The Void Century spanned only a hundred years. What did that mean?
More than four thousand years of this world's history had been recorded since civilization first emerged in Alabasta. Those four thousand years of history had never been interrupted; they had been preserved in their entirety.
Yet the hundred years between nine hundred and eight hundred years ago had vanished from the world's history. Every record had disappeared, and the World Nobles-the Celestial Dragons-and an organization called the World Government had emerged.
Why had the Celestial Dragons appeared? Why had the World Government been established? What exactly had happened in those hundred years? Anyone in the world with even a basic knowledge of history would wonder why such creatures as the Celestial Dragons existed.
This world had a legacy stretching back thousands of years, yet its most important hundred years of history had disappeared. What had happened during that time, and why had the records vanished? How exactly had the Celestial Dragons come into being? Had the World Government truly been founded to maintain peace on the seas?
The rise of piracy, the emergence of the D. Family, and other developments had all taken place during those hundred years.
These questions puzzled people all over the world. The World Government's official explanation was that someone wanted to destroy the world with an Ancient Weapon, and that the Poneglyphs recorded the whereabouts of Ancient Weapons. That was why the World Government wanted to destroy them, and why even people who came into contact with them met with disaster.
"The World Government has always been hiding something, but the truth is the truth. Nine hundred years ago, a group of people descended from Sky Island. They called themselves the Moon People. Then there were the Giant Pirates, who set out from