Theory Uranus might be already shown

[Vuikua]

Uranus was hidden by Oda until today. We have very little information about Uranus, but I believe I found a fitting candidate in the manga.

By now I also assume that Uranus – or at least a part of Uranus – was responsible for the destruction of Lulusia.

In the community, two panels from Enel’s cover story are very well known. And for good reason.

This “first” image feels, at least to me, a bit like a factory. Automatas are being built or repaired. It looks like it is missing energy.

What is noticeable is that it is circular (marked here with number 2) and that they are standing on some kind of platform (marked here with number 1).

We know that this image takes place on the moon. As far as I know, the community assumes that the two images (the second one will come next) are meant to show how the moon population migrated to the Blue Planet. I also strongly believe that.

Personally, I think this platform (marked here with 1) looks almost identical to the platform in the Enel cover story.

Clear parallels are not only the patterns and the curved lines, but you can also see it on a meta level. In the Enel cover story image we unfortunately only see a “cut-out” of it. It is clearly cut on the right side on purpose.

So it would absolutely be possible that the “energy” – here shown as stars – is also transported to the right, into some kind of “ship”.

Of course, that ship could stand for a motor or something completely different. But for me right now, it is really about the visual language of the image.

It is important to mention that Oda would never choose the exact same image 1:1. Otherwise it would be too easy for us.

I really think you can interpret the “energy stars” from the Elbaf mural into number 1 and 2 here without overinterpreting it.

And we also should not forget that there are over 800 chapters between the Enel cover story and the Elbaf mural.

Also noticeable is this kind of “hole structure”.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the first one who has this idea, but don’t we already know this from somewhere?

It almost looks like the hole at Enies Lobby.

Which we later saw again after a weapon was fired from the sky — the same kind of weapon that ultimately destroyed Lulusia.

If you look at the Enel cover story image, you see a circular structure, some kind of sphere, a platform — and something like an “arm” or extension.

If you don’t look at Enies Lobby as a 2D image but imagine it in 3D, then Enies Lobby and the image from the Enel cover story share very strong similarities in their basic structure.

Now if we also include the Elbaf mural — which the giants themselves describe as some kind of “childish” drawing — you can still recognize parallels to both the Enel cover story and Enies Lobby.

And we should not forget that the image in the Enel cover story is deliberately cut off. We don’t see if there is another extension, which could represent the bridge path of Enies Lobby.

Why there is “rock” around Enies Lobby and why the platform from the Enel cover story is not visible could be explained quite simply:
Either it was hidden inside the rock through some Devil Fruit ability, or it was intentionally covered so that the platform can no longer be recognized.

And then there is also the theme of it being a judicial island. It would almost look like the World Government is saying: “Judgment was carried out here.” A kind of monument or warning sign.

But nobody would search beneath — or inside — the rock of a judicial island.

The second famous image from the Enel cover story shows, in my opinion, the “ship” or even “spaceship” that was used to bring the moon people — or the civilization — to the Blue Planet.

It is drawn completely different compared to the platform structure I talked about before.

We also know from the Skypiea Arc that Enel himself had blueprints of an ancient flying ship and built his “Maxim” based on them. On the Elbaf mural, there is a very distinctive “airship” visible, which looks very similar to the Ark Maxim.

I am firmly convinced that Oda would not just draw Uranus directly on the Elbaf mural, but rather show it in an abstract way. That would mean that this Ark Maxim-like ship on the Elbaf mural actually represents Uranus — which must be the ship that brought the moon people to the Blue Planet.

What is also interesting is that the Enel cover story image clearly shows something like a ship hull. It really looks like a vessel and could be interpreted as some kind of farewell scene — like the inhabitants were “dropped off” on the planet.

I think that this “airship” was responsible for destroying Lulusia.

And I also think that Enies Lobby — meaning the original hole — was created with this same “airship,” in order to access the earth’s energy, the “fire in the earth,” to use that energy for the world — probably originally for something good.

I don’t think Uranus is just a simple “flying object.” I think Uranus is a multi-layered module (three fixed modules) from an ancient civilization — the moon people.

I think Uranus consists of the following modules:

1.) Some kind of “elevator” system, used to tap into the energy of the earth — not only to power the ancient city itself, but also the platform (2). The “hole,” in my opinion, looks very similar to the hole at Enies Lobby.

2.) The platform — which is gigantic (see Enies Lobby) — and in my opinion could also function as some kind of docking system for the “airship” that was brought there. It is interesting that near Enies Lobby we have a “dock” city — Water 7.

3.) In my opinion, this is the airship that destroyed Lulusia. I think this is one part of the weapon Uranus.

4.) The complete module — all three elements together — form Uranus. I would even go so far as to say that it might be possible that the Ancient Civilization itself was once called “Uranus.”

That would explain why Clover was shot, why the Ancient Weapons and the Poneglyphs must not be researched. If the Ancient Kingdom was named Uranus and it was a highly advanced civilization with actually good intentions — for example to provide energy to the world — then surely there were also people who felt envy. Or groups who saw them as a threat.

But no matter how you look at it, I am firmly convinced that Uranus is a technology made of several parts.

Additional thought (1):
An interesting idea is that the One Piece — or at least a part of it — could be the final missing module: the elevator.

I think it would fit if Joy Boy or some faction took the last part, the elevator, which is clearly missing at Enies Lobby — the missing link. Because without this elevator, there is no energy supply. And without energy supply, the “infinite energy from the earth” becomes useless.

It would also explain why Imu needed the Mother Flame in order to control or fire the Uranus airship. The energy source is missing.

Thanks for your attention

Daniel M. Doc.

 

[yokoso9999]

I appreciate the effort that went into this theory, and I can definitely see why some of these connections seem compelling at first glance. However, I think the entire argument depends too heavily on visual similarities, and that's where it starts to lose me.

The comparison between the moon structure from Enel's cover story, the Elbaf mural, and Enies Lobby sounds convincing when they're placed next to each other, but I'm not sure that visual resemblance is enough to establish a genuine connection. One Piece is filled with circular structures, ancient-looking architecture, rings, domes, and symbolic patterns. If we start assuming that every similar-looking structure must be related, then it becomes very easy to connect things that were never intended to be connected in the first place.

What makes me even more skeptical is that the moon structure itself is incomplete. We are only shown a portion of it, and much of the theory seems to rely on filling in the missing parts with assumptions. The problem with that approach is that the unseen parts can be imagined to support almost any conclusion. Once we start speculating about what might exist outside the panel, it becomes difficult to separate actual evidence from interpretation.

The same issue comes up with the stars in the Elbaf mural. You interpret them as a representation of energy moving through some kind of ancient system, but I don't really see a strong reason to make that leap. The mural appears to be a mythological depiction of historical events rather than a technical schematic. In that context, stars could represent countless things. They could symbolize power, divinity, fate, celestial bodies, or simply be part of the artistic style. Assuming that they specifically represent the same energy source from the moon cover story feels like a conclusion that is being reached before the evidence is there.

I also think the Enies Lobby comparison raises more questions than it answers. Ever since Lulusia was destroyed, people have naturally compared the two giant holes, but there is still a major difference between them. The hole beneath Enies Lobby has existed for an extremely long time, whereas Lulusia's destruction happened in the present storyline. If both were created by the same weapon, then we have to explain why that weapon apparently vanished from history for centuries before suddenly becoming relevant again.

The usual answer is that Uranus required a power source and that the Mother Flame solved that problem. While that's certainly possible, it still leaves a lot of unanswered questions. If the World Government already possessed Uranus, knew where it was, and understood how it worked, then it seems strange that restoring it was never presented as one of their major priorities. Throughout the story, we've seen them focus far more on suppressing information than on recovering lost technology. At the same time, Pluton and Poseidon are consistently treated as enormous threats. If the Government already had access to something even more powerful, then that emphasis becomes harder to understand.

The Ark Maxim comparison is another area where I think the theory reaches too far. We know that Enel based Maxim on ancient technology, and we know that the ancient world possessed technology far beyond what exists in the present. However, that doesn't necessarily mean every ancient flying vessel is Uranus. One Piece has repeatedly shown us examples of advanced technology that are not Ancient Weapons. The ancient robot, the technology discovered by Vegapunk, and the moon automata all demonstrate that sophisticated machinery existed independently of the three legendary weapons. Because of that, I don't think the existence of a flying machine automatically points toward Uranus.

What really makes me question the theory, though, is how many different roles Uranus ends up playing. By the end of the post, Uranus isn't just a weapon anymore. It's a spaceship, an energy system, a transportation network, a docking platform, a city, a civilization, and potentially even part of the One Piece itself. At that point it starts to feel less like a specific theory and more like a framework that absorbs every unresolved mystery into a single answer.

As @Imfamux brilliantly mentioned, theories tend to become weaker when they need one concept to explain everything. The more functions Uranus is given, the more additional assumptions become necessary to hold the theory together. Suddenly we need explanations for why the system was divided, where the missing components went, why nobody recovered them, how they were powered, and why the World Government failed to regain control of them over the course of eight centuries. Instead of simplifying the story, the theory ends up creating an entirely new layer of complexity.

I also don't find the idea that the Ancient Kingdom itself was called Uranus particularly convincing. We know the Ancient Kingdom's name was important enough to get Clover killed before he could reveal it, but there is currently nothing in the story that suggests it shared its name with one of the Ancient Weapons. Could Oda reveal something along those lines in the future? Of course. But at the moment there isn't really any evidence pointing in that direction.

The same applies to the suggestion that the One Piece could be the missing elevator module. For me, that's where the theory starts moving beyond what the manga has actually shown and into pure speculation. It feels less like following clues and more like trying to find a way to connect every major mystery in the series to the same central concept.

Personally, I think the simpler explanation is usually the safer one. I absolutely believe that the moon civilization, the Ancient Kingdom, the Mother Flame, the Ancient Weapons, and the Elbaf mural are all connected to the larger history of the Void Century. That much seems increasingly likely. What I don't see is convincing evidence that they are literally different components of a single ancient machine called Uranus.

At the moment, most of the theory seems to be built on identifying patterns and similarities rather than establishing direct narrative links. That's not necessarily a bad starting point for speculation, but I don't think it's enough to support conclusions this large. Until we get more concrete information from the manga, I think there are simply too many assumptions required for this interpretation to work.

 

[TitaniumOxide]

It is important to mention that Oda would never choose the exact same image 1:1. Otherwise it would be too easy for us.

He does. He shows Kuma kneeling in front of the symbol for the ancient kingdom in chapter 1098. Then you see the same symbol from a different angle in the Elbaph mural. The same symbol is also in the Kozuki crest. So yeah Oda does use the same thing 1:1 sometimes. That said, it doesn't have to be 1:1 for it to be easy for us to make a connection. It was pretty easy for people to make the connection between the Alabasta flag with the ancient kingdom. Super similar symbol.

An interesting idea is that the One Piece — or at least a part of it — could be the final missing module: the elevator.

Hard disagree here because I don't see how an elevator can make the Roger Pirates laugh their asses off like that.