To be
specific, Lynn’s just the messenger. Jenny is the one actually hiring the
Bentenmaru, not to kidnap her but as protection. She’s in line to inherit Hugh
and Doolittle Interstellar Transportation, but her uncle, the current company
president, plans to marry her off to a politician so that his son can inherit
instead. Jenny, however, has been accepted to the prestigious Space University
and wants to go so she can have time to grow her own shipping business, Fairy
Jane, while studying there.
An alarm
sends everyone to the bridge and they bring in an approaching ship – a
new-model fighter called a Silent Whisper. The pilot is Jenny – unexpected
change of plans – and she joyously reunites with Lynn on the bridge, where the
two unashamedly show everyone the other
reason Jenny didn’t want to get married; at least not to a guy.
Jenny’s
uncle tracks them down and threatens to cut business ties with Harold Llyod if
they don’t hand her over. Since Jenny never actually specified what she was
going to pay, Marika has Show witness the negotiations. Jenny’s proposal is
this: the Bentenmaru gets the Silent Whisper and 10% of the gross profits of
Fairy Jane’s for the next 10 years, which means a sizeable commission for
Harold Lloyd as well. Lynn offers to throw in some data she’s gathered – customer
lists, information on pirate ships, corporate secrets – y’know, just odds and
ends she picked up while hacking here and there. This is acceptable to everyone
and not a moment too soon: the Hugh and Doolittle fleet has arrived, and the
Bentenmaru has to make an FTL jump to safety.
Thoughts
Scary in ten
years, my foot – these girls are scary now! I know she already has a huge
leg-up because she comes from an obscenely rich family, and Fairy Jane is part
of a group of companies right now, but damn.
Fifty trillion a year – half the Serenity Royal Palace’s operating budget,
apparently – is awfully good for a start-up company whose founder supposedly
can’t devote much time to it. And Lynn’s honestly never gotten worse than being
put on probation once in middle school despite just happening to have an
unspecified amount classified information? How is she not in prison right now? Marika sure knows how to pick friends. And
that’s all I have to say about this episode.
