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One Piece: Vegapunk's Broadcast(Official Full English Translation)

I've stitched together an uninterrupted version of Vegapunk's broadcast as of now. Tried to get things accurate, but got a bit confused with the three Vegpunks during their 'Coffee Stream.'

Coffee Stream and Prep

Chapters 1108-1113

*Beep... Beep... Click...!! Zshk...!!*

Stella: Ahem!  Hello?  Check, check... Is this on?  Hello out there!  Come in, world.  Ahem... I am Dr. Vegapunk, a humble genius scientist.  While many of you will likely be shocked by what I have to say in this message, I assure you that it is the truth of this world!!!

Shaka: Come now, Stella. *ZSHK* You can’t just start this up out of nowhere.

Stella: Hmm?  What do you mean, Shaka?!

Shaka: Surely the audience will need to be adequately prepared to hear it.

Stella: You really think that’s necessary?  Some intelligence agency will pick it up and it’ll spread across the world by the next day…

Shaka: Are you certain about that?  What if they manipulate the information?

Stella: Hrmm. A good point… So what should we do?

Shaka: I’ll relay the signal through every naval base in the world and force them to output at maximum strength.  The transponder snails can receive audio signals, but the visual transponder snails will take time in order to be set up for viewing.  I suggest giving them an interval of one hour.

Stella: One hour?!  That seems long.  So long, in fact, that it will give those who might not want this message to be heard the time to interfere with it.

Shaka/Stella?: Very well!  Let us set the preparation period for the message to ten minutes!!  You hear that world?!!

Shaka/Stella/Pythagoras: 

-So, nine and a half minutes to kill.  What now?

-Want to invent something?  I’m rather busy.

-Why not have some coffee?

-Calculating the likelihood of signal jamming…

-The coffee will take ten minutes to brew.

-Then I won’t have time to drink it!!

-I calculate the chances of jamming are exceedingly low.

-What is that, Stella?

-Hmm?  Why, it’s the dream of all mankind: Vega Coffee!!  One little speck of this stuff dropped in water, and you’ve instantly got nice, warm coffee!!

-How many minutes left?

-It’s not like we’re on a strict timer.  Let’s wait seven minutes or so, and then we’ll begin.  Not that anyone will be close enough to stop us if they wished…

-I can’t help but notice you’re not drinking your Vega Coffee.

-It’s hot!  I have a very sensitive tongue!

-That’s mean, Shaka.  You knew that already.

-Four more minutes, Stella.

-*sip* YEOW!!

-Stella, there’s not much time left.

-Why not use thermoelectric elements to take the coffee’s heat and convert that energy into something--

-One minute left, Stella.

-I know!! *Slurp..* Well, it’s been such a short time that the coffee’s not even cool yet, but are they all set up with their video transponder snails by now, I wonder?

-Thirty seconds to go, Stella.

-I feel a bit nervous knowing this is going all over the world.

-Video will one day connect the entire world.  It will mean knowing, and the discomfort of being known.

Vegapunks Message

Chapter 1113

Stella: Can you all hear me?  Hello?  This is Vegapunk.  Hello world.  Come in world!!

Shaka: It’s a one-sided hijack of the waves, Stella.

Stella: I know that!  Well!  In that case, let’s get this message started!!  I have committed two sins.  Therefore, whether I am arrested or executed, I shall program this message to be broadcast when my heart stops beating.  However--!!  I want to make one thing very clear first.  Whoever may have rendered their judgment unto me, I am not trying to convince you that their intent is evil.  I will not apply the labels of good and evil at all, in fact, because I understand too little about him to begin with.  What I am about to tell you is so preposterous you might even burst into laughter.  However, you all have the right to know.  To make a long story short, the world as we know it will sink into the sea!!

Chapter 1114

Now, speaking of the near future for me, assuming that the sensors I built are functioning correctly, in the days after I recorded this message, there should be a most remarkable earthquake that strikes the entire planet!!  As a result of that, the sea should rise about one meter around the world rendering some islands uninhabitable.  Beaches around the world will be lost for good.  If I am wrong in this prediction, feel free to disregard the rest of this message.  If this has happened, however, you should heed my words very carefully!!  This particular earthquake is not exactly what I would call a natural phenomenon.  In my own way, I only ever hoped for peace, but this was the root of my first sin.  I dreamt of a source of endless, eternal energy, and in my desire to push the world forward into the future, I flew too close to the sun.  Allow me to explain just what it is that is happening to our world.  From about 900 years ago to 800 years ago--A period of a century, there is a span of history that is completely and entirely blank.  We call this the Void Century, because all records from this time were eliminated.  The only means to know this lost piece of history is to find a message from the past in the form of ponegliffs scattered across the world and decipher its contents!!  However, the World Government has made it a crime of the highest order to decipher the message of the ponegliffs.  And despite being a member of the government myself, I broke this law.  That was my second sin.  Through the sheer tenacity of a group of excellent archeologists, I inherited some texts and a number of ponegliffs, which I have deciphered and continued studying to the best of my ability.  I regret none of this!!  History, you see, tells a story, in other words, what I know is an incomplete story of that 100-year void!!  It would be dishonest to fill the blanks with my own speculation, so I will leave you only with the verified truth!!  The main character of this story was born into a kingdom with an impossibly advanced civilization, 900 years ago.  Like the Sun God Nika spoken of in legend, he fought with a body that stretched and contracted.  His name was Joyboy.  And he was the very first man on this sea to be called a pirate!!!

Chapter 1115

But as for why he was called a pirate… I have only read from a handful of ponegliffs, but what I found there was the record of a breathtakingly vast war.  Joyboy’s enemy… was the World Government of the present day!!  More accurately, it was the precursor to the World Government, a provisional army put together by 20 kingdoms known as the Alliance!!  You might say they had no other choice, so robust was Joyboy’s faction!!  Without knowing the spark that caused the war, I won’t say who was right or wrong, I’ll simply state that two competing ideologies came head-to-head.  As I mentioned earlier, for its time 900 years ago, the country of Joyboy’s birth was a startlingly advanced civilization.  And the weapons that were used over the course of this 100-year conflict appear to be impossible to re-create with the latest of modern science.  Even I, a humble genius, cannot replicate them!!  And therein lies the problem!!!  The Void Century came to a close with the defeat of Joyboy, but not before leaving vast, permanent scars of war across the face of the world!!!  The world is made up of a series of islands.  Sailing between them is difficult, and many people never experience anything but their own culture at home!!  But this shared understanding of the world does not necessarily apply to the world of a thousand years ago!!  Because a cataclysm occurred during the Void Century causing the world to sink once before!!!  We are currently living on the pieces of a continent that existed long ago!!!  The world of a millennium ago now slumbers unseen at the bottom of the sea!!!  In fact, one can assume that in the past there were a number of continents we know nothing about.  If the world were still the same as it was in the past, then the act of erasing 100 years of history would be simply unthinkable and impossible.  However, it makes much more sense when you understand that the rise in sea level over that century was 200 meters!!!  As for why the sea level rose so much during that century, it would be natural to assume the work of a sudden natural disaster, but I can state for a fact that this was a man-made disaster!!!  If such a cataclysm were caused by natural forces, then the initial disaster would have spanned several centuries and inflicted slow but continual damage upon the world!!  But by any measurement--climatology, geology, environmental and atmospheric science, this dramatic shift could not have happened within a single century!!!  So the cause is something else.  And when I detected the rise in worldwide sea levels the other day, I had my answer.  I knew the cause and confirmed its existence!!!  The ancient weapons that sank the world into the sea 800 years ago still exist today, and await the moment that they stir once again!!  In other words, the vast war that arose during the Void Century never came to an end!!!

Chapter1116

Sadly, I owe you all my deepest apologies.  But I need you to understand why!!  I wanted to create the energy that would power the industry of the world to come.  And though it is still incomplete, I have at last reached a practical stage of my life’s work, the Mother Flame, a fire that never goes out!!  It is an energy source that will one day in the future enrich the lives of people all over the world!!  Unfortunately, one little piece of that flame has been stolen!!  The fault of this lies entirely with me!!!  Around two weeks after the theft of the flame, the sky over Lulusia shone with a powerful light, and the kingdom vanished without a trace, according to reports.  After that was when I observed the first signs of worldwide earthquakes!!  As a scientist, and with utmost pride in its development, I can tell you this… Nothing but the Mother Flame could have created so much energy!!!  The flame that I created was used to activate an ancient weapon!!  I know nothing about who might have carried this out, but the results speak for themselves!!!  My actions have led, directly or indirectly, to the loss of many human lives!!!  A fact that weighs most deeply upon my soul!!  I am so sorry!!!  I have inadvertently proven that the man-made disaster that once sank the world is possible again!!!  In the past, there were three ancient weapons, and Joyboy attempted to preserve them for the future!!  Why would he do that for such dangerous things?!  Have we not sunk far enough?!  Who is the true evil here, and who fights the good fight?!!  The day will come when all of the answers are laid bare!!  And I warn you--That moment will happen when we reach the very precipice of the world’s drowning!!!  The Void Century is still ripe with mystery!!  However, there are some who have learned the truth!!!  The king of the pirate’s crew!!!  When they learned all of the true history, why did they drift apart without telling anyone?  Why didn’t they act on it?!

Chapter 1117

I know this information is in bits and pieces, but if I were to say more, it would be speculation.  Lastly, I have one final message to impart.  To those scattered throughout the world who bear the name of D, within you there is a-*ZRRKSH!!*

Chapter 1118

*ZSSK* That… name… *ZSHK*

Chapter 1119

…But actually… …nothing of the sort.  …Which you might consider a will inherited through the years. *ZSSHK!!* …can only pray that those at the mercy of this reason will be able to hear this message.

Chapter 1120

*Zrk* Someone once said that the voices of the past will be heard… History is told by the winners, and the voices of the losers at the bottom of the sea are so very faint, but the truth that was gleaned at the cost of so much sacrifice has at last been told to the world, just now… I can only pray that this message has made it safely out to the world at large.  It would be foolish to hear about a war 900 years in the past from only one side.  History requires a multifaceted approach to understand entirely.  If only I had more time on my side!!  Alas!  There are forces outside of my ability to stop.  Twenty-five years ago, the pirate Gol D. Roger, completed an unprecedented tour of the entire world.  And what he and his crew heard were likely the purest voices of the past.  In conclusion, as I’m sure you’ve all surmised by now, my view of the future is thus!!!

Chapter 1121

One day, the memories of the Void Century will be recalled, and mark my words, that day is coming!!!  The sinking of the world’s continents was a man-made disaster brought about by weapons!!  Weapons which, by someone’s design, still exist today!!!  The machinations of history and fate seem to insist upon the obliteration of those last descendants of rare races!!  If the worst should come to pass, I want you all to take care of yourselves!!  No matter what should happen, I believe in the intelligence of mankind!!  I believe in science!!! *ZRSHK* --ger died 25 years ago!! *ZZRK* Whitebeard died two years ago!!  But the fall of these legends was merely the prologue of a new era!!  And now, these people who refuse to buckle under any and all suppression… They are the ones who are closest to the truth, ironically enough!!!  Then again, perhaps it was Roger who sent them there.  The person who winds up with it may not be the one Joyboy desired!!!  There is no stopping the tide… The fate of the world now rests in the hands of the one who finds it!!  The person who lays claim to the One Piece!!!

Chapter 1122

That is simply the truth. *ZRTT* Joyboy is his-- *ZZZT* *BEEP* *BEEP*

This is when the Five Elders finally stopped the broadcast.

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Very old comic I made based on a photoshop thing that made me laugh.