What If? You learned to Fly.

[Sailor.X]

In this scenario while you are minding your own business. A strong gust of wind (Hurricane Force) blast you into the air. You are terrified but then soon realize as the wind subsides you are still in the air. You are hovering in place. You try to move and find you can go in any direction you choose to. It is then you hear the voice of the ROB saying you're welcome. He explains that him being bored and liking you as his favorite pet. Decided to give you a gift. He has bestowed on you the power of flight. He then explains your flight ability.

Range: You are intergalactic. You can travel between Galaxies at your leisure.

Speed: You are Transwarp in speed. Capable of matching an Asgard Warship from SG1

Durability: While you are airborne you don't need to breath, eat, sleep or carry out digestive functions. You are also invulnerable to all damage up to a Gamma Ray Burst in power. You durability is only available when you are flying or hovering. And you must be hovering 1 inch off the ground for the effect to activate.

Dimensional Jump: You can travel between dimensions when you exceed a speed of Warp 9.5. The Warp field you generate will allow you to travel to any universe in the Multiverse.

Wayfinding: You can locate and track any destination you want to go to in the mulitverse. This ability also gives you massive resistance to all forms of mind control. So that you can't be lured into a trap or taken over by evil beings.

So now that you have learned to fly what will you do with your new ability? Where will you go? How will your friends and family react to you? How will your government react to you?

 

[UberIguana]

For those wondering, warp 9.5 is either 857c (TOS scale) or most likely about 2,548c (TNG scale, though opinions vary on that one).

Anyway, this is far more than just being able to fly. I came into the thread thinking it would be about being able to move at light aircraft speed. Instead, you can pretty much go anywhere you want in the local supercluster. Further if you find universes where long range extra-galactic travel is a thing. Given you can go to other dimensions and have the means to find new tricks there, the answer to 'what do you do?' is 'whatever the hell you want'. Even locking you in a cell won't work. As long as you have room to hover more than an inch, you can cannonball through the walls or ceiling.

I guess the first order of business is to find a means of stopping ageing (after cleaning up the room, as hurricane force wind indoors will make quite a mess). There's bound to be something out there in the multiverse. Eclipse Phase would be a fun starting point for some hard scifi ultratech ('fun' in the Dwarf Fortress sense). There are plenty of dangers that way, but with massive mind control resistance, shenanigans are going to fail in ways that catch the locals by surprise.

As for the government's reaction, if they find out any time soon, I've fucked up. They can sit there mystified as I file patent after patent for bullshit tech from across the multiverse.

 

[Sailor.X]

My first stop would be the STO. I would get some dilithium, a phaser pistol a tricorder and a personal shield generator. Next I would go to 616 Marvel to ask Tony Stark to see if he could make me a nanotech armor that would reproduce the tech in the suit. I would pay Tony with some of the dilithium. Once I get the suit. I would go to Star Wars circa the Clone Wars and kill Palpatine via me flying through him at Warp 5. Force precog will not save him from me. I would then tell the Jedi and the Senate that Palpy was the Sith Lord. After that I would go to Middle Earth circa the Lord of the Rings and make Saurons Army extinct. There would be speed blitzing phaser fire vaporizing everything evil right and left. And my last stop would be Legendary Godzilla Earth circa when Godzilla is fighting Kong on the Carrier. Before Kong can throw the first punch. I would speed blitz through Godzilla's head so many times I will decapitate him. No giant lizard is killing Sailors and Marines on my watch. I would then visit all the titans and establish my dominance on the planet. SailorX King of the Monsters reign will begin.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Well if I can reality hop I'd be making some stops to gather godlike power. Afterwards I'd go and pay Ricimer a visit before he can betray Majorian and hand him over to the insane AI from "I have no mouth, and I must scream". But after I got bored of screwing around with history I'd probably start trolling historical figures for the lulz. You know things like making Stalin unable to grow a mustache, Causing Karl Marx to go blind before he can write. Wait actually I'd also hand Karl Marx over to the same insane AI because fuck that guy.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

I'm pretty sure *any* geek with multiverse-hopping abilities is going to do a lot of, "Visit the real-life versions of my favorite fandoms and make things better and/or troll the fuck out of the bad guys." My approach to this would be to smart small and build up, with a focus on "become very good with a smaller number of things" over "grab everything".

I will say that one of my #1 desired troll moves is to slam the hangar doors in Darth Maul's stupid face when he does the whole, "INTIMIDATING GLOWER!!!" entrance in the hangar bay. Or steal his fancy Scimitar ship and leave him stranded on Tattooine....

 

[Sailor.X]

I'm pretty sure *any* geek with multiverse-hopping abilities is going to do a lot of, "Visit the real-life versions of my favorite fandoms and make things better and/or troll the fuck out of the bad guys." My approach to this would be to smart small and build up, with a focus on "become very good with a smaller number of things" over "grab everything".

I will say that one of my #1 desired troll moves is to slam the hangar doors in Darth Maul's stupid face when he does the whole, "INTIMIDATING GLOWER!!!" entrance in the hangar bay. Or steal his fancy Scimitar ship and leave him stranded on Tattooine....

You could also hover 20 ft in the air above him and stare at him like an Angry god. Before you proceed to troll him more lol.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

You could also hover 20 ft in the air above him and stare at him like an Angry god. Before you proceed to troll him more lol.

Id definitely wanna do that to Karl Marx seconds before he started writing his manifesto. Either that or make him live in one of the communist shitholes his shit created.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Id definitely wanna do that to Karl Marx seconds before he started writing his manifesto. Either that or make him live in one of the communist shitholes his shit created.

I give Marx some slack for being a sincere political theorist. The one who REALLY needs to get all the karma is that murderous fucker Stalin.

You could also hover 20 ft in the air above him and stare at him like an Angry god. Before you proceed to troll him more lol.

Nah, because Maul being a Dark Side ragemonster is pretty resistant to direct intimidation. It's way better to trip him up with indirect trollilng that completely bypasses his fighting skills. Also, going by the events of Rebels, Maul was capable of learning just how much Palps screwed him over and growing past the limitations that were imposed on him, just not quite enough to let go of the Dark Side entirely. Stranding him on Tattoine and mildly poking at him until he's forced to stop raging and start thinking is pretty much the best way to give the poor guy a chance, and I think he does kind of deserve one because he was literally raised by Palpatine, who works out to being the most evil and abusive parent you can possibly imagine.

Also getting all the trolling: the Jedi Council, until they remove the stick from their collective ass and stop screwing over the entire GFFA with their arrogance and entitlement.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

I give Marx some slack for being a sincere political theorist. The one who REALLY needs to get all the karma is that murderous fucker Stalin.

Nah Marx can get fucked right alongside Stalin Lenin and the rest of the commie scum. That said If you introduced Stalin to his modern freak brigade fans he'd probably change his name to to Josef Stahl.

 

[King Arts]

For those wondering, warp 9.5 is either 857c (TOS scale) or most likely about 2,548c (TNG scale, though opinions vary on that one).

Anyway, this is far more than just being able to fly. I came into the thread thinking it would be about being able to move at light aircraft speed. Instead, you can pretty much go anywhere you want in the local supercluster. Further if you find universes where long range extra-galactic travel is a thing. Given you can go to other dimensions and have the means to find new tricks there, the answer to 'what do you do?' is 'whatever the hell you want'. Even locking you in a cell won't work. As long as you have room to hover more than an inch, you can cannonball through the walls or ceiling.

I guess the first order of business is to find a means of stopping ageing (after cleaning up the room, as hurricane force wind indoors will make quite a mess). There's bound to be something out there in the multiverse. Eclipse Phase would be a fun starting point for some hard scifi ultratech ('fun' in the Dwarf Fortress sense). There are plenty of dangers that way, but with massive mind control resistance, shenanigans are going to fail in ways that catch the locals by surprise.

As for the government's reaction, if they find out any time soon, I've fucked up. They can sit there mystified as I file patent after patent for bullshit tech from across the multiverse.

It the OP said mad speed was Asgard something how does that compare to Star Trek warp. Also no you wouldn’t be fucked if the government found out you are Superman while flying minus laser eyes you could easily do this and are immune to everything nukes poison gas etc.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

It the OP said mad speed was Asgard something how does that compare to Star Trek warp. Also no you wouldn’t be fucked if the government found out you are Superman while flying minus laser eyes you could easily do this and are immune to everything nukes poison gas etc.

I'd you reality hop and aquire the right powers you could literally just fly up to the white house send the president into orbit and proclaim yourself god emperor. No one would be able to do anything about it either.

 

[King Arts]

I'd you reality hop and aquire the right powers you could literally just fly up to the white house send the president into orbit and proclaim yourself god emperor. No one would be able to do anything about it either.

I know that’s what I was saying to the person who said they would be fucked if the government found out.

I don’t think I would declare myself god emperor but who knows. I think I’d do a little bit of super hero stuff not even against criminals for the most part just save people from natural disasters. Say if we are holding someone can we partly give them invulnerability so if we go fast they don’t break their neck from whiplash? That way you could save multiple people from a falling building.

Heck if I went against criminals I’d even stay away from lethal force for the most part.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

I know that’s what I was saying to the person who said they would be fucked if the government found out.

I don’t think I would declare myself god emperor but who knows. I think I’d do a little bit of super hero stuff not even against criminals for the most part just save people from natural disasters. Say if we are holding someone can we partly give them invulnerability so if we go fast they don’t break their neck from whiplash? That way you could save multiple people from a falling building.

Heck if I went against criminals I’d even stay away from lethal force for the most part.

I'd probably bounce to a more interesting universe tbh. I really wanna see some flying cars damnit.

 

[Sailor.X]

I think I would have to go back to Star Wars get me a lightsaber. It would lead to some creative speed blitzing options. I would also go back to Star Trek to save Captain Kirk. I would snatch him off the bridge before it hits the ground.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

I would like to see if even the Imperium of Man finds ICOG too extreme and grimdark.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I think I'd do bad things to Comstar and WoB in the BattleTech'verse

 

[ATP]

Id definitely wanna do that to Karl Marx seconds before he started writing his manifesto. Either that or make him live in one of the communist shitholes his shit created.

No,kill him before.Otherwise,we would still have 100M + victims.

I give Marx some slack for being a sincere political theorist. The one who REALLY needs to get all the karma is that murderous fucker Stalin.




Nah, because Maul being a Dark Side ragemonster is pretty resistant to direct intimidation. It's way better to trip him up with indirect trollilng that completely bypasses his fighting skills. Also, going by the events of Rebels, Maul was capable of learning just how much Palps screwed him over and growing past the limitations that were imposed on him, just not quite enough to let go of the Dark Side entirely. Stranding him on Tattoine and mildly poking at him until he's forced to stop raging and start thinking is pretty much the best way to give the poor guy a chance, and I think he does kind of deserve one because he was literally raised by Palpatine, who works out to being the most evil and abusive parent you can possibly imagine.

Also getting all the trolling: the Jedi Council, until they remove the stick from their collective ass and stop screwing over the entire GFFA with their arrogance and entitlement.

Nope.Marx was not sincere - he ignored facts,that life of workers become better,and then there is still medium class which would not vanish.

And,what sralin did,was only develope Marx theory.
Which was,that party elites would decide what workers really want without their participation.
Lenin only made that elice smaller and need secret police,and sralin decided,that one person is enough,as long as it would be him.

It was only logical development of marxism.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

I think I'd do bad things to Comstar and WoB in the BattleTech'verse

Well, the thing is if you go with headcanons you can pretty much spin things any way you choose. There's so much plot hole, idiot ball, and "faction of the day" canon-fanboyism that I'd argue the only fair way to judge that universe would be to actually go there and spend a substantial amount of time studying the actual universe. That said, my inclination actually favors Comstar, because their "evil" component is no worse than any of the Great Houses, and they are pretty much the only significant organization that displays *any* interest in actually preserving society or helping people.

If I had to have a pre-set plan, it would be to set up fleets of self-replicating AI-controlled WarShips to strictly police everyone in Battletech.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

That said, my inclination actually favors Comstar, because their "evil" component is no worse than any of the Great Houses, and they are pretty much the only significant organization that displays *any* interest in actually preserving society or helping people.

Comstar was behind the anti-tech proliferation assassination during the succession wars. They are definitely still the bad guy.

Even after the Comstar/WoB schism...Comstar is so infested with WoB agents...they're still kinda the same.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

I used to think the return of feudalism in Battletech was unrealistic, Now I wish it was unrealistic.