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It's not impossible. There could be a case where the character is flying at MFTL+ speed across galaxies, and suddenly he notices obstacles or attacks only when they came very close to hitting him and reacts to avoid them. Is this situation unlikely? Yes. Impossible? No.Well for one, the rule makes the effort in saying "reaction speed can still be scaled to travel speed, but by doing x things". Those said x things resulting in it not actually scaling, since no calculation in the world will ever allow both to be roughly the same or comparable
This is not an issue. It's following the correct practice as opposed to doing things incorrectly. It's common sense, not extreme caution. Doing the opposite would be extremely illogical.my issue is with the extreme caution applied into it.
Asking the wrong questions. That's also how common sense works and things happen normally. The burden of proof falls upon the claim that goes against the Occam's razor to claim higher results. The questions you need to be asking are:What says either happened in the particular case? What says the character did slow? What says the character did prepare prior? Do we have any reason to first assume those would happen?
What says the character did not slow down? What says the character did not see the destination and thought about landing there? What says that the character was flying at MFTL+ speed until he was 1 cm above the ground and stopped under a picoseond without crashing in the ground? Do we have any reason to assume such insanely illogical things?
You should be knowing how burden of proof works by this point. You've been here for quite a while. This was unexpected from you.This is a burden of proof the rule reverses
The rule only states why flight speed through space does NOT normally scale to any other form of speed. It does not say that such a scaling is impossible. It's quite clear in that it mentions that it could still scale in some scenarios relating to "sudden obstacles while traveling at this speed" which already implies that the character was not prepared, and did not slow down. A case like this would need to be proven, rather than just assumed.And then on top of that, the rule doesn't make an attempt to make cases where slowing down or prepping aren't happening, separate from the standard. Or in other words, it doesn't attempt to say characters who don't slow down or prep for landing and just land at their average/full speeds can still scale their reactions.