Editing Legend of the Galactic Heroes (section)

===801 UC===
The new year begins with celebration among Reinhard's admirals.  The war, it seems, is over.  The alliance is pacified; the few holdouts at Iserlohn seem to offer little threat.  The Emperor will soon be married and a child is on the way.  Times are good, even if some old friends are absent.  

And then the war wasn't over.  Julian Mintz, seeing the consolidation of the empire, perceives that he has one chance to force a settlement that could secure some autonomy from the empire.  Rallying all the forces he can, the Yang Fleet breaks out of Iserlohn, battering the fleets cordoning the area and daring the emperor to come to battle.

Reinhard of course isn't going to take that sitting down.  He assembles his fleets and launches to meet the student of Yang on the battlefield.  

Meanwhile, the church of terra makes an attempt to assassinate Hilda, although this is foiled by Admiral Kessler.  Hilda goes into labor; it's a healthy prince.  Kessler attracts the affections of Hilda's maid, and then rushes off to start persecuting religious extremists.  

Julian's plan is simple... get to the Emperor.  Some of the Yang Fleet's remaining ships are stripped, rigged for remote control and used as shields to allow a single [[Caestus Assault Ram|assault ship]] to reach Reinhard's flagship.  Reinhard is again ill, and his doctors say it is terminal.  Julian boards Reinhard's flagship (in the process achieving something ''nobody'' in the series ever managed to do: Cause damage to it), fights his way all the way to Reinhard and demands a settlement of the conflict.  Reinhard agrees, although ultimately the terms are negotiated by Hilda as Reinhard's condition rapidly declines.  Somewhere in the battle, Schönkopf and the last of the Rosenritters succumb to wounds, having fought and killed most of the crew of the Empire's flagship.

The battle's survivors return to Heinessen to negotiate a settlement.  However, the church of terra isn't done making life difficult for everyone.  Adrian Rubinsky, former leader of Phezzan, and now a hospitalized prisoner, learns that Reinhard is on the planet and commits suicide.  His death triggers a series of bombs throughout the capital, although he fails to get anyone important.  

Reinhard's condition rapidly deteriorates over the next few days, but the terraists make one final effort to kill him, which is fended off by Julian and his officers, though Olberstein is mortally wounded in the fighting.