55] Reinhard**
*in the most painless method possible.*
**[20:57] Oskar**
Understood.
**[20:58] Oskar**
And what shall we do with his family?
**[21:01] Reinhard**
* Banish the women and*
* children to the frontier.*
**[21:04] Reinhard**
*Execute all men over the age of ten.*
**[21:08] Oskar**
Understood.
**[21:09] Oskar**
*We don't need to execute those under nine?*
**[21:12] Reinhard**
I was ten years old when I entered school.
**[21:16] Reinhard**
Anyone younger than that is not fully a man,
**[21:19] Reinhard**
so I will spare them.
**[21:21] Reinhard**
* If they want to try to strike me*
* down when they grow up, let them.*
**[21:25] Reinhard**
* It's only natural for an incompetent*
* supreme ruler to be overthrown.*
**[21:31] Reinhard**
*The same goes for all of you.*
**[21:33] Reinhard**
* If you have the confidence*
* and resolve to defeat me,*
**[21:36] Reinhard**
*you can try it at any time.*
**[21:41] Oskar**
Surely you jest.
**[21:43] Oskar**
Then, I shall take my leave.
**[21:45] Reinhard**
You've done good work.
**[21:49] Paul**
Your Excellency,
**[21:50] Paul**
are you sure that's what you want
to do with Marquis Lichtenlade's family?
**[21:54] Reinhard**
I have shed a great deal of blood in my life.
**[21:58] Reinhard**
I will surely shed more.
**[22:00] Reinhard**
What will change by adding a few drops
of blood from Lichtenlade's family?
**[22:07] Paul**
If that is how you feel, very well.
**[22:21] Na**
His heart was starved.
**[22:24] Na**
He had lost both Kircheis and his sister.
**[22:29] Na**
Even if he were to become
the ruler of all humanity,
**[22:32] Na**
would that satisfy the desperate
hunger in his heart?
**[22:36] Na**
No, it would not.
**[22:39] Na**
This hunger in his heart could not be sated...
**[22:43] Na**
likely for all eternity.
**[22:46] Na**
But Reinhard was left with no other path.
**[22:51] Na**
He had no choice but to counter
the hunger in his heart
**[22:56] Na**
by continuing to fight, win, and conquer.
**[23:01] Na**
For that, he needed an enemy.
**[23:04] Na**
The stronger and more competent the enemy,
**[23:07] Na**
the more he could forget
how starved his heart was.
**[23:11] Na**
And in the Free Planets Alliance,
**[23:14] Na**
he has the strongest, most competent
enemy he could hope for.
***SIGN*** Episode 23
Farewell to the Days of Old
***SIGN*** Episode 24
***SIGN*** My Friend
**[24:50] Na**
Next time on* Legend of the
Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These*,
**[24:54] Na**
episode twenty-four, "My Friend."
# E24 - My Friend
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**[00:07] Trunicht**
The dissidents who threatened the principles
of the Free Planets Alliance are gone!
**[00:13] Trunicht**
But there is no time for mourning.
**[00:17] Trunicht**
Our holy war to overthrow the
Galactic Empire still continues.
**[00:22] Trunicht**
We are here thanks to the sacrifices of
the brave heroes who gave their lives
**[00:27] Trunicht**
to defend our Alliance.
**[00:30] Trunicht**
We must follow in their footsteps.
**[00:32] Trunicht**
In order to pledge even greater freedom and
prosperity to the Alliance of the future,
**[00:36] Trunicht**
let us offer up our present!
**[00:41] Trunicht**
That is the greatest honor we
can offer to our fallen heroes!
***SIGN*** Legend of the Galactic Heroes
**[02:32] Yang**
Why the hell do I have to shake
that bastard Trunicht's hand?
**[02:39] Julian**
It comes with your position.
**[02:42] Julian**
Just bear with it.
**[02:43] Yang**
If I knew I'd have to do this,
**[02:45] Yang**
I might've reconsidered winning that battle.
**[02:48] Yang**
There will only be more occasions like this.
**[02:52] Julian**
Of course, that doesn't mean
you can lose on purpose.
**[02:56] Yang**
No, I'll lose.
**[02:58] Yang**
I'll get my ass kicked.
**[03:00] Yang**
Then my reputation will plummet
**[03:02] Yang**
and no one will stop me
from leaving this job.
**[03:05] Yang**
I'll be free of the hell
that is court service
**[03:08] Yang**
and finally get to retire.
**[03:10] Julian**
Do you mean that?
**[03:13] Yang**
I do.
**[03:15] Yang**
I'm going to retire and live quietly
in a little house in the country.
**[03:20] Yang**
On cold nights, I'll listen to the
wind while enjoying some brandy.
**[03:25] Yang**
On rainy days, I'll spare a thought for those
raindrops' epic journey through the atmosphere
**[03:30] Yang**
and sip on some wine.
**[03:36] Julian**
You might find your own salvation
in doing so, Admiral,
**[03:41] Julian**
but many millions of others would go unsaved.
**[03:45] Julian**
That isn't what you want, is it?
**[03:52] Yang**
You're right.
**[03:56] Frederica**
Admiral, Julian.
**[03:58] Frederica**
It's time.
**[04:01] Julian**
Let's go.
**[04:03] Yang**
Sure.
**[04:16] Yang**
*All people die.*
**[04:18] Yang**
*Stars don't live forever.*
**[04:21] Yang**
* Even the universe itself*
* will cease to exist someday.*
**[04:25] Yang**
*There's no way a country can live eternally.*
**[04:29] Yang**
* And a country that can't survive*
* without making massive sacrifices*
**[04:32] Yang**
* might as well die and get it*
* over with. No one would miss it.*
**[04:37] Trunicht**
What's the matter? Why the troubled face?
**[04:42] Trunicht**
This is a joyous day for our homeland.
**[04:45] Trunicht**
We should both keep smiling
**[04:47] Trunicht**
to ensure we show our gratitude to
the citizens, the true sovereigns.
**[04:54] Doumec**
Now, Mr. Yang, representing our military,
**[04:57] Doumec**
and Mr. Trunicht, representing our civilians,
**[04:59] Doumec**
will share a handshake before all of you!
**[05:05] Trunicht**
Well, shall we?
**[05:08] Doumec**
Admiral Yang, please step forward.
***SIGN*** Episode 24
***SIGN*** My Friend
***SIGN*** Free Planets Alliance Navy Space Pier
**[05:33] Julian**
Why don't you just forget about it already?
**[05:35] Yang**
Believe me, I wish I could.
**[05:39] Yang**
Still... I never thought I'd
have to shake Trunicht's hand.
**[05:45] Julian**
Allow me to commend you on your service.
**[05:49] Yang**
Seeing all those people from up on
that ceremonial stage made me think...
**[05:55] Yang**
Just what is a democracy that gives a man
like Trunicht the legitimate right to rule?
**[06:01] Yang**
What kind of citizenry would continue
to support a man like that?
**[06:06] Julian**
Did you find an answer?
**[06:10] Yang**
Even I was stunned by the things
that came to my mind then.
**[06:14] Yang**
Rudolf von Goldenbaum, in the past,
**[06:17] Yang**
as well as the National Salvation Military
Council guys behind the coup d'état,
**[06:22] Yang**
must have been convinced that their actions
were the only way to save the people.
**[06:27] Yang**
Frankly, it's a complete paradox,
**[06:30] Yang**
but what made Rudolf a treacherous despot
**[06:33] Yang**
was his sense of responsibility and
obligation toward all humanity.
**[06:40] Julian**
Do you think Chairman Trunicht feels
such responsibility or obligation?
**[06:46] Yang**
I couldn't say.
**[06:48] Yang**
It doesn't seem like it, though.
**[06:51] Yang**
Anyway, I'm too tired to think
about him any more today.
**[06:56] Julian**
Of course. You should go to bed early.
**[07:00] Julian**
I'll take care of the remaining paperwork.
**[07:03] Yang**
Thanks.
**[07:05] Julian**
Not at all.
**[07:11] Yang**
* Trunicht might be like a malignant*
* cancer to our society.*
**[07:17] Yang**
* He devours healthy cells*
* and keeps multiplying*
**[07:20] Yang**
*until society, his host, ultimately dies.*
**[07:25] Yang**
*If that's the case, it's truly a nightmare.*
**[07:31] Julian**
Yes?
**[07:32] Julian**
What? Really?!
**[07:34] Julian**
Understood! I'll inform him at once!
**[07:36] Julian**
Admiral!
**[07:38] Yang**
Why all the excitement?
**[07:40] Yang**
There's nothing in this world worth
getting excited or yelling about.
**[07:45] Julian**
But...
**[07:47] Julian**
You know Admiral Merkatz, don't you?
**[07:50] Yang**
He's a well-known Imperial Navy admiral.
**[07:52] Yang**
He's not as grand or glamorous
as Marquis Lohengramm,
**[07:56] Yang**
but he's experienced and shows no weakness.
**[07:58] Yang**
I hear he's quite popular, too.
**[08:00] Yang**
So, what about him?
**[08:03] Julian**
Well, that well-known
Imperial Navy admiral has defected!
**[08:07] Julian**
Admiral Yang, he has requested your help!
**[08:10] Yang**
What?!
***SIGN*** Iserlohn Fortress
**[08:19] Alex**
First of all, we'll need you
to leave your weapons here.
**[08:22] Schneider**
What?! Insolence!
**[08:25] Schneider**
Admiral Merkatz is not a war prisoner!
**[08:27] Schneider**
He has defected here of his own free will!
**[08:30] Schneider**
And you demand he give up his weapons?
**[08:34] Schneider**
Is it not proper etiquette
to treat him as a guest?!
**[08:37] Schneider**
Or does nothing resembling etiquette
exist in the Free Planets Alliance?!
**[08:45] Alex**
My apologies.
**[08:47] Alex**
Please forgive my rudeness.
**[08:52] Murai**
And now he's being treated
as a guest of honor, I hear.
**[08:57] Murai**
I find it all a bit hard to believe.
**[09:01] Yang**
Did Admiral Merkatz flee
along with his family?
**[09:04] Murai**
No, his family remains in the Empire.
**[09:09] Yang**
I see. That's fine, then.
**[09:11] Murai**
No, it is not.
**[09:13] Murai**
The fact that his family
remains in the Empire
**[09:16] Murai**
essentially means that he's
left potential hostages behind.
**[09:19] Murai**
Is it not natural to believe that he came
here with some unsavory goal in mind?
**[09:25] Yang**
No, I don't think it is.
**[09:27] Yang**
If he wanted to deceive me from the start,
**[09:29] Yang**
he wouldn't have admitted to
leaving his family behind.
**[09:32] Yang**
It's more likely he'd bring a fake
family who could act as observers.
**[09:37] Yang**
Am I right, Commander Baghdash?
**[09:41] Baghdash**
Well, that sounds about right.
**[09:44] Baghdash**
Admiral Merkatz is a true military man.
**[09:47] Baghdash**
I doubt he'd have anything to do
with things like spying or sabotage.
**[09:51] Baghdash**
I think you can trust him.
***SIGN*** Sounds like we'll trust him a lot faster than we trusted you.
**[09:58] Baghdash**
Hey, that's harsh, Commodore Schönkopf.
**[10:04] Yang**
Well, at any rate, I'm choosing
to trust Admiral Merkatz.
**[10:09] Yang**
And I will protect his rights
to the best of my ability.
**[10:14] Yang**
A veteran admiral of the Empire has
turned to me for help, after all.
**[10:20] Yang**
I have to reciprocate his favor.
**[10:23] Murai**
You're absolutely certain
you want to do this?
**[10:26] Yang**
Yes. I'm weak against flattery, you know.
**[10:29] Yang**
Lieutenant, put me through
to Iserlohn immediately.
**[10:33] Frederica**
Yes, sir.
**[10:40] Yang**
*You are Admiral Merkatz, correct?*
**[10:42] Merkatz**
I am.
**[10:44] Yang**
*I am Yang Wen-li.*
**[10:46] Yang**
*It's truly a pleasure to meet you.*
**[10:48] Merkatz**
Likewise.
**[10:50] Merkatz**
This fallen admiral is
hereby in your service.
**[10:53] Merkatz**
I only ask that you show
leniency to my subordinates.
**[10:59] Yang**
*Very well.*
**[11:01] Yang**
* It seems you have some*
* fine men working for you.*
**[11:03] Yang**
*In any case, I will be happy to accept them.*
**[11:07] Yang**
*You needn't worry.*
**[11:08] Merkatz**
I thank you for your kindness.
**[11:11] Yang**
Well, that will be all.
**[11:13] Merkatz**
Yes, sir.
**[11:18] Merkatz**
Your advice was not in error.
**[11:21] Merkatz**
Admiral Yang seems to be a trustworthy man.
**[11:25] Schneider**
Yes, sir.
**[11:26] Na**
Yang kept his promise
**[11:28] Na**
and did all he could to protect
the rights of Merkatz and his men.
**[11:32] Na**
In response, the Alliance
government gave Merkatz
**[11:36] Na**
the status of "guest admiral"
**[11:39] Na**
and appointed him as advisor to
the Iserlohn Fortress commander.
**[11:46] Doumec**
The matter of Admiral Merkatz
has been settled,
**[11:49] Doumec**
but the problem is Yang Wen-li.
**[11:52] Doumec**
This was a civil war, so we
can just give him a medal,
**[11:57] Doumec**
but the next time he accomplishes
some heroic deed,
***SIGN*** Council Member Doumec
***SIGN*** Council Member Bonet
**[11:59] Doumec**
we'll have no choice but to promote him.
**[12:01] Irons**
Barely 30 years old, and reaching
the rank of fleet admiral?
***SIGN*** Council Member Irons
***SIGN*** Council Member Kaplan
**[12:04] Irons**
An undefeated hero, and a
young bachelor to boot...
**[12:09] Irons**
If he retired and went into politics,
**[12:11] Irons**
he's almost guaranteed to earn
enough votes to win any election.
**[12:15] Negroponte**
Just because he's a hero on the battlefield
***SIGN*** Council Member Negroponte
**[12:17] Negroponte**
doesn't mean he has the talent
to succeed in politics.
**[12:22] Doumec**
Still, many people would
be drawn to his reputation.
**[12:27] Doumec**
If that happened,
regardless of his capability,
**[12:30] Doumec**
he would be a force too potent to ignore.
**[12:33] Negroponte**
Before the Battle of the Doria Starzone,
**[12:35] Negroponte**
he stood before every officer
and soldier in his navy and said
**[12:39] Negroponte**
that the rise and fall of a
nation was trivial in comparison
**[12:43] Negroponte**
to the people's rights and freedoms.
**[12:45] Negroponte**
That's dangerous ideology.
**[12:47] Negroponte**
He's basically saying that as long as
individual rights and freedoms are protected,
**[12:51] Negroponte**
it wouldn't matter if the Alliance
was replaced by the Empire.
**[12:56] Irons**
You have to be a bit suspicious
of his loyalty toward his nation.
**[13:17] Negroponte**
Yang has made problematic
statements at every turn.
**[13:22] Negroponte**
If prompted, I'm sure
he would make many more.
**[13:25] Trunicht**
Admiral Yang's talents are
a necessity to the Alliance.
**[13:29] Trunicht**
So long as the Empire is our enemy, that is.
**[13:33] Trunicht**
Unless it's something
that could prove lethal,
**[13:35] Trunicht**
we may need to tolerate
some of the things he says.
**[13:38] Trunicht**
Still, there's no need to panic.
**[13:42] Trunicht**
Let's just keep an eye on
how things progress for now.
**[13:47] Konev**
I heard about Admiral Merkatz.
**[13:50] Dusty**
Yeah. Admiral Yang's really happy about it.
**[13:53] Dusty**
He's been named a vice admiral for now,
**[13:56] Dusty**
but he'll probably be formally
named an admiral eventually.
**[13:59] Poplin**
The Alliance's head honchos sure
are hospitable toward defectors.
**[14:04] Poplin**
Even after everything our fleet accomplished,
**[14:07] Poplin**
Admiral Yang is still stuck
at the rank of admiral,
**[14:10] Poplin**
leaving basically no chance of
his men being promoted, either.
**[14:13] Dusty**
Chief Dawson and Commander-in-Chief
Bewcock are admirals, as well.
**[14:17] Dusty**
Admiral Yang is below them, so he
can't be promoted to fleet admiral.
**[14:22] Poplin**
You think he's really satisfied with that?
**[14:25] Dusty**
Oh, please.
**[14:26] Dusty**
He was never interested in that
sort of thing to begin with.
***SIGN*** Oh, really? So you're a petty officer second class now, Julian?
**[14:35] Julian**
Congratulations on your promotion,
as well, Rear Admiral Schönkopf.
***SIGN*** Thanks.
***SIGN*** But I heard a rumor that Admiral Dawson promoted only me
***SIGN*** as part of a plot to put a crack in our fleet's unity.
***SIGN*** But Chief Cubersly returned to his post,
***SIGN*** so I suppose it'll be fine.
**[14:56] Julian**
Actually...
**[14:58] Julian**
I heard that my promotion resulted from a
direct intervention by Chairman Trunicht...
**[15:04] Julian**
so I can't feel truly happy about it.
***SIGN*** Listen, Julian.
***SIGN*** The military is overrun with the agendas of many different people.
***SIGN*** Those agendas have direct effects on us sometimes.
***SIGN*** But you can't let every little thing like that get to you.
***SIGN*** We just have to focus on the good that comes of it.
***SIGN*** Understand?
**[15:29] Julian**
I understand. I'll try
to think of it that way.
**[15:32] Yang**
Hey, Julian.
**[15:34] Yang**
I haven't recognized you as a soldier yet.
***SIGN*** Your Excellency, what do you think Julian is holding?
***SIGN*** Do you have the right to say that to someone who's been given all those?
**[15:51] Yang**
Julian.
**[15:52] Yang**
Toss those into your locker or wherever.
**[15:55] Julian**
Yes, sir...
**[15:56] Yang**
You can use the box as a
soap dish or something.
**[15:59] Yang**
I'm going down to Heinessen for a bit.
***SIGN*** Then I'll come as your guard.
**[16:04] Julian**
I'll accompany you, as well.
**[16:06] Yang**
No.
**[16:07] Yang**
I'll go by myself today.
**[16:10] Yang**
Look after things while I'm away.
**[16:12] Julian**
Please be careful.
**[16:16] Julian**
Where could he be going?
***SIGN*** Who knows?
***SIGN*** Galactic Empire Capital Planet Odin
**[16:47] Wolfgang**
We're finally here, in accordance
with His Excellency's wishes.
**[16:52] Wolfgang**
The old ones are gone,
**[16:53] Wolfgang**
and a new order will be established today.
**[16:57] Wolfgang**
The people welcome the
birth of this peaceful era.
**[17:01] Oskar**
Naturally, I welcome it, too.
**[17:04] Oskar**
It excites me to be here in this new age.
**[17:09] Wolfgang**
Well, let's go.
**[17:11] Oskar**
Right.
**[17:30] Na**
In October of the year IC 488,
**[17:34] Na**
Reinhard von Lohengramm was
promoted to the status of duke.
**[17:39] Na**
And in addition to the title of
Supreme Commander of the Imperial Navy,
**[17:44] Na**
he was also named the
Imperial Prime Minister,
**[17:46] Na**
giving him complete supremacy in
both politics and the military.
**[17:52] Na**
Thus the dictatorship of
Duke Lohengramm began.
**[18:17] Reinhard**
I'll be fine from here.
**[18:19] Guy**
Yes, sir.
**[19:22] Na**
The late Siegfried Kircheis
**[19:25] Na**
was granted the title of
Imperial Fleet Admiral
**[19:28] Na**
and was posthumously named
Minister of Military Affairs,
**[19:32] Na**
Supreme Command Headquarters
Chief, Space Fleet Commander,
**[19:36] Na**
Acting Supreme Commander
of the Imperial Navy,
**[19:40] Na**
and Acting Imperial Prime Minister.
**[19:44] Na**
Still, no matter what worldly glory he possessed,
**[19:48] Na**
he could never repay his
red-haired friend's devotion.
**[19:52] Na**
With this in mind,
**[19:54] Na**
the inscription Reinhard chose for
Kircheis's gravestone was simple and concise:
**[19:59] Na**
just two words,
"My Friend," and nothing more.
**[20:25] Na**
The year UC 797,
**[20:28] Na**
or the 488th year of the Imperial Calendar,
**[20:30] Na**
was an unusual year for a
long-divided human society
**[20:34] Na**
in that the two nations did
not meet each other in battle.
**[20:38] Na**
But whether the winners of the internal
disputes that occurred in each nation
**[20:42] Na**
were satisfied with their victories
or not is another story.
**[20:48] Na**
One of them made great gains,
but also lost something precious.
**[20:54] Na**
The other gained new allies,
but felt new dangers at his back.
**[21:01] Na**
In this year, Reinhard von
Lohengramm was 21 years old,
**[21:05] Na**
and Yang Wen-li was 30.
**[21:09] Na**
Both were at an age where the future
held more for them than the past.
***SIGN*** Third Planet in the Solar System Earth
**[23:02] Bishop**
Rubinsky's performance in this
battle was not at all satisfactory.
**[23:09] Bishop**
That much is certain.
**[23:11] De Villie**
It is worse than that, Your Lordship.
**[23:14] De Villie**
In fact, I sense a lack of enthusiasm in him.
**[23:17] De Villie**
I believe he has forgotten our cause
to seek his own self-interests.
***SIGN*** Archbishop De Villie
**[23:21] De Villie**
If this continues for another
two years, or three...
**[23:25] Bishop**
Be calm.
**[23:27] Bishop**
Look.
**[23:31] Bishop**
Even now, the sun rejoices in life.
**[23:35] Bishop**
But what of its child, our Earth?
**[23:39] Bishop**
The trees wither, the soil loses its nutrients,
**[23:42] Bishop**
and birds are long gone from the
skies, as are fish from the seas.
**[23:47] Bishop**
The human race has abandoned
its mother planet
**[23:51] Bishop**
to race among the stars like fools,
battling itself to the death.
**[23:56] Bishop**
But this will not last much longer.
**[23:59] Bishop**
The homeland of mankind will return,
**[24:02] Bishop**
and history will once more
begin here, with our Earth.
**[24:06] Bishop**
We have already waited for eight centuries.
**[24:10] Bishop**
What is another two or three years?
**[24:14] Bishop**
For now, let us give
Rubinsky a bit more time.
**[24:18] Bishop**
If he should abandon his
mother planet, Earth,
**[24:22] Bishop**
he will depart on a journey to
another dimension known as death.
**[24:26] De Villie**
Indeed.
**[24:28] Bishop**
It is not as if no progress has been made.
***SIGN*** Earth Cult Grand Bishop
**[24:31] Bishop**
One of the men in power has
already fallen into our hands.
**[24:36] Bishop**
The other will soon do the same.
**[24:40] Bishop**
It will not belong before the ideals
of the Earth Cult are realized.