Mother Flame

The Mother Flame is a substance created by Vegapunk and utilized by Imu and the Five Elders. It is produced in a power plant on Egghead.

Properties
The Mother Flame can somehow be weaponized or used in a weapon capable of vaporizing entire islands in an instant by firing a rain of lasers down onto its target. Once the annihilation is complete, not a trace of the target is shown to remain. The damage it is capable of inflicting is one of the greatest ever shown in the world, being one of only two abilities thus far shown to be capable of annihilating entire islands (alongside the Goro Goro no Mi combined with Maxim). The aftereffects of its power led to a gigantic hole in the sea where its target used to be, which showed no signs of filling up anytime soon, resulting in a global scale earthquake and the sea level rose by one meter, causing a majority of islands to have their shores swallowed by the rising tide and some being fully submerged. Its immense power caused Emporio Ivankov to speculate that it may be one of the Ancient Weapons, which may be possible if Imu is indeed one of the First Twenty as has been hypothesized.

The Mother Flame is produced by a power plant on Egghead and only Vegapunk knows how to create it, meaning that the Five Elders and Imu cannot use it freely yet and must rely on York for further supply.

Past
The Mother Flame was developed by the scientist Vegapunk. A sample of it was secretly sent to the Five Elders by York.

Egghead Arc
Sometime following the Levely, Imu ordered the Five Elders to test out the Mother Flame on the island where the Lulusia Kingdom resided. The Five Elders agreed to this, and Topman Warcury said that its results may influence how they would handle their growing troubles with Vegapunk and Egghead. The Mother Flame was sent to the Lulusia Kingdom and proceeded to annihilate it in seconds, leaving no trace of the island behind; it was declared that the kingdom never existed.

Because of the success of the Mother Flame's test, the Five Elders, under Imu's request, made a deal with York to have her further replicate the technology, not knowing that she had already been caught by the Straw Hat Pirates, who listened in to their conversation.

Trivia

 * The last two katakana characters of the Mother Flame's name in Japanese are the same characters that spell "Imu".
 * The weapon is drawn with 16 beams firing downward. The two syllables in Imu's name can also be read as "1" and "6", or 16.
 * According to Lilith, the island of Egghead uses fire as its source of energy, and the Vegapunks have envisioned an "undying flame" (消えない炎) that would allow them to create their own sun. Whether the Mother Flame is related to this research or not has yet to be explained.
 * Mother Flame likely took inspiration from real-life nuclear power, which both can be used as energy fuel and mass destruction weapon. Its creator Vegapunk is also inspired by Albert Einstein who took part in the creation of the Atomic weapon.

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