Anime Thoughts: Does he also have a map with an 'X' on it?

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet [ep. 7 - A Soldier's Fate]
That’s more like it. Ledo’s seen how Gargantia differs from his old life, and now that he has an opportunity to go back to what he knows, the two have to butt heads. Not that it would make sense for him to have come around already. He’s spent sixteen years being told the Hideauze are the enemy, black and white – the Galactic Alliance doesn’t even have a word for coexistence – whereas he’s only been on Gargantia for what? Days? Weeks? Months? Unless I’m forgetting something, they never actually gave us any kind of time frame for how long it’s been since he came out of stasis. There’s no way he’d be able to go against what he’s been taught to believe his whole life after so short a time.

And speaking of how long its been, how much friggin’ data does Chamber need to calculate their position? His constant ‘insufficient data’ responses are starting to feel like a plot convenience. For that matter, wouldn’t it be easier to get what he needs with a quick jaunt into space?

Meanwhile, according to Chamber the whalesquid are Hideauze. And I believe him. Not only does dramatic convention pretty much demand it, but thematically this wouldn’t work unless it wasn’t true. If Ledo’s to learn that coexistence with others, even those you once considered enemies, is possible and it was with something other than Hideauze, he could say ‘yes, but the Hideauze are different, we can’t coexist with them.’ But if it is the Hideauze, he’ll sooner or later have to face the reality that such a thing is, in fact, possible. That taboo against attacking the whalesquid probably arose from people in an earlier time realizing it was dangerous to antagonize them, but because humans have left them alone since, they aren’t bothering them. There isn’t active cooperation, but there isn’t mutual antagonism either.

Not that that’s going to last much longer, now that Joe’s about to exploit Ledo’s willingness to attack them for his own ends. If he just said ‘someone told me the treasure exists just before he died, really, honest’ I would’ve assumed he was making that up to justify going after old legends or rumors, but with what he said about his brother, it’s obviously the latter who saw whatever there is to be found and told him. So this is about greed and revenge. Not the healthiest of combinations. But yes, there be treasure down there, probably exactly what they’re looking for and not what they expect. Ledo wonders if the Hideauze followed him, but not attacking the whalesquid is an old taboo, so clearly not. Which means they’ve existed on Earth for some time, and seemingly confirms that there’s a deeper connection between humans and the Hideauze than Ledo realizes, and I believe we’re about to get some answers.