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The Moon is a giant celestial body, a rock-composed sphere, that orbits the Blue Planet. For the world’s inhabitants, it is typically the main (if not only) source of natural light at nighttime. The Moon is a giant celestial body, a rock-composed sphere, that orbits the Blue Planet. For the world’s inhabitants, it is typically the main (if not only) source of natural light at nighttime.

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The moon appears throughout the series, but the first time the moon was seen was when Zoro fought Kuina in his childhood flashback. Later Kuro used the moon as a signal to carry out his three-year plan; the sight of a crescent moon makes him uncontrollably murderous. During the sequences that influence Kuro, the moon was shown to be a red-orange crescent. In subsequent appearances the moon begins to be hard-sketched. During Nico Robin’s flashback of Ohara, a model of the world with seven satellites (which includes their world’s moon) can be seen inside the library of the Tree of Knowledge. The anime shows the model caught fire and was presumably destroyed when the Buster Call attack caused the tree to collapse. Traveling to the moon seems to be considerably easier than in real life, as Enel managed to go there using the Ark Maxim, and the four automata managed to go there traveling in balloons. During nights in which the full moon is visible, members of the Mink Tribe can look at it to transform into their Sulong form, which they can maintain as long as their sight to the moon remains unobstructed.

Ancient Civilization Of Fairy Vearth

There is an ancient city on the moon named Birka (ビルカ, Biruka?), where technology and architecture were highly advanced. The city’s name is the same as Birka, a Sky Island far to the southeast of Skypiea. From paintings on the walls, some of the city’s history is revealed: it was home to “Moon People” (月の人, Tsuki no Hito?, VIZ: “Mooninites”)—the ancestors of Skypieans, Shandorians, and Birkans, but one day they left Birka and headed to the main planet due to lack of resources on their homeland. They left their creations on the moon: the robot-like creatures named automata. It is unknown when their emigration took place, but it was at least 1,100 years ago, since it was at that time that the city of Shandora was prosperous.

The descendants of the citizens who left the moon appear to have forgotten their origins, although the moon, called Fairy Vearth (限りない大地（フェアリーヴァース）, Fearī Vāsu?, literally meaning “Endless Earth”; VIZ: Endless Varse; Funimation dub: Endless Vearth) is a legendary land that Enel mentions throughout the Skypiea Arc. Enel believed the Fairy Vearth to be a place of dreams, as recalled in folk tales amongst the Birkans. Enel, after studying history within…

Moons Progressions

During the early chapters, it was possible to use the moon to create an estimated time span for Luffy’s adventures, presuming the One Piece world’s time span is equal to that of Earth’s. The moon phases in One Piece follow the moon phases of the real-life Southern Hemisphere. In some cases, the phase of the moon even gave the chapter its title. Over time, however, this idea seemed to have been retired, and it is no longer possible to use the moon as a time scale. The full moon later plays a part as the minks’ Sulong form was introduced.

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