1. D-YFI@AniDBCopy !req
2. LEGENDCopy !req
3. OF THECopy !req
4. GALACTIC HEROESCopy !req
5. In every age,Copy !req
6. in every place,Copy !req
7. the deeds of menCopy !req
8. remain the same.Copy !req
9. Space Era 798...Copy !req
10. Imperial Year 489,
September.Copy !req
11. Julian Minci is heading for
the capital planet, Heineseen...Copy !req
12. in order to accept a commission
as a military attache to Phezzan.Copy !req
13. It's been 4 years since
I was 12 years old...Copy !req
14. and I became Admiral Yang's
dependent under the War Orphan's act.Copy !req
15. I'm learning to live on
my own after a long time.Copy !req
16. Now, when it's too late, I realize
I don't know how to spend my time.Copy !req
17. I'm not saying that's why...Copy !req
18. but I'm going to do something
I've been meaning to do.Copy !req
19. Admiral Yang really
wanted to be a historian.Copy !req
20. Other people call him
"the magician" or "miracle worker."Copy !req
21. But the Admiral himself says he just applies
a lot of what he learned from history.Copy !req
22. I think that's
just modesty...Copy !req
23. but before
I go to Phezzan...Copy !req
24. and come into contact with another set
of values like the Admiral told me to do...Copy !req
25. I think I'll try looking back anew at
the history of humanity until now.Copy !req
26. In 2801 AD...Copy !req
27. mankind declared the establishment of
the United Stars Galaxy (USG) on Theoria...Copy !req
28. the 2nd planet of
the Aldebaran System.Copy !req
29. That year was declared
Space Era (SE) year one.Copy !req
30. Thus began an insatiable expansion...Copy !req
31. towards the innermost depths and
frontier regions of the galactic system.Copy !req
32. Since the previous century had
been an age of wars and disorder...Copy !req
33. the fact that it followed an era in which the
development of the human race stagnated...Copy !req
34. the energy that gushed forth could,
in contrast, be called explosive.Copy !req
35. This was called the
Golden Age of Humanity...Copy !req
36. filled with a spirit of freshness
and eagerness to progress.Copy !req
37. But the era was not
without problems.Copy !req
38. Space pirates were born of the war
between the Terran and Sirian Empires.Copy !req
39. They couldn't be called a
threat in the military sense...Copy !req
40. but to the USG,
they were a serious problem.Copy !req
41. To the inhabitants of the frontier, it
wasn't simply a problem of safe passage...Copy !req
42. when they realized the number of guards
necessary to guarantee their safety...Copy !req
43. they lost the will to
develop the frontier.Copy !req
44. The concerned USG decided to
enlarge the space army in SE 106...Copy !req
45. and embarked in earnest
to eradicate the space pirates.Copy !req
46. Due to the actions of
Admirals Michel Cuffren,
Christopher Wood, and others...Copy !req
47. they had nearly achieved
that objective in two years.Copy !req
48. But they didn't succeed in
wiping out these criminals.Copy !req
49. Because of that, as a means of allopathic
treatment, the huge space army remained.Copy !req
50. There were many who felt that the
creation of that large space army...Copy !req
51. would lead to a repeat
of the same failure as Earth...Copy !req
52. which had exhausted itself
on military adventures.Copy !req
53. The people of that time also
distrusted the control of the military.Copy !req
54. For two hundred years after that, an era
of peace and development continued.Copy !req
55. However, while that peace continued, the
shadow of stagnation fell over the human race.Copy !req
56. It seemed to be that exhaustion and
fatigue defeated hope and ambition...Copy !req
57. negative supplanted the positive,
pessimism supplanted optimism...Copy !req
58. and conservatism took the
place of progressiveness.Copy !req
59. In reality, discoveries and inventions in
science and technology came to a halt...Copy !req
60. and the expansion of humanity's
territory also topped out.Copy !req
61. Furthermore, the democratic republic form
of governing lost the ability to renew itself.Copy !req
62. As people began showing interest in
only their own needs and desires...Copy !req
63. it was changing
to mob rule.Copy !req
64. Any age is the same.Copy !req
65. As society lost its ability to act, social life
and culture trod the road to decadence.Copy !req
66. People lost sight of
their fundamental values.Copy !req
67. Regardless of
age or gender...Copy !req
68. those addicted to drugs, alcohol, sexual
promiscuity, and mysticism multiplied.Copy !req
69. When they sought stimulation by speed or
violence, accidents and crimes escalated.Copy !req
70. The arrest rate fell
in inverse proportion.Copy !req
71. The tendency to take life lightly
and mock morality deepened.Copy !req
72. One of the reasons
for these problems...Copy !req
73. was that the influence of religion fell
dramatically after the unification on Earth.Copy !req
74. Even during the apocalyptic
time of the 13-day war...Copy !req
75. and subsequent 90-year war,
no savior appeared.Copy !req
76. No god descended to Earth.Copy !req
77. All realized that no
divine being would save them.Copy !req
78. In the golden
age of the USG...Copy !req
79. those who were prepared relied only
on their own strength and resources.Copy !req
80. But as society shifted to a stagnant
period, it was filled with hopelessness.Copy !req
81. Of course there were many people
who worried about this state of affairs.Copy !req
82. And those who were
concerned weren't mistaken...Copy !req
83. in recognizing that the illness of
society needed a drastic treatment.Copy !req
84. But they were mistaken in
their choice of the remedy.Copy !req
85. Rather than a long-term cure to restore
their society's self-purification and renewal...Copy !req
86. they chose a strong medicine
that gave quick relief...Copy !req
87. but was accompanied by
undesirable side effects.Copy !req
88. That "strong medicine" turned
out to be a dictatorship.Copy !req
89. In Space Era 288...Copy !req
90. a cadet who'd graduated at the head of his
class from Space Army Officer's School...Copy !req
91. Rudolf von Goldenbaum...Copy !req
92. displayed a shrewdness that was called
"the second coming of Admiral Wood."Copy !req
93. He wiped out the
"Main Street Space Pirates..."Copy !req
94. in the Betelgeuse sector.Copy !req
95. He was criticized for his ruthlessness, but
the voices of praise were clearly louder.Copy !req
96. Suffocating in the circumstances
of a stagnant age...Copy !req
97. the citizens of the USG turned with
cheers to the new, young hero, rich in zeal.Copy !req
98. In Space Era 296...Copy !req
99. Rudolf, who had become an Admiral at
age 28, retired and went into politics.Copy !req
100. He won a seat in Parliament, and gathered
young politicians based on his popularity.Copy !req
101. He came to wield influence in Parliament as
the leader of the "National Reform Alliance."Copy !req
102. Strong government!Copy !req
103. Strong leaders!Copy !req
104. Order and vitality in society!Copy !req
105. In election after election, the National Reform
Alliance rapidly extended its influence.Copy !req
106. Rudolf succeeded in building
a firm political base.Copy !req
107. By referendum,
he became Prime Minister...Copy !req
108. and he was elected
President by Parliament.Copy !req
109. By unwritten law, it was prohibited
to hold these two posts concurrently.Copy !req
110. But Rudolf took advantage of the fact
that no Constitutional articles forbade it.Copy !req
111. And when these two posts,
whose separate power were limited...Copy !req
112. were combined in
one individual...Copy !req
113. no other man alive could
oppose his political power.Copy !req
114. At length, Rudolf became an absolute
dictator who didn't allow freedom of speech...Copy !req
115. and came to call himself
"President for Life."Copy !req
116. Then, in SE 310, he announced the
founding of the Galactic Empire...Copy !req
117. proclaiming himself the holy, inviolable
Emperor of the Galactic Empire.Copy !req
118. The former USG was changed
to the Galactic Empire.Copy !req
119. The Space Era dates
were abolished...Copy !req
120. and the year was made
anew into Imperial Year One.Copy !req
121. Rudolf's rise could be called the
most conspicuous example in history...Copy !req
122. of people preferring to take orders
obediently, with the lack of responsibility...Copy !req
123. over independent thought and the
responsibility which accompanies it.Copy !req
124. Because when Rudolf became Emperor,
the number of people who cried "Bravo!"...Copy !req
125. was clearly greater than the
people who expressed misgivings.Copy !req
126. It was the citizens who wanted
Rudolf to become Emperor.Copy !req
127. In response to that, with extremely powerful
leadership ability and steadfast resolution...Copy !req
128. he enforced discipline
among public officials...Copy !req
129. increased efficiency, and
drove out corrupt officials.Copy !req
130. Unhealthy lifestyles and
pleasures were prohibited.Copy !req
131. By vigorous judicial activity, crime and
juvenile delinquency decreased radically.Copy !req
132. By any means necessary...Copy !req
133. the evil practices, which had hung
over human society, were swept away.Copy !req
134. But his plans
didn't stop there.Copy !req
135. In Imperial Year 9, the infamous "Inferior
Genes Exclusion Law" was announced.Copy !req
136. The law of the Universe
is the law of the jungle.Copy !req
137. It's survival of the fittest!Copy !req
138. Human society can be no exception!Copy !req
139. A society where inferior people have
increased beyond a certain level...Copy !req
140. loses its vitality
and grows weak!Copy !req
141. I ardently wish for the
prosperity of the human race!Copy !req
142. Accordingly, it is my holy duty as
the superintendent of humanity...Copy !req
143. to exclude those elements which
weaken the seed of humanity!Copy !req
144. Rudolf not only abolished the social
policy of welfare for the weak, but also...Copy !req
145. he regarded the handicapped and
the poor as abnormal and inferior.Copy !req
146. He took the radical measure
of forced sterilization...Copy !req
147. and required the euthanasia
of the mentally ill.Copy !req
148. When this bill
was announced...Copy !req
149. even those citizens who'd been
worshipping Rudolf thus far blanched.Copy !req
150. There weren't that many people who
could claim to be superior humans.Copy !req
151. Representing that
popular opinion...Copy !req
152. were the remaining republican politicians
of Parliament who criticized the Emperor.Copy !req
153. Because of that, Rudolf instantly
dissolved Parliament permanently.Copy !req
154. Furthermore...Copy !req
155. he established a Social Discipline Support
Office in the Department of the Interior...Copy !req
156. which set out to prosecute
political criminals.Copy !req
157. Rudolf's confidante, Secretary of the Interior
Ernst Falstrong, held that post concurrently...Copy !req
158. and carried out arrests, confinements,
imprisonment and punishment.Copy !req
159. However, this was not by law,
but according to his individual judgment.Copy !req
160. Proof wasn't necessary
for prosecution.Copy !req
161. That was an age of a dark,
terrorist government.Copy !req
162. None of the political and ideological criminals
arrested were formally sentenced to death.Copy !req
163. However, some were
executed without a trial...Copy !req
164. and some disappeared after
being sent to barren exile planets.Copy !req
165. Some turned into the living dead after being
forced to take drugs or undergo lobotomies...Copy !req
166. and some died of illness in jail,
while some killed themselves.Copy !req
167. The sum total of these actually
amounted to four billion.Copy !req
168. However, since the total population of the Empire was approximately 300 billion...Copy !req
169. this amounted to no more than 1.3%...Copy !req
170. they could quibble that "for the sake of the
peace and welfare of the majority of society..."Copy !req
171. "we have eradicated a handful
of dangerous elements."Copy !req
172. Of course, this majority
included countless people...Copy !req
173. who trembled in fear at the
fate of four billion people...Copy !req
174. but swallowed their dissatisfied
voices into oppressive silence.Copy !req
175. While suppressing all opposition...Copy !req
176. Rudolf selected "superior human
resources," obtained their backing...Copy !req
177. and created a new class of aristocrats
to support his Imperial House.Copy !req
178. But because all the people Rudolf
had chosen as nobles were white...Copy !req
179. and all with Germanic names...Copy !req
180. there were none who pointed
out Rudolf's personal failing.Copy !req
181. Falstrong also received the title
of Count due to his effectiveness.Copy !req
182. But, en route home, he was assassinated
by a republican terrorist's bomb.Copy !req
183. Rudolf consoled his
meritorious subject's spirit...Copy !req
184. by executing 20,000 people
as conspirators in that attack.Copy !req
185. In Imperial Year 42, Emperor Rudolf
the Great's life ended in its 83rd year.Copy !req
186. But he didn't die
completely satisfied.Copy !req
187. The four children he'd had with his
Empress Elizabeth were all girls.Copy !req
188. He could not leave
a male child as his heir.Copy !req
189. His favorite mistress in
his last years, Magdalena...Copy !req
190. had borne him a son, but it's
said that he was a congenital idiot.Copy !req
191. There was no record in the official
Imperial archives about this fact.Copy !req
192. But considering the fact
that not just Magdalena...Copy !req
193. but even the doctors and
nurses connected with the birth...Copy !req
194. were all sentenced
to death afterwards...Copy !req
195. pretty much confirms
that this rumor must be true.Copy !req
196. This was a crushing blow to Rudolf, who proclaimed the "Inferior Genes Exclusion Law."Copy !req
197. He had hoped for the development
of a superior human race.Copy !req
198. After Rudolf's death...Copy !req
199. Sigismund I, son of his eldest
daughter, became the 2nd Emperor.Copy !req
200. Aided by his father,
Prince Joachim von Neue Stauffen...Copy !req
201. this 25-year-old Emperor
came to rule the galaxy.Copy !req
202. At this opportunity...Copy !req
203. a succession of democratic rebellions
broke out everywhere in Imperial territory.Copy !req
204. But Rudolf had spent
forty years building up...Copy !req
205. a strong trinity of nobles,
military and bureaucrats.Copy !req
206. And Prince Joachim von
Neue Stauffen, who led them...Copy !req
207. showed a calm, self-possessed leadership
ability, and crushed the rebel influences.Copy !req
208. More than 500 million people who'd
participated in the uprisings were executed.Copy !req
209. More than ten billion of
their families and associates...Copy !req
210. were deprived of their citizenship
and reduced to serfdom.Copy !req
211. Due to this...Copy !req
212. the Empire seemed to have established
a solid system within the nation.Copy !req
213. In Imperial Year 164...Copy !req
214. there was a young man who'd
been forced to hard labor...Copy !req
215. on the 7th planet
of the Altair system...Copy !req
216. for being a member of a rebel's
family, named Ahle Heinessen.Copy !req
217. Seeing children playing with ice
boats on the water, he had an idea.Copy !req
218. There was an inexhaustible supply
of natural dry ice on the planet...Copy !req
219. to make material to build a spaceship.Copy !req
220. By hollowing out a space
122 kilometers in length...Copy !req
221. they extracted vast
amounts of ice from inside.Copy !req
222. The caverns provided room
for both engines and people.Copy !req
223. The 400,000 men and
women who boarded this ship...Copy !req
224. succeeded in escaping and hid
underground on a nameless planet...Copy !req
225. where the Empire's supervising
eyes didn't reach.Copy !req
226. As soon as they'd constructed
80 interstellar spaceships...Copy !req
227. they left Imperial territory and headed
towards an unexplored space zone.Copy !req
228. The journey wasn't easy.Copy !req
229. All along it were space zones
where navigation was impossible.Copy !req
230. After they discovered the
present day Iserlohn Corridor...Copy !req
231. and while they had yet to
succeed in passing through it...Copy !req
232. they lost their leader,
Heinessen, in an accident.Copy !req
233. By the time his best friend, Nguyen Kim Hoa,
who succeeded him, grew blind with age...Copy !req
234. at long last they discovered a stable
fixed star with a habitable planet.Copy !req
235. Eventually, in Imperial Year 218...Copy !req
236. or year 527 of the revived
Space Era calendar...Copy !req
237. they announced the founding
of the Free Planets Alliance.Copy !req
238. Its first citizens numbered
approximately 160,000.Copy !req
239. Their journey, later called
"the 10,000 light year march..."Copy !req
240. had required half a century and more
than half of their numbers in sacrifices.Copy !req
241. During the next century, as the
population of the Alliance increased...Copy !req
242. they promoted replenishment
of national resources.Copy !req
243. The golden age of the USG
seemed to have reappeared.Copy !req
244. Then, in Space Era 640,
Imperial Year 331...Copy !req
245. the Empire and Alliance
made their first contact.Copy !req
246. It was in the form of an encounter
between their respective warships.Copy !req
247. The Empire had reached the age
of its 20th Emperor, Friedrich III.Copy !req
248. A subjugation force
was hastily organized.Copy !req
249. Grand Duke Herbert led the huge
fleet, but was soundly defeated.Copy !req
250. The combination of Alliance Fleet
Supreme Commander Lin Pao...Copy !req
251. and Chief of Staff Yusuf Topparol,
made the most of bloodletting.Copy !req
252. In the Dagon star zone,
they succeeded in producing...Copy !req
253. a large-scale siege and annihilation
operation of unparalleled dimensions.Copy !req
254. When this defeat was
revealed in the Empire...Copy !req
255. foreign elements within the Empire
all tried to flee to the Alliance.Copy !req
256. The Alliance, which accepted those refugees,
consequently achieved voluminous expansion.Copy !req
257. But those refugees changed the
national composition of the Alliance.Copy !req
258. The exiles who headed to the
Alliance weren't all republicans.Copy !req
259. They included common criminals...Copy !req
260. nobles and members of the Imperial family
defeated in power struggles within the Palace.Copy !req
261. There were times of great battles
between the Empire and Alliance.Copy !req
262. At times, there were
periods of false peace.Copy !req
263. Phezzan could be called
a product of that.Copy !req
264. With a huge, dangerous space zone lying
between the Empire and the Alliance...Copy !req
265. there are only two Corridors
where passage is possible.Copy !req
266. Iserlohn Corridor, which includes
the Dagon star zone...Copy !req
267. and also the
Phezzan Corridor.Copy !req
268. But Phezzan became an independent zone
that carried out diplomacy and trade.Copy !req
269. Phezzan is officially under
the sovereignty of the Empire...Copy !req
270. and its Landesherr is a
subject of the Emperor.Copy !req
271. But the nation's domestic policies
are completely independent.Copy !req
272. The man who later became
the first Landesherr...Copy !req
273. Leopold Lape, a merchant
born on Earth...Copy !req
274. made independence a reality by lobbying for
its independence with almost unnatural zeal.Copy !req
275. Phezzan, itself, is no
more than one planet.Copy !req
276. But due to its monopoly of trade
between the Empire and the Alliance...Copy !req
277. it has accumulated
vast amounts of wealth.Copy !req
278. Its influence on both nations, especially
financial influence, was also great.Copy !req
279. Each nation's power ratios are:
Empire 5 : Alliance 4 : Phezzan 1.Copy !req
280. Their population ratios are:
25 billion, versus 13 billion, versus 2 billion.Copy !req
281. This ship will enter orbit around the
capital planet, Heinessen, momentarily.Copy !req
282. The boarding of the shuttle for
debarking passengers begins at 18:00.Copy !req
283. I repeat...Copy !req
284. This ship will enter orbit around the
capital planet, Heinessen, momentarily.Copy !req
285. The boarding of the shuttle for
debarking passengers begins at 18:00.Copy !req
286. The capital planet Heinessen.Copy !req
287. The planet with the name of the
nation's founder, Ahle Heinessen...Copy !req
288. 270 years have passed since the
founding of the Free Planets Alliance.Copy !req
289. The ideals of its founders
have already been lost.Copy !req
290. With its government agents
fishing for privileges...Copy !req
291. and its populace only seeking value
in profits, it was becoming mob rule.Copy !req
292. Meanwhile, in the Empire...Copy !req
293. under Reinhard von Lohengramm's
powerful leadership...Copy !req
294. government reforms were
being carried out.Copy !req
295. Would the Alliance, which had lost its
ideals, lose even its reason for being?Copy !req
296. There was nobody
who could answer.Copy !req
297. Preview of Next EpisodeCopy !req
298. The Imperial Fleet's invasion of
Alliance territory was announced.Copy !req
299. It was a daring, monumental plan that exceeded the expectations of Phezzan...Copy !req
300. who thought they had written the script.Copy !req
301. But Yang Wenli alone had anticipated it.Copy !req
302. Next episode of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, episode 41, "The Operation Name is Ragnarok."Copy !req
303. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Episode 41Copy !req
304. The Operation Name is RagnarokCopy !req
305. Another page to the history of the Galaxy.Copy !req