Link please?
You could also use the AO3 copy of the story, which is rather more convenient as long as you don't mind missing out on the discussion. I can completely seriously say that the writers are among the best I know of, published or not, and Gamesverse is an excellent story in its own right, though some of the details will likely go over your head if you aren't familiar with the canon.
The games are AUs though. Also there's at least one AU manga, the one where the fights are all a VR game.
That is a novel way to put it. Because till now everyone was writing stories that Nanoha is multiversal (I haven't read Game Theory btw). WTF?!
I've only read one that was like that. And that wasn't even strictly a Nanoha fic, it just happened to include them as part of a multiversal adventure.
It was the one with the MC being a Planetary Annihilation Commander and SI on top, right?
Nope. Ryouga gets even more lost than usual and winds up on DS9, then Voyager, then a series of other places. Along the way, the TSAB show up and help him get back home. They then get involved in a war with another multiversal empire.
Here's a link. I think it's pretty good. Not a masterpiece, but a decent timewaster. It has four sequel stories that are also complete.
No. It is Phoenix Commander: Rise of the Steel Phoenix (PA/Multicross SI)
*shrug* Very well, my mistake. They're all basically the same anyway.
The only mages we see do that are Fate, who is explicitly stated to be unusually powerful, and the Wolkenritter, who are all extremely powerful and likely using the Book of Darkness's power reserves to assist in their long range teleports.
How would the battles have gone differently? Fate and Nanoha are both on the same tier of power. And Chrono is a perfect example that raw power isn't everything as he repeatedly beats Fate in duels for the first few years of her time with the TSAB despite being vastly weaker in terms of raw power. As for Shamal's reluctance to burn through the Book's pages, one of the Book's big powers that makes it so dangerous is that it can transport across vast distances. So it almost certainly has some mechanism for doing so that doesn't burn pages. Or maybe the problem is that Shamal had to brute force the barrier, which caused the spell to use vastly more power than it would have otherwise needed.
Or, you know, it could have been hidden. We know basically nothing about the Dimensional Sea and how it operates. It's entirely possible that the Garden stuck away somewhere hidden but nearby. I can think of at least three different ways. Fist, sensors just aren't that good. Second, it had 'folded' the Dimensional Sea around itself somehow. Third, it was hidden by some kind of natural "terrain" in the Dimensional Sea.
I agree. The problem is that MGLN never bothers to explain any of this and so we are left with speculation and theory. I simply feel that treating the Dimensional Sea as their version of hyperspace is simpler and leads to fewer additonal questions.
They would have been swinging attacks powerful enough to level the city all the time. They may be able to shield on the same level, but the environment around them wouldn't. Yet, when they throw powerful attacks, they aren't that powerful.
Only because you assume it is teleporting light years already.
I find the question of the energy requirements too difficult to ignore. So, multiple dimensions is simpler to me. What questions involved in multiple dimensions do you find difficult?
Did you not see their final duel over the Jewel Seeds? They wrecked the entire city they were fighting in.
Across multiple dimensions is still 'vast distances'. Just in a different direction.
And I find the energy requirements to travel between dimensions even more difficult to ignore. Basically, questions like what OP asked in this thread, for example. Also stuff like 'how do they avoid going to dimensions where their magic doesn't work?' or 'how do they avoid going to dimensions where the fundamental laws of physics are wildly different and hostile to life?' or 'Why aren't there a bunch of versions of Nanoha running around? Or anyone else?'
As I recall, that was culmulative damge and the finisher attack, right? If they had the power of interstellar FTL, they'd be able to level the city with each. single. basic. attack.
Is it? That's what I've been trying to say. The storyteller can say it isn't. As a result, I can disregard the energy requirements.
Magic works in all dimensions they can visit. You can even say magic exists because those dimensions are touched by the Dimensional Sea. Dimensions not touched by the Sea are unreachable, perhaps not even detectable.
They'd be so hostile, you couldn't enter them in the first place. Coversely, you don't have to worry about anything from such dimensions coming through.
Multiple dimensions and alternate (history) dimensions are different things. The Dimensional Sea clearly doesn't touch alternate dimensions. Even if fanfic writers like to use it that way from time to time.
Something i will point out here is that there seems to be two types of teleportation in Nanoha, Normal were you travel in the same dimension like what they used to send the defense program into high orbit and dimensional transfer is what is used to travel to different worlds. The one that teleported the defense program into high orbit(about 35,786 Km) is also called super long distance transfer which would indicate that the same dimension transfer is limited to atleast the hight orbit area around the planet in how far it reaches.
