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. Universal Century 799,
Imperial Year 490, April 26th.Copy !req
8. The battle in the Vermilion
Starzone approaches its third day.Copy !req
9. Reinhard von Lohengramm and Yang Wenli
break off combat without a word to each other.Copy !req
10. So many men lost,
for no reason at all...Copy !req
11. Boy, what a useless fight.Copy !req
12. If only we had more men...Copy !req
13. With ten thousand more ships...
No, five thousand more...Copy !req
14. No, no, three thousand
more ships would do.Copy !req
15. If so...Copy !req
16. On April 27th, having reorganized his
own forces, Yang orders a lightning strike.Copy !req
17. The Alliance forces are
launching a blitzkrieg.Copy !req
18. Give them
a warm welcome.Copy !req
19. Concentrate fire on the center
of the enemy formation!Copy !req
20. Charge!Copy !req
21. It's a complete breakthrough!
We're through!Copy !req
22. Yeah!Copy !req
23. That was too easy.Copy !req
24. The next enemy
will be arriving soon!Copy !req
25. Flagship - MuffueseCopy !req
26. Rear Admiral MarinoCopy !req
27. Continue to charge at the enemy,
and destroy them at point blank range!Copy !req
28. We've broken
through their ranks!Copy !req
29. More enemy forces dead ahead!Copy !req
30. They're spreading
out to all sides!Copy !req
31. Dammit! How many layers
of defense do they have?Copy !req
32. What is this,
a petticoat?Copy !req
33. Commander Konev.Copy !req
34. The fighter squadron has
been placed on combat alert.Copy !req
35. ColdwellCopy !req
36. I see. Carry on.
Pass my regards to the men.Copy !req
37. Yes, sir!Copy !req
38. Yo!Copy !req
39. How about using the number
of planes we shoot down today...Copy !req
40. to see who's treating
whom to a shot of whiskey?Copy !req
41. Still love gambling
as much as ever, I see.Copy !req
42. What, crossword
puzzles again?Copy !req
43. You're always doing those.Copy !req
44. Let's see... "Something that
everybody experiences once?"Copy !req
45. Of course there is.Copy !req
46. I have a pretty good idea
what you're talking about.Copy !req
47. Starts with an "F".
Seven letters.Copy !req
48. That would be
"FIRST TIME..."Copy !req
49. Oops.
Too many letters.Copy !req
50. "FUNERAL."
The end of the line.Copy !req
51. Crap. You jinx.Copy !req
52. Remember that
shot of whiskey!Copy !req
53. Sorry about how it always
ends up as your treat.Copy !req
54. Talk all you want.Copy !req
55. On April 29th, Yang's fleet has already
broken through the eighth layer of defense.Copy !req
56. But in front of them lay
yet another layer of defense.Copy !req
57. What unbelievable
depth and strength...Copy !req
58. It's like peeling the
layers off an onion.Copy !req
59. Layers upon layers of
defense keep appearing.Copy !req
60. Endless numbers of them.Copy !req
61. We can't very well
stop now, can we?Copy !req
62. Shall we peel
that ninth layer?Copy !req
63. Or, shall we...?Copy !req
64. There's no advantage
in stopping at this point.Copy !req
65. Prince Lohengramm's strategem is
frightfully intricate, but we must go on.Copy !req
66. Admiral...Copy !req
67. What is it?Copy !req
68. Yes, sir.Copy !req
69. I believe I know what
Prince Lohengramm is thinking.Copy !req
70. He's keeping up
a good facade.Copy !req
71. There's a light year separating what
Prince Lohengramm is thinking...Copy !req
72. and what he's
actually doing.Copy !req
73. Yes, but I think that there's only less than
a light second of separation, in this case.Copy !req
74. Go on.Copy !req
75. Prince Lohengramm's goal is
to chip away at our endurance.Copy !req
76. And do it both
materially and mentally.Copy !req
77. The proof's in the fact that breaking through
one defensive web brings on another.Copy !req
78. He's right.Copy !req
79. They're not coming
at us from the front.Copy !req
80. If they were, the sensors
would have picked them up...Copy !req
81. and it'd be difficult for Prince Lohengramm
to assess changes in the combat situation.Copy !req
82. Therefore, there is nothing separating
our forces from Prince Lohengramm.Copy !req
83. I believe that the enemy forces are positioned
to our front, to the side, like thin cards.Copy !req
84. In other words, they're drifting and
appearing in front of our forces.Copy !req
85. If we can do
something about that...Copy !req
86. we should be able to engage
Prince Lohengramm's main force.Copy !req
87. I see.
That makes sense.Copy !req
88. That was well
thought out.Copy !req
89. The approaching Imperial forces
have launched their fighters!Copy !req
90. Have Poplan and Konev's
squadrons engage.Copy !req
91. Whiskey! Rum!
Walker! Applejack!Copy !req
92. Everybody gathered up?Copy !req
93. Don't get gulped down by
the enemy! Gulp them down!Copy !req
94. Use that thing I taught you!
Three ships per formation!Copy !req
95. OK! Break!Copy !req
96. Alliance scum!Copy !req
97. Don't presume that you can use
the same tricks all the time!Copy !req
98. All ships! Form up,
three to a formation!Copy !req
99. Holst SchurerCopy !req
100. Lead them to within
firing range of the fleet!Copy !req
101. You want to take me on?Copy !req
102. I think you're fifty years
too early for that!Copy !req
103. Don't fire!
You'll hit our own ships!Copy !req
104. Chase him towards the cruiser!Copy !req
105. We won't count
those towards the score.Copy !req
106. Man, if I keep dragging my feet, I'm
really gonna have to treat Konev again.Copy !req
107. Extending the battle line
is advantageous to our forces.Copy !req
108. We'll be able to quickly
secure space superiority.Copy !req
109. Yes.Copy !req
110. All ships, status report!Copy !req
111. This is Whiskey squadron.
All intact!Copy !req
112. This is Rum squadron.
Fourteen ships are safe and sound!Copy !req
113. This is Walker.
We have eight down.Copy !req
114. How about Applejack?Copy !req
115. There are only two survivors in
Applejack... me, and one other.Copy !req
116. Everyone else was
killed in action.Copy !req
117. Everyone else was...Copy !req
118. Was what?Copy !req
119. Applejack squadron!Copy !req
120. Lt. Moranville,
please reply!Copy !req
121. This is Ensign Zanchavsky.Copy !req
122. I'm now the only survivor
of Applejack squadron.Copy !req
123. Sir! The situation is
not good for our fighters!Copy !req
124. We should have them retreat,
and concentrate on fleet defense.Copy !req
125. Agreed.
Make it so.Copy !req
126. Hey.
Where's your commander?Copy !req
127. I want to see him be
in a worse mood than I am.Copy !req
128. I'm now acting squadron leader for
Konev's squadron, Lt Commander Poplan.Copy !req
129. I'm in no mood for a
roundabout explanation right now.Copy !req
130. What happened to Konev?Copy !req
131. He's been killed in action.Copy !req
132. By how many?Copy !req
133. Huh?Copy !req
134. I said, how many ships
was he shot down by?Copy !req
135. Ivan Konev couldn't have been
shot down in a one-on-one dogfight.Copy !req
136. How many Imperial ships did
it take to take Konev down?Copy !req
137. Commander Konev wasn't
killed in a dogfight.Copy !req
138. He was hit
by cruiser fire.Copy !req
139. I see.Copy !req
140. So they needed a cruiser
to take Konev down?Copy !req
141. Then they'll need at least
ten battleships to get me.Copy !req
142. We've broken through.Copy !req
143. Prince Lohengramm's strategem
is an extreme form of a lure...Copy !req
144. for the purpose of wearing down our
forces, just as Ltjg Minci pointed out.Copy !req
145. Continuing forward is folly, but stopping
would be like giving the enemy time.Copy !req
146. We'd still be snared
by their plot.Copy !req
147. Thus, the key to this operation will be
breaking through that deep defense.Copy !req
148. That's our only chance at winning.Copy !req
149. Therefore, we'll temporarily withdraw
and hide out in the asteroid belt.Copy !req
150. The enemy has retreated?Copy !req
151. Yes.Copy !req
152. They've pulled back 800,000km,
to an asteroid belt.Copy !req
153. Prince Reinhard Lohengramm,
in order to take Yang Wenli's assault...Copy !req
154. had prepared twenty-four
defensive walls.Copy !req
155. Each wall, once penetrated,
retreats to the rear...Copy !req
156. and forms a new
defensive wall.Copy !req
157. The Alliance forces faced the
nightmare of neverending battle.Copy !req
158. However, for prideful Reinhard...Copy !req
159. it was an operation that demanded
an extraordinary level of patience.Copy !req
160. The enemy fleet
has moved out!Copy !req
161. From our perspective, they're
pulling hard to the port flank.Copy !req
162. 30 AprilCopy !req
163. ten thousand ships!Copy !req
164. What is he planning,
I wonder.Copy !req
165. I don't think Yang Wenli would
casually disperse his forces.Copy !req
166. Perhaps his purpose is
to spread out our forces...Copy !req
167. But the problem is whether
that was their main force?Copy !req
168. They allowed us to see it,
so it is probably a decoy...Copy !req
169. but it's possible that it
might be their main force.Copy !req
170. In either case, spreading out
our forces would be foolish.Copy !req
171. Please give us your
orders, Your Excellency.Copy !req
172. All forces, turn
to our port flank.Copy !req
173. That lure is a decoy and appears
to be a ploy to move their forces!Copy !req
174. We'll take them head on,
and punch them in the nose!Copy !req
175. Enemy fleet has
entered firing range!Copy !req
176. Vice Admiral Welner AltringenCopy !req
177. Excellent.
Commence firing.Copy !req
178. What is it?Copy !req
179. Expanding enemy recon image!Copy !req
180. Look!Copy !req
181. This is...Copy !req
182. Vice Admiral Dahtlich SaukenCopy !req
183. We've been tricked!Copy !req
184. Enemy approaching
rapidly to our rear!Copy !req
185. All ships,
maximum speed!Copy !req
186. Cut off their
retreat with one blow!Copy !req
187. Flagship - AchilleusCopy !req
188. We miss this opportunity,
and we've had it!Copy !req
189. Flagship - VigrissCopy !req
190. Vice Admiral GrunemanCopy !req
191. Don't let the enemy fleet get
near Prince Lohengramm!Copy !req
192. Vice Admiral Rolf Otto BrauhitzCopy !req
193. All ships:
come about 180 degrees!Copy !req
194. Don't allow the
enemy to get back!Copy !req
195. All ships:
rush the enemy fleet!Copy !req
196. Construction ShipCopy !req
197. The enemy fleet
formation is yielding!Copy !req
198. Concentrate fire,
and break their formation!Copy !req
199. Charge!Copy !req
200. Now!Copy !req
201. All ships, turn about ninety
degrees and synchronize fire!Copy !req
202. The enemy has appeared
to our rear!Copy !req
203. We're under heavy fire!
Mayday!Copy !req
204. Altringen's fleet is
being wiped out!Copy !req
205. Brauhitz's fleet cannot
maintain the battle line!Copy !req
206. Enemy fleet approaching!Copy !req
207. I've been had.Copy !req
208. Is it to be victory upon victory,
only to suffer defeat at the very end?Copy !req
209. Kircheis...Copy !req
210. Is this as far as
I'll be able to go?Copy !req
211. Your Excellency, a shuttle
has been made ready.Copy !req
212. Please, you must escape.Copy !req
213. Don't overstep your bounds.Copy !req
214. I know no way of war where one
runs away when it is unnecessary.Copy !req
215. Do you think a coward could
become the final victor?Copy !req
216. Please forgive
my presumption.Copy !req
217. However, abandoning the battlefield
now does not mean defeat.Copy !req
218. As soon as we gather up the rest of our
forces, we can re-engage and seek revenge.Copy !req
219. If I run away in fear
of Yang Wenli here...Copy !req
220. those whom I've killed would
mock me, from Hell to Valhalla.Copy !req
221. What kind of conqueror
would I make?Copy !req
222. Do you mean for me to
become a laughingstock?Copy !req
223. Excellency, please don't take
your precious life so lightly.Copy !req
224. We can begin again.
Please escape.Copy !req
225. What happened?Copy !req
226. It's Muller's fleet!Copy !req
227. Muller's fleet has
come to our aid!Copy !req
228. We're saved!Copy !req
229. 2 MayCopy !req
230. Don't let up your fire!Copy !req
231. Chase the enemy off!Copy !req
232. Have we made
a positive ID?Copy !req
233. Yes. The flagship
Brunhild is unharmed.Copy !req
234. We made it in time...Copy !req
235. How about the
rest of our fleet?Copy !req
236. Because we were at maximum impulse,
we've left some of our ships behind.Copy !req
237. Only 60% of our ships have
arrived at the battlefield.Copy !req
238. No matter. Put us between
the enemy fleet and the flagship.Copy !req
239. Protect Prince Lohengramm!Copy !req
240. Of the Imperial commanders
who were dispersed...Copy !req
241. in order to enact
the grand entrapment...Copy !req
242. the first to go on the
offensive was Neithart Muller.Copy !req
243. But there was a
reason behind that...Copy !req
244. Lycus Starzone, 24 AprilCopy !req
245. What? They're surrendering
rather than fighting?Copy !req
246. Yes. They said
they wouldn't resist.Copy !req
247. As far as we're concerned, we're elated.
But it's rather shameful of them.Copy !req
248. Very true.Copy !req
249. Free Planets, Lycus Supply BaseCopy !req
250. Why?Copy !req
251. You're handing over to the enemy the supplies which are critical for us right now.Copy !req
252. I don't understand!Copy !req
253. Yeah! Yeah!Copy !req
254. If we can't safeguard
these supplies...Copy !req
255. we should render them useless
to the enemy by irradiating them!Copy !req
256. That's right!Copy !req
257. We should destroy the supplies,
rather than let the enemy use them!Copy !req
258. I agree!Copy !req
259. Yeah, me too!
Don't hand them over!Copy !req
260. The supplies gathered here are
staple goods for the civilians.Copy !req
261. Base Commader - Aubry CockraneCopy !req
262. No matter whether we have
a dictatorship, or a democracy...Copy !req
263. we must never destroy
the lives of civilians.Copy !req
264. The Imperial Fleet has
agreed to the condition...Copy !req
265. that these supplies are
to be distributed to the civilians.Copy !req
266. Therefore, there is no need
to spill blood unnecessarily.Copy !req
267. I don't agree!Copy !req
268. This action
aids the enemy!Copy !req
269. Yeah!Copy !req
270. Yeah,
you coward!Copy !req
271. We'll use force
to stop you.Copy !req
272. Don't you understand
the Commander's feelings?Copy !req
273. Traitors...!Copy !req
274. I'll keep my promise.
We won't use these supplies.Copy !req
275. We'll distribute
them to the people.Copy !req
276. You have my thanks.Copy !req
277. I've misjudged you.Copy !req
278. How about it?
Will you work for me?Copy !req
279. I can employ your talents
in governing this place.Copy !req
280. I appreciate your offer...Copy !req
281. but I'm a timid man - I care a great
deal about what others think of me.Copy !req
282. I wouldn't want it said that I surrendered
the supplies in exchange for a post.Copy !req
283. It'll be enough if you allow me
and my men to return to Heinessen.Copy !req
284. I see.Copy !req
285. Admiral!Copy !req
286. At 1420 today...Copy !req
287. Imperial Admiral Lohengramm's fleet engaged the enemy in the Vermilion Starzone.Copy !req
288. They're in combat!Copy !req
289. It's begun?Copy !req
290. Leave an administrative staff behind, and
the rest of the ships will make for Vermilion!Copy !req
291. Leave behind any ships
which can't keep up.Copy !req
292. Move!Copy !req
293. Since the time necessary for taking the
Lycus System Supply Post was shortened...Copy !req
294. Muller's fleet was able to get to
Vermilion ahead of the other fleets.Copy !req
295. In retrospect, Commander
Cockrane's decision...Copy !req
296. cost Yang's fleet its chance to
kill Reinhard von Lohengramm.Copy !req
297. But that appraisal would be left to
the analysis of future historians.Copy !req
298. Positive ID established
on enemy flagship.Copy !req
299. It's the battleship Lubeck
- Muller's fleet!Copy !req
300. It isn't the Gale Wolf?Copy !req
301. That was a terrible oversight,
not figuring in Muller.Copy !req
302. Our commanders shouldn't take flight
just because one fleet joined the battle.Copy !req
303. Miracle Yang will show
us another trick.Copy !req
304. Don't let the
enemy break through!Copy !req
305. Just a moment more!Copy !req
306. Just a moment more, and we'll
have the command flagship!Copy !req
307. Admiral, we can't!Copy !req
308. We're under intense enemy
bombardment, and taking heavy losses!Copy !req
309. If we keep this up, we won't
be able to hold the line.Copy !req
310. We've already lost
two thousand ships!Copy !req
311. That's ridiculous!Copy !req
312. Do you mean to tell me we've taken
60% losses in less than an hour?Copy !req
313. Muller's fleet has
cut into our formation.Copy !req
314. What an excellent commander...Copy !req
315. He sizes up the situation well, he fights
well, he knows when to protect his master.Copy !req
316. Now's not the time
to admire the man.Copy !req
317. We're almost out of
energy and missiles.Copy !req
318. The battleship Achilleus
has been destroyed.Copy !req
319. Admiral Lionel Mouton
has been killed in action.Copy !req
320. Muller has done well.Copy !req
321. However, we haven't broken
out of their entrapment.Copy !req
322. We're in danger
of being destroyed.Copy !req
323. Flagship - TheodoricusCopy !req
324. Form up! Try not
to take another hit!Copy !req
325. Flagship - HermossrCopy !req
326. Vice Admiral KalnapCopy !req
327. Get in touch with
central command, somehow!Copy !req
328. Request reinforcements!Copy !req
329. I have no
forces in reserve.Copy !req
330. Tell him to die
there, in battle.Copy !req
331. If he has more to say,
he can tell me in Valhalla.Copy !req
332. Die, he says?Copy !req
333. Fine, I will!Copy !req
334. If I die, I'll reach
Valhalla first...Copy !req
335. and you'll be the one running errands
for me, Reinhard von Lohengramm!Copy !req
336. All ships,
full speed ahead!Copy !req
337. Head for where our friendly forces
are concentrating their fire...Copy !req
338. concentrate fire there,
and break out of this siege!Copy !req
339. Open up the web at the point where
the enemy is concentrating their fire!Copy !req
340. The entrapment
has been broken!Copy !req
341. Excellent! Break out!Copy !req
342. Rescue our comrades!
Forward!Copy !req
343. Open fire!Copy !req
344. Be as accurate and
as efficient as possible.Copy !req
345. We're heavily damaged
in six blocks!Copy !req
346. The fusion reactor has been
breached! We're in danger!Copy !req
347. Admiral, please abandon ship.Copy !req
348. The life of this ship
will soon be over.Copy !req
349. Move the command post
to another battleship.Copy !req
350. Which battleship is closest?Copy !req
351. The battleship Neustat, sir.Copy !req
352. All hands, abandon ship!Copy !req
353. Yes, sir!Copy !req
354. All hands, abandon ship!Copy !req
355. All hands, abandon ship!Copy !req
356. You, too. Into the shuttle with you.Copy !req
357. But...Copy !req
358. That's an order.Copy !req
359. Yes, sir.Copy !req
360. However, the Neustat,
which Muller boarded...Copy !req
361. was also hit by Alliance fire, and
soon lost navigational capability.Copy !req
362. It was destroyed when
Muller abandoned it.Copy !req
363. Should I consider
that lucky, or not?Copy !req
364. Next, Muller transferred
to the Offenburg...Copy !req
365. and finally, two hours later,
to the battleship Helten.Copy !req
366. Muller, who carried on a brave
battle from ship to ship...Copy !req
367. would earn himself the
name "Muller Ironshield."Copy !req
368. However, by eliminating the danger
of Muller joining the battle...Copy !req
369. 5 MayCopy !req
370. Yang rebuilt his battle lines
after making new plans.Copy !req
371. At long last, the Alliance fleet
had brought Reinhard's flagship...Copy !req
372. the Brunhild,
within firing range.Copy !req
373. Enemy defenses have
completely collapsed!Copy !req
374. We have the enemy flagship!Copy !req
375. Firing solution complete!Copy !req
376. Preview of Next EpisodeCopy !req
377. While both forces are entangled in a life-or-death battle in the Vermilion Starzone...Copy !req
378. Hilda learns about the disadvantageous position Reinhard is in...Copy !req
379. . and heads off to visit Mittermeyer, with a plan in mind.Copy !req
380. What exactly is this "plan"?Copy !req
381. Next episode of Legend of Galactic Heroes:
Episode 53, "A Sudden Turn."Copy !req
382. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Episode 53Copy !req
383. A Sudden TurnCopy !req
384. One more page to the history of the galaxy.Copy !req