Editing Legend of the Galactic Heroes (section)

===800 UC===  

... and is killed in battle.

Yang Wenli and his freedom fighters of the 13th fleet recapture Iserlohn using the tricks they had left behind, but the mood is spoiled at the news that Bewcock is dead and the FPA government has fallen.  Digging in for a long fight, they establish the Iserlohn Republic and prepare for Empire's response.

It comes.  Reinhard throws everything he has at the Yang Fleet in a series of battles over several weeks.  However, Reinhard falls ill during the fighting, and combined with (incorrect) reports that Mittermeyer had died, and a desperate counterattack by Yang, the Imperial assault stalls and the battle ends in a draw.  

Reinhard offers to agree to terms, and Yang sets out to negotiate but is killed by religious fanatics from Earth (who had infiltrated both countries’ governments for centuries and dream of “Making Terra Great Again” a millennia after the colonial predecessors to the Federation had nuked Earth into radioactive dust) while enroute.

Meanwhile somewhere around this time the child emperor in exile allegedly died during the trouble on Heinessen, although the body believed to be his turns out to be someone else.  His ultimate fate is unknown, but the Empire quietly closes the matter rather than investigate further.

====Meanwhile====
[[File:LotGH_Jealous_Meme.png|thumb|right|250px|It cannot be said enough that you never stick it in crazy.]]
Oskar von Reuenthal has been put in command of the occupation of the former alliance territories to sort out the problems Lennenkampf created; this makes him effectively the second most powerful man in the empire.  However a plot is in work to frame him as a traitor. Reuenthal had been shagging a lowly member of the ex-aristocracy(who had tried to kill him) in a sort of "hate-fuck for not turning you in" arrangement, which isn't the kind of thing a loyal admiral of the new regime is supposed to be doing.

Reinhard visits alliance territory for a memorial for the war dead but is nearly killed by an Imperial trooper who blames him for the nuking of Westerland in the civil war.  This security fuckup, combined with some miscommunications, the previously mentioned affair incident, and too much arrogant pride, causes Reuenthal to decide "fuck it, I shouldn't have to apologize, this is Oberstein's fault" and he goes traitor for reals.  

Reinhard, returning to his temporary capital on Fezzan, is overwhelmed by the events.  Yang is dead, his troopers think he's a murderous tyrant, and one of his few friends is on the verge of going renegade over a misunderstanding.  Distraught, he spends the night with fraulein Mariendorf.

====The Very Next Day====
Realizing he just did what he was mad at the previous emperor about, Reinhard proposes to Hilda.  Her father, Count Mariendorf, a genuinely decent elderly fellow who just wants a quiet life, realizes he's dealing with two emotional children who know more about running nations than they do about love and intervenes to quell Reinhard's concerns.  Reinhard begins planning his offensive to resolve the matter with Reuenthal and asks Hilda to have an answer for him when he returns.

====And Then====
Reinhard launches ANOTHER invasion of the alliance territory, this time to remove Reuenthal.  Both Reinhard and Reuenthal send emissaries to Iserlohn.  Reuenthal offers to leave alliance territory at the end of the conflict if Iserlohn keeps the Imperials from passing.  Julian Mintz, a young officer who grew up living with Yang as a foster child and now acts as his successor, considers this offer but ultimately decides to permit Admiral Muller to travel through the corridor.  Reinhard is impressed by Julian's wisdom in not siding with Reuenthal.  

Reuenthal is ultimately forced to do battle with Reinhard's fleets.  He is gravely wounded but opts for quick battlefield treatment rather than be hospitalized.  Reaching his office, he decides to do some good for the galaxy before he dies, calls Trunict to his office and shoots him dead. Expecting Mittermeyer to arrive shortly to arrest him, he pours a pair of drinks and dies from internal bleeding. When Mittermyer does indeed arrive for his oldest friend, he also finds Reurnthal's infant son from the previously mentioned affair. He immediately adopts the child.  

Reinhard, returning from the battlefield, receives his response from Hilda: she's pregnant.