E44 - Departure

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[00:13] Yang
    Uh... so...
[00:17] Yang
    All right if I sit next to you?
SIGN    Legend of the Galactic Heroes
[01:59] Yang
    Julian, I am sending you to Fezzan
    because it's a naval order,
[02:05] Yang
    but I also want someone I trust to
    check out the state of things there.
[02:11] Yang
    Would you still be against going?
[02:16] Julian
    But won't Iserlohn become the front line again?
[02:20] Julian
    I feel like I'd be more useful here.
[02:25] Julian
    That's just my opinion.
[02:27] Yang
    Actually, that's the thing.
[02:30] Yang
    Everyone thinks that if the Empire invades,
    it'll be via the Iserlohn Corridor.
[02:37] Yang
    There's no guarantee that's true, though.
[02:40] Julian
    But their only other options are to take
    a wide detour outside the Milky Way
[02:45] Julian
    or to use the Fezzan Corridor, right?
[02:49] Yang
    That's right.
[02:52] Julian
    You don't think...
[02:54] Yang
    For Duke Lohengramm,
    the most effective strategy
[02:58] Yang
    would be to use one force
    to surround Iserlohn
[03:01] Yang
    while breaching the
    Fezzan Corridor with another.
[03:05] Yang
    He has the numbers to pull
    it off, and if it works,
[03:09] Yang
    Iserlohn will be isolated,
    making it useless.
[03:13] Julian
    But wouldn't that make Fezzan
    an enemy of the Empire?
[03:19] Yang
    Good question, but that's not
    a concern in this case.
[03:23] Yang
    There are only two ways they'll be able
    to pass through the Fezzan Corridor.
[03:28] Yang
    One is if they can eliminate all physical
    and moral resistance by Fezzan.
[03:34] Yang
    The other is if they don't need to take
    Fezzan's resistance into consideration.
[03:39] Julian
    Are you saying Duke Lohengramm is
    secretly working with Fezzan?
[03:46] Yang
    Bingo.
[03:48] Julian
    Could that really be possible?
[03:52] Yang
    Julian...
[03:53] Julian
    Yes?
[03:54] Yang
    We often make the mistake of believing
    our current state of affairs
[03:58] Yang
    has been set in stone forever.
[04:00] Yang
    But just think about it.
[04:02] Yang
    The Galactic Empire didn't
    even exist 500 years ago.
[04:08] Yang
    The Free Planets Alliance has
    only been around half as long,
[04:12] Yang
    and Fezzan has only existed
    for about a century.
[04:16] Yang
    Something that hasn't been around
    since the universe began
[04:19] Yang
    can't continue to exist
    until the universe ends.
[04:22] Yang
    Change is going to come eventually.
[04:25] Yang
    And that change is now borrowing the body
    of the hero Duke Reinhard von Lohengramm
[04:31] Yang
    to first sweep across the Galactic Empire,
[04:34] Yang
    spreading throughout all of
    human society in the process.
[04:38] Julian
    So you think the Galactic Empire...
[04:40] Julian
    no, the Goldenbaum Dynasty will fall?
[04:44] Yang
    It will.
[04:46] Yang
    Duke Lohengramm already has both the
    government and the military in his control.
[04:52] Julian
    Would Fezzan really join forces
    with him despite all that?
[04:58] Yang
    Indeed...
[04:59] Yang
    As a result of offering their wealth and
    strategic position to Duke Lohengramm,
[05:04] Yang
    Fezzan could lose its
    political independence.
[05:07] Yang
    So what do they have in
    mind regarding that?
[05:11] Yang
    Perhaps Fezzan's goal doesn't lie
    in Fezzan's continued existence...
[05:16] Yang
    No, that might be a leap too far.
[05:21] Yang
    Fezzan most likely hopes to monopolize
[05:25] Yang
    the financial interests of the
    unified New Galactic Empire.
[05:29] Yang
    That's what I'm thinking, at least...
[05:31] Yang
    But for some reason, I'm having trouble
    convincing myself that I'm right.
[05:37] Julian
    If there's no material self-interest,
[05:40] Julian
    could it be a spiritual thing?
[05:43] Yang
    Spiritual?
[05:45] Julian
    Like, an ideology... or a religion.
[05:50] Yang
    A religion?
[05:51] Yang
    Right... That's possible.
[05:55] Yang
    If we just take Fezzan at face value
    as a bunch of logical realists,
[06:00] Yang
    we could get the rug pulled out from
    under us when we least expect it.
[06:04] Yang
    A religion... Of course.
[06:08] Julian
    Admiral...
[06:10] Julian
    If I could go to Fezzan
[06:12] Julian
    and get any information I can find
    about their policies and strategies,
[06:17] Julian
    I could be of use to you, right?
[06:19] Julian
    If so, I would be happy to go to Fezzan.
[06:26] Yang
    Thank you.
[06:28] Yang
    But there's another reason I want you to go.
[06:33] Julian
    What do you mean?
[06:35] Yang
    Good question... How do I put it?
[06:38] Yang
    You can't get the full view of a mountain
    if you just look at it from one side...
[06:44] Yang
    Say, why don't we take a little walk?
[06:47] Julian
    Yes, sir.
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SIGN    Departure
[06:58] Yang
    The way things are going, it looks like
[07:01] Yang
    we're heading toward a life-or-death
    battle with Duke Lohengramm.
[07:06] Yang
    On that note, Julian,
[07:07] Yang
    would you say Duke Lohengramm
    is evil incarnate?
[07:12] Julian
    I... don't think he is.
[07:15] Yang
    Of course he isn't.
[07:17] Yang
    People like that only exist
    in TV dramas and such.
[07:21] Yang
    The moment you believe that absolute
    good and indisputable evil exist,
[07:24] Yang
    and that you are good while
    all who oppose you are evil,
[07:28] Yang
    you become incapable of
    cooperation and compassion.
[07:33] Yang
    Just look at Emperor Rudolf.
[07:35] Yang
    He shed so much blood with no hesitation
[07:37] Yang
    because he was so firm in
    his own idea of justice.
[07:40] Yang
    So, Julian, I'm sure it won't do any harm
[07:45] Yang
    for you to go to Fezzan
    and witness firsthand
[07:49] Yang
    the difference between
    their justice and ours.
[07:55] Yang
    Compared to that,
[07:57] Yang
    the rise and fall of a
    nation doesn't mean much.
[08:01] Yang
    That's the truth.
[08:04] Julian
    Not even the rise and fall of
    the Free Planets Alliance?
[08:09] Yang
    That's right.
[08:11] Yang
    I just hope it holds out long
    enough for me to get my pension.
[08:18] Yang
    The Free Planets Alliance
[08:20] Yang
    was created as the antithesis of Rudolf
    von Goldenbaum's political philosophy.
[08:26] Yang
    So if the Goldenbaum Dynasty falls
    at the hands of Duke Lohengramm,
[08:32] Yang
    the Alliance won't have any reason
    to continue existing, either.
[08:37] Yang
    Say, Julian...
[08:39] Yang
    Don't you think it's strange
[08:41] Yang
    that there are so many fools,
    even the most unrealistic ones,
[08:44] Yang
    who don't believe in immortal life,
    but who'll believe that a nation
[08:51] Yang
    can survive for an eternity?
[08:54] Yang
    The things we call "nations"
    are nothing more than tools.
[08:58] Yang
    So long as you don't forget that,
[09:00] Yang
    you should be able to stay sane.
[09:04] Julian
    I'll remember it.
[09:08] Yang
    Caselnes did just one good thing for me...
[09:12] Yang
    and that was bringing you to me.
[09:22] Na
    That evening, Yang hurriedly
    wrote a letter to Bewcock.
[09:27] Na
    He wanted Julian to deliver
    it to Bewcock personally
[09:32] Na
    when he reported to Fezzan
    to accept his appointment.
[09:36] Na
    In the letter, Yang wrote about
[09:38] Na
    the connection between Reinhard and Fezzan
    in the kidnapping of the emperor,
[09:42] Na
    suggesting it was either a conspiracy
    or a post-facto collusion.
[09:46] Na
    He also hinted that the Imperial Navy might
    feign an invasion of Iserlohn Fortress
[09:51] Na
    to catch the Alliance off guard
[09:53] Na
    while they penetrated the
    undefended Fezzan Corridor.
[10:02] Yang
    The Imperial Navy could use the Fezzan
    Corridor as a massive supply base.
[10:07] Yang
    No, not only that.
[10:10] Yang
    Fezzan has an enormous star chart
    that they use to facilitate trade.
[10:15] Yang
    If they give that up,
[10:16] Yang
    the Imperial Navy can overcome their
    disadvantage in geographical knowledge.
[10:33] Yang
    Come in.
[10:37] Frederica
    Were you able to talk to Julian?
[10:40] Yang
    Yeah, thanks to you.
[10:43] Frederica
    I'm glad.
[10:46] Yang
    Anyway, there are a few things
    I need to get done in a hurry.
[10:50] Yang
    First, I need some ideas for someone
    to accompany Julian to Fezzan.
[10:54] Frederica
    To be his bodyguard, right?
[10:57] Yang
    I think just about everyone at the
    Fezzan office is backing Trunicht.
[11:03] Yang
    Whoever we pick will be
    his only ally there.
[11:07] Frederica
    How about Warrant Officer Louis Machungo?
[11:09] Yang
    Sure. He won't let us down.
[11:13] Frederica
    I'll have him come here tomorrow morning.
[11:16] Yang
    Please do.
[11:17] Frederica
    Understood.
[11:20] Frederica
    That said...
[11:22] Frederica
    Is everything really going to be all right?
[11:25] Yang
    If anyone can make it work, Julian can.
[11:30] Frederica
    I wasn't asking about Julian.
[11:33] Frederica
    I meant with you.
[11:38] Alex
    Anyway, I'm surprised you found
    it in you to let Julian go.
[11:42] Alex
    Are you sure that wasn't a
    little too decisive of you?
[11:45] Yang
    What choice did I have?
[11:47] Yang
    It's an order from the
    National Defense Committee chairman.
[11:50] Yang
    Plus, I was sixteen when I left my
    dad to enroll in cadet school, too.
[11:56] Yang
    Maybe this is the right time for
    him to strike out on his own.
[11:59] Alex
    A respectable opinion.
[12:01] Alex
    I just wonder if you'll be able to take
    care of yourself without Julian.
[12:05] Yang
    Huh?
[12:07] Yang
    Why does everyone assume I'll be totally
    helpless without Julian around?
[12:14] Alex
    Because it's the truth.
[12:21] Na
    As Julian was about to depart,
[12:23] Na
    Yang was forced to say goodbye to
    someone very important to him.
[12:28] Na
    Merkatz had accepted the offer to join the
    Legitimate Galactic Empire Government.
[12:36] Merkatz
    I will depart tomorrow along
    with Lieutenant Schneider.
[12:40] Yang
    I don't know what to say.
[12:43] Yang
    Are you sure about this?
[12:45] Merkatz
    This certainly isn't what I wanted,
[12:48] Merkatz
    but if there is a need for a man like
    me, I feel I should answer it.
[12:53] Yang
    If that's what you've decided,
    I don't have the right to object.
[12:58] Yang
    But please allow me to say one thing.
[13:01] Yang
    We need you far more than they do.
[13:06] Merkatz
    I'm happy to hear you say that.
[13:11] Merkatz
    I hear you decided to send
    Julian to Fezzan, as well.
[13:15] Yang
    Yes, but this is what I told Julian:
[13:19] Yang
    "A nation is nothing more than a tool."
[13:24] Yang
    It's silly for a human to
    be controlled by a tool.
[13:27] Yang
    No, to be precise,
[13:30] Yang
    for the scarce few people who
    know how to use that tool
[13:34] Yang
    to try to take control of the majority.
[13:38] Yang
    I don't want people like
    that controlling Julian.
[13:44] Merkatz
    I can somewhat understand
    what you're saying.
[13:47] Merkatz
    Before, I'm sure I wouldn't have.
[13:51] Merkatz
    Perhaps the time I've spent
    here has changed me a bit.
[14:00] Na
    The next day,
    Merkatz left Iserlohn Fortress,
[14:04] Na
    accompanied by his adjutant, Schneider.
[14:15] Alex
    Saying goodbye to everyone? Admirable.
[14:18] Julian
    Not at all. Thank you for
    all you've done for me.
[14:24] Alex
    Don't cheat on Charlotte, now. She'll cry.
[14:33] Na
    Just like Caselnes,
[14:34] Na
    everyone at Iserlohn expressed
    their heartfelt regret
[14:38] Na
    over Julian's departure in their own way.
[14:46] Poplin
    You should've stayed at Iserlohn
    for, at least, another year.
[14:51] Poplin
    I wanted you to teach us something way
    more fun than how to pilot a Spartanian.
[14:57] Poplin
    It's a real shame.
[14:59] Poplin
    I conquered my first enemy, and my
    first woman, when I was seventeen.
[15:05] Poplin
    I've added more successes to my pile since.
[15:07] Poplin
    I'm up to triple digits on both now.
[15:10] Julian
    That's impressive.
[15:13] Konev
    Take care, Julian.
[15:15] Poplin
    Listen to me!
[15:18] Julian
    I will. Take care of yourself, as well.
[15:21] Konev
    By the way, I think I have
    a cousin in Fezzan.
[15:25] Konev
    I've never met them, though.
    And Fezzan's pretty big.
[15:30] Poplin
    Why'd you even bring it up, then?!
[15:34] Murai
    Well, I suppose I can say this now.
[15:36] Murai
    My job here is to make
    Admiral Yang look good.
[15:42] Murai
    There's no need to make that face.
[15:44] Murai
    I'm not saying that to complain
    or be self-deprecating.
[15:50] Murai
    Admiral Yang is a rare
    kind of man who has both
[15:53] Murai
    the temperament to be a commander and
    the talent to be a staff officer.
[15:57] Murai
    If he needs a staff officer for anything,
[16:01] Murai
    it's only to learn how normal people think,
    for his own reference.
[16:07] Murai
    Which is why, when the hero of El Facil
    asked me to be his staff officer,
[16:13] Murai
    I was so unsure as to what my role would be
[16:16] Murai
    that I couldn't answer immediately.
[16:20] Murai
    I was only able to answer after
    we captured Iserlohn Fortress.
[16:24] Murai
    I played the role of a
    "normal person" to the hilt,
[16:27] Murai
    deliberately stating the obvious
[16:29] Murai
    and doing things like being purposefully
    cold to Admiral Merkatz.
[16:34] Murai
    I'm sure I seemed quite
    insufferable at times.
[16:37] Murai
    Am I making sense?
[16:41] Julian
    But why are you telling me all this?
[16:47] Murai
    Yes... Why indeed?
[16:50] Murai
    It's not a very logical explanation,
[16:53] Murai
    but I think there's just something about
    you that makes people trust you.
[17:00] Murai
    I'm sure Admiral Yang and several others
[17:03] Murai
    have opened up to you about
    all kinds of things, too.
[17:07] Murai
    You need to treasure that part of you.
[17:10] Murai
    It will be a valuable asset to you someday.
[17:15] Julian
    Yes, sir. Thank you.
[17:19] Dusty
    A parting gift.
[17:21] Julian
    Thank you...
[17:25] Julian
    Um...
[17:27] Dusty
    It's a good-luck charm.
[17:29] Julian
    Good luck?
[17:30] Dusty
    In my first year at cadet school,
[17:33] Dusty
    I broke curfew and climbed the
    wall to get back inside,
[17:36] Dusty
    and some older student called Yang
    Wen-li pretended he never saw me.
[17:41] Dusty
    That was in my pocket at the time.
[17:45] Julian
    I'll take good care of it.
SIGN    Even after all this, you're still worried?
[17:50] Yang
    Well, not even Machungo can be
    with Julian around the clock.
SIGN    Don't worry.
SIGN    Julian's better with both guns and martial arts than you are.
[18:02] Yang
    When you put it that way...
SIGN    It upsets you?
[18:06] Yang
    No, it confuses me.
[18:08] Yang
    I don't know if I should be impressed
[18:10] Yang
    or worry that just being better
    than me isn't much to brag about.
SIGN    I'll put it another way, then.
SIGN    He's way better than you.
SIGN    Julian is more than capable of taking care of himself.
SIGN    Do you feel better now?
[18:27] Yang
    Well, I suppose I should take
    comfort in that, then.
SIGN    Oh, speak of the devil...
[18:35] Yang
    What is it, Julian?
[18:36] Julian
    I wanted to say my farewells
    to Rear Admiral Schönkopf.
SIGN    You see? He's a lot more reliable than someone else I know.
[18:53] Julian
    There.
[18:55] Julian
    I organized your teas by type.
[18:58] Julian
    I tried to make it clear where
    they all were at a glance.
[19:01] Yang
    Don't worry. I'll just
    drink whatever I grab.
[19:04] Yang
    More importantly, are you all ready?
[19:07] Julian
    Yes. I don't have much to pack,
    so it didn't take long.
[19:13] Yang
    Is that right?
[19:14] Julian
    Yes.
[19:16] Julian
    By the way, Admiral,
[19:18] Julian
    you've been drinking more alcohol lately.
[19:21] Julian
    You should cut back a bit.
[19:24] Yang
    Alcohol is a friend to mankind.
[19:26] Yang
    I can't abandon a friend.
[19:30] Julian
    Maybe that's what mankind thinks,
    but how does the alcohol feel?
[19:34] Yang
    First of all, humans were drinking
    alcohol 5,000 years ago,
[19:39] Yang
    and they still drink it now.
[19:43] Julian
    Yes, one did it right
    before my eyes just now.
[19:46] Yang
    I'm sure we'll be drinking it
    5,000 years from now, too.
[19:50] Yang
    If mankind is still around
    in 5,000 years, that is.
[19:55] Julian
    What concerns me isn't what
    happens 5,000 years from now.
[19:59] Julian
    It's what happens after tomorrow.
[20:01] Julian
    And I don't just mean the alcohol.
[20:04] Julian
    Can you get up every morning
    without me here to wake you?
[20:10] Yang
    Of course I can.
[20:14] Julian
    Are you really going to be all right?
[20:16] Yang
    Y'know, Julian, if anyone were
    to hear this conversation,
[20:21] Yang
    don't you think they'd get the mistaken idea
    that Yang Wen-li is absolutely useless?
[20:30] Yang
    Why is everyone against me on this?
[20:34] Yang
    Listen! Before you came to live here,
[20:37] Yang
    I got by just fine on my own!
[20:39] Yang
    I kept up a fine household
    without anyone's help!
[20:46] Julian
    With some fine mold and
    dust by your side, right?
[20:54] Yang
    Hey, that was a good one!
[20:59] Na
    On September 1st, the day of his departure,
[21:03] Na
    a send-off ceremony was held
    for Julian and Machungo.
[21:07] Na
    The one tasked with giving Julian flowers
[21:10] Na
    was Charlotte Phyllis Caselnes.
SIGN    You know, Commander Yang and Rear Admiral Caselnes
SIGN    were both against the bouquets. "You can't eat flowers," they said.
SIGN    And it's rare for them to agree on anything.
SIGN    But Lieutenant Greenhill said,
SIGN    "Formalities are important in situations like these,
SIGN    and it's such a minor formality, at that."
SIGN    And neither of them could argue with that.
[21:43] Poplin
    I'll bet.
SIGN    So I ask you this, comrades!
SIGN    Who is the wisest sage here at Castle Iserlohn?
[22:04] Yang
    Feels strange to face each other this
    way in a place like this, doesn't it?
[22:08] Julian
    Yes, it really does.
[22:13] Yang
    Listen to me, Julian.
[22:15] Yang
    Your life is your own, and no one else's.
[22:19] Yang
    Think first and foremost about
    how to live for yourself.
[22:25] Yang
    And...
[22:28] Yang
    Don't catch a cold.
[22:32] Julian
    Yes, sir. Take care of yourself, as well.
[22:36] Julian
    Try to drink less alcohol, if you can,
[22:39] Julian
    and be sure to eat your vegetables.
[22:43] Yang
    Sheesh... Still nagging me right
    up to the moment you leave, huh?
[22:52] Yang
    Well...
SIGN    Episode 45
SIGN    Emperor Overthrown
[25:01] Na
    Next time, "Emperor Overthrown."