Hey all, KnightOfSemicolon-warning_integer_overflow! here, back with it again for another blog post.
Now, as some of you may have been seeing, me an the boys in the DMC section of this wiki have been hard at work revising the speeds of everyone's favorite Devil Hunter, Dante, and by extension, pretty much anyone who scales to him. We've gotten a fair bit done, found some eveidence for a SoL laser in DMC3, which could put post-awakening Dante at the higher ends of relativistic+, if I'm correct in predicting how the calc turns out. Overall, we've had a pretty good time of it, and all of the boys have had some fun with this subject.
But while we worked on the possibly relativistic+ calc, and a FTL Sparda DT Dante, I forged a calc. Into this calc, I poured all of my malice, anger, and rage, and tempered it in the blood of my enemies. From this calc flows forth nothing but pure autism, and it has become the ender of all fun. Those who have tasted this weapon have named it...
"The Doom Leap."
Jokes aside, I noticed some interesting things during the Dante vs Mundus fight. Specifically, I noticed that when they go into the realm that the battle occurs in, they seem to start off in interstellar space. I came to this conclusion as there is an apparent lack of dominant stars within the background, and all the stars in the background are extremely small. It's as if the camera was faced towards the starry night sky, but neither the moon nor any ground is there. Both Dante and Mundus are floating through space, with no other bodies in sight, and no other dominate stars.
Now, I have seen the other calc, which is quite good. I even agree with it. However, the lack of a dominate star within the background makes me believe that the calc may be inaccurate to some degree.
I suppose one could take this as both a high-end and a low-end. A high-end in that it assumes that the distance is larger than what we previously assumed, and a low-end in that it doesn't make a wild assumption and only assumes the bare minimum distance for a star to be at least mostly indistinguishable from the backgorund stars present in our galaxy.
For this calc, we will be assuming that Dante and Mundus are both at around Pluto's aphelion, which is the minimum distance for a sun-like star to appear as "any other star".
Originally, I had three seperate calcs that assumed three seperate things, but I have since changed my opinion on the calcs. I believe this is the most accurate calc we can make given the information we've assumed. If the other two calcs need to be seen, I can add them at a later date.
Anyway, now that my small rambling on the process of this calc is done, let's see what the calc actually is.
The Calc[]
For the most major speed upgrade, in DMC 1, Dante and Mundus jump from interstellar space into some planet in a solar system. The entire fight between Mundus and Dante takes place in this planet's outer atmosphere, then the planet's surface after they become too exhausted to keep up flight/they land.
For those who need the fight, here is the entire thing.
Anyway, we know they are in interstellar space, because they are not near enough to any star for that star to appear larger/more present in the background. We also know that they had to leap to a volcanically and atmosphereically active planet/moon, which would require either the planet to be in orbit around a star, as the planet needs the star's energy to generate storms in the first place, and the planet also needs the gravitational pull of a star to remain geothermally active. It would also need to be an inner solar system body, due to being rocky, and would also need a thick enough atmosphere to block out the sun during storms. So, candidates in our Solar System would include Venus and Earth. However, we can rule out Earth due to the lack of water on the planet they land on, so we narrow this down to Venus.
With all this said, I originally made three seperate calcs, the one here, one assuming a jump to Proxima Centauri b, and one assuming a jump to Trappist 1. I have since changed my opinion and now believe on the jump to Venus to be accurate enough for consideration, as it make the least assumptions, and the assumption that it does make are the safest.
The Doom Leap calc[]
Assuming Dante and Mundus jumped from Pluto's Aphelion (the closest distance from which the sun would appear as any other star) to Venus at it's perihelion to Pluto, and assuming three different time frames, we can make multiple different calcs.
For these calcs, we will assume Dante and Mundus are at Pluto's aphelion from the sun, and that Venus is at it's perihelion to Pluto's aphelion. We will use three time frames: one second (1s), ten seconds (10s) and thirty seconds (30s).
Pluto's aphelion: 49.3 AU (4.5827 x 10^9 miles)
Venus' distance from the sun: 0.39 AU (3.6253 x 10^7 miles)
Total distance traveled given assumptions: 4.546447 x 10^9 miles/ 7.316797200768 x 10^9 KM (KM used from here on out)
High-end: 7.316797200768 x 10^9 KM/1 second = 7316800000000 m/s (approx. 24406 times FTL, Massively FTL+)
Mid-end: 7.316797200768 x 10^9 KM/10 seconds = 731680000000 m/s (approx. 2440 times FTL, Massively FTL+)
(s)Low-end: 7.316797200768 x 10^9 KM/30 seconds = 243893000000 m/s (approx. 813 times FTL, Massively FTL)
As you can probably see, this puts their speed at a fairly high number.