Episode Title:
Battle in the Storm.
Episode Description:
The Barbaroosa substitutes for the Bentenmaru to entertain guests on a cruise ship. Meanwhile, the Bentenmaru travels into a space storm all night for the search of the ghost ship. The next morning, Coorie hacks into the buoy arrays sent out by seventeen royal family search parties, which she learns were launched fifteen years ago, two years before Gruier was born. When one of the buoys detect the ghost ship, Marika orders the Bentamaru to jump six light-years away into hyperspace to that location and prepare for battle. However, the ghost jumps into subspace, leaving the Bentenmaru surrounded by the Serenity Fleet. The Bentenmaru then launches decoys to confuses the fleet and does a crippling hit and run on two royal escort ships heading their way. Although Gruier wants to contact the Serenity Fleet, Marika advises her not to do the agreements they made with Chiaki and Jenny in the first place. The objective now is to find the golden ghost ship before the Serenity Fleet beats them to it.
