As Loa had said, he needed a powerful weapon that would make nations wary of one another, so they would no longer go to war lightly over one pretext or another.
The Pseudo-Pluton was nearly perfect, with roughly thirty percent of the real Pluton's power. But wouldn't the nations that acquired one start getting ideas?
If countries of comparable strength all bought this weapon, they might not dare attack one another—but what about countries that couldn't afford it?
After all, Loa couldn't give such a weapon to every organization recognized as a nation. He would choose only major powers with sufficient strength, decent reputations, and influence across an entire sea!
That was why removing the defense system was inevitable. A terrifying warship that could move through a naval battle unchallenged and couldn't be destroyed would inflict horrifying losses!
Aokiji had once told Loa that, in the Battle of Edd War decades ago, what had inflicted the greatest losses on the Roger Pirates wasn't the enemy's seemingly endless forces, nor Golden Lion Shiki, a great pirate as renowned as Roger. It was their flying Pirate Ship, which had dominated the battlefield from above!
Every attack had a Limit range, and Golden Lion personally guarded the ship to boot. It was like a gun emplacement that could never be destroyed, causing the Roger Pirates no end of trouble. Their greatest loss of personnel had happened then, too.
Without that sudden tsunami, perhaps the Great Pirate Era that followed—and the Yonko, even the World Government—would never have existed!
So the armor didn't need to be that thick, nor did the ship need to be that fast. It only needed to resist being sunk too easily.
What mattered most, of course, was firepower!
At Loa's request, Ulysses reduced the number of gun barrels while