Why is G-5 so special that it is set aside from Marine HQ? Why is G-5 the only base in NW and yet not affiliated with HQ? I never quite understood why G-5 had to be set aside.
That was until I read chapter 1010 which holds the answers to this
(1) Vergo
Vergo is undoubtedly the man in the verse with the highest mastery of basic armament hardening, as this is a plant material he knocks Law out cold with lol. This is maddeningly good hype for Vergo when Law was likely not even using hardening to shield against Kaido's Thunder Bagua that's also CoC infused, meaning Law with just his basic guard while already injured at that tanked this attack.
(2) advCoC = no admirals
With the revelation of advCoC suggests to me that admirals can't fight yonkos who all have advCoC and therefore nullify devil fruit abilities of admirals (we saw this with Rayleigh vs Kizaru and we have numerous other indications in the story by now of this fact). No admiral is going to risk getting wasted against a yonko when they can't use their devil powers as they are simply too
indispensable and important in their capacities and overly powerful when they actually can use their devil fruit powers. If a Celestial Dragons trips and falls on a banana peel and wants some bastard to pay for it, they can easily call upon their puppet admirals who are at their beck and call. Celestial Dragons can feel very comfortable with a magma or light powered person having their back as they can pose an enormous threat to virtally anyone besides capable advCOC users that deprive them of that advantage. Even if admirals are decent in stats, they can't hang with yonkos. They ain't risking anything because
they are too important. No admiral is fighting yonkos period.
If AdvCoC can do that it makes all the more sense why you need capable commanders in their stead.
I had an interesting discussion with @playa4321 who introduced me to an idea that franky I had never considered so I'm glad I got some outside perspective. He introduced me to the idea that warships=navy units headed each by a seperate commander. Vergo is not any longer in G-5, so that would have made it 7 warships previously, or 7 commanders in total in G-5.
"Unit 1: Viceadmiral Smoker(strongest VA after Vergo)
Unit 6: Commadore Yarisugi
Which means we have not yet seen Unit 2-5 and judging by the fact that Yarisugi as commadore as last unit,it would mean the other units where at least headed by a navy soldier who was above commadore lvl.
Let's assume unit 5-4 were rear admirals, it could mean unit 2-3 could be headed by guys who were vice admirals. Overall it would mean Vergo was the leader of 6 warships and probably over 2 Viceadmirals. With means he had a big Position under the navy control. As example G-2 had only one Viceadmiral as Comil who was the leader.
Means a lot that G5 was a big base for the navy probably the most important base position in new world. Make sense why Doffy put Vergo into that position."
- Playa4321 quote
Likely all units will be headed by vice admirals in my (critical's) opinion save for unit 6 headed by a Commodore
So it never actully occured to me that G-5 is a HUGE base of operations, not necessarily in terms of manpower (300, though you can understand my avatar now can you, hehe), but in terms of having capable commanders, but even then the manpower is not at all inadequate by any means. As seen here the G-5 is putting up a good blockade against Zoro, Brook and Kinnemon which they can't breach.
This is not to be underestimated lol when Kinnemon could injure Kaido with his Homura saki alone; Brook likewise using his ice abilities to try to breach through here is unsuccessful, and Brook will likely mid diff a Tobi Roppi lol.
G-5 is simply very much capable enough of handling New World matters and it is the designated fighting force in the NW to combat the yonkos.
Keep in mind, Vergo personally requested to be transferred and did make quite an impression on Sengoku. This is one year in as a recruit, he is making an admiral (busy guy) hearing a bunch of rumours of this new recruit. I emphasise that
Oda didnt need to make this scene, in fact it ruined the surprise later when Law ran into Vergo, imagine if we hadnt seen this scene we would experience more shock, but Oda wanted to show this scene for a reason, even if it meant spoiling the big surprise later on...
Guarding the hot gates with his 300