Egghead

Egghead is a Winter Island in the New World belonging to the World Government, which houses the laboratory of Dr. Vegapunk. It is said to be "500 years in the future".

It is the primary setting of the Egghead Arc.

Climate
According to Nami, Egghead is naturally a winter island, but due to Vegapunk's Island A.C. technology, its climate is now closer to that of a tropical rainforest. That said, the waters surrounding Egghead still display elements of its original weather, featuring freezing winds, icebergs and strong currents that even Jinbe, a fish-man helmsman, admitted were too powerful for him to navigate through properly. Furthermore, Warm Eddys that rise several meters upwards (to the point of resembling a waterspout) are found in this area due to the warmed up waters coming from Egghead's inland reacting to its external cold waters.

Layout
Egghead appears to be a relatively small island dotted with trees, with its most notable feature being a giant, cracked open egg-shaped structure that towers above the clouds (Vegapunk's laboratory). The island also features an underground, man-made tunnel resembling a sewer with metal ladders that lead to the surface.

According to Jewelry Bonney, back when she first visited the island in her childhood, Egghead only featured a standard laboratory.

Fabriophase
The factory level of the island, the Fabriophase is home to the workers and researchers on the island. It features a futuristic city with buildings resembling glass domes, rockets, and video game controllers, as well as a variety of highly advanced technology such as automatic meal dispensers and holograms depicting giant monster battles. This is the place where Vegapunk's inventions are displayed for public use.

The Fabriophase also features a scrapyard where Vegapunk's failed creations are discarded.

Labophase
The laboratory level, the Labophase is within the giant egg that sits on a manufactured Island Cloud. This is where Vegapunk conducts his research projects.

Island Technology
As a result of Dr. Vegapunk's tireless research, Egghead's configuration as a island has been heavily modified from its original state. The island is now a high-tech wonderland where Vegapunk tests and exhibits many of his inventions.

Despite Vegapunk's achievements and much to his frustration, however, the lack of monetary funds and qualified manpower to iterate their works offsite means a lot of the revolutionary technology employed on the island cannot be mass-produced, limiting their existence to Egghead alone as a result. Being just a single person himself, Vegapunk went as far as splitting their own self into six satellite bodies, all in order to increase his multi-project efficiency. Some of those satellites also appear to be responsible for testing new technology on and around Egghead.

Usually, ships which sail to Egghead never reach the island, as some of Vegapunk's own creations, the Sea Beast Weapons, which are modified and mechanized Sea Beasts from the surrounding sea, roam the waters around Egghead and sink every ship that comes close to the island. Not only does this provide a powerful method of self-protection for Egghead, but it also allows Vegapunk to pillage enemy ships of their valuables in order to amass funds for further scientific projects.

Island A.C.
The Island A.C. (島エアコン) is a weather-manipulating system that controls and regulates Egghead's climate, down to the soil temperature. It is because of this technology that Egghead, despite originally being a winter island with harsh frozen seas, currently exhibits a comfortable tropical climate. This system also allows other pieces of technology to properly function by providing them with the necessary atmospheric conditions to do so, such as the Vegaforce-01's jet propulsion and anti-gravity units, and the Island Clouds that support the Labophase.

Notably, Karakuri Island features a similar island-heating project that was left unfinished by Vegapunk during his youth, implying the scientist was eventually able to successfully complete the concept at Egghead.

Holograms


A Hologram (ホログラム) is a tridimensional light projection that simulates a real or imaginary object. It is a technology that is common in science fiction works.

Egghead features various holograms depicting things such as humans, food, aliens and giant robots. Normally, it is impossible for people to interact with the holograms, but thanks to Vegapunk's ingenuity, he was able to develop a special set of Light-Pressure Gloves (光圧グローブ) that allows him to physically touch the light constructs as if they were tangible.

Automatic Cooking Machine


The Automatic Cooking Machine (無人調理機) is, as the name implies, a device that automatically prepares a variety of meals (up to five hundred according to Atlas) as long as primary ingredients are available. The machine is interacted through illustrative buttons that, when pressed, provide the corresponding meal on the spot in less than a minute. The resulting trash is then consumed by a nearby Recycle-Wan, apparently for recycling purposes.

The use of those cooking machines is not free however, requiring the consumer to pay for whatever meals they order. Failure to offer payment will be considered theft and lead to a Pacifista being deployed after the offender(s).

Pacifista Police


Standard Pacifista units in armored outfits are employed in Egghead as its primary police force. Should someone violate any of the country's laws, an unit will be sent into the streets in order to locate and attack the offenders. Despite their role as upholders of local order, the Pacifista can still cause major collateral destruction due to their usage of laser weaponry.

Egghead Arc
A Marine ship sailed to Egghead after Koby was abducted by the Blackbeard Pirates.

Some time later the Straw Hat Pirates arrived in the vicinity of the island, finding Jewelry Bonney drowning while trying to flee from the Mecha-Shark. Jinbe managed to save her but ended up stranded on the island itself with her, Chopper and Luffy while the rest of the gang and Caribou were saved by a strange woman who introduced herself as Vegapunk. Meanwhile, Luffy, Chopper, Jinbe and Bonney ended up making landfall on Egghead. There they enter, meeting a large robotic girl who also claims to be Dr. Vegapunk. After eating and clothing themselves with automatic dispensers they found, a Pacifista policing the area appeared and attempted to arrest them for stealing the aforementioned items. When Luffy attempted to fight back, Bonney interfered, revealing that Bartholomew Kuma was her father, and that she planned to deal with Vegapunk for what he did to him.

Meanwhile, CP0 agents, Rob Lucci, Kaku and Stussy approach the island with the intention of returning a Kuma-form Seraphim, though in actuality planned on assassinating Vegapunk and all his "satellites", presumably due to what he knows about the incident on Lulusia Kingdom.

Trivia

 * Egghead is derogatory slang for smart or studious people.

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