Editing Legend of the Galactic Heroes (section)

===799 UC===
It works.  Yang's fleet is half of what the Alliance has left and it's all the way out in left field at Iserlohn.  Yang resolves to abandon the fortress to Empire, leaving tricks to facilitate any future attempt to retake it.  Yang's superior and mentor, Admiral Bewcock, leads what remains of the alliance forces in a delaying action until Yang can get his forces to the field.  

Reinhard is pressing ahead, eagerly seeking a final showdown with Yang Wenli.  However, at the climax of his battle, Heinessen signals surrender and Yang obeys... despite having fought all the way to Reinhard's flagship.  Reuenthal and Mittermeyer, bypassing the remaining defense forces, rushed the Alliance capitol to force a quick end to the conflict.  They did this at the request of Hildegard von Mariendorf, a minor noble who backed Reinhard in the civil war and now serves as his aide and advisor, occupying the void left by Kircheis's death.  Hilda is concerned about Reinhard's reckless desire for total victory or death on the battlefield, thinking that he has a death wish as his way of coping with loss.  

With the fall of Heinessen, Reinhard is nominally ruler of all of known space.  Yang Wenli goes into retirement for several months, until the puppet FPA government is pressured by the empire (without Reinhard's order) to move to arrest him.  Yang is rescued by his officers, who go rogue.  Stealing ships and gathering defectors, they set out for Iserlohn.  

Consul Lennenkampf, the Imperial officer responsible for persecuting Yang, dies in the incident.  The Alliance remnants are furious at the Empire.  The Empire is furious at the Alliance.  Reinhard sends another force to fully occupy the FPA.  Admiral Bewcock assembles a last ramshackle fleet to meet it...