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Gabriel's Astro in Hand - To Aru Majutsu No Index

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Basic informatio

Gabriels Astro in Hand (lit. "Heavenly Body Control") is, as the name suggests, a spell through which Gabriel can move celestial bodys, like stars, moons or planets.

Usually he uses this spell on earth, sun and moon in order to arrange the sky in such a way that he can use his other spells to the full extent and not to attack directly. Hence that spell is listed seperate from his usual AP and not scaled to any of the people that fight him.

The proposed change and the feat

Currently at star level I propose a change to solar system level.


Reasoning for that is mainly following quote from, the summoner of Gabriel, Fiamma:

"Using Gabriel to remove all the stars from the sky and leaving the Star of Bethlehem as the only thing floating in the incomplete heavens that are filled with Telesma was establishing the large flow of power needed for the ceremony to reset the four elements."

That Gabriel truly did remove all stars from the nightsky is further supported by the following quote:

""The rail car lurched violently and began to move. Soon the roof above Touma and Sasha's heads disappeared and they were given a vista of the sky. The sky was pitch black, an empty void without a single star."

There are several other quotes stating less specific observations about this stating that the sky was black, like:

"As if everything had been instantaneously painted over with black, the sky turned to a night sky."

"Immediately afterwards, some sort of blue point of light became visible in the pitch black night sky."

The fact that the sky was black without stars can even be seen in the illustrations of the novels.

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Gabriel with just darkness in the background
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The perfectly black sky with the magic circles of Gabriel clearly visible

Quantificatio


Moving all stars out of the nightsky would obviously mean moving all of them at FTL speed, so we clearly can not calculate that.

For all purposes it should be treated same as reality warping when it comes to quantification. In other words straight forward. So I will do it like is done here.

There are approximately 4548 stars visible with the human eye in the nightsky at once.

So the feat of moving all of them fast should be 4548 times star level. Solar System level is 3565 times higher than star level, so the feat would fall in the lower bounds of Solar System level.


What do you think, everyone?
 
Repeating my opinion on this from the Toaru thread: I'm not sure about the feat, but considering Astro in Hand was already kept separate from its regular AP, I guess I'm OK with it.
 
Given the distances involved, I think that we generally count affecting a lot of stars at once as Multi-Solar System level, but am uncertain.
 
For an explosion or similar I would agree with that.

But in this case it lacks the energy spread of an explosion, which makes it so that the energy requirements skyrocket that much.

Since the ability is basically telekinesis for its effect the distance practically doesn't matter and all of the work done is actually done just on the stars.

Because of that I don't think we should go for more than the sum of its parts in this case.
 
Hmm. I am still uncertain. Logically, spreading out telekinetic energy over that kind of area should not work very differently than for an explosion.
 
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