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