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Originally Posted by justinstrife
And ontop of that, in the beginning of the episode where they are discussing what to do with him, they act like they have some kind of power to resist him if they had to 'deal with him'. Hello, Did you not see what he did to the Pirates? You people are morons. You can't decide to hand him over to the pirates, or dump him overboard and take his mecha. -facepalms-
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Actually considering how easily Ledo accepted food, some of them could think of the possibility of poisoning him. The problem is that they don't know how Chamber would react. It seems that they have a problem understanding what an A.I. is.
Anyway they do have a bargaining point which is pretty evident. Ledo obviously wants something from them, and it is apparent by the fact he doesn't attack them and that he's been waiting for days literally doing nothing in the hope of receiving an alliance agreement.
Ledo understands the necessity of finding human allies to provide for his needs as a human. Just because he can destroy everything it doesn't mean that he can be self-sufficient.
Chamber initially had a different idea on how to acquire that. Basically he wanted to subdue the whole fleet. It wasn't a completely wrong strategy, but very risky. Ledo had very little knowledge on those people and he didn't know if they would acknowledge him as their new leader after witnessing his display of power.
This is a tactic that would have probably worked with the pirates though, but at that point I think that Ledo was already affected by Amy's honesty and sincerity. He's probably wishing even more to be on the Gargantia's side, even if unconsciously. Bellows talk probably made him realize that they can be people that he can trust too.
Anyway the people on the Gargantia can decide whether to accept his wish to become their ally or not. But Ridget probably realized that if they said "no" then they would leave Ledo with no other choice but to try with the pirates with the awful consequences that that would imply.
They have already witnessed how Ledo has little care for human lives, the hypothesis of an alliance between him and the power hungry Luckage is absolutely terrifying.
It's a good thing that Ledo is a simple soldier and, as Chamber reminded him, he doesn't have the authority to decide what to do with that planet. Else someone else in his place would probably decide to ally with the more powerful and warmongering faction to subdue everyone else. Then the alliance would just need to step in and reap the fruits, dethroning the stupid power-hungry human who thought he could become emperor of earth for free.