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This wasn't what I was saying though. I didn't even mention maneuvering when talking about this, you were the one who brought this up AKM.Think of it this way.
Flying through space doesn't require that your reactions should scale to your flight speed. If you read the thread, you'd notice that you can easily fly through space at MFTL+ speeds even if your reaction speed is only MHS+.
Now, your case is like this:
You're saying that just because a character is flying 10 meters length or making twists and turns to catch someone over a very short distance, they should move at MFTL+ speeds too since they can move at MFTL+ speeds in space. But for doing that over such a short range while maneuvering, you'd need your reactions to somewhat scale to your flight speed, otherwise you'd collide. Which means that your reaction speed would be MFTL+ too.
The only part of this that somewhat matches what I was saying (or trying to say) is a character flying 10 meters length, or whatever close quarters distance, at MFTL+ speeds. But instead of the user having the reactions to propel themselves without crashing, my point was that if the opponent reacts to the flyer tackling or charging at them while flying through the air, the opponent's reactions then scale. Like if Character A is front of Character B over a given distance, and Character A flies at Character B. Then Character B reacts while Character A is in flying motion towards them.
The opponent's reaction speeds would then be scaling the the attacker's flight speeds. Which would then scale to everything else under the circumstance that both characters can tag each other with their attacks, showing relativity in speed between each other.
Like I said, manuevering in close quarters wasn't what I was talking about. But I'll respond to this too. This is counter-intitutive AKM because I can just flip this right back at you. If you claim reactions are needed for your MFTL+ flight speed, then having MFTL+ flight speed in and of itself is supporting evidence for the reactions being as fast.Are you understanding yet? In the first case, you only require MHS+ reaction speed, while in the second case you'd need your reactions to scale to your flight speed. If you don't have any evidence that your reactions scale to MFTL+ speeds, then you can't claim that you're flying at that speed in close quarters. Your flight speed in close quarters depends on your reaction speed, not the other way around, like you are saying.
That being said, like I said before, the maneuvering aspect of this whole thing and how we're treating it now is a larger issue with the standards in general that I will be taking to a thread for a more deeper discussion later.