Franky and Iceberg Read the Pluton Blueprints
The blueprints for the Ancient Weapon Pluton were passed down through generations of Water Seven shipwrights. After Tom’s capture, Iceberg held them for 4 years — then Franky held them for 8 years.
Those blueprints were Tom’s memento — and both men surely studied them deeply, memorizing every detail.
So when Franky designed the Thousand Sunny, wasn’t it influenced by those Pluton blueprints — making the Sunny a flying warship modeled after Pluton?
And when Iceberg conceived his dream of a floating city, might that vision have come from studying the Pluton blueprints as well?
Combine the two ideas — a flying structure and a city — and you get a massive flying warship.
And this weapon already exists in Indian mythology.
The Ancient Weapon of Indian Mythology: Pushpaka Ratha
While researching the Ramayana (the great Indian epic) in connection with the article on Hanuman, we discovered it: Pushpaka Ratha — the flying warship owned by the demon king Ravana — is the model for the Ancient Weapon Pluton.
Vimana: The Divine Flying Weapon
Vimana means “divine aerial vehicle” in Sanskrit. These weapons of the gods appear in:
- The Vedas — the sacred texts of Brahmanism (the root of Hinduism)
- The Agama — sacred texts of Jainism
- The epics Ramayana and Mahabharata
The Vimana used by Ravana in the Ramayana is specifically called Pushpaka Ratha — a flying warship.
Its key characteristics:
- Built by the gods
- Capable of flight
- Large enough to carry entire armies
- Equipped with vast numbers of weapons (like cannons or missiles)
The most famous real-world cultural parallel is the Castle in the Sky (Laputa) from Studio Ghibli:
- Flies through the sky as a castle
- Contains vast mechanical armies (robot soldiers)
- Equipped with laser cannons
Foreshadowing #1: Onigashima — The Flying Fortress
Onigashima, Kaido’s fortress, was lifted into the sky by Kaido’s clouds and moved toward the Flower Capital — essentially becoming a flying fortress.
- A fortress that flies
- Carries thousands of Beast Pirates soldiers
- Equipped with weapons throughout
This closely matches the profile of a Vimana. Onigashima’s flight appears to be foreshadowing the eventual revelation of Pluton.
Foreshadowing #2: The Thousand Sunny
The Thousand Sunny — designed by Franky, who studied the Pluton blueprints — can fly using Coup de Burst and has powerful weaponry. It may be a miniature model of what Pluton actually is: a flying warship of god-like destructive capability.
Conclusion
Pluton is not merely a “powerful ship” — it is One Piece’s version of the Vimana, the divine flying weapon of ancient Indian mythology. The threads connecting the Ramayana, Onigashima, Franky’s Sunny, and Iceberg’s floating city all point toward the same revelation: Pluton is a flying city-scale warship, the ultimate weapon of the ancient world.