Red Hair Pirates

Holding sway over part of the New World, this band takes its orders from Shanks, once an apprentice under Gol D. Roger and now seated among the Four Emperors. The Marines judge the crew to be uncommonly balanced, showing hardly any weakness worth exploiting, an assessment reinforced by the high average bounty carried across its members. Shanks by himself bears a reward past four billion, while officers of the caliber of Lucky Roux, Benn Beckman, and Yasopp have made names of their own. Command runs downward from Shanks as chief to his first mate Beckman, under whom serve eight senior officers of considerable infamy. Numerous lesser crews also fly beneath the crew's umbrella, yet Shanks handles them as allies rather than servants, conceding that many are too feeble to endure without his shelter.

Since an Emperor sits at their helm, this crew ranks with the four most powerful pirate forces alive. As long ago as thirteen years before the present, they could already storm a World Government ship, defeat the CP9 agent Who's-Who, and carry off the coveted Gomu Gomu no Mi. So deep does their might run that the government feared what an alliance between them and the Whitebeard Pirates might unleash. When Shanks strode onto Marineford amid the great war, his presence by itself halted the fighting, and Blackbeard, though newly reinforced by fresh recruits and Whitebeard's plundered fruit, declined to challenge him. Big Mom herself reckoned she would require the joined armies of her own crew and the giants of Elbaph to have any hope against Shanks.

At the head stands Shanks as chief, backed by Benn Beckman, his right hand and the crew's second in command. Beyond their combat duties, the senior officers each hold a craft: cooking falls to Lucky Roux, sniping to Yasopp, medicine to Hongo, music to Bonk Punch and Monster, and navigation to Building Snake, while Limejuice and Gab keep no separate trade. Rockstar signed on before the timeskip and, at a bounty of ninety-four million, is still counted a rookie. A notable detail is that the crew's four foremost figures were each born in a different one of the four seas. Years earlier the crew took in Uta, an orphaned girl Shanks adopted, having freed the island she came from from a rival band.