Bodacious Space Pirates (モーレツ宇宙海賊)

Living in space, you may be called upon to make split-second decisions at any time.

In space, there's neither air around you

nor ground beneath you.

And a single, minor mistake may prove fatal.

Once aboard a spaceship,

making the correct decision is critical.

But that is what it means to live in space.

Kato Marika was a master of these decisions.

One with the true right to be a denizen of space.

I'll be captain.

I'll be a space pirate.

Hi!

Hi!

I see...

So you're going to be a pirate.

Yeah.

I'll look at the sky and you'll be up there, right?

I think I'll go when I have time.

I want to graduate from high school first.

In the meantime, let's have a lot of fun now!

Yeah!

We still have tons of summer break left.

Let's go!

Wh-What?

We've come to pick you up.

Kato... Marika.

Kato Marika.

Kato Marika.

All right. Now your stamp.

Okay, stamp.

Stamp. Stamp. Stamp.

We'll be going to all the government offices today, okay?

How many?

Department of Transportation, the Stellar Military,

Department of Education, Department of Public Safety...

Including the other minor ones, there are almost twenty.

We'll have a lot to carry.

We're going down here?

Run.

Next.

Um, now what?

There's this neat little clothing store...

F-For whom?

This is the final one.

Letter of Marque

Letter of Marque

Letter of Marque

So now you're a pirate too...

How do you feel?

Well...

I guess I don't really feel like one,

at least not yet.

You'd better get over that.

A Letter of Marque is valid for fifty days.

If you don't engage in any piracy during that time,

the letter is rescinded.

That means the Bentenmaru has to go pirating

since you got a new Letter.

You have forty-nine days, nine hours, and twenty-two minutes.

Seven weeks, huh?

I guess you'll have to find a way.

Can you handle it?

You can do it, right?

She doesn't have a choice.

Um...

Have fun.

Good luck, Marika.

Bentenmaru shifting to normal flight.

No other transponders in the area.

Continuing toward destination...

What?

An attack?

Damage report!

Direct hit on the port side.

Hull breach.

No problems with the navigation systems.

What about combat radar?

Stealth?

An ambush?

Oh no. We have to get out of here!

Shields to maximum.

Advance while executing evasive maneuvers.

Keep the sun behind us and use its gravity to accelerate.

That should do it.

There are more?

I'm surrounded?

Launch ECM!

Disperse chaff and beam-dispersal fields...

A direct hit to the engine room?

Output dropping...

Turn the ship around!

Target the weakest enemy

and we can still get out of this!

We didn't get out of it...

And you've gone down.

Everyone aboard has died.

Captain, you are dead...

Is being a pirate really this difficult?

Well...

It doesn't happen often,

but you need to be ready for the times when it does get this bad.

A captain must be able to laugh and make decisions regardless of how bad things are.

Not like that.

Okay, sixty-minute break.

Get some food and cool your head. Then we'll discuss cyber warfare.

Roger...

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Well?

Are you getting used to it?

I don't know if I'm used to it yet,

but it's better than when I started.

What's next?

Cyber warfare lecture.

Then melee combat training...

Try to stay alive until my class, okay?

I'll do my best...

Okay, now this one! This one!

Six hours of sleep,

then back up and at 'em...

We're 120 hours into the voyage.

She's trying pretty hard.

We'd better hope she is.

At first it felt like she was just going with the flow.

But now she's beginning to think for herself.

She's sharp.

But it's gonna take another push or two.

I think it's about time for the propellant.

Our propellant has arrived.

Chiaki Kurihara,

daughter of Kenjo Kurihara, captain of the Barbalusa.

I'm honored to have been invited to this training.

Chiaki?

Chiaki!

What?

And don't address me like we're old friends!

Thanks for coming. I'm so happy!

I'm here for the special training!

I didn't come here to see you.

That's just fine...

I'm so happy!

Chiaki!

Propellant's the right word.

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I'm going on ahead!

You learned about the history of pirates in school, right?

A History of Pirates

Space

Colony Federation

A History of Pirates

Suzerain

Rebellion

A History of Pirates

The colonies' war for independence began at Sea of the Morningstar.

A History of Pirates

Control

A History of Pirates

To bolster the size of their military

for the fight against their overseers, the Colony Federation issued

Colony Federation

Colony Federation

Rebellion

Letters of Marque to space pirates.

So why did the independence wars end?

Marika?

Because both the Colony Federation and their

suzerains were absorbed by the Galactic Empire.

That's right.

Space

Suzerain

Control

Rebellion

Colony Federation

An enormous Galactic Empire fleet appeared

Galactic Empire

Galactic Empire

Galactic Empire

Galactic Empire

and absorbed both sides

Rebellion