Thread:Omega64/@comment-4503935-20190703001710/@comment-10330822-20191214020854

Hard to say, maybe a new weapon since his jutte was destroyed by Vergo?

It also could be SSG-related, as the SSG stands for Special Science Group, which is supposed to rival the Shichibukai.

My suspicion is that its a culmination of what we've seen so far from Vegapunk. Pacifista or weapons that have adopted artificial effects of other Devil Fruits, or possibly even genetically altered marines.

What we've seen is that Vegapunk has apparently found a way to edit the lineage factor. Judge did this so he could create powerful clones and genetically-superior children. However, it was never discussed what Vegapunk did with this knowledge. My suspicion is by finding out how the lineage factor works he can workout how Devil Fruits affect the lineage factor by seeing how alter it after one eats the fruit. In other words, since he knows what he should see in the lineage factor, he can work out how the devil fruits work from removing what he knows of the lineage factor.

This is how I suspect he is creating artifical devil fruits. He takes the lineage factor out of the equation and tries to duplicate fruits by duplicating their effects. And as a result he can do things like "feed" fruits to objects or replicate effects of fruits through technology, like the Pacifista's Pika-Pika lasers. My concern is him discovering the origin point of all devil fruits and giving him the ability to re-create any fruit and install it in weapons or Pacifista, which are in turn used by marines. My suspicion is that the giantification projects may be caused by an attempt to alter a lineage factor with the power of the giantification fruit that Sanjuan Wolf seems to have, thus creating giants from normal humans. And the failed results so far could result in things like the SMILE devil fruits and giant children in Punk Hazard. This could be how taking the children to Vegapunk could work out as he can probably remove the editing to the lineage factor, causing the children to return to normal size.

So for Smoker, maybe he'll get a weapon with a more powerful Devil Fruit, or maybe Vegapunk can make a device to alter Smoker's lineage factor to give him a more powerful fruit or increase the power of his own fruit. Like allow Smoker to create more dangerous smoke, like with carcinogens or other carbon monoxide like qualities.