The Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance have been at war for a century and a half when two young commanders rise on opposite sides. Reinhard von Müsel climbs the Imperial fleet's ranks meaning to take the whole autocracy for himself, while Yang Wen-li, a historian who joined the military only because it paid for his studies, keeps winning battles he never wanted to fight for a republic rotting from the inside. This manga is a later adaptation of the original novels, separate from the earlier manga version and from the Die Neue These anime.