There was bound to be some pacifism in this show, but fortunately it makes perfect sense. Especially since manufacturing and resources are scarce. It's a good question where the pirates get their extra stuff in addition to those they steal. Ammunition isn't actually such a problem since that would be valuable loot, but those special lobster mecha didn't look like they were stolen from one of the more peaceful floating cities. Perhaps the pirates have some cooperation among themselves and have a giant floating base of their own, where they have decent manufacturing capabilities.

Amy has been quite a cookie-cutter character so far, but I don't mind. The eps have been around Ledo and Chamber anyway, and Amy has served the part of a happy civilian quite admirably, to give some perspective and contrast. Since those two must be the couple of this show, I'm looking forward to seeing how their world view's will continue to clash.

I wonder why Ledo and Chamber decided not to use the beam weapon. It's not like they couldn't have disabled cannons with it. Maybe the plan was to downplay their role so that Gargantia wouldn't seem to be totally dependent on them and to avoid making Ledo the sole target of any assassination attempts.