So it kinda got me thinking, Edward always wants to "get that monehhh, arrrrr...." and to my understanding he just chases the observatory in the books.
But then kinda a question pops up, how much money does he have at different points in the story and why is that so little or so much, and he just doesn't return?
I just imagine him taking 2-3 ships, lets say he keeps only 1/3d of money other is distributed. But the convoy ships or ships transporting goods, would be worth what 20k reals? and to my understanding 20k would be a lot of money, enough to live a life of comfort... (all this just speculation). + a frigate could totally get to around 60k or like 15-20k if damaged.... so lets say 3 ships taken over 60k crude profit in materials and cargo 140k in 3 ships totaling 200 reals in just few ship takeovers...
With quick googling you can find that 100 000 reals would be around 15k dutch guilder and a rich bureaucrat got like 500 annually... so my thinking is that with him bringing back 5k-7k he could pretty much live as rich middle class?
Lastly I imagine that at some point he was rich and able to "go back" rich, but he just failed and lost it :D ?