Regarding Airships

P.S. 1:

Today was supposed to be our class reunion, and I had planned to write only one chapter...

But I have taken so much leave that I honestly felt rather embarrassed about it. ==

So I slipped away from the reunion early and came back to write...

Not having any chapters stockpiled in advance is truly painful. (;￣ェ￣)

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P.S. 2:

Suddenly, a great many natives of the Grand Line began telling me that their planets do not allow flight...

So I have no choice but to explain this properly:

1. The highest thunderclouds reach only about three thousand meters. An airship would certainly fly above that altitude, and it would undoubtedly be equipped with various lightning-protection measures as well.

Therefore, an airship could never be struck by lightning because of the weather in the same way as the Golden Lion was.

The climate in the pirate world is indeed extremely harsh in certain places, but those conditions are limited to particular regions. Most areas have climates suitable for human habitation.

Otherwise, it should not be called One Piece. It ought to be renamed The Wasteland or Frostpunk.

Besides, old-fashioned airships on Earth, eighty or ninety years ago, were already capable of enduring the extreme weather of the Arctic.

Modern weather balloons can even rise to an altitude of forty kilometers, effectively serving the role of low-orbit satellites.

With all the black technology in the pirate world—where people can reach the moon with nothing more than a balloon—why would flight be impossible?

This is a place where people can sail across the sea in wooden barrels without dying. (#ﾟДﾟ)

2. Regarding the matter of sky pirates:

There will certainly be sky pirates, but has no one noticed that the cost and difficulty of becoming one have increased dramatically?

During the original Age of Pirates, anyone with a bit of strength could simply grab a wooden barrel and go out to sea as a pirate.

Now, to become a pirate, you first have to buy an airship—Garen, who sells airships, is therefore destined to make a fortune. And even after buying one, robbing people will still be extremely difficult.

At sea, you can freely board another ship and engage in close-quarters combat. But in the sky, how are you supposed to get onto another airship if you cannot use something like Moonwalk?

Even if you destroy the other airship, whatever you wanted to seize will fall away along with it.

Forcing an airship to stop would also be incredibly difficult. After all, the sky is three-dimensional, and one can escape in any direction—up, down, left, or right. At that point, everything would come down to a contest between the airships themselves.

And the strength of one’s own fighters would be difficult to bring into play. Once an airship was destroyed, every pirate who could not fly would be finished.

3.

After saying all that, my main purpose is simply to make one thing clear:

I am the author. If I say it works, then it works. (#ﾟДﾟ)(#ﾟДﾟ)