In every age,
in every place,
In every age,
the deeds of men
in every place,
In every age,
remain the same.
the deeds of men
in every place,
In every age,
Universal Calendar 796,
Reich Calendar 487:
Reinhard von Lohengramm,
The young genius of the Imperial military,
in the Astarte Stellar Region.
routed an enemy twice his number
he was promoted to imperial marshal,
As a result of that success,
and expanded his own power within the Empire.
On the other side of the conflict
from complete annihilation,
was the man who saved the Alliance military
a would-be historian turned reluctant soldier:
Yang Wen-li.
Yang led the newly-formed 13th Fleet
Immediately thereafter,
"impregnable" Iserlohn Fortress.
and captured the so-called
using Iserlohn Fortress as a base,
However, the operation to invade Imperial territory,
crumbled before Reinhard's strategy.
at the Battle of Amritsar and was routed.
The Alliance military suffered terrible damage
his hegemony within the Empire,
The next year, Reinhard, having to secure
with the established noble houses.
entered into armed conflict
by malcontents in the Alliance military
At the same time, he instigated a coup d'état
to keep them from interfering.
but was unable to prevent it,
Yang guessed the plan,
and was forced to put down the coup.
defeated the allied forces of the nobles one by one
While he was doing this, Reinhard's forces
until their base at Geiersburg Fortress surrendered.
the Lohengramm dictatorship.
At this point, the Empire became
having put down the coup d'état,
On the other hand,
Yang was alienated from the heads of government
to defend Iserlohn Fortress.
and was sent back to the front line once more
Universal Calendar 798,
It was the beginning of the year
Reich Calendar 489.
Unidentified ship cluster, detected!
Number, approximately one thousand!
Fifty minutes to contact!
Son of a bitch!
The enemy's sending forces this far out?!
Sir!
Message to all ships:
Cancel exercises!
All personnel, Condition One!
Y-you mean, the recruits and the trainees, too?!
Of course.
This isn't a Boy Scout picnic!
and watch a war game!
We can't spare anyone to sit in ringside seats
Yes, sir!
All personnel, Condition One!
Iserlohn Corridor Sector FR!
Estimated contact point,
Iserlohn Corridor Sector FR!
Estimated contact point,
I wonder how many of them will come back alive?
Request reinforcements from Iserlohn Fortress!
Hey! Don't panic!
Squadron 1, fall in!
that I'm an expert at space combat.
Okay? I shouldn't have to tell you at this point
like me in the Imperial military!
However! There are no geniuses
You guys are lucky.
their goofball soldiers.
Probably because the Empire fires
What's that supposed to mean?
Just what it sounds like.
At any rate, I, the genius, give you my usual orders.
You newbs will form groups of three,
one enemy fighter at a time.
which will encircle and gang up on
This is fundamental. Don't forget it!
Yes, sir!
Okay, get going!
God, what are the government higher-ups thinking?
and keep rotating in raw recruits!
All they do is grab our experienced pilots
Duke Lohengramm's elite units.
Because they want us to fight
Duke Reinhard Lohengramm?
there must be two things:
To obtain people's faith in the system,
impartial judgment, and similarly impartial taxation.
Just that.
Karl Braque, Eugen Richter...
cast off your titles and call for societal reform.
Even though you are nobles, you say you'll
For that, I'd like your assistance.
Duke Lohengramm's popularity is growing, isn't it?
Yes, he is a master at playing the public.
Playing the public, you say?
Still, look at what he's done.
liberating private lands,
Abolishing the nobles' special privileges,
enacting civil laws, establishing a peasants' fund,
even guaranteeing a right of free speech.
Isn't all of this what we reformers wanted?
Perhaps,
by the people reform in name only?
but isn't reform that's not carried out independently
over the old system!
Even so, it's still an improvement
is already dealt with.
The problem of restoring the economy
who participated in the Lippstadt Coalition
Seizing the assets of all the nobles
has covered the deficit in a single stroke.
only to have them confiscated, I almost pity them.
When I think of how they hoarded those assets
who's come asking to see you.
On that note, there's someone
Arthur von Streit, formerly a commodore.
as a noble to whom he is aready endebted.
He's appealing to you for help,
Streit?
That man?
200 to 250 battleships,
Enemy forces number between
approximately 1,000 destroyers,
400 to 500 cruisers,
and 30 to 40 space carriers.
Bearing, 1 o'clock, elevation 30.
We will soon be within firing range.
There aren't that many of them.
All carriers, scramble fighters!
I wonder if I'll survive?
has a premonition of their own death?
Admiral, is it true that everyone
to pontificate about death
Julian, can you really trust someone
when they've never died once themselves?
Control, this is 316, ready to launch.
Requesting guidance.
Roger that, 316.
Confirm bulkhead seal, then launch at once.
Roger!
Sir, please get up!
What is it?
training and patrol duty fleet
We have a report that Rear Admiral Attenborough's
has encountered the enemy.
They're urgently requesting reinforcements.
Everyone's gathered in the conference room.
Spring comes late in the north," huh?
"Never a tranquil day on the frontier.
What a pain.
Julian?
I thought it would be safe, didn't I?
I sent him out with them because
I'm sure he'll come back all right.
He's a boy blessed with both talent and luck.
Attenborough's probably having a hard time.
We need to get him help as fast as we can.
Dodged it!
A direct hit!
I did it! I really did it!
is the flower of the Alliance military,
I've heard that the Iserlohn garrison fleet
yet their movements are strangely clumsy.
Damn you, Yang Wen-li, what are you up to?
pursuing them in too deeply!
To all ships! Avoid advancing or
Tell them to be prudent in any moves they make.
There may be a trap somewhere.
That's funny.
The enemy doesn't seem to be pressing the attack.
have been less than expected.
Thanks to that, our losses
I see. They're afraid, aren't they?
The Yang Fleet is famous.
Good, we'll hold out till reinforcements arrive!
to sending reinforcements,
I don't think there's any objection
but it's a question of scale.
What are our guest admiral's thoughts?
If you do reinforce them,
and with the maximum number of troops.
I think you should do it quickly,
which will be impossible to retaliate against,
By doing that, you strike the enemy a blow
and make a quick withdrawal.
while allowing you to recover your troops
I agree with our guest admiral.
By throwing in troops successively,
on the contrary, only expand the battle.
we'll lose our chance to recover our forces and,
then withdraw before enemy reinforcements arrive.
We'll rush the entire fleet out there,
Make ready to deploy at once!
Sir!
on the flagship, Admiral Merkatz.
I'd like to have you join me
Will that be all right with you?
Very good, sir.
I understand. I won't do you any wrong.
I appreciate it.
However, there is a condition.
the lists as a member of Command Headquarters.
Become my subordinate, and enter your name in
I place high value in your opinions and ingenuity.
of the public eye, but a new year has begun.
For close to a year, you've kept out
severing loyalties to your old lord?
Isn't it a good time for
leaves me speechless.
Your Excellency's magnanimity
so unworthy as myself,
In return for such kindness to one
I swear to you all my loyalty.
That's two!
Careful, careful...
Chief Julian Mintz.
Ameretat, this is Spartanian 316,
Requesting temporary return to ship for resupply.
Roger that, 316.
Land on deck B-17.
Any contact with our forces, yet?
interference have knocked out our comms.
Jamming waves and strong electromagnetic
How about a courier ship?
We sent one out, but there's nothing, yet.
We still don't have a situation report?!
Still unknown, sir!
At the end of the 20th century,
of radio-based weaponry.
there was explosive development
They called it the age of "push-button warfare."
materials and jamming techniques,
With the development of radio wave absorbing
were thrown back to square one.
communications and reconnaissance methods
it usually becomes hard to do.
Which boils down to, once the shooting starts,
in land battles, even nowadays.
We still use carrier pigeons and dogs
but war is a great example of a farce.
It may seem serious to the people in it,
for something so stupid, Julian!
So don't get yourself killed
Hey, don't cry.
Hey, kid, you're okay?
Lt. Commander!
when I'm still young enough to be called "kid."
Yeah, because I don't want to die
Of course not!
more interesting things than piloting.
Because you've got to learn
Uh, yeah...
Hey! Don't go leading an innocent kid astray!
And don't you go ruining my reputation!
from turning into a guy like you,
It's my duty as a man to keep him
who does nothing but crossword puzzles-
I heard you scored two kills.
Yeah, looks like I got lucky.
Yes! Because of my great instruction!
when you go back out there.
Just be even more careful
which puts us at even more of a disadvantage now.
Not many on our side made it back,
Yes, sir.
That's the Ulysses, isn't it?
Yes, sir, the battleship Ulysses.
It had a hard time at Amritsar, I hear.
You mean the way it took a direct hit to the toilets?
in the Ulysses' good luck.
Everybody, I'd like to share
Even if it's humiliating, make sure we survive!
and Alliance were both called "civil wars,"
Although the conflicts last year in the Empire
different political results.
they accomplished completely
and the Alliance was weakened, right?
Long story short, the Empire was strengthened
Until the Battle of Astarte the year before last,
the Empire, the Alliance, and our Fezzan
the proportions of national power of
were at 48%, 40%, and 12%.
Not by accident or without planning.
It was Fezzan that devised it.
But the present assets are 54%, 30%, and 16%.
It's too soon to call that an equilibrium.
Which is why I'm changing Fezzan's policy.
Sir?
we'll destroy the Alliance,
By cooperating with the Empire,
and let Duke Lohengramm unite space.
the new empire from behind the scenes.
Of course, afterward, we'll be controlling
But, sir!
Are you sure that's a good idea?
What about what the elders want?
Advisor...
Yes?
I'm talking about Fezzan policy here.
I beg your pardon.
the problem of Iserlohn Fortress here.
Although, that once again brings up
whom I dispatched to the Empire.
I got an intriguing report from Boltik,
Pull the damaged ships back!
without alerting the enemy.
Fall back toward the fortress bit by bit,
Commander!
Our fighters have taken heavy losses.
The enemy is slowly gaining space superiority.
How long has it been since we started?
It's been about seven hours.
Two more hours, huh?
Back off! This one's mine!
You back off!
That guy got my carrier!
Hey, kid, having a tough time, huh?
Lt. Commander!
Can you believe those idiots?
they left their rear wide open.
They were so involved with chasing you,
You saved me. Thank you very much.
Sure, you can do the same for me sometime.
almost out of energy, right?
Chief Mintz, you must be
Uh, yeah.
God, this guy checks on the smallest things...
Okay, Julian, let her rip, back to the ship!
Roger.
Twenty-two fighters. What about you, Konev?
Twenty-three.
It's hard to believe, but half of them are rookies.
was to have given the enemy time.
The last thing I expected
then launch an all-out attack!
We'll keep pressing our encirclement,
the enemy reinforcements will get here.
If we waste any more time,
Hurry!
Looks like the cat's out of the bag.
Hurry!
Launch every ship we have!
What do we do?!
Hurry! Hurry!
Go!
Kid, hurry!
There he is! Help him now!
Kid, hurry!
There he is! Help him now!
Sorry!
Hey, hurry!
Sorry!
Hey, hurry!
What are you doing?
It's no good!
There wasn't time to resupply it.
It's only 20%.
Pick up more on another ship, got that?
Yes, sir.
Survive.
Carrier Ameretat, destroyed!
What about its fighters?!
We lost most of them!
Please be all right, Julian.
Great!
Even a genius like me can't fight without ammo!
We may be in trouble here.
Any time now...
Admiral, at this rate-
Reinforcements!
Reinforcements have come!
All right!
Reinforcements! Reinforcements have come!
Reinforcements!
Reinforcements have come!
They came?
More than ten thousand of them?!
We can't take on that many!
The enemy is losing the will to fight; they're fleeing.
Shall we pursue?
It's fine. Let them run.
Victory without fighting, huh?
Well then, we'll recover our forces
repairs have been made to the damaged ships.
and have the whole fleet return once temporary
Will that be all right, Sir?
Fine.
satellites and radio relays in this area,
Oh, and we should deploy some surveillance
for the next time.
Yes, sir, I'll arrange for it at once.
And as for Chief Julian Mintz...
He made it back alive and unharmed.
completely destroyed one cruiser.
He downed three Walküren and
Message ends.
He blew up a cruiser?
In his first battle?
That's amazing.
He must have natural talent.
Even my first battle wasn't that impressive!
I have a really strong hunch he'll only get better.
Maybe.
Or maybe he just used up a lifetime of luck.
If he starts underestimating battles now,
it won't turn out well for him.
The real test of his talents is yet to come.
Universal Calendar 798,
Reich Calendar 489:
Iserlohn Corridor at the beginning of that year
The large-scale battle fought in the
as a simple border dispute.
was seen to have ended
Admiral, I have returned.
not to do anything dangerous?
Haven't I always told you
But in the end,
for a major offensive by the Imperial military.
that battle was to become the impetus
First Battle
Won't you try talking
To the newborn stars?
Within their tremulous shine
You will feel warm feelings
Won't you try to cross
The heroically flowing galaxy?
When it's embraced in your heart
You will feel a deep sense of life
Open your heart, listen closely
And listen to the prelude
Of your journey
NEXT EPISODE
reaches the Empire,
As word of the defeat in the Iserlohn Corridor
Reinhard struggles to reform his personnel.
as the Imperial military deploys anew?
Which admirals shall lead
Next time, on Legend of the Galactic Heroes,
"Portrait"
Episode 28:
Portrait
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