Editing Legend of the Galactic Heroes (section)

====Meanwhile====
Reinhard was concerned that a civil war in the empire would invite another invasion by the Free Planets Alliance.  To keep the alliance distracted, he dispatched a prisoner of war turned traitor with a plan to incite the disgruntled FPA military into launching a coup.

It works.  In fact it works quite well, with virtually every fleet EXCEPT Yang Wenli's turning against the government, which is at this point extremely unpopular with the military.  Some blame it for not supporting the invasion enough, others are angry that the invasion was sent in the first place, and just about everyone thinks the civilian leaders are self-serving, two-faced morons.  Yang however, out of stubborn loyalty to the concept of representative government, refuses to join the coup and leads his fleet against the rebels.  In the aftermath of the failed invasion, Yang's fleet is the most experienced and strongest fighting force left in the alliance, and with some difficulty is able to sweep through the rebel forces and arrives at the capitol of Heinessen.  The coup fails and its instigators die in a murder-suicide to conceal the truth of the Empire's involvement.