The cover-serial-to-main-canon promotion is complete: Camie crosses over @0490, and Pappag lands main-story with full dialogue @0491 while Hatchan (“Hatchin”) is bridged into the plot (voice via transponder). The wholly-new cover-introduced trio is now canon.
Earliest known caller
0195 vault-side install).
Why this matters
Oda’s cover-story-payoff technique — wholly-new named characters introduced via cover-serial long before main-canon. The serial has shifted from introducing unnamed sea-creatures (panda-shark, sea-boar) to seeding named recurring allies.