Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-37583355-20190811094542/@comment-25603146-20190813014600

Let me run some quikmaths here:

Olierus's AP is said to be equivalent to "hundreds of billions of Suns exploding in one's midst": taking that to mean supernovas rather than star-busting attacks, and that them exploding 'in one's midst' is taken to mean they're tanking the full force of it rather than entail weird/narratively misplaced Inverse Square Law shenanigans, that's 200+ GigaFoe, achieved by normal attacks. Relatively simple.

Zain took on, and defeated, the Vesper Core, which is slightly trickier. Though it is known that Vesper was not wholly stopped after the events of Babylon, it was stated that it 'bought some time', and that there was no detection of star mass being absorbed elsewhere with irregularities in the universe or any of that- in combination with the Vesper being, itself, Zain's own Shell, acting and reacting primarily in response to the False Envoy, a duration about as long the story's lasted up to this point: that is, just short of 1 year, rounded up to one year for simplicity's sake: seems a reasonable higher-end.

Total Stars in the Universe = 1.0e+21, and if we're using one year we'd divide by (365.25 days * 24 hours * 3600 seconds) to get ~3.1688e+13 stars destroyed (or eaten, as the case may be) in one second. Using the Sun as a baseline 'star' (with a GBE of 5.693e+41), since its a medium-sized star, makes this come out to a total of ~1.80400e+55 Joules, or ~180.4 GigaFoe. That said, this was also achieved by simply 'moving'/eating, not much of a step over the usual existing category and lower effort than making a conscious effort to attack.

200+ GigaFoe via basic attacks vs. 180.4 GigaFoe by breathing/chewing on the fabric of space is, uh, relatively close AP-wise: enough to have an actual fight of it, in theory: though I don't doubt that Astral Breaker is enough AP-wise to one-shot Zain, since his potential for "chaos" is essentially infinite.

Alright, so, question time, from here:

One, what's Olierus's main Win Condition, here, and how potent is it? Two, just how potent is 'Extremely powerful resistance' to physical, magical, conceptual, and reality based attacks? Three, what is Olierus's own "potential for Chaos" looking like? The Primordials in-lore seem to observe that he "brings more chaos and destruction upon reality" in his efforts to bring order, but this is also Olierus before the end of his story, so I'm not wholly sure if this would be the case at this point.

I'll continue evaluating later now that I've figured out that the AP actually matches up enough for this to be interesting.