Galaxy Years 798, Empire Years 489
With a great fleet of thirty-six thousand ships...
High Admiral Reuental tried to conquer lserlohn Fortress.
When he was unable to accomplish that goal...Mittermeier's
fleet rapidly launched from Odin in response to his request...
And should have been marching to the deadlocked front lines of
Iserlohn, but... Hey! This is pretty strange.
This data is different
from the direction of lserlohn.
Yeah. I thought it was strange, too.
With every warp
we go further off the right course.
These coordinates aren't for lserlohn...
The Admiral can see us.
This is Fleet Commander Wolfgang Mittermeier.
I will now make an important announcement.
Our fleet isn't going to lserlohn, we're going to Phezzan corridor!
I repeat.
Our fleet's objective for invasion is Phezzan corridor!
Ultimate objective, doesn't stop with the occupation of Phezzan.
We make Phezzan into a rear base, passing through the corridor...
to dominate the rebels who usurp for themselves the name of the
Alliance. And put a stop to the disruptive dispute in our society.
That is the objective of this dispatch.
We're not here just to fight and subjugate,
we're here to turn the pages of history.
But, it won't be easy to achieve that objective.
Alliance territory is huge. They still have
many troops in their camp and also an excellent commander.
But we gain an overwhelming advantage by controlling Phezzan
corridor! I have great expectations of your fighting.
All ships... Prepare for warp navigation
Destination; Phezzan Corridor.
Soon my shift'll be over.
You look happy. Got a date with your girlfriend?
We're going to go see the Moon Castle.
I am so jealous.
What is it? Unidentified objects
discovered! They've warped out inside the corridor.
They're rapidly approaching Phezzan.
Total of...
t-ten thousand ship!
No! They are increasing. There's more than 2000 more.
What is it?
What?
Sound the alarm. It's an emergency situation.
Yes, Sir.
Try sending out a warning to them. Yes, Sir.
Approaching fleet, please stop where you are.
Approaching fleet, please obey control...
It is against the agreement. Please obey.
Why is the Empire Army here?
Phezzan corridor is supposed to be an unarmed space zone.
It seems we've been nicely taken in. They pretended to
be going to lserlohn, and assaulted Phezzan in one blow!
So the Empire intend to occupy Phezzan by force of arms?
What is it, other than that?
Be calm! It's an emergency.
It's no use! They are not responding.
Contact the Landesherr's office. Tell them it's an invasion
from the Empire! Yes.
I don't understand.
Why did things turn out these ways.
Why?
What in the world are the guys in the Empire-stationed
Commissioner's Office doing! What's that! What's happening?
Emergency! There's an invasion from the Empire fleet.
The Reich Troops are invading into Phezzan.
It's already started.
Everyone, please move to the safety zone.
Move now.
Everyone, please move to the safety zone.
Move now.
Have you heard? Your Excellency Landesherr.
I heard.
Phezzan's final day seems to have come within fingers' reach.
I never thought he'd come this far this year.
We've been completely outwitted by the blond brat.
Looks like Baldic's has been won over to his side.
Baldic will probably come riding in supported by the Empire's arms.
In order to steal your position,
and inherit power that's too heavy for him.
Your age is over.
You held your post four years, looks like
you will be... the shortest-lived Landesherr in history.
Can you guarantee that my age is over?
As to that point,
I'm of the same opinion as Baldic.
Actors whose parts are finished,
yet, monopolize the stage for so long... annoy me.
We'd like to ask you to leave the stage promptly.
You're of the same opinion as Lohengramm,
that I'm harder to manage than Baldic.
It's not my business how you'd try to beautify yourself.
Really, I didn't know.
I am not that eccentric to have an interest in corpses.
You are really smart.
No sooner than the chance arrived, you bared your fangs?
I can't deny that you are smart.
But, do not try to overestimate yourself.
There's no need for you to dirty your hands.
Please get that clear, Rupert.
One day, I will overthrow Baldic's imbecility.
In any case, for me to become master of Phezzan, you're in
the way. Without you,
I can gain the power to oppose Baldic!
I want to bring Phezzan back to life!
However, Rupert...
Shut up!
Don't call me by my name in such a friendly way.
I'm your father. Why can I not?
How dare you call yourself my father.
My father?
My so-called father. You... You...
It seems you underestimated me a little, Rupert.
I knew you harbored the intention of killing me.
That was your objective when you came to this house tonight.
Therefore I made these preparations.
How did you know?
I said you were naive.
Did you really believe Dominique was your ally?
That slut!
You resembled me too much, in bad ways.
If you'd reduced your eagerness and greed a little more...
I probably would have handed over my position and power to you.
You knew it all, but you just didn't know to wait for the
right time. That is where you went wrong.
I didn't think you'd hand anything over a single thing...
I'd take away everything.
I decided so
I won't leave you anything.
Your Excellency Landesherr, what will you do now?
During the coup d'etat, the Free Planet's Chairman Trunicht,
hid away until it was over.
That seems like a good idea.
We should learn from him.
It can't be helped, Officer... Let's get out.
Are we going to walk?
No, run. The most important
targets for conquest are the Landesherr's Office...
Alliance High and Space navigation office, broad-cast center,
the central traffic office, the orbital elevator control
center. The goods circulation control center.
The police headquarters. The ground traffic control center.
And the hydrogen motive power center.
The three most important things are the Landesherr's Office...
The Alliance High Commissioner's Office, and the space
navigation office. We must control their computers
and get our hands on their data.
This is an absolute condition. Understand?
Yes, Sir.
Also, I'll make this strict announcement beforehand.
Massacre of civilians, pillaging, and violence towards women.
Violators will be punished by a firing squad directly.
Got it?
Don't think that Wolfgang Mittermeier is double-tongued.
I'll give a suitable reward to those who would honor of
the Empire Army. Bear it in mind.
Yes, Sir!
There was a message from our Empire High Commissioner's Office.
The office is afraid of being assaulted by rioters hostile to our
army's advance...So they'd like us to send a squadron of guards.
We have just arrived, yet they want us to return?
Well, fine,
send one battalion of land troops, too.
If they can't walk the streets for fear, no need for them to greet us.
Can't you make contact with our native country?
It's no use, communications are being blocked.
Your Excellency Commissioner,
I beg to inform you that we must
erase all of the memory on the High Commissioner's computer.
Erase?
If we leave it as is,
all the data will end up being used by the Empire Army.
Please make a decision The Empire Army will be coming here at once.
There's no time.
I won't take orders from you!
But, aside from the orders,
your plan seems viable.
Maybe we should erase the computer's data as you say,
but you'll take responsibility, won't you?
There's also another way.
Leave the computer's memory as it is,
and surrender to the Empire Army.
If you offer them valuable data,
maybe they'll be lenient with you.
Understood! I'll take responsibility.
Officer, help me. To the computer room.
We've succeeded in occupying the Landesherr's Office.
But there's no sign of the Landesherr himself.
I think he might be at his private residence...
I've finished erasing the data.
Please, please...
Please, take me with you to a safe place.
Where's Captain Viola?
What happened to the others?
I don't know. Everyone disappearing.
Really! So they've abandoned their posts?
It can't be helped.
For the time being...Do change into clothes that are easy to move in
and get ready cash and a gun.
We will leave at once.
What'll we do?
Honestly speaking, he'll be a burden,
but we can't abandon him.
Never mind that, help me...
I want to construct an automatic rifle-firing device.
Yes.
What a waste of time.
Too quiet.
It might be an ambush. Don't you know the situation inside?
Reporting, there is a fire inside...
I've blundered.
Second platoon, to the front! There's an ambush,
charge in carefully!
Captain, there's nobody in the building.
What? Then who opened fire on us? In the second storey
window, there's a rifle with an attached firing device.
An automatic firing device, eh?
Yes... It was connected to a time switch.
They have a shrewd guy who wastes our time.
Fine. Hurry up and put out the fire!
Yes.
How's the computer?
It's no good. The data's been completely erased.
What will we do now?
Where can we go?
If not, it's a problem.
We'll look for some independent merchant first.
What'll we do when we find one?
I mean to get him to offer us a ship in order to escape Phezzan.
But will it go as well as you think?
If I can't get back... To the place where I really should be...
Mittermeier, having subdued Phezzan... commandeered the
Hotel Vltava and made his temporary HQ there.
He prevented exploitation of any kind,
but did not restrict others in any way.
He also promised that their lives won't be affected in any way.
At the same time, he also used his identity,
to prevent prices of goods from skyrocketing.
Even the merchants of Phezzan
dare not disobey the orders of the Gale Wolf.
Mueller is scheduled to arrive at 1500 hours, isn't he?
Yes, Sir.
Well, then, let's go to St. Theresa Square first.
We'll settle things there first.
Will Commander attend the execution, too?
Of course!
Even though it was strictly forbidden,
didn't they rape a civilian woman... And even stole her engagement ring?
It's enough to make me want to shoot them with my own hands!
I am sorry, Commander.
The fact is, Your Excellency...
there's been a request for their lenient treatment.
Please consider.
Definitely not.
I always mean what I said.
Are you saying you weren't listening?!
Sir!
I'm called Marina.
I'm the acting Captain of the independent trade ship Belusca.
I am the Business Officer. It usually takes an expert,
but I think I can help you secure a ship this time.
That's good to hear. The truth is,
Lieutenant, we're not complete strangers, you and l.
We've common friends between us.
Really?
Yes.
My Captain, Boris Konev, and your guardian, Admiral Yang Wenli.
were good friends as children.
Really?! So, where is your Captain?
Unfortunately he's on Heinessen right now.
So I'm employed as acting Captain.
I see...?
But I know another very talented pilot.
You can count on me.
To a Phezzanni, a contract is sacred.
However, it will take money.
Maybe you will consider paying suitable compensation for courage
and skill. I think this is reasonable.
I think so, too.
I'll pay enough.
Won't you hurry and look for a talented person?
Here's the agreed-on down payment.
Thank you very much.
It might take a little time before we depart, but I'll do
it somehow. Very well then, I'll be off.
Do you think he can be trusted
I think I can, but...
That kind of vagueness is a problem!
That's my money.
We're in trouble if you waste it!
Better be more concern about whether he'll betray us,
and get us into trouble.
What you think about that point?
Whatever...
Because I intend to do anything to return to Admiral Yang side.
I don't mind taking risks.
It seems barbaric, but if this kind of thing
isn't punished by death, it's meaningless.
Commander Mittermeier must hate this.
Do you know? About what happened
before the Admiral joined Prince Lohengramm's camp.
No.
Under the old order...
He shot to death a noble-born subordinate
who'd killed and robbed a civilian.
According to military law, he did no wrong.
But the Admiral was born a commoner.
He provoked the high nobles. He was not only
thrown in a military prison, but they tried to murder him too.
What...!
Luckily his best friend...
Admiral Reuental sought help from Lohengramm...
At the time, Lohengramm still went by his former name of Musel,
He was only 19. But he was already an Admiral.
Indeed. We will carry out
the execution of the criminals who raped a civilian now!
Aim!
Fire!!
This place looks under control.
I heard the occupation went nearly without bloodshed.
The takeover is only temporary,
isn't it?
Are you worried about something?
Having been taken by surprise...
The Phezzannis are now behaving themselves.
But rascals who are seething will probably take some action.
Especially because I let the Landesherr Rubinsky escape.
If that guy organizes a resistance,
it might become a rather uninviting matter.
I'll bet that Lohengramm has already included...
The Phezzannis' antipathy and revulsion in his calculations.
You are right.
But, at any rate, if I don't fight,
my shoulders will get stiff.
Didn't Phezzan always had information in its hands?!
Unbelievable!
Why weren't able to guess the Empire Army's aggression?
What were the rascals in the High Comm's Office doing?
Sending so many reports on how's the weather and how're the parties.
Government officials aren't to be relied on at all.
Apart from the fact that they're in another country...
Also because it is Phezzan's trash...
that become government officials. It's a mistake to
expect profitable reports and such from them.
Exactly!
Those good-for-nothings!
But how in the world will it be, hereafter?
How will it be hereafter, you say?
History will change. The Goldenbaum Dynasty,
and Phezzan, and the Alliance will all disappear.
Then that blond brat will become Emperor of the entire universe.
Don't you get it? That brat's
dissatisfied with just taking over Goldenbaum Dynasty?
He's the very picture of greed...
He is so vicious.
Can cute brats succeed?
The big shots of this nation
Iost out to him on this point.
Listen everyone.
We're the free people.
We're not the ones who importantly call themselves the Free Planets.
We're the real freed society.
We do not need any Emperor.
I don't want to live long...
And see the Empire reduced to this.
There is no need for me to live on.
This kind of era went on for a hundred years..
And I thought it will go...
Thinking back, there is some basis to this thinking.
Even the Goldenbaum Empire,
went down.
I think Phezzan is not too far behind.
It's a pity, Phezzan will also perish.
Perish? Phezzan will perish?
There we won't have a country.
Yes. Maybe Phezzan will perish temporarily.
We can rebuild though.
We'll rebuild the castle of independent traders, of our free
people. Like I said a little while ago,
we don't need such things as Emperors.
We are the free people.
It was a good speech, Willock.
Why, if it isn't Marina?!
Don't scare me.
What makes you show your face here?
I've come with work for you.
I think you'd like steering a ship better than acting.
Great... I will do it.
I can't stand you.
You accept without asking the terms of the job?
I'm going to smolder in a place like this,
I'd accept a request from the devil.
That's because you're just a bit better than the devil.
Empire Year 489; December 30.
Reinhart von Lohengramm arrived on Phezzan.
Sieg Mein Kaiser!
They're calling you Emperor. Mein Kaiser... Our Emperor.
Sieg Mein Kaiser!
They're impatient.
Sieg Mein Kaiser!
Sieg Kaiser Reinhart!
Sieg Mein Kaiser!
I'm sorry to inform you.
But we haven't captured either the Landesherr Rubinsky,
or the Alliance High Commissioner, Henslow.
We failed to get data from Alliance High Commissioner's Office.
Perfection is a fairly nonexistent thing.
If you couldn't do it, others can't.
There's no need to apologize.
Sir.
I don't care about the Alliance High Commissioner,
and as far as the computer data goes...
We've got our hands on the data from the navigation office,
so it's not a dismal failure.
But on the subject of Rubinsky, I'm rather worried...
Agreed!
What do you think...
Rubinsky's intentions are, Hilda?
At the present point in time, I think he acknowledged defeat.
I think he anticipated that Baldic...
will be unable to control Phezzan.
He's thinking that his own turn will come again when Baldic failed.
Whichever sides...Lohengramm, or the Phezzannis. He will do as he will.
You are quite right. Is just that...
Is something bothering you?
I can't be sure.
But both Rubinsky and Baldic,
Iooks like they have something up their sleeves.
What is it...?
Here is the computer room. The security's already been disarmed.
Wait.
Everyone, wait here.
Yes, this is what I wanted.
Let's go, Kircheis...
In our quest to gain our universe.
Galaxy Years 798, Empire Year 489,
is left for the past amid confusion and perplexity.
Now, shouts of Sieg Kaiser Reinhard
are overpowering the whole universe.
Time goes on for those who hear that as a lucky sign...
And those who hear that as an unlucky sign.
Life carries on...
Galaxy Year 799, Empire Year 490, came to call.
Occupied Phezzan
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At the same time, Bucock came to a decision.
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