Galaxy News: The Milky Way just got bigger

[Assaltwaffle]

Introductio

Well, the Milky Way itself didn't get bigger, obviously, but our understanding of it did. According to a recent article, astronomers have determined the Milky Way Galaxy not to be 100K or 110K Light Years in diameter, but a staggering 200K Light Years in diameter. This is about double the previous estimate and puts us almost on par with Andromeda.

Why it matters

In practice not much changes here. However, the numerical value for busting our newly unveiled 200K Milky Way is higher. A decent bit higher. This increases the gap between 4-A and 3-C, decreases the gap between 3-C and 3-B, and also renders all galaxy bust calcs invalid. So Kid Buu's galaxy-over-time bust will have a far higher number, as will all galaxy busters. This won't lead to a tier jump in most scenarios, but it will make them higher numerically than what they were before, increasing the power gap and magnitude they are above baseline.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Looks legit.

 

[Dark649]

I agree.

 

[Shadowbokunohero]

Woah

 

[Nico-v11]

Shouldn't this be highlighted? It seems pretty major

 

[The_Causality]

Oh It's really interesting!

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Shouldn't this be highlighted? It seems pretty major

This

 

[Assaltwaffle]

I'll highlight it, then, since it ties into some revisions that will happen this month or next.

 

[Js250476]

Holy shit! This is big

Space the final frontier indeed

 

[AlexSoloVaAlFuturo]

Space, the final frontier

 

[Phoenix821]

Inb4 it increases agai

 

[DMB_1]

Very nice!

 

[Js250476]

@Alex ninjad Lol

 

[Dragonmasterxyz]

Clickbait!

In was expecting new regarding how the Milky Way literally grew in size...7.5/10 too much clickbait...ovo

But in all seriousness, this is great news.

 

[The_Everlasting]

42.112 zettaFoe is now the result for Galaxy level.

This doesn't affect... any calc we use in terms of raw yield, but the size of the galaxy would affect a few. Not sure which tho.

 

[Assaltwaffle]

@Ever

Kid Buu's partial galaxy-bust is affected off the top of my head.

 

[CrimsonStarFallen]

Nice.

 

[AlexSoloVaAlFuturo]

@Js250476

Gif >>>>> No gif

 

[Phoenix821]

This is truly news of galactic proportions.

 

[Js250476]

@alex not when the words are better said

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

What about Galaxy creators?? OvO

 

[The_Everlasting]

@Ever
Kid Buu's partial galaxy-bust is affected off the top of my head.

The lowest end goes from ~52 exaFoe to ~207 exaFoe.

Highest end goes from ~137 exaFoe to 547 exaFoe.

So it's a 4x jump, just about.

 

[The_Everlasting]

From the looks of it the new diameter just quadruples the AP of the calcs associated with it.

 

[Wokistan]

May I ask why we use the Milky way as the default object of comparison when it's already of above average size for a galaxy? I get that obviously its our first intuition given that its the galaxy we're inside and all, but it seems like this just ends up making 3-C a far smaller tier than otherwise and just generally seems a bit weird. But idk.

 

[Ryukama]

This will be great for galaxy crossing feats

 

[Js250476]

Hm now that you mention it will a lot of speed calcs be affected to?

 

[Lucis=the=Lumenian]

@Wokistan I think its same reason why we use Earth as baseline. Despite the most common type of planets are gas giant-type if I remember correctly.

Tier 3-Cs are up for massive overhaul it seems.

 

[The_Causality]

This will be great for galaxy crossing feats

True!

 

[Mand21]

Should we get a Low 3-C tier for dwarf galaxies, by this point? Since most galaxy busting feats are actually Multi Solar System Level.

 

[Dragonmasterxyz]

Low 3-C sounds so familiar.

 

[DMB_1]

Or High 4-A or something.

 

[The_Everlasting]

Can we please not go through the "divide Tier 4/3!" song and dance agai?

 

[Dragonmasterxyz]

I mean, 4-B and 4-A are extremely large tiers. I see no reason to why 3-C just can't also be extremely large as well.

 

[Damage3245]

Wouldn't all of the previous calcs still be somewhat valid because they were based on what the size of the galaxy was thought to be at the time they were written?

Wouldn't upgrading galaxies to twice the size just be retconning the feats into destroying a bigger galaxy than they actually destroyed? Or am I overthinking this?

 

[The_Everlasting]

Also a reminder that virtually no feats would reach these energy values.

The tiers would be virtually empty.

 

[The_Everlasting]

@Damage

I doubt there are many verses that actually keep in mind that the galaxy is 100,000 light years long.

They usually just go "It's a galaxy".

 

[Mand21]

Can we please not go through the "divide Tier 4/3!" song and dance agai?

Why is that? =\ I don't know how it went before, but by this point we're having 3-C become a tiny little 161x bottom-to-top tier amidst several multi-order-of-magnitude tiers.

 

[Overlord775]

EXPAND Galaxy

 

[Dragonmasterxyz]

I mean, 4-B and 4-A are extremely large tiers. I see no reason to why 3-C just can't also be extremely large as well.

 

[Assaltwaffle]

@Dragon

This shrinks 3-C. It just makes 4-A larger.