At first, Bear would notify the Marines in advance before sending pirates here.
But as they became familiar with the process, the advance notice was omitted. The G6 Branch even organized a Salvage Team specifically to fish pirates out here.
The only detail involved the exact bounty amount, but the Marines did not have to spend their own money on bounties. The World Government was not entirely uninvolved in setting wanted posters, and it had to reimburse them for it.
No one tampered with that either. Even though the Marines' enormous size had bred plenty of corrupt individuals, they knew which money they could touch and which they could not.
In the Grand Line, Laboon swam along the currents toward the Sabaody Archipelago, moving much faster than a ship.
As marine creatures, they possessed keen senses for ocean currents and did not need to undergo the complex training human navigators did.
Even now, ships remained the most common means of travel through the Grand Line, and Oran's group was no exception.
If they were truly in a hurry, they could have Bear send them part of the way, or fly themselves. Under normal circumstances, they traveled by ship.
Although Hex Gates were convenient and were a technology Oran had long since mastered, they had an essential requirement: Hex Crystals. Normal operation also required one gate at the starting point and another at the destination.
The terminal-free teleportation gate Oran had developed himself was still a laboratory product. It worked, but it was expensive to produce and could not yet be mass-produced.
Moreover, suitable substitute materials for Hex Crystals were hard to find. Even with the Munch-Munch Fruit, a super synthesizer, they had not managed to replicate identical Hex Crystals.
Even if they could replicate them, the priority would be supplying