Legends of Galactic Heroes - The Sleeping Dragon

Chapter 21 extra

Inside the Ministry of War, Lohengramm was given the command of an armada to repel the invasion force and as that happened the entire war ministry.

Inside the admiralty room the other admirals were busy talking. Everyone, except Reinhard, Kircheis, and Oberstein were present. Everyone was wondering what was going on.

"What do you think happened, did the Kaiser die?" Asked Bittenfeld as the others were waiting around.

"There's no way he could die right now," says Kempf. "It could be something that happened at the frontlines, or a possible rebellion again."

"Well who knows." Says Lutz, as Wahlen shrugged his shoulders.

"Judging by the circumstances with the Kaiser's old age and his falling health." Says Kempf as it was finished by the Mecklinger, "and the fact of something else happening like a possible attack."

"It's almost intense in the situation we're in. Don't you think Reuenthal?' Says Mittermeyer as Reuenthal nods, "yes, indeed. But,... what do you think Bismarck?"

Bismarck was silent. The tall man was one person who would sometimes talk unless it has weight to it.

"Normally, if something happened to the Kaiser, we wouldn't be moving anyway and we'd all be informed of what happened. If it's something else the other ship's would be launching but all of the token forces are down here and the rest are in orbit above Odin. So I believe it's something else and not the Kaiser. If that, no ships would be moving at all. And we wouldn't have to wait for Reinhard with his friend and Oberstein."

Most of the other admirals took note of that and adding that Bismarck was more of a harder code to crack open like Oberstein. Despite his appearance, he was a scary man with his voice. Some people said he was scary when he's in combat, he was also one of the few who would scare his superiors to near petrified by his eyes. His deep voice also scared others because of his unpredictability and uncanny times he would show up out of nowhere. Also adding to the fact that he's a member of the Hohenzollern Family of the Reichenbach Starzone; the scariest starzone due to it being in a nebula. For those wondering about navigation for the Imperial Fleet, 76% of those come from that starzone.

The conversation ended when he finished as the otber immediately shuffled to their positions. In the rows were in this order:

Left row: Bismarck, Reuenthal, Mecklinger, and Lutz

Right row: Kircheis, Mittermeyer, Bittenfeld, Kempf, and Wahlen.

Reinhard was centerline to the red carpet and Oberstein to his right side, behind him.

"This is sometimes new. The Rebels* have sent an invasion force from Iserlohn." This new shocked others, the fact the rebels can be able to invade the Empire.

"Well, I won the bet Reuenthal, you owe me 80 marks." Bismarck silently whispers to him as the aforementioned admiral gave a pissed look at him with his heterochromatic eyes.

"The Kaiser and the Prime Minister has given me the command to repel the enemy ivasion force." Reinharf says.

The others were surprised to see that the Alliance would do something like that where they mainly fought on a defensive scale against the offense of the Empire.

"I have sent the order to Kessler to do a scorched earth tactic." Everyone was surprised to hear something like it.

"What he means is that strip the planets of everything to prevent the enemy from using it against us and strain their supplies. Russia has done it before in their history before the 13 Day War and it wpuld work along with their very horrible winters as well. This would end up wiping a good portion of their armies and weaken them before a counterattack them to finish them."

The others were shocked to hear that but Bismarck was right and they simply do listen to the plans

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-Flagship Forseti-

In the large flagship, Kessler recieved orders from Fleet Admiral Reinhard to strip each world of food in the path of the Alliance invasion force.

"Commander Kessler. There's an urgent order from HQ." His subordinate says to him.

The message came and Kessler looked at it.

"Incoming rebel fleet, must not allow it to advance anymore. Strip all planets of food and other important resources to halt enemy invasion. Do not question, just do it."

The others wanted him to not do it, but it was from Lohengramm. He knew he was a man of the people.

He then sends all fleets to any nearby systems, and his fleet went to Kleingelt.

However what the civilians thought that it would be a battlefield ended up being an Alliance fleet arriving next when the Imperial Fleet left.

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*1ST NOTE: the Empire doesn't recognize them as a separate entity, but as border rebels because they believe that the empire is the true government. This mentality was when the reign of Rudolf was complete fresh in people's minds.