Editing Legend of the Galactic Heroes (section)

====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.