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Starbound speed upgrade and possible Energy to Mass?

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Seems like there could be potentially much higher speed than simple meteor timing.

The teleportation device isn't instant, instead being the Player turning into light and physically traveling. Such light easily travels through stars across the whole galaxy.

However, even when such process happens when traveling from a ship in orbit to a planet, The Player can still reacts and acts during the travel according to statements.


For example, Glitches mentions that they enter a sleep mode during teleportation process, and Floran mentions they feel confused during the teleportation.

TL;DR PCs perceive things happening in fractions of a second (MFTL+ beam going from orbit to surface) as a few seconds (or possibly hours) to them.

Not exactly calc-able without using calc-stacking or ridiculous lowball but MFTL+ reactions for everything.

Not a solid feats on its own but a feat corroborating this is the fact that the Player fights off and reacts to Dreadwing's spaceship. Note that the guy is berserker enough to wastes multiples ships in battle, regularly, so him not using his top speed in battle seems OoC.

There is also the possibility of Ranged Weapons using energy to mass. They don't have ammo, instead seemingly creating them out of the Player's pool of energy.

The heaviest thing created is a Rocket Laucher rocket, who should weight 2.2 kg, which gives out 1.9773e+17 joules or City level. Not quite sure what are the exact requirement needed to be considered actual MtE conversion.
 
So apparently the results are a bit lower than excepted for speed.

Assuming 1 seconds of activity possible and 10 seconds for crossing the galaxy, the speed is 0.000002 that of the beam. So not even MHS with simple Lightspeed but still MFTL+ for Galaxy Crossing teleporters.

Assuming 6 hours (The sleep time of a human) it is 0.05 that of the beam.

Considering we are talking Galaxy crossing beams there, even such fraction wouldn't make it below MFTL+, although again we can't calc it otherwise it's Calcstacking.
 
If what all you said are mostly true, considering the speed of that travelling beam, I would just keep the speed settings at Massively FTL+ for all the characters related to this feat.

Mind if I see a video for this?
 
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