Featured in Tenchi Muyo! GXP, the Great Daruma (or Great Daluma) was the headquarters and flagship of the Daluma Pirate Guild, led by General Daluma. According to the obsessions of the General, it is shaped like a red Daruma Doll.
History
The Great Daruma is a gigantic planetary-class starship. In the anime it is depicted as having a belt of planets orbiting it. The true size and capacity of it is not described, but the Racepshi, which accompanied it for a while, was described as having a capacity of about 300 million inhabitants and as being the size of a "small moon" but was dwarfed by its host. It may be the largest ship presented in any of the Tenchi Muyo continuity. in terms of man made structures, the only thing described as being more substantial is the stationary ring world that comprises the Galaxy Academy, described as larger than a solar system.
In the GXP novels, General Daluma contracted the entertainment ship, the Racepshi, to accompany the Great Daruma as a diversion for his pirate guild, a show of his wealth, and as a location for negotiations. The Racepshi is a proudly neutral entity that takes no sides in any conflict and can only be contracted by enormous economies like the one that supported the Daluma Guild. However, while it neutral, it looks out for its own interests and gathered its own intelligence on its host. This would unintentionally work against the Great Daruma.
Despite its great size, the ship does remain in motion and its location is kept a strict secret. Even though the Racepshi continued to welcome non-pirate guests, it was only under the condition that any visitor is blindly guided there and must leave via a completely random space jump. In this fashion, characters such as Washu and Minaho visited the Racepshi and witnessed the Great Daruma from a distance, but were unable to pinpoint its location.
Contained within the seemingly tiny ship.
When a combined Kamidake II and Mizuki set out to search for and defeat the guild's Good Luck Fleet, led by the Unko, Seina Yamada's ability to seek out space pirates instead brought them to the Great Daruma. It initially would seem the minuscule combined ships wouldn't be any challenge but between the Royal Tree Mizuki and Washu's daughter, Fuku, a tremendous power was hidden. Also, known to very few, the Racepshi was powered by a third generation Royal Tree and, as a third generation tree, it was obliged to share its secrets to the second generation tree Mizuki and Fuku, giving the Kamidake information on the weaknesses that had been discovered.
In the anime, the Great Daruma is destroyed in the battle. In the novels, it is instead captured and transferred, at least temporarily, into the subspace hidden within the core unit of Mizuki.