Sky Screen

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Appearance

The Sky Screen is a golden virtual screen visible around the world. It displays text, footage and other images, and can change its lighting to suit a broadcast 23 48 62.

• Golden characters: Announcements and verdicts assemble in the sky, sometimes stroke by stroke 22 23.
• Split images: The screen can show several locations or related scenes at once 84 133 215.
• Golden light: Its light can mark people, illuminate locations and form protective barriers 90 133.

Abilities & Skills

Broadcast and playback

The Sky Screen presents questions, records and commentary to a worldwide audience.

• Replays past events and footage from the original future timeline, including events that had not yet occurred in the present 38 87.
• Zooms in, slows footage, translates ancient writing and supplies measurements or annotations 40 45 49.
• Displays personal files and assessments, including physiological readings and combat-strength estimates 20 21 45.
• Broadcasts voluntary testimony: Garp used it to tell the world what he witnessed at God Valley 120.
• Displayed a temporary holographic projection of Gol D. Roger 48.

Questions and public review

The screen presents timed questions, receives answers and announces judgments. Its subjects range from historical mysteries to the legality of ongoing actions 49 71 156.

• Lin Qi can set questions, pause broadcasts and use automatic playback; his identity as question setter was initially concealed 52 62 77.
• Other participants can pose or prompt questions. Bonney’s question about Ginny was accepted, and Robin was authorized to interpret the Nefertari historical node publicly 71 113.
• Reviews can admit testimony, distinguish confirmed claims from unconfirmed ones and examine evidence-destruction chains 124 193.
• Question-setting authority was temporarily transferred to the five-seat World Witness Seat after the Throne continued an unlawful attack 172.
• A review found that Lin Qi’s first question had not contaminated its evidence, while reserving his recklessness for later accountability proceedings 175.

Evidence recovery and protection

The Sky Screen can trace records, expose concealment and protect evidence or witnesses during reviews.

• Triggered evidence protection and an earlier broadcast when Imu ordered Ginny’s original records destroyed 111.
• Bypassed access controls and restored the signature area of a damaged document concerning Ginny 113.
• Marked witnesses for protection, including Old Archive guard Ka Mi Er and White Mask 133.
• Registered the child Xing’s chosen name and added him to a temporary protection list; his refusal later served as counterevidence against old records 186 191.
• Protected victims’ privacy during rescue reviews, including by concealing village names and limiting the disclosure of coordinates 206 215.

Rewards, punishments and enforcement

The associated system can grant rewards and impose conditions following its judgments.

• Pardoned Koby and granted him the title Hero’s Heart 8.
• Granted Squard Heart-Shattering Eye, a passive ability that defeats verbal manipulation and lets him distinguish lies from truths directed at him 38.
• Ordered the disclosure of the Five Elders’ purge list and marked their real-time locations for seventy-two hours 23.
• Ruled that Akainu’s Magma-Magma Fruit ability would be interrupted for ten minutes if he personally ordered an attack on an unarmed civilian ship 80.
• Suspended Garling’s blood adjudication of Bonney after a public legality review found it illegal 156.

Protection and remote connections

Golden light from the screen can block attacks and connect distant participants, though remote action is not unrestricted.

• Blocked a CP0 agent’s bullet during the Future Island rescue mission 90.
• Provided Robin with coordinates to seize a seal remotely and supported a battlefield projection of Shanks against Garling 145 151.
• Authorized Garp to perform one non-lethal defensive action through a projection 168.
• Allowed opposing combatants to exchange attacks through a connection, but did not open a path for Kizaru to reach the East Blue during the attack on Foosha Village 147 169.

Limits and resistance

• Marine firepower and a sword slash from one of the Five Elders failed to damage the virtual screen 23.
• Some disclosures require system permissions or resources. Lin Qi postponed revealing the Elders’ true forms because doing so would consume all his accumulated Reputation Points 22.
• Concealment can obstruct evidence extraction; Lin Qi spent authority to stabilize the extraction of Imu’s signing page 131.
• A ruling alone did not stop the Black Spear from carrying out an old order, prompting the transfer of question-setting authority to the World Witness Seat 172.

Story Role

War criminals and regrets

The Sky Screen’s early broadcasts ranked alleged war criminals, showed evidence and issued judgments. It exposed Doflamingo’s crimes in Dressrosa, Akainu’s destruction of Ohara’s civilian evacuation ship, and the Five Elders’ centuries of purges 10 11 14 22.

It named Imu, master of the Empty Throne, as the first-ranked war criminal. A later Ten Greatest Regrets series examined events involving figures such as Hancock, Squard, Whitebeard and Dragon, including future events from the original timeline 23 29 38 42 45.

Hidden history and Kuma

The screen revealed the conquest and erasure of the Great Kingdom, then opened a historical review of the Nefertari Family. Vivi enabled public playback of a family node, and Robin accepted authorization to interpret it 49 68 71.

Its investigation of Bartholomew Kuma exposed his bargain to secure Bonney’s treatment, Saturn’s hidden restrictions, and Ginny’s forced experimentation. The evidence led back to God Valley, where the screen showed the Roger Pirates finding an infant Shanks and recorded Garp’s public testimony 86 106 111 120.

Witness reviews and the Throne

The screen’s review of the Corona Crown Plan exposed Imu’s signing page and helped connect several cases to an evidence-destruction chain. As witnesses and rescuers came under attack, its broadcasts increasingly supported legality reviews and witness protection 132 133 156 193.

During an attack on Foosha Village, Lin Qi revealed himself as the holder of question-setting authority. After the Black Spear continued despite a ruling against the Throne, the screen transferred that authority temporarily to the World Witness Seat 169 172.

The seats later approved protections for people hidden in Throne records, including confidential East Blue rescue procedures and a ruling that rescue supplies could not become debt or conditions for control. They also approved children’s right to refuse a search based on names and kinship records 206 212 239.