the Dalaverse

Okay, I am going to present a scenario and I want y'all to tell me whether it's plausible or whether I should stop talking out of my ass. It has to do with BiA, but it's not spoilery in any important sense.


Groves gets down to Port Royal aboard the Interceptor as her first lieutenant, maybe six months before the beginning of the movie. At the time of the attack, the unnamed captain of the Interceptor is ill or injured or otherwise incapacitated. This would explain why Groves and Norrington (as commander of the fleet and having decided to sail the Interceptor out himself in pursuit of Elizabeth) appear to be running things when Jack and Will pop up to steal commandeer her out from under their noses. All three of them would therefore bear some manner of responsibility for her capture/destruction, but Groves least because he wasn't in formal command.

Gillette arrives as a lieutenant aboard another ship, which is somehow lost or taken before the start of the movie, so the crew is split up and Norrington takes him on as a lieutenant for the Dauntless, which is why he's in command for Jack to point a pistol at, and also why he's at Norrington's side for the rest of the movie.


This is a combination of what I can deduce from canon, what I need to be for storytelling purposes, and what makes sense given the little I know of naval procedure. Crap, or not crap?