Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Anime Thoughts: Bodacious Space Pirates Episode 11 - Wanderer of Light

Summary
The lead ship in the fleet is the Queen Serendipity, flagship of the Serenity Defense Forces; clearly whoever sent them is serious about this. Marika sends Gruier away with Misa to learn how to put on a spacesuit then asks what the situation is. The other ships have surrounded a defined area, meaning they have a good idea where the ghost ship will appear next. The crew ask Marika what her plan is, and she says that while she wants to help Griuer as much as possible, the ship and its crew are her top priority and they’ll pull out if things get bad.

The Bentenmaru makes a jump into the target area, and after riding out the shockwaves of a space quake they see the ghost ship emerge from subspace. As soon as comms are restored they get a transmission for Gruier from the Queen Serendipity, sent by one Grunhilde Serenity. She demands that Gruier leave, but the latter accuses her younger sister of being manipulated, which she denies. She threatens to use force if Grier doesn’t do as asked.

The ghost ship suddenly launches an omni-directional scan and begins to wake up, living up to the ‘golden’ part of its name. The doors on one side start to open, and some hot-shot flying by Kane lets them beat the fleet to the ship. Once they’re in the doors close again and the ghost ship returns to subspace. Gruier means to go into the ship alone, but Marika says she’s coming with her; a captains needs to look out for the safety of both crew and passengers. The former knows she won’t be able to sway her and agrees.

Commentary
So I guess the fact someone or somebodies on Serenity really don’t want anyone else to find the ghost ship, including a member of the royal family, just isn’t that big of a deal to the Bentenmaru. But still, someone didn’t want Gruier to get the records and is serious enough to send out a top-of-the-line battleship for this mission, and if Gruier’s claim is true it’s not her sister. They haven’t even asked what Gruier wants to do on the ghost ship. I get the feeling at least some things are going to be explained next time, and a power struggle within the ruling family of Serenity, as this seems to be, probably isn’t that important to them so long as they get paid, but they’re taking this quite a bit in stride given how serious their opponents are and they consider actual combat to be a possibility. Schnitzer is seen getting the regular crew prepped for just such an occasion, and Marika makes an announcement to that they might have to fight the Serenity ships. When that level of risk is involved these just seem like questions they should be asking in advance.

Not much else going on this time, just Marika becoming more comfortable with her role and starting to think like a captain. The crew looks to her for decisions, she recognizes whom she has to put first, even if it might not make others happy, and understands that she has to look out for everyone on her ship. There really isn’t anything more to say.

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