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."