Megaman speed feat revision.

[AguilaR101]

According to this profile classic era characters and above are scaled from a feat of this guy cruising from jupiter to earth in 38 seconds.

However if you look at the actual [[1]] scene where the planet is depicted you can clearly see that, while the planet is similar, it isn't jupiter and most certainly not a planet within our solar system.

This would make the distance intergalactic as the mega man games are set within our solar system and earth given the various maps we see through the sagas, additionally in MMV (the gameboy games) you have [[2]] the stage select screen with all the planets pictured in it and we can clearly see jupiter pictured and it looks different from the planet depicted in MM8.

If this is valid, it would bump every relevant character from the Classic-ZX timeline to 3,504,529.79 c or 3.5 million times the speed of light using proxima centauri as the distance. Worth nothing that this happens after the events of MMV which means the characters would have already been MFTL prior to that point in time.

 

[AguilaR101]

Shameress bump

 

[BruceTheBatman]

I more or less agree, and it's actually possibly not an outlier.

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:BruceTheBatman/Mega_Man_X_and_Zero_speed_Upgrades

Posted this a while back (never was really looked at, though 2 guys supported it), and it would give more credence to the calc as X era and Zero Era characters would be faster still (4.6 million C for X characters, and 331,128,000c (low end) to 15,059,136,420,388c (high end)

 

[Reppuzan]

Hmm... the problem is that it would be weird to have them fall to Earth in any reasonable amount of time if they were clashing outside of our solar system.

@Bruce

I want that calc checked before we use it.

 

[AguilaR101]

What do you mean exactly?

 

[BruceTheBatman]

Hmm... the problem is that it would be weird to have them fall to Earth in any reasonable amount of time if they were clashing outside of our solar system.
@Bruce

I want that calc checked before we use it.

I know, but I reposted it to show that this is possibly not an outlier. Only two guys looked at it.

 

[AguilaR101]

b u m p

 

[AguilaR101]

Should I ask for calc member input?

 

[Reppuzan]

That would probably be for the best.

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

No, it is Jupiter.

 

[Reppuzan]

Yeah, on second thought, it's probably Jupiter.

Jupiter does have a ring system but it often goes unnoticed. In addition, the coloration of the planet matches Jupiter.

 

[Js250476]

Pretty that's what it was intended to be

 

[AguilaR101]

Matt, the jupiter depicted in the second link doesn't have the two very noticeable planetary rings that you see in the first planet above, and the the planet is angled in such a way they should be visible yet they aren't.

 

[Js250476]

I'm pretty sure Jupiter does have rings not as blatant as Saturn but they exist

 

[Reppuzan]

@Aguila

Official picture from NASA via Voyager 1.

More pictures.

And more pictures.

 

[AguilaR101]

The obvious counterargument is that they're barely noticeable compared to the ones depicted, and there is only 1 set of rings as opposed to the two that run parallel to one another.

 

[Reppuzan]

@Aguila

Hmm, now that I look at the scene I do see the two parallel rings.

However, I don't know whether to chock it up to an artist error unless you're aware of a planet with these specifications.

 

[AguilaR101]

The point is that if the planet isn't jupiter it obviously can't belong to our solar system.

As it is now it I don't think there is even so much as a confirmation of a planet with even one set of rings existing outside our solar system, so I cannot prove this is an specific planet in particular.

I don't think assuming it's jupiter and the extra rings being there being a simple is a artistic error is valid though, as they do portray jupiter in another game which shows that they have an understanding of what the planet looks like.

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

I'm pretty sure it is mentioned as Jupiter in other parts of the game.

 

[Reppuzan]

@Matt

I looked through the script and couldn't find anything, but at the same time I don't think we should be assuming distances at all if we don't know another planet with these characteristics.

The safest route is to chock up the image to an artist error and leave it at that.

 

[BruceTheBatman]

We could just assume the distance is like 4 lightyears (closest solar system), to be fair.

This is probably just artist error though, now that I think about it.

 

[AguilaR101]

I disagree on it being an artistic error for the reasons I stated but if there is a consensus, then it's fine.

 

[Amelia_Lonelyheart]

You can see the "Eye of Jupiter" on the planet. Granted, it's mishapen, on the wrong spot, and badly portioned, but it's there.



So yeah, it's probably Jupiter. Maybe the artist drew from memory or something, I dunno.

 

[Therefir]

I don't know if that planet is Jupiter but is definitely a gas giant, gas giants are large planets that contain more than 10 times the mass of Earth.