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I was told if I thought the laser/EMP attack was light speed I would need to make a specific case for it. Here it is. I believe the lasers/EMP of NieR Automata should be considered light speed.
1) Naming convention:The game characters and cutscenes call them lasers. The official names and descriptions has stated these to be lasers. The official world guide also states they are lasers. The novelizations says these lasers. They are never referred by the slang of laser beam.
2) Origin: They always originate from some sort of mechanical/technological source. For the Pod program, in cutscene you can see the laser being fired out of a lens.
3) Speed: They move at the speed of light. A laser fired from a satellite in orbit around the moon reached earth in one second. In order for it to even start showing slower than light speed, it would need to be 84 million meters away from the moon since the moon is 384 million meters from earth. For reference, the Earth is 12 million meters in diameter so you'd need 7 Earths of distance.
4) Matter Reactions to lasers: There is no physical impact from a laser hit. Only burns. It can only damage through heat. An object once got hit by a laser and took no damage because it was heat resistant.
5) Composition: A continuation from 4. The laser has no physical mass. It cannot physically interact with the world to the point it passes through objects (something possible by waves on either end of the EM Spectrum). Many of these lasers are not single shot but fire a continuous beam and they still do this. And the world guide refers to those hit by the laser as 'irradiated' and lasers are a form of electromagnetic radiation. Even the ones that fall off of the visual spectrum.
6) Diffraction. In another instance, a target was hit by an orbital laser but the laser was diffracted because of an electromagnetic barrier. Electromagnetic fields do not affect solid objects and the target was still being damaged by bullets, missiles, and mortars. EM waves, however, can interfere with other EM waves and even diffract them
7) Additional Uses The lasers in this verse are not only used as weapons but also used for communication and data transmission with their headquarters near the moon.
8) Muzzle Velocity Hierarchy: Nearly all weapons that aren't melee weapons are in some way tied to something that is light speed or close to light speed. Along with lasers they also use EMP (which move at the speed of light) and particle beams (and particle accelerators fire near the speed of light). Even their bullets and missiles are propelled not by rocket engine but by particle beams which accelerates them to relativistic speeds. Lasers both in game and inverse have been regarded as faster but less damaging than their bullets which are already relativistic. The only weapons not directly associated with something near or at the speed of light are the enemy energy bullets (which have also been regarded as very slow) and rail guns which they use as mortars. (And mortars have a very low muzzle velocity compared to firearms).
9) General Frame of time reference: A thousand year outdated machine was described using spare nanoseconds to contemplate philosophy. And this is just their thinking time and not their reaction time. Meaning their perception of time within light speed (FTL to relativistic)
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1) Naming convention:The game characters and cutscenes call them lasers. The official names and descriptions has stated these to be lasers. The official world guide also states they are lasers. The novelizations says these lasers. They are never referred by the slang of laser beam.
2) Origin: They always originate from some sort of mechanical/technological source. For the Pod program, in cutscene you can see the laser being fired out of a lens.
3) Speed: They move at the speed of light. A laser fired from a satellite in orbit around the moon reached earth in one second. In order for it to even start showing slower than light speed, it would need to be 84 million meters away from the moon since the moon is 384 million meters from earth. For reference, the Earth is 12 million meters in diameter so you'd need 7 Earths of distance.
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4) Matter Reactions to lasers: There is no physical impact from a laser hit. Only burns. It can only damage through heat. An object once got hit by a laser and took no damage because it was heat resistant.
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5) Composition: A continuation from 4. The laser has no physical mass. It cannot physically interact with the world to the point it passes through objects (something possible by waves on either end of the EM Spectrum). Many of these lasers are not single shot but fire a continuous beam and they still do this. And the world guide refers to those hit by the laser as 'irradiated' and lasers are a form of electromagnetic radiation. Even the ones that fall off of the visual spectrum.
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If gamma rays can travel through walls, and radio waves can travel through walls, and they are on opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, then why can't light travel through walls which is right in the middle of the spectrum?
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6) Diffraction. In another instance, a target was hit by an orbital laser but the laser was diffracted because of an electromagnetic barrier. Electromagnetic fields do not affect solid objects and the target was still being damaged by bullets, missiles, and mortars. EM waves, however, can interfere with other EM waves and even diffract them
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7) Additional Uses The lasers in this verse are not only used as weapons but also used for communication and data transmission with their headquarters near the moon.
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8) Muzzle Velocity Hierarchy: Nearly all weapons that aren't melee weapons are in some way tied to something that is light speed or close to light speed. Along with lasers they also use EMP (which move at the speed of light) and particle beams (and particle accelerators fire near the speed of light). Even their bullets and missiles are propelled not by rocket engine but by particle beams which accelerates them to relativistic speeds. Lasers both in game and inverse have been regarded as faster but less damaging than their bullets which are already relativistic. The only weapons not directly associated with something near or at the speed of light are the enemy energy bullets (which have also been regarded as very slow) and rail guns which they use as mortars. (And mortars have a very low muzzle velocity compared to firearms).
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9) General Frame of time reference: A thousand year outdated machine was described using spare nanoseconds to contemplate philosophy. And this is just their thinking time and not their reaction time. Meaning their perception of time within light speed (FTL to relativistic)
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And below are a collection of laser images
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