And why assume the light from the mirror was altered to not move at light speed for no particular reason?
Are we really going to disregard a legitimate feat in favor of an old blogpost? I much rather we get rid of SoL attack speed for Urek than removing relativistic speed for everyone.
For that first point- because it still makes more sense than Data Urek moving at over 1/3 SoL for reasons below.
For the second point- Yes, I am. Aside from the Mirror Dodge, the distances crossed in Tower of God are simply too small, and the time scales are too big, for Mid-tiers to be Relativistic.
Example 1: In the second to last scene of
S2 CH315, Jinsung hijacks a High-Speed Warship to get to the Last Station. There are two timeskips in the
next chapter; one of 10 Days, and then one of 1 Week, for a total of 17 days elapsed since Jinsung hijacks the Warship, where they arrive at the Last Station. Jinsung also arrives at the Last Station on the same day, meaning it took the Warship 17 days to cross 47 Floors. (Jinsung's residence is on Floor 91, while the Last Station is on Floor 44)
Even if it's assumed that the ship is only active 8 hours a day, and that it has to cross the whole diameter of each Floor to go between Warp Gates; that still only makes the High Speed Warship (using the radius of a Floor from the
Admin Calc) (4868.38957 km * 2 * 1000 meters in a kilometer *47 floors) / (17 days * 8 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds) =
934.7 m/s, or less than Mach 3.
If Jinsung could actually move at over 1/3 SoL as his current profile says, he could make the 457,628,619.6 meter long trip in
4.3 seconds, at which point why even use a ship? Say what you will about the difference between Combat and Travel speed, because even if Jinsung only had the stamina to manage 1/3+ SoL Speed for half a second each day, he'd still beat the High-Speed Warship by over a week. (Yes, I'm aware Jinsung had to pick up Kaiser, but if getting a Regular results in having to use a ship that increases your travel time by over 300,000 fold, I think carrying her would be more practical.
Or just not picking her up at all.)
Example 2: In
S2 CH 336, Shibisu in a warship comes to the rescue and the Last Station zorps away. There's a cut to 10 Minutes Later when it stops zorping, and Evankhell arrives shortly after. In the
next chapter, Madorako hides the Station, and near the end Kallavan is informed of this:
We detected High-Density Shinsu at a distance of around 300 kilometers!! We found something that looks like a Station, but then... It disappeared in an instant!
Evankhell crossed 300 kilometers in 10 Minutes; 300,000 meters/600 seconds =
500 m/s = Not even Mach 2. If Evankhell was at the 1/3+ SoL Speed, it would have taken her less than 0.003 seconds. Hell, if Kallavan were Relativistic, he could've caught up to the Last Station zorping away in the
first ten-thousandth of second; and even if Evankhell being there impeded that, Evankhell leaves shortly after. At which point, why does Relativistic Kallavan wait to enter a floating ship that would be several thousand times slower than he is, when he could go after them on his own two Relativistic feet immediately?
Example 3: In
S3 CH 27, Khell Hellam space-arrows Baylord Yama and Co in all different directions. And then this exchange occurs between Yama and Karaka.
Karaka: This must be... the building across from the arena... He must be trying to keep us here so he can go steal the Fang.
Yama: Don't worry. If I really move it, I can get there in a matter of seconds. (Ruel sent me the location.)
The inner circle of The Cage is only a couple kilometers across at most; even if Yama's on the opposite side as Khell and using just one second at the timeframe, that still puts Base Yama's speed at just ~3,000 m/s, or ~Mach 8.75. If Yama was actually Relativistic, then he'd make the distance in less than 0.00003 seconds. Hopefully you get the point by now.
Relativistic Speeds are way too fast when you stop focusing at one scene that happened in a VR World, and look other metrics that the story has given. I'm not being shrewd bringing the Relativistic Mid-Tiers to High Hypersonic+, I'm being generous.
Anyways, I believe that makes 2 folk For the Arguments against the Relativistic and MHS feats, and 2 folk Opposing it, correct?
