User blog:SquiTwo/Steven Universe: MFTL+ Calculations Re-Done

What's different?
These redone calculations will use the distance from earth and the andromeda galaxy (which is 2,000,000 light years away, or 1.8921461e+22m). Seeing as homeworld's galaxy can be seen from earth, much like the andromeda galaxy can be seen witht he naked eye. Also my assumption of 2 galaxies seemed iffy as the galaxies appeared to be far in the background of the shots used.

Lapis flies to Homeworld
A large part of this calculation is owed to this blog post on VSB Wiki

"During the 26th episode of the show, Ocean gem, Lapis takes off the Earth and flies to Homeworld, which is located in another galaxy, with the closest existing galaxy to Earth being 25,000 light years away.

And for a timeframe? This one's a little trickier actually. There's 23 episodes between Lapis leaving Earth and her transmitting a message from the homeworld, in which we see the passage of 27 days

Spoiler: 27 days Total = 27 days
 * "House Guest" - 1 day
 * "Space Race" - 1 day
 * "Secret Team" - 1 day
 * "Island Adventure" - 3 days
 * "Keep Beach City Weird" - 1 day
 * "Fusion Cuisine" - 2 days
 * "Garnet's Universe" - 1 day
 * "Watermelon Steven" - 1 day
 * "Lion 3: Straight to Video" - 1 day
 * "Warp Tour" - 1 day
 * "Alone Together" - 1 day
 * "The Test" - 1 day
 * "Future Vision" -1 day
 * "On the Run" - 1 day
 * "Horror Club" - 1 day
 * "Winter Forecast" - 1 day
 * "Maximum Capacity" - 3 days
 * "Marble Madness" - 1 day
 * "Rose's Scabbard" - 1 day
 * "Open Book" - 1 day
 * "Shirt Club" - 1 day
 * "Story for Steven" - 1 day

28 accounting for the events of the game Attack the light!. So there are 28 canonical days separating these two events, but I'll go ahead and assume each episode represents a week in order to make it more conservative. Also makes more sense since it's New Years' Eve in Maximum capacity.

So our timeframe is 28*7 = 196 days = 1.6934e+7 seconds"

1.8921461e+22 meters / 1.6934e+7 seconds = 1.11736512 × 1015 m / s or 3727128.852587745991 times the speed of light (3 million c)

The Blast of the 3 Diamonds
Distance = 1.8921461e+22 meters

Since this attack only took 1.06 seconds according to this blog, https://www.narutoforums.org/xfa-blog-entry/steven-universe-steven-in-the-sky-with-diamonds.36958/

Speed would then equal 1.7850435e+22  meters per second or 59542641996684.257813 times the speed of light (59 Trillion c)

Rose Quartz was able to react to the blast while it was still very far away and had enough time to shield Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst.

Peridot warps from Homeworld to the Galaxy Warp
https://youtu.be/2cUHns4dHqc?t=129

As the name implies, Peridot warped from Homeworld to the Galaxy Warp on earth, and Steven could peak out the Warp Pad and react to Peridot moving that fast

Peridot uses the Warp to travel from Homeworld to Earth in 15 seconds

Distance = 1.8921461e+22 meters

Speed =  1.2614307e+21 meters per second or 4207679901006.7158203 times the speed of light (4 trillion c)

In response to the argument "Gems can't go faster than light due to their light based bodies"
We discussed this on the wiki's discord but, One of the knowledgable members of this verse and Owner of this Wiki, Speedy, stated on the discord "but there's no reason their reactions can't be that high, and frankly with all the instances of unequivocal MFTL+ speed, I'd be far more inclined to label the destabilization as the outlier."