- 15,614
- 7,054
So our current Starbound profiles have quite a lot of problems.
First of all, we have the extreme problem that every race and notable character in the game is "At least 5-A, likely 3-B, possibly High 3-A". This is because the Player kills The Rui at the end of the game, and The Cultivator died defeating and sealing the Ruin.
Hoo boy there is a ton wrong with this. The Cultivator is essentially God in the Starbound universe. It was a force that balanced the entire universe. In originally defeating the Ruin, it exhausted all of its energy and dissipated. Before dying, it left behind several artifacts, which when brought together, would open the way to the heart of the Ruin so it could be killed, for good. This is what the Player achieves at the end of the game. They do not do something the Cultivator itself could not do and just kill the Ruin, head on. They kill it by destroying the core of a barely awakened, weakened, and sealed Ruin. The Player is not anywhere remotely close to the Cultivator in power, nor are any of the universe's races.
Next there's the fact that the 5-A part of this rating comes from the Cultivator and Ruin being "far larger than Saturn-like planets". The only source for this whatsoever is an ancient illustratio, which we have no idea is literal or not. Though the Ruin is stated to be the size of a planet. Though since unspecified, this should be "At least 5-B".
The 3-B part of the rating is based on the challenge doors containing starry skies. However, to my knowledge, it is never stated that the Cultivator created the realms behind these doors. Everyone just says they lead to an "unknown dimension".
Then we have the fact that the High 3-A rating comes from the fact an ancient mural describes the Ancient Vault as "the infinite sanctuary". That's it. I should not need to go into detail as to why this is not remotely enough for High 3-A.
Finally, we have speed. Everyone and their mother is rated as Massively FTL+ for "reacting to teleportation beams. Not only are teleporters stated to move at the speed of light (if we want to go the route of using vague character statements for everything), but we also have the fact that this is what is used to say characters can react during teleportation. This is not a MFTL+ reaction feat. At all. To my knowledge, the best reaction feat we have is to actual lasers, and resulted in slightly above baseline FTL.
In short, there's a lot to fix.
First of all, we have the extreme problem that every race and notable character in the game is "At least 5-A, likely 3-B, possibly High 3-A". This is because the Player kills The Rui at the end of the game, and The Cultivator died defeating and sealing the Ruin.
Hoo boy there is a ton wrong with this. The Cultivator is essentially God in the Starbound universe. It was a force that balanced the entire universe. In originally defeating the Ruin, it exhausted all of its energy and dissipated. Before dying, it left behind several artifacts, which when brought together, would open the way to the heart of the Ruin so it could be killed, for good. This is what the Player achieves at the end of the game. They do not do something the Cultivator itself could not do and just kill the Ruin, head on. They kill it by destroying the core of a barely awakened, weakened, and sealed Ruin. The Player is not anywhere remotely close to the Cultivator in power, nor are any of the universe's races.
Next there's the fact that the 5-A part of this rating comes from the Cultivator and Ruin being "far larger than Saturn-like planets". The only source for this whatsoever is an ancient illustratio, which we have no idea is literal or not. Though the Ruin is stated to be the size of a planet. Though since unspecified, this should be "At least 5-B".
The 3-B part of the rating is based on the challenge doors containing starry skies. However, to my knowledge, it is never stated that the Cultivator created the realms behind these doors. Everyone just says they lead to an "unknown dimension".
Then we have the fact that the High 3-A rating comes from the fact an ancient mural describes the Ancient Vault as "the infinite sanctuary". That's it. I should not need to go into detail as to why this is not remotely enough for High 3-A.
Finally, we have speed. Everyone and their mother is rated as Massively FTL+ for "reacting to teleportation beams. Not only are teleporters stated to move at the speed of light (if we want to go the route of using vague character statements for everything), but we also have the fact that this is what is used to say characters can react during teleportation. This is not a MFTL+ reaction feat. At all. To my knowledge, the best reaction feat we have is to actual lasers, and resulted in slightly above baseline FTL.
In short, there's a lot to fix.
