The young woman from the previous episode is called Lilith and she’s one of Vegapunk’s “satellites.” According to her she represents Vegapunk’s “evil,” and attempts to rob the Strawhat’s. By surrounding the Thousand Sunny with Sea Beast Weapons, she’s stopped by Vegapunk’s satellite and embodiment of his “good,” Shaka. He warns Lilith. Both Zoro and Robin are prepared to kill her if necessary. He orders her to bring the Strawhat’s to him.
Elsewhere, Bonney, Luffy, Jinbe, and Chopper explore Egghead Island, watching the island holograms of fighting robots and giant parfait. They’re introduced to another satellite of Vegapunk’s Atlas, who represents “violence.” She shows Luffy and Bonney the automated food making machine. Atlas shows off some of her inventions. Unfortunately, the world can’t reproduce them due to limit resources.
Kuma Bartholomew is Bonney’s father
Vegapunk’s satellites are an interesting concept. Are they clones or are they simply research assistants or both. How are they chosen? Why do they represent themselves to the world as Vegapunk? I think it might be to prevent Vegapunk from being discovered since the majority of the world doesn’t know what he looks like.
I’m not sure how I’m suppose to feel about Bonney being Bartholomew Kuma’s daughter. Bonney has barely been in the One Piece series since she was introduced. However, if we get more information on Kuma and why he became a cyborg then I’m interested. Like Dr. Vegapunk, Kuma has been a mystery and this arc apparently will reveal their connection to each other and some of the rationale behind Kuma’s actions. I’m anticipating an interesting arc.
