Recaps

Nova brought Hancock and the Kuja Pirates to Jaya Island, then led his guards to Sky Island and began bringing it under Tru Kingdom administration. He secured Gan Fall’s cooperation and took Enel under his care, while setting plans to survey the island and address its conflict with the Shandia people.

• Nova taught the Kuja women Armament Haki, then made Hancock’s crew seize Jaya Island while his own group prepared to leave for Sky Island.
• Nova and eighteen companions flew to Sky Island, where he subdued Gan Fall and met the lonely boy Enel before the boy had eaten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Nova befriended Enel and learned that the boy wanted to go to the moon and believed his invention had made his village disappear.
• Junhe told Gan Fall that the Tru Kingdom intended to take over Sky Island’s administration, while Nova brought Enel to God’s Shrine.
• Nova found the Rumble-Rumble Fruit at the shrine and left it untouched, then offered Gan Fall continued authority and Tru Kingdom support in exchange for cooperation.
• Nova assigned Junhe to survey Sky Island, locate Shandora, assess land for development, and test the island clouds as training grounds, while Gan Fall agreed to serve as a Tru Kingdom official.

Nova brought Sky Island under the Tru Kingdom’s authority, negotiated a settlement with the Shandia, and established a military base and teleportation gate. He left Junhe in charge, returned to sea aboard the Endless, and gained new powers from the System.

• Nova assigned Gan Fall, Abona, and Junhe to survey Sky Island, announce the change in rule, and approach the Shandia, whose residents offered little resistance.
• Abona met Wipper and the Shandia chief, and Wipper became the new chief so he could negotiate with the Tru Kingdom.
• Nova rejected the Shandia’s claim to Upper Yard but offered them a settlement, supplies, and work, and Wipper accepted the terms.
• Nova designated Upper Yard for military training, left the Golden Bell for the Shandia, and appointed them guards of Sky Island’s entrance.
• Nova trained Enel, then followed him to an underground golden palace, where he took the Poneglyph and recharged the System with the palace’s gold.
• Nova created a Space Teleportation Gate and left Junhe responsible for Sky Island, while the islanders received supplies and accepted their new arrangements.
• Nova and Abona departed Sky Island, and Nova summoned an intelligent yacht called Endless and named its AI Hailing.
• As Endless sailed toward the Tru Kingdom, Abona reflected on Nova’s advice about finding a purpose, and Nova received upgrades to his mental power, Haki, and other abilities.

Nova returned to Tru Kingdom, consumed the Mind-Mind Fruit, and gained powerful new abilities before constructing a Space Teleportation Gate to Sky Island. After turning away a Navy warship, Nova set Tru Kingdom on a course of domestic reforms while Lostar began expanding its influence in Alabasta.

• Nova returned to Naniwa Port, heard Lostar report on Tru Kingdom’s industrial growth, and reprimanded him for using the Fourth Dossier without approval before assigning him to prepare for Alabasta.
• Nova used the Celestial Dragons’ stolen assets to fill the Royal Treasury, paid the System to remove the Space-Space Fruit’s side effects, and ate the Mind-Mind Fruit.
• Nova’s nine blue chains unleashed a spatial storm that devastated a plaza, while Abona, Chiya, and the Royal Guard kept others away until Nova regained control of his new powers.
• Nova had Gogoya identify the Devil Fruits and spent ten days practicing before sending Lostar to Alabasta to establish industries and recruit talent.
• Nova directed Comoro to continue factory and road construction despite a major funding shortfall, then built a Space Teleportation Gate on the mountain behind the palace.
• Momonga’s Marines approached Tru Kingdom, but Abona defeated Momonga in a brief clash and Nova ordered the Navy warship to leave.
• Nova ordered the Royal Guard gathered and told Chiya to put Abona in charge of the shipbuilding base, while Lostar departed for Alabasta.
• Nova proposed a National Guard and a new Legal Codex, and the ministers discussed reforms including food-crop incentives and moving the perfume industry to Alabasta.

Nova advanced reforms at home, sent the Tru Kingdom’s troops to Sky Island for training, and secured investments and projects in Alabasta. He recruited Issho as an Admiral after demonstrating the military’s strength, then entrusted him with a new system for building the kingdom’s forces over the next eight years.

• Nova defended his reforms to the Council, then watched more than ten thousand people leave through the Space Teleportation Gate to protect the kingdom while living elsewhere.
• Chiya led 11,500 Special Forces personnel through the gate to Junhe’s Sky Island base, where the troops began training under the limits imposed by the island’s thin air.
• Lostar secured Cobra’s agreement for Tru Kingdom investments, factories, jobs, and infrastructure projects in Alabasta in exchange for the right to operate Rapeseed Port.
• Nova met Issho in a Royal City casino, hosted him at the palace, and showed him the Space Teleportation Gate and the Sky Island military base.
• Issho accepted Nova’s offer to become an Admiral and lead the Special Operations Force after learning Nova wanted to use the kingdom’s strength to protect people and eventually the world.
• Issho demonstrated his gravity powers against Abona and Junhe, then called down meteors that Nova absorbed into a spatial vortex before Junhe calmed the alarmed Sky Island residents.
• Nova unveiled a military system of squads, regiments, divisions, and armies, placed Issho in charge of implementing it, and laid out an eight-year plan to expand the Tru Kingdom’s strength.