- Nope; her real picture is broadcast all over the galaxy in ep 12.
- Jossed, he's still alive as Ironbeard
- Jossed. The attackers are from Lightning II, an armed merchantman that's moonlighting as a pirate.
- Or worse, Jenny will use her father's connections to obtain a Letter of Marque of her own. And then the galaxy will learn to fear the Yacht Club.
- As original poster for this WMG, that is both awesome and terrifying at the same time. And further to that, perhaps it's less that Jenny obtains a Letter of Marque, and more that the ancient original Letter of Marque for the Odette II is revived, to the current surviving descendant of her original captain, one Captain Doolittle. In the generations since the war, Captain Doolittle's descendants have left piracy for commerce shipping, carefully building up their war chest for the day the ancestral ship returns to war...
- I just read the japanese wikipedia of this anime. According to the Letter of Marque laws, the government stopped giving these letters after the Independence War and new ones can only be issued to space pirates that fought with the Colonial Federation during the war. Even then, it's only the Captains and their descendants that can get new Letters of Marque. So unless one of Jenny's relatives is still in the privateering business, that's not gonna happen.
- You never know. More elaborate legal fictions have been known. From the realist standpoint, despite being OP, I admit that if the Odette II and Yacht Club were to deploy as combatants, then shit has really hit the fan and Sea of the Morningstar is scrambling for any ship and body they can get to fight.
- Another possibility is that someone attacks the Odette II again, and Jenny decides to go after them, using her father's money to rearm the Odette II. By the time the war ends, grown men are known to tremble in fear when they see a ship crewed by the Hakuho Academy Space Yacht Club.
- You never know. More elaborate legal fictions have been known. From the realist standpoint, despite being OP, I admit that if the Odette II and Yacht Club were to deploy as combatants, then shit has really hit the fan and Sea of the Morningstar is scrambling for any ship and body they can get to fight.
- It happens in the third book. Bentenmaru takes a job delivering biological samples to a research hospital ship. An experimental animal gets loose and it might be carrying some disease pathogen, so the ship is placed under quarantine. Problem is, by the time the quarantine is lifted, the Letter of Marque will have expired. So Marika recruits the Yacht Club and the Odette II to make one pirate attack on a cruise liner. Since Marika leads it, that's enough to satisfy the rules and prevent the loss of the Letter of Marque. Not yet known if this will appear in the anime.
- The third book begins with ep 14.
- What actually happens is that Marika tries to recruit a new crew, but is foiled thanks to Kenjo Kurihara; Chiaki suggests she recruit the Yacht Club, which she does, and they take Bentenmaru out in the next episode. And the crew was infected by the pathogen.
- Also, at the end of the Hakuoh Pirates arc, Jenny thoughfully muses that she's heard there are ways around the legal restrictions surrounding Letters of Marque... and then at the final episode, her company has apparently bought over the Odette II from Hakuouh Academy.
Though, the reaction of (most) passengers of the Princess of Apricot showed that they are actually excited to be visited by the Space Pirate. How is it so? Because they are The Theme Park Version of Space Pirate... literally. The romance of Space Pirate lived on even after the war, and the local government decided instead of disbanding them, it would be better to keep them into the current harmless way, so that they can be used as an attraction to the wealthy cruiser-goers. The reason why they are required to rob every 50 day is to ensure the attraction has some kind of regularity, and the shipping company can cover the loss by insurance (which, in turns, funded by the increased tourism due to the pirates).
As such, the story is actually a literal Space Opera of Space Pirate, playing with the trope.
Then why some of the people treat it as a Serious Business? It might be a case of Enforced Method Acting, so that our rookie protagonist can be (slightly) more realistic when "robbing" the cruiser. Another reason may be because the pirate ships are still fully-functional warship with (generally) competent crew, so that in situation where there are real enemies, they will be conscripted into the navy, thus actually risking their lives.
- Confirmed. These cruise robbings are in fact a joint production between the Space Pirates, the government, the shipping companies and insurance companies. Each group benefits from these stage robbings with the Pirates having some experience and work to do when not in war, the shipping companies attract more tourists due to the pirates, the insurance companies get more customers, the government gets money and keeping the pirates active and the tourists get an exciting vacation worthy of their money (the valuables the pirates steal are fakes made by the insurance companies but are used as tokens to pay the pirates which they in turn they return them to the insurance companies who give them real cash.
- Well, with the ending Cliffhanger in episode 8, it looks like a Civil War is about to erupt. If a war breaks out, all bets are probably off. So all that showboating Marika is being forced to do will likely be utilized for real, and she'll probably end up having to kill a lot of people to save lots of others...
- Gets better afterwards, but not before showing off the combat ability of Bentenmaru against military vessels.
- Well, with the ending Cliffhanger in episode 8, it looks like a Civil War is about to erupt. If a war breaks out, all bets are probably off. So all that showboating Marika is being forced to do will likely be utilized for real, and she'll probably end up having to kill a lot of people to save lots of others...
- Oh, the Time Lord controlling it is Marika's father. He faked his death just so he could screw with people for the lulz. The revelation will cause Marika to use the TARDIS to go back in time and really poison his food so that he really does die.
- Apparently the Golden Ghost Ship process some kind of [[FTL]] jump capacity, as it utilised subspace for fast travel between dangerous space.
- And now you know the real explanation for Courier!
- Also, they share the same eyes.
- Confirmed (for the anime at least) in Episode 26 - Gruier calls him 'Captain Gonzaemon' and Ririka refers to him in the same way as she did Gonzaemon in Episode 1.
- Marika sent a message to Serenity telling them where and when the battle was going to be. We know that because Gruier was trying to get there in Odette II.
- We also know that Serenity naval intelligence observed the battle, because they told Gruier that it was over and that the pirates had won.
- Another advantage is that if they are facing directly towards an enemy they have a very small silhouette, which makes them harder to hit.