Even pink airships loom pretty well
The subject of this article, referred to in the text of the story as the Pink Airship, but not by an actual name,[1] is apparently owned by and registered to Baron Oublenmach and his partner Strinbeck.
The ship is noted ✣ by Vanamonde to be a vessel of a recent type —a flash— constructed in Stockholm, and which can be ordered in any color. Pink was chosen to match the dress worn by Zola, and was presumably chosen for her dress as part of a calculated plan make her as appealing a Heterodyne heir as possible.[2] The ship also bore Heterodyne trilobite insignia for purposes of this plot.
The Castle Chapel's fantasy memory
Tarvek reveals ✣ that his father has been working to install an heir (The Storm King conspiracy); Oublenmach and Strinbeck would be among those helping him.
Its captain is never identified by name (in the comic). Various other crew are seen and named, but only for Kraddok, and one other very minor character, Keller ✣ , another member of the day crew, can we definitely match the name to the face.
It is last seen escaping the torchmen by flying rapidly away from Mechanicsburg, and is apparently successful in reaching a distance of approximately two leagues (i.e., ten kilometers, the radius that Agatha, unwittingly following Heterodyne tradition, specified to her section of Castle Heterodyne to clear of airships) outside of Mechanicsburg. But just as it does so, it then becomes transfixed ✣ in the searchlights of Castle Wulfenbach.
This would appear to indicate that the next time we see the crew of the Pink Airship, they will have been taken prisoner aboard Castle Wulfenbach, but there are other opinions on this matter, and so it cannot definitely be said at this point but that they may manage to escape.
And they were never heard from again...
References
- ↑ The pencils for The WORKS 2nd ed. ✣ refer to it as Zola's Pink Airship
- ↑ Note that when a castle entity imagines Agatha giving orders ✣ , Agatha is dressed in pink.