Greenhill, Dwight

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Dwight Greenhill served as Chief of Staff to the Space Fleet Commander, subsequently to the Headquarters Commander, and ultimately as the Alliance Investigation Chief of the Free Planets Star Fleet. He was Frederica Greenhill's father. As a highly respected officer, he was among the few military leaders who recognized Yang Wen-li's talent.
Following the failed Alliance invasion of the Empire and the losses sustained at the Battle of Amritsar, many within the military, including Greenhill, grew disgruntled with the civilian leadership. Their disenchantment merged with encouragement from former prisoner of war Arthur Lynch. Greenhill had been a longtime friend of Lynch and thus remained partial to Lynch's opinions, despite Lynch's failures at El Facil. Greenhill established the National Salvation Military Council (NSMC) to overthrow the civilian government and enacted martial law.
Although he participated in the coup, Greenhill harbored personal doubts about his cause. One of his reasons for betraying the government was to control the other coup members and prevent as much bloodshed as possible. Throughout the crisis, Greenhill attempted to moderate the actions of his subordinates, often without success.
His coup achieved early success, securing over half of the Alliance's surviving forces. However, it crumbled due to incompetence and Yang Wen-li's resistance. His plan to assassinate Yang Wen-li not only failed, but the assassin, Commander Bagdashu, publicly announced that the coup was a subversion by Reinhard von Lohengramm, although Yang lacked solid proof of this. This, combined with the massacre of protestors at a rally, destroyed the council's public relations. After the defeat of the 11th Fleet at the Battle of Doria, most of the remaining neutral or NSMC-aligned Alliance military forces defected to Yang Wen-li's side, leaving the council stranded on Heinessen. Greenhill was ready to admit defeat when Yang Wen-li destroyed the Artemis Necklace. When given the option to use the people of Heinessen as hostages, Greenhill, in horror and disgust, refused, preferring to let the nation heal from the civil war as quickly as possible. Intending to take his own life, Greenhill then confronted Lynch. Lynch, having confessed that he had instigated the coup under Duke Lohengramm's orders, killed Greenhill in a shootout between the two men.
Tragically, Greenhill's coup d'état brought about the opposite of what he sought to achieve. Not only did the corrupt government remain in power and the Alliance lose another of its remaining fleets, but the actions of the renegade military units completely turned public opinion against the military, destroying the last of its independence from political control. Far from reviving a weakened Alliance, Greenhill and his group only served to weaken it even further, a situation which would directly lead to its demise only a few years later.