Solara's flight speed

[Mark Rand]

When I decided on Solara's rapid travel speed, I forgot how fast she's going. It's 6" megascale (1"=1 kilometer). Since her speed's 4, she does six kilometers, or 3.75 miles, in 3 seconds. That's 2 kilometers, or 1.25 miles, per second. Calculating her speed furthur, we get 120 kilometers, or 75 miles, per minute. Folks, that's Mach 6!

 

She goes desolid to avoid running into trees, buildings, utility cables, and such, as well as prevent windburn. Does this also keep a sonic boom from forming?

 

Your comments are urgently sought.

[steriaca]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

She goes desolid to avoid running into trees, buildings, utility cables, and such, as well as prevent windburn. Does this also keep a sonic boom from forming?

Your comments are urgently sought.

 

Only if you want her flight to leave no 'sonic boom'. This does not mean that her flight is quiet, thoe. To quell the sound completly, buy her flight with Invisable Special Effects (Sound).

[Mark Rand]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

Just for the heck of it, I grabbed my calculator and figured out Solara's combat speed, 16", x2 NCM. The combat speed comes out to 38.412 kph or 23.64 mph in combat. Out of combat, she travels at 76.82 kph or 47.27 mph.

[Vorsch]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

Why not buy NCM multiple rather than mega scale?

 

Mega scale is the slipery slope to realy stupid characters. ( just one moe +1/4 x 10 speed mach 1000 ) But hey im biased.

 

And if your desolid by definition you cant affect the physical world. even as a dis ad

[yamamura]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

Why not buy NCM multiple rather than mega scale?

 

Mega scale is the slipery slope to realy stupid characters. ( just one moe +1/4 x 10 speed mach 1000 ) But hey im biased.

 

And if your desolid by definition you cant affect the physical world. even as a dis ad

 

That is why it has a stop sign;) A while back I used it to create a gate that the characters had access to from Omaha to Tokyo and it worked beutifully. But for some other builds it can quite abusive.

[Mark Rand]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

Why not buy NCM multiple rather than mega scale?

 

Mega scale is the slipery slope to realy stupid characters. ( just one moe +1/4 x 10 speed mach 1000 ) But hey im biased.

Solara's flying abilities are taken, intact and with permission, from Snake Gandhi's character Amy Amazing. All I did was add the desolid.

[Snake Gandhi]

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Solara's flying abilities are taken' date=' intact and with permission, from Snake Gandhi's character Amy Amazing. All I did was add the desolid.[/quote']And I used it simply because it's the easiest way to have that "fly fast enough to circle the earth in moments" effect.

[OddHat]

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By the rules, she only ever creates a sonic boom if the GM wants her to create a sonic boom. Champions campaigns are usually about the Reality of comic, where the Flash can run faster than light without causing a breeze, unless he wants to.

 

Being Desolid is as good an in-game excuse to avoid a sonic boom as anything else.

[Mark Rand]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

By the rules, she only ever creates a sonic boom if the GM wants her to create a sonic boom. Champions campaigns are usually about the Reality of comic, where the Flash can run faster than light without causing a breeze, unless he wants to.

 

Being Desolid is as good an in-game excuse to avoid a sonic boom as anything else.

Thanks for the information. I assume that Solara can, if she wanted to, slow her megascale flight speed down quite a bit if she's just traveling a long distance in the city instead of across the country.

[OddHat]

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Thanks for the information. I assume that Solara can' date=' if she wanted to, slow her megascale flight speed down quite a bit if she's just traveling a long distance in the city instead of across the country.[/quote']

 

The revised megascale rules state that she must travel a minimum of 1", whatever 1" means for her Megascale. In her case, by what you've posted, she can't travel slower than 1km per phase, or about (if she drops her speed to 2) 600 KM per hour. I'd probably put the megascale flight in a MP with something slower for tooling around town.

[Iuz the Evil]

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Can't she just buy it as 'scaleable'? Give her greater control over velocity that way, I would think.

[Mark Rand]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

The revised megascale rules state that she must travel a minimum of 1"' date=' whatever 1" means for her Megascale. In her case, by what you've posted, she can't travel slower than 1km per phase, or about (if she drops her speed to 2) 600 KM per hour. I'd probably put the megascale flight in a MP with something slower for tooling around town. [/quote']

It is already in a multipower, along with +20" of running and her Combat Manauvering, 16" of flight, which I already calculated out in a previous posting.

 

Come to think of it, since she's a magical girl, she has a magic vpp. How's this, teleport, range limited to 10 miles, must be able to visualize landing site?

[OddHat]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

It is already in a multipower, along with +20" of running and her Combat Manauvering, 16" of flight, which I already calculated out in a previous posting.

Come to think of it, since she's a magical girl, she has a magic vpp. How's this, teleport, range limited to 10 miles, must be able to visualize landing site?

 

By the book, must visualize landing site in't much of a limit. She already needs to be able to see the spot to teleport there; if she can't see it, she needs Safe Blind Teleport to avoid risk of injury, and she needs to make a To Hit roll with range mods to make the jump. Desolid mega-flight is a much better deal.

[Hawksmoor]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

Just for the heck of it' date=' I grabbed my calculator and figured out Solara's combat speed, 16", x2 NCM. The combat speed comes out to 38.412 kph or 23.64 mph in combat. Out of combat, she travels at 76.82 kph or 47.27 mph.[/quote']

 

Sorry tangent, but this is why I truly, truly think that HERO's movement rates are too darned slow. I want to see normal, non speedsters reach 300mph in combat speed and the speedsters doing Mach 3 Move throughs!

 

Hawksmoor

[Vorsch]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

The reasons its so slow is to keep it on a map

 

go figure (literally)

 

Champions charcters actually doing whats in the comics as far as movemet is concered is taboo. What i mean by that is its impossible to even get close to the movement and KB that hapens in the genre

[Chromatic]

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Champions charcters actually doing whats in the comics as far as movemet is concered is taboo. What i mean by that is its impossible to even get close to the movement and KB that hapens in the genre

 

Maybe at 60 active points.

 

Try expanding to 125 and see what happens in combats.

[Mark Rand]

Re: Solara's flight speed

 

I dropped Solara's SPD to 2. That gives her a traveling speed of mach 3, and a combat speed of 19.20 kph, or 11.82 mph. The x2 NCM for that speed puts her at 38.41 kph, or 23.63 mph.