Man, get people off of the "Brace for the update" countdown and the thread goes
nuts.
Derp. Yes.
Thank you.
Rather than quote the entirety of the discussion involved here, I've quoted the main participants to avoid comment bloat. This is already going to be a long one.
In general, like sound, the more source there is to ki, the farther it travels and the "louder" it is. That's one reason. Everything living can sense ki if it cares to learn; they
would be felt at SSJ2 levels and above, let alone SSJ3. As for the god forms, while the number of suspects able to sense divine ki is less, it's not
none, and the Exiles don't know if everybody on that list can be trusted. Plus, the Enemy
might be able to sense it. They don't know, and are terrified of how much they don't know.
Why don't they shield it? Well, they could, feasibly. In fact, they've been trying. But in this case, the wards they have run up against limitations in infrastructure. They can't support themselves at greater magnitudes, and collapse under their own weight. The Great Question of Sorcery for the past couple of centuries has been, "how do you make a stronger ki shield?" And it's a question that remains unanswered. They know it's possible -- Bulma figured out a tech solution, after all -- they simply haven't cracked the theory on it. As is, the shielding can contain SSJ1 levels of power with around 150 million units of safety margin. They're trying to build a skyscraper without any knowledge of the involved technologies that would make that possible.
Thus, they don't dare try for more, and enforce that with lethal consequences. A Saiyan who made the second transformation would be public enemy number one. In fact, it's taken so seriously that as a standing rule, the standing reward for bringing down an SSJ2 is a Lordship -- the right to create a third Saiyan Clan and draw volunteers to join it from the other two, along with the right to transform. Because even SSJ2 can be sensed on the interstellar scale. When you're playing in leagues that reduce solar systems to ash, you're as noticeable as the hypernovas IRL that do the same. Anything beyond mastered SSJ is begging for attention -- in fact, the fact that your Dad was out of the Hall, fully transformed, in the Sealing, was the wake-up call for the Clans that it wasn't just two crazy kids messing around. In the instant that Berra left the Hall, shining a beacon that
could be sensed from the nearest stellar neighbors, the Clans started preparing for war. Because the last time they sensed that, he and Vegeta were trying to kill each other.
And SSJ2 casts that presence even further out. The Senzus mount occasional expeditions to check the neighboring systems, and they're abandoned. Have been since the Exile began. The ones beyond that? Not so much. They don't have settlements, but they have traffic. And the
instant some random schmuck sensed something like
that, the rumor would spread like wildfire, and the Exiles would be in a mad dash to somehow do in months or single-digit years what the Z Fighters couldn't do in decades -- surpass Super Saiyan God, and gain the strength needed to slay the Enemy.
So...yeah. Consider this your notice: transform to SSJ2? You're starting that clock. And I
won't narrow down whether it'll be months or nine years until you make that call.
A bit of early-installment weirdness that I hoped nobody would notice. I realized how unrealistic them developing the Spirit Bomb would be considering that apparently none of the Z Fighters could given years and an exact understanding of its principles, so it's a lesser retcon.
Ever been on an angry bender in an enclosed space with somebody you
loathe present and a lot of breakable objects?
That. Except the room is Garenhuld, and the walls are made of glass.
Yes!
Yes!
Makes it easier to grind them, and new skills you gain there start at a higher level.
Yes! But depending on the shape of the fight you might wind up instead testing against Team Fighting, so controlling the battlefield would be ki. (imnotsorry)
I'll...get back to you on that.
I will decide the canonicity of these later. Probably not the second one, cool as it is. I think I'll leave Time Patroller shenanigans to Nathaniel to keep the territory tidy. For now:
TAKE!
ALL!
OF MY COOKIES!
or y'know just one for the lot
