# 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."