E29 - The Geier Takes Flight

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SIGN    Imperial Capital Odin
    Imperial Navy Fleet Admiral's Mansion
[00:04] Na
    The head of the Galactic Empire's
    Science and Technology Department,
[00:07] Na
    Chief Engineer Anton Hilmer von Schaft,
SIGN    Galactic Imperial Navy Science and Technology Department Head 
    Chief Engineer Anton Hilmer von Schaft
[00:10] Na
    is a 56-year-old man with doctorates
    in engineering and philosophy.
[00:16] Na
    Even greater than his talent
    as a military scientist
[00:19] Na
    were his ambition and aggressive spirit
    that allowed him to oust his superiors,
[00:22] Na
    ruin his colleagues, and keep
    his subordinates under his thumb,
[00:26] Na
    elevating him to the
    position he holds today.
[00:33] Officer
    Chief Engineer Schaft requests an audience with Your Excellency.
[00:40] Na
    This man of science, who had
    no real accomplishments
[00:42] Na
    and maintained his position and privileges
    through political influence,
[00:46] Na
    was not favored by Reinhard in the least.
[00:51] Reinhard
    I will see him, but only
    for fifteen minutes.
[00:55] Schaft
    This strategy I present to you,
    based on highly elaborate analysis,
[01:00] Schaft
    will most certainly lead
    our navy to victory.
[01:05] Reinhard
    So you're saying we should
    build another fortress
[01:08] Reinhard
    in front of Iserlohn Fortress,
    one massive enough to oppose it?
[01:12] Schaft
    Correct, Your Excellency.
[01:15] Reinhard
    It's not a bad idea,
[01:17] Reinhard
    but one condition must be met
    in order to make it work.
[01:20] Schaft
    And that would be?
[01:22] Reinhard
    The condition that Iserlohn's
    rebel army will sit quietly
[01:25] Reinhard
    and watch while our army
    builds this fortress,
[01:29] Reinhard
    causing no interference in our plan at all.
[01:34] Schaft
    Please wait a moment.
[01:36] Schaft
    There is no need to take that
    condition into consideration.
[01:40] Schaft
    Because my idea is
[01:42] Schaft
    to move a fortress that
    has already been built
[01:47] Schaft
    to the Iserlohn Corridor.
[01:53] Schaft
    I have heard that the late
    Fleet Admiral Siegfried Kircheis
[01:59] Schaft
    was the one originally assigned
    to reclaim Iserlohn Fortress.
[02:03] Schaft
    In the Battle of Amritsar,
    Fleet Admiral Kircheis
[02:07] Schaft
    used the directional Seffle
    particles that I invented
[02:11] Schaft
    to the great gain of our navy.
[02:13] Schaft
    I feel a deep connection to him.
[02:19] Schaft
    I firmly believe that this
    strategy will bring Iserlohn
[02:24] Schaft
    back to our navy in
    Fleet Admiral Kircheis's stead.
[02:30] Reinhard
    If you so adamantly insist,
    I will hear out your plan to its end.
[02:34] Reinhard
    Speak.
SIGN    Legend of the Galactic Heroes
[04:13] Paul
    Are you certain about this?
[04:15] Paul
    I assumed Your Excellency
    would get rid of that man.
[04:20] Reinhard
    Soon enough.
[04:21] Reinhard
    I just fail to see a suitable
    reason to do so at the moment.
[04:25] Reinhard
    I have men searching for someone to replace him.
[04:27] Paul
    Understood.
[04:28] Paul
    Then who will you choose
    to command this operation?
[04:32] Paul
    It is my opinion that Admiral Kempff is
    perhaps the best man for this mission.
[04:37] Reinhard
    Kempff, eh? Good idea.
[04:41] Reinhard
    I'll give him a chance to wash
    away the bitterness of his defeat
[04:45] Reinhard
    at the Iserlohn Corridor.
[04:47] Paul
    Understood.
SIGN    Episode 29
SIGN    The Geier Takes Flight
[04:59] Na
    Admiral Karl Gustav Kempff
[05:02] Na
    accomplished many tremendous feats
    when he was a Walküre pilot.
[05:06] Na
    Since becoming a warship captain,
    and then a fleet commander,
[05:09] Na
    he earned a reputation as an admiral
    of extraordinary courage and leadership.
[05:17] Isaac
    Dad!
[05:18] Franz
    Welcome home!
[05:20] Kempff
    Thank you, Isaac, Franz.
[05:23] Kempff
    Have you been good boys today?
[05:25] Isaac; Franz
    Yes!
[05:27] Wife
    Welcome home, dear.
[05:29] Wife
    Quickly now, come inside.
[05:32] Kempff
    Yeah.
[05:40] Franz
    What's this?
[05:41] Isaac
    It's called a medal.
[05:44] Isaac
    Dad got it after he beat a bunch
    of bad guys in his Walküre
[05:47] Isaac
    and became a fighter ace.
[05:50] Isaac
    Right, Dad?
[05:53] Kempff
    Right.
[05:54] Franz
    It's a reward?
[05:57] Kempff
    That's right.
[05:58] Isaac
    Hey, tell us the story again!
[06:01] Kempff
    Of course. It'll be tonight's bedtime story.
[06:04] Kempff
    Go on to your bedroom now.
[06:06] Isaac; Franz
    Okay!
[06:10] Wife
    They're both so happy that you
    get to come home every day.
[06:15] Kempff
    Yeah... Training my subordinates
    is certainly an important job,
[06:19] Kempff
    but I'd much rather be earning
    merits on the battlefield.
[06:26] Kempff
    In the battle against the
    high nobles last year,
[06:29] Kempff
    Reuenthal and Mittermeyer's
    achievements were so great
[06:32] Kempff
    that they were promoted ahead of me.
[06:35] Kempff
    It's just so disappointing.
[06:37] Wife
    What's so bad about it?
[06:39] Wife
    I love watching you be a
    father to your children.
[06:47] Na
    Kempff received an order to report
    to the Fleet Admiral's Mansion
[06:51] Na
    the very next day.
[06:55] Rücke
    Admiral Kempff!
[06:56] Kempff
    Sub-lieutenant Rücke.
[06:58] Kempff
    That's right. You're His Excellency's
    junior adjutant now.
[07:03] Rücke
    Yes. Right this way, please.
[07:06] Kempff
    Sure.
[07:15] Kempff
    You, too, Müller?
[07:17] Müller
    Yes, sir. It was very sudden, but I received
    an order to see the Fleet Admiral.
[07:42] Reinhard
    It appears everyone is here.
[07:44] Reinhard
    All right, Chief Engineer Schaft,
[07:46] Reinhard
    why don't you tell them your plan?
[07:48] Schaft
    Yes, sir!
[07:56] Schaft
    Our Galactic Empire is the one and only
    government body in human society,
[08:02] Schaft
    yet there are treasonous rebels
    who refuse to accept it,
[08:05] Schaft
    bringing naught but bloodshed and
    destruction for 150 long years.
[08:13] Schaft
    For the sake of universal peace,
[08:15] Schaft
    these rebels who call themselves the
    Free Planets Alliance must be annihilated.
[08:21] Schaft
    However, because the enemy's
    base is so far away,
[08:24] Schaft
    there is only one possible
    route we can use to invade it.
[08:30] Schaft
    Now...
[08:31] Schaft
    I'm sure you know what
    this is, Admiral Kempff.
[08:34] Kempff
    It's Iserlohn Fortress.
[08:36] Schaft
    Indeed.
[08:38] Schaft
    The navigable region of space
[08:40] Schaft
    cutting through the Milky Way
    between us and our enemies:
[08:45] Schaft
    the Iserlohn Corridor.
[08:46] Schaft
    This is the great fortress that
    lies roughly in its center.
[08:50] Schaft
    The sole reason our navy
[08:51] Schaft
    was previously able to infiltrate so deeply
    into the enemy's sphere of influence
[08:54] Schaft
    was because of Iserlohn Fortress being there.
[08:59] Schaft
    However, very regrettably,
[09:01] Schaft
    it now lies in enemy hands.
[09:05] Schaft
    In the end, if we are to
    subjugate these rebels,
[09:09] Schaft
    reclaiming the fortress is our
    navy's most pressing priority.
[09:13] Schaft
    If we can conquer it and kill
    our bitter enemy, Yang Wen-li,
[09:17] Schaft
    it will most assuredly deal a
    crushing blow to our enemy.
[09:22] Schaft
    However, this fortress is impregnable.
[09:27] Schaft
    In the past, our navy,
    with this fortress as its base,
[09:30] Schaft
    repelled six invasion attempts by the enemy.
[09:34] Schaft
    The enemy only succeeded in
    conquering the fortress
[09:37] Schaft
    not through external attacks,
    but through cunning schemes.
[09:41] Schaft
    If we cannot conquer it with our fleet,
[09:44] Schaft
    then what are we to do?
[09:46] Schaft
    The only way is to strike the
    fortress with another fortress.
[09:57] Schaft
    If we are to seek a fortress capable of
    opposing Iserlohn within the Empire,
[10:01] Schaft
    we need look no further than the one
[10:03] Schaft
    that became the noble coalition's
    base during last year's civil war:
[10:06] Schaft
    Geiersburg Fortress.
[10:10] Schaft
    We will repair this abandoned fortress,
[10:13] Schaft
    attach an engine to make it pilotable,
[10:15] Schaft
    and simultaneously use the
    warp system that I invented
[10:19] Schaft
    to transport the fortress
    ten thousand light years in one jump,
[10:23] Schaft
    making Geiersburg appear
    right in front of Iserlohn!
[10:29] Müller
    Is that even possible?
[10:31] Schaft
    No shortcoming in our
    technology prevents it.
[10:34] Schaft
    The success or failure of this plan will
    depend solely on the ability of its commander.
[10:43] Reinhard
    This is why I called all of you here.
[10:46] Reinhard
    I'm naming Kempff the commander
[10:49] Reinhard
    and Müller the vice commander
    of this operation.
[10:52] Reinhard
    Use this plan from the head of the
    Science and Technology Department
[10:56] Reinhard
    to conquer Iserlohn.
[10:58] Kempff; Müller
    Yes, sir!
[11:01] OfficerA
    Did you hear about the new operation?
[11:04] OfficerB
    Yeah. I heard Admiral Kempff and
    Admiral Müller are in command.
[11:08] OfficerA
    It's so strange. This is an
    incredibly large-scale operation,
[11:12] OfficerA
    but our Twin Pillars aren't
    the ones leading it?
[11:14] OfficerB
    Hey, not so loud.
[11:17] Oskar
    Don't be so disheartened.
[11:20] Oskar
    I'm sure His Excellency had his reasons.
[11:24] Wolfgang
    It's not that I think he
    doesn't trust our abilities.
[11:27] Wolfgang
    I just don't like that it was most likely
    Chief of Staff Oberstein's idea.
[11:44] Fellner
    The choice of leadership for this operation
    seems to have created a ripple within the navy.
[11:50] Paul
    Do you understand my intentions, Fellner?
SIGN    Captain Anton Fellner
[11:56] Fellner
    If either of the High Admirals,
    Reuenthal or Mittermeyer,
[12:00] Fellner
    were to lead this operation
    and come out successful,
[12:04] Fellner
    they would be rewarded with a
    promotion to fleet admiral.
[12:07] Fellner
    That would put them on the same
    level as Duke Lohengramm.
[12:13] Fellner
    But sending one who is only
    at the level of admiral
[12:17] Fellner
    offers the potential to promote him
    to high admiral if he succeeds,
[12:22] Fellner
    preventing Reuenthal and Mittermeyer from
    being promoted ahead of all others.
[12:28] Fellner
    Also, in the event that he should fail,
[12:30] Fellner
    it wouldn't be as if we had
    used our last trump card,
[12:33] Fellner
    meaning our side would take little damage.
[12:36] Paul
    Exactly.
[12:38] Paul
    Siegfried Kircheis died
    protecting Duke Lohengramm,
[12:43] Paul
    and he was rewarded with multiple honors.
[12:46] Paul
    It doesn't matter how many honors
    are awarded to a dead man,
[12:51] Paul
    but the same doesn't hold
    true for a living man.
[12:54] Paul
    With him gone, if either Mittermeyer or
    Reuenthal were to take over that position,
[12:58] Paul
    there would be no point.
[13:02] Paul
    We must remove the number two
    and keep several number threes
[13:06] Paul
    to ensure that Duke Lohengramm retains
    his position as number one.
[13:17] Paul
    Power can only be supreme when it
    is wielded by one person alone.
[13:37] Na
    At this time, within Reinhard's
    mental landscape,
[13:41] Na
    emotions best described as cold passion and
    parched nothingness were vying for dominance.
[13:47] Na
    Reinhard, unable to directly
    face the reason for this,
[13:52] Na
    had no choice but to pursue
    ambitions that were not his alone.
[13:58] Na
    He may have lost his shadow and
    had one of his wings ripped off,
[14:03] Na
    but surely he still had his fangs.
[14:06] Na
    Even if those fangs were
    doomed to break one day,
[14:11] Na
    right now, he had to keep
    them sharp and glistening.
SIGN    Free Planets Alliance Navy
    Iserlohn Fortress
[14:19] Na
    Iserlohn Fortress is a man-made
    planet located roughly
[14:23] Na
    in the center of the corridor
    that shares its name.
[14:26] Na
    It has the shape of a sphere, with a
    surface covered in a sea of liquid metal.
[14:31] Na
    Inside, it is divided into
    several thousand strata.
[14:36] Na
    It includes all the functions
    necessary for a strategic base,
[14:40] Na
    with a spaceport that houses 20,000 ships
[14:44] Na
    and a service garage where 400
    ships can be repaired at one time.
[14:50] Na
    It is home to two million Alliance soldiers,
[14:53] Na
    along with their families,
    an additional three million,
[14:58] Na
    and is equipped with the social capital
    needed to support their lifestyles.
[15:04] Na
    It has schools,
[15:05] Na
    commercial facilities,
[15:08] Na
    sports and recreation facilities,
[15:10] Na
    a water supply and drainage system,
[15:13] Na
    factories to produce food,
[15:15] Na
    and hydroponic farms.
[15:18] Na
    A hydrogen-powered reactor,
    complete with freshwater generator,
[15:24] Na
    supplies ample energy to power them all.
[15:27] Na
    Iserlohn is a fortress,
    and at the same time,
[15:31] Na
    a large city housing a
    population of five million.
[15:36] Na
    In one corner of this military neighborhood,
[15:40] Na
    at the residence of
    Alex Caselnes and his family,
[15:43] Na
    a humble dinner was being held to celebrate
    Petty Officer First Class Julian Mintz's
[15:48] Na
    first campaign and first
    accomplishments in battle.
[15:59] Charlotte
    Uncle Yang! Big Brother Julian
    is such a good artist!
[16:04] Yang
    Is he? You can ask him to
    draw anything you want.
[16:08] Charlotte; Sister
    Okay!
[16:09] Julian
    Really? Oh, boy...
[16:15] Alex
    What's wrong? You don't look happy.
[16:17] Yang
    I'm wounded.
[16:19] Yang
    I wanted to be called "Big Brother
    Yang" for as long as I'm still single.
[16:24] Alex
    Asking a bit much, aren't we?
[16:26] Alex
    Look at you, still single
    after the age of 30.
[16:29] Alex
    Do you feel like you haven't
    contributed enough to society?
[16:31] Yang
    There are lots of people who stay single
    all their lives and contribute plenty.
[16:36] Yang
    Want me to list 40 or 50 of them for you?
[16:39] Alex
    I know even more who've contributed
    to society and have families.
[16:46] Alex
    Anyway, there's something more
    serious I wanted to discuss.
[16:50] Yang
    What?
[16:51] Alex
    For a member of a major organization,
    you're too lax on self-preservation.
[16:55] Alex
    In this case, that's a flaw, not a merit.
[16:59] Alex
    You have a responsibility not just to Iserlohn,
    but to everyone throughout the Alliance.
[17:04] Alex
    Why don't you put a bit more
    effort into protecting yourself?
[17:08] Yang
    I'm busy enough as it is.
[17:11] Yang
    If I spend time thinking about that, too,
[17:13] Yang
    I won't even have time to take a nap.
[17:15] Alex
    It's not about whether you have time or not.
[17:17] Alex
    You know how necessary it is.
    You just don't want to think about it.
[17:22] Alex
    Am I wrong?
[17:23] Yang
    I'm not that fastidious.
[17:27] Yang
    It's just too much of a hassle.
    That's all, really.
[17:33] Alex
    I'm telling you this because I'm
    concerned about our leader, Trunicht.
[17:40] Alex
    Laugh at me if you want,
[17:42] Alex
    but recently, he's been scaring me a bit.
[17:51] Alex
    I thought he was a politician with nothing
    going for him but sophistry and rhetoric,
[17:55] Alex
    but lately, I feel like there's
    something monstrous about him.
[18:02] Alex
    And that lively old man, Bewcock,
[18:04] Alex
    seems sick and tired of having
    him butting in at every turn.
[18:08] Alex
    At this rate, it won't be just civil officials.
[18:11] Alex
    Even the upper echelon of the navy is likely
    to end up among Trunicht's followers.
[18:16] Yang
    If that happens, I'll submit my resignation.
[18:18] Alex
    Don't sound so happy about that!
[18:20] Hortense
    Oh, dear.
[18:22] Hortense
    It's already bedtime.
[18:24] Hortense
    Why don't we call it a night?
[18:26] Hortense
    You, too, Charlotte.
[18:27] Charlotte
    Aw, but I want him to draw for me more!
[18:31] Hortense
    No.
[18:35] Julian
    Charlotte, don't cause
    trouble for your mother.
[18:39] Julian
    May I have your hand, Princess?
[18:47] Hortense
    Thanks, Julian.
[18:48] Julian
    Not at all.
[18:50] Alex
    He's a good boy, unlike his guardian.
[18:54] Yang
    I've been a bit worried
    about him lately, though.
[18:58] Yang
    His guardian has some bad friends,
    but he has none at all.
[19:03] Alex
    What do you mean?
[19:05] Yang
    At his age, he should have buddies
    to fight with, teammates, rivals...
[19:10] Yang
    You know, friends his own age.
[19:13] Yang
    But the only people Julian has
    around him are messed-up adults.
[19:19] Alex
    And despite that,
    he's grown up pretty decent.
[19:22] Yang
    I agree with that.
[19:25] Yang
    Well, I did break a promise
    to him, though, just once.
[19:31] Yang
    When we lived on Heinessen, we had a
    nightingale that a neighbor gave us.
[19:37] Yang
    I told him to feed it,
[19:39] Yang
    but he went out to play a
    flying ball practice match instead.
[19:43] Alex
    What did you do?
[19:45] Yang
    I very authoritatively ordered
    him to bed without dinner.
[19:49] Alex
    Is that right? I feel sorry for you.
[19:53] Yang
    Huh?
[19:54] Alex
    You're not the type to eat your
    fill while others go without.
[19:57] Alex
    I bet you skipped your meal in solidarity.
[20:00] Yang
    Well, I did feel hungry the next morning.
[20:04] Alex
    Oh, you were hungry, were you?
[20:08] Yang
    I'm aware that I'm not
    the perfect family man.
[20:13] Alex
    Kids don't grow up by
    observing perfect parents.
[20:18] Alex
    In fact, seeing bad examples
    set by imperfect parents
[20:20] Alex
    helps them develop an independent spirit.
[20:23] Alex
    Understand?
[20:25] Yang
    I understand that you're saying
    some pretty mean things about me.
[20:29] Alex
    If you don't want to hear things like
    that, why don't you get married?
[20:34] Yang
    When the war isn't even over yet?!
[20:37] Alex
    I figured you'd say that.
[20:39] Alex
    But what is the instinct that all creatures,
    including humans, are born with?
[20:44] Alex
    The need to pass on their own
    genes to the next generation.
[20:47] Alex
    Right?
[20:48] Yang
    Yes, which is why the greatest
    crime a human can commit
[20:52] Yang
    is to kill, or be killed by, another human.
[20:55] Yang
    And when you're a soldier,
    you do that for a living.
[20:59] Alex
    You don't have to think about it that way.
[21:03] Alex
    But even if you have committed a crime,
[21:06] Alex
    if you have five kids, at least one
    of them might be a humanitarian
[21:10] Alex
    and atone for his father's crimes.
[21:14] Alex
    One of them might even inherit your vision.
[21:17] Yang
    A kid doesn't need to be of my
    own blood to inherit my vision.
[21:21] Yang
    Assuming I have a vision, that is.
[21:25] Alex
    What? Running away?
[21:27] Yang
    This is a strategic retreat.
[21:29] Yang
    I'm going to use your restroom.
[21:31] Alex
    Sheesh...
[21:36] Alex
    Julian, sit down for a bit.
[21:38] Alex
    I need to tell you something important.
[21:39] Julian
    Sure.
[21:44] Julian
    What is it?
[21:46] Alex
    I'm telling you this because I recognize
    you to be Yang's most loyal retainer.
[21:50] Alex
    Your guardian knows very well
    what happened yesterday,
[21:53] Alex
    and what might happen tomorrow, too.
[21:55] Alex
    But people like him often don't even have
    a clear understanding of what's for dinner today.
[22:00] Alex
    Understand?
[22:01] Julian
    Yes, I think I do.
[22:04] Alex
    It's a rather extreme analogy,
[22:06] Alex
    but let's say our dinner
    tonight was poisoned.
[22:09] Alex
    If he doesn't realize that,
[22:11] Alex
    it doesn't matter how well he knows
    what tomorrow and the next day bring.
[22:17] Alex
    You understand that, too?
[22:19] Julian
    You're telling me to be his taster
    for poisoned food, right?
[22:23] Alex
    Precisely.
[22:26] Julian
    You do know how to choose the right man
    for the job, Rear Admiral Caselnes.
[22:30] Julian
    I'll do everything in my power.
[22:33] Alex
    Please do.
[22:35] Julian
    But is the position Admiral Yang
    is in really that dangerous?
[22:40] Alex
    He's still safe for now.
[22:42] Alex
    So long as the massive enemy
    known as the Empire exists,
[22:45] Alex
    Yang's talents will be needed.
[22:47] Alex
    But there's no telling how
    the situation could change.
[22:51] Alex
    Even I've noticed it after all.
[22:53] Alex
    I'm sure there's no way Yang hasn't,
    but then again, he is...
[22:58] Yang
    What ideas are you putting in
    this innocent young man's head?
[23:02] Yang
    You don't need to worry so much.
[23:04] Yang
    It's not as if I haven't given
    things any thought at all.
[23:08] Yang
    I have no interest in becoming
    Mr. Trunicht's toy,
[23:12] Yang
    and above all, I want to
    be secure in my old age.
SIGN    Episode 30
SIGN    A Single Fine Thread
[25:01] Na
    Next time, "A Single Fine Thread."