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For example, a ship has a calculated speed of Mach 50. We later see them avoiding debris while trying to escape, say, an exploding base later on. Why does this prove they have Mach 50 reactions? Yes, I get that they are "booking it", but the fact they are trying to escape at all proves they aren't suicidally stupid. Isn't it entirely possible they just, well, slowed down?
This is doubly true for in-atmosphere feats. A vast majority of the time (bar things that are almost entirely Earth-based) a ship's speed in-atmosphere tends to be explicitly lower. Even provided it isn't, it makes a lot of sense for a captain to not be piloting it at MFTL+ speeds when that would put them at huge risk of harm.
This is triply true when you consider the fact fiction is super inconsistent and has a lot of varying speeds. Star Trek had a literal technical manual to prevent contradictions in their capabilities and they still ended up with 765,000c feats for their ship despite higher warp factors being canonically just 1331c.
tl;dr Shouldn't feats of "reacting while piloting a ship" only scale if the pilot reacts during said travel feat? Other instances could simply be slower.
This is doubly true for in-atmosphere feats. A vast majority of the time (bar things that are almost entirely Earth-based) a ship's speed in-atmosphere tends to be explicitly lower. Even provided it isn't, it makes a lot of sense for a captain to not be piloting it at MFTL+ speeds when that would put them at huge risk of harm.
This is triply true when you consider the fact fiction is super inconsistent and has a lot of varying speeds. Star Trek had a literal technical manual to prevent contradictions in their capabilities and they still ended up with 765,000c feats for their ship despite higher warp factors being canonically just 1331c.
tl;dr Shouldn't feats of "reacting while piloting a ship" only scale if the pilot reacts during said travel feat? Other instances could simply be slower.