/lit/ - Literature

>>4454337

I like to compare Reinhard with Napoleon and Alexander the Great as their career trajectories are similar. Napoleon because he rises to power from being a poor noble to being emperor and introducing political reforms; Alexander because of his obsession with his rival (Cyrus the Great-stand-in, Yang Wen LI) and his early death due to illness. If you accept these comparisons then you also realise that even if their lives and exploits are romanticised, they're still highly impressive and exemplary. Reinhard seems to me, to be someone easily romanticised because you wouldn't get away with skewing an account of his life too much as he was emperor of the fucking Galaxy. Too many people to decieve.

But one thing that I think might've been faked is his death. Unlike with Alexander, Reinhard lives in a time of great technological achievement. There's no fucking way that he could've died that young from an illness. Seems more plausible that he was assassinated by high-ranking dissenters. So maybe the real romanticising is of his immediate inferiors and their loyalty.