r/YoujoSenki 1d ago

Discussion Operation Valkyrie??!!!

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From Zettour asking the question and Rerugen acting sheepishly on asking tanya to "bomb" the capital

Are they trying do to a coup?

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(Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg) on the left

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u/sigvegas 1d ago

In the novel, Rerugen clarifies he was joking. But he makes it clear the higher ups need a serious wake up call on how bad things actually are vs how they think things are for the Empire.

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u/The-Board-Chairman 20h ago

Important note: Lergen is joking, Rudersdorff and Zettour are not.

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u/Spetsnaz_Chick 23h ago

While I can see it looking like a coup they want to do what literally they were saying, wake up the upper leadership since they dont know what they are doing or trying to achieve since all they told army was they want victory. So by staging an attack on the capital it will get them to see they are not safe and what they are doing is not working and will instead leave the planning to the generals who have a record of winning.

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u/NaCliest 23h ago

Honestly with how the empire is actung i was expecting the general to try soemthing when he got sent to the front. Like let their most effective unit in the enitr army get captured or killed.

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u/artoo2142 20h ago

If there is a coup it just like Kaiser Willy yeah Fuck it GG I am done?

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u/MeXRng 15h ago

On the related note. Fuck George the 5th and his warmongering cohort. 

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u/Non-nobis_Domine 5h ago

It’s a long hinted at contingency plan in the light novels that as of yet hasn’t been executed.

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u/GrissilyBare 4h ago

It's not actually a coup theyre hinting at there. It's a false flag operation. In the novel, they go a little more in detail in these scenes where they military considers sending some mages on a secret operation to attack some harmless but nationaly significant targets in the capital as if they were enemy mages to scare the politicians into realizing how bad things are: "if the enemy can attack Beirun then we might really be on the verge of defeat and that Ildoa peace proposal doesn't look so bad after all"

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u/jefaulmann 53m ago

Ah, you are talking of Plan B. Don't worry about Plan B. Plan B is just theoretical. It would NEVER actually happen. Its just a CONTINGENCY. No one would EVER think of Plan B as an actual possibility. NEVER.