Thursday, August 13, 2020

How high is Galaxia's multiplier

Ok so this is going to be the most important thing I want you to take from this blog. Do NOT harrass the research team. Not for this blog, and not for any reason. Let me explain something. I have scaled Sailor Moon for over 10 years, and probably more consistently then anyone. I am probably the most influential Sailor Moon vs debater. This verse has absolutely crazy downplay. Every week it seems we have to go over, yes Usagi had godly regen. Yes lambda power restored the universe. Yet star seeds work on other verses because of verse equalization. You get people claiming End of Series Usagi has sub planetary durability and sub ftl speed. It also has crazy wank. You see claims like Sailor Moon being universal since start of series, or every Senshi having mid-godly regen since beginning, or the characters at the end of the series being above multiversal. There's probably not many verses that has as wide a range of interpretation outside maybe DC, certainly none then I know off. I've seen a lot of interpretations for this verse, so take this with as much authority as you will grant me on the subject: They did a good job. Do I agree with everything they've said. No. However their interpretation was a completely reasonable interpretation of the text. I've spoken to them personally and they have mentioned discussing the multipliers among themselves and accounting for them so they are aware of SM multipliers, and simply came to the conclusion that Beerus was more powerful. I don't know Beerus or DBS very much but I can tell you that their interpretation of Sailor Moon at least was completely reasonable.

So with that being said, let's talk about multipliers.

I am not a big fan of using multipliers. Sometimes it's easy. If Character A is baselike city level and then gets some undetermined amount stronger then it is shown to not be very much while Character B is baseline city before getting 100x stronger, you can make a pretty safe assumption who is stronger. However with verses like these in particular, where characters will get power boosts anywhere from tens to thousands of times off screen, it's impossibly to truly know who is stronger. If I was making this I would just say they are both cosmically stronger then universal and leave it at that.

But people seem to really want Galaxia's multipler. So let's get into it. Can you scale Galaxia to 9 or thousands or millions of times baseline? Well if you are saying Nehelenia is baseline, then yes you can.

Here's the logic. Sailor Moon after first transforming into Super Sailor Moon gave of 10,000x the power of the Taioran Crystal at peak while a dying out Taioran Crystal was stronger then her base form so people using 10,000x as a lowball for the multiplier for her Super Henshin. This is the ONLY directly quantifiable modifier of power in the entire Sailor Moon series. What about Civilian Form to Base or Super to Eternal though? Base Form is some massive insane amount since it took them from being normal human level to cosmic guardians but if you wanna lowball it you can say that in Arc 2 the Senshi can take down at least 5 Droids at once when transformed and Makoto was relative to one in civilian form so the Base Multiplier is at least 5x. For Eternal it's treated as massively above but it used all their power including the power of the Present Silver Crystal, the Pink Moon Crystal of the future which is the future Silver Crystal, and Mamoru's Golden Crystal which is equal in power so it's at least 3x. This means that for a lowball you could say the difference in power between Civilian Usagi and Eternal Sailor Moon is 150,000x

You could then say Galaxia and Usagi in Arc 5 were more powerful then Nehelenia and Arc 4 Eternal Sailor Moon meaning that after transforming Base Eternal Sailor Moon would be 150,000x baseline. The other Eternal Sailor Senshi were relative to Base Eternal Moon before getting Galaxia's power but then got Galaxia's power. The power Galaxia grants made fodder tier aliens as strong as Eternal Sailor Senshi. Even if they were as strong as Nehelenia to begin with (they weren't, Nyanko would only have been as strong as base Luna and Artemis) this would be 150,000x meaning that the Eternal Galactica Senshi would have squared this power and been at 22,500,000,000 times baseline. Eternal Sailor Moon got stronger during the fight due to the Silver Crystal's ability to rise in power with her emotions and equaled 4 Galactica Sol Senshi at once even though they used a named technique and she simply used a casual energy projection and later after getting even stronger one-shot all 8. If she is 4 or 8 times stronger then the prior number that would make her 90-180 billion times baseline. Galaxia withstood an attack from an even stronger Eternal Moon after she was enraged by Galaxia erasing her loved ones' star seeds. You could also say Nehelenia is only as strong in raw power as a Super Senshi, or incredibly enough if you want Base Usagi from Arc 4 (since Usagi and Mamoru warded her off in civilian form and Usagi survived light that hurt Helios who is implied to be relative to Nehelenia) meaning you could multiple that number again by the Eternal multiplier of 3x or by the full civilian to Eternal multiple of 150,000 to get somewhere from 270 Billion to 27 Quadrillion times baseline. You can raise these if you want via various ways to get even bigger numbers like saying that Nyanko before getting her powers rivaling an Eternal Senshi would have to be well less then 10,000x weaker since she would be weaker then Base Arc 3 Sailor Moon instead of assuming she's relative to Nehelenia and that will boost the number further. You can say Base Sailor Moon is cosmically stronger...Blah blah blah.

This is not my saying that Galaxia is vastly stronger then Beerus. I'm sure Dragon Ball Super has the same kind of nonsense you can do. For instance I know Goku absorbed the god ki and then iirc he can go Super Saiyan God on top of that. Since Goku thought fusion stood no chance against Beerus this means that you can square whatever the fusion multiplier is just for early DBS Goku. I'm sure it has similar things you can get crazy numbers for. This is not my saying you should use multipliers to make Galaxia win, it's a general argument against trying to use multipliers as if they were an exact science. Galaxia and Beerus in my mind are both some unknown cosmic amount above universal.

Now this probably doesn't change the argument in the episode very much. Everything about the conclusion I thought was pretty spot on. Let's say for the sake of argument the two are roughly comparable to each other in power. Would this give Galaxia the win? I don't know Beerus enough to actually say who wins this however just going over the argument, that doens't actually change the argument presented. If the two are relative or equal, Galaxia and Beerus can both nullify each other's energy attacks. Galaxia then would not have the physical strength to hurt Beerus but Beerus would have the physical strength to hurt Galaxia. Everything else about it is consistent. Beerus is a more skilled fighter (some people are failing to make the distinction, Galaxia is a very skilled tactician, skilled general but not so much by feats a skilled fighter), he's got physical strength she can't nullify, he can get out of dimensional BFR via scale to Vice Shout etc. The only way to argue this is to argue either that Star Seed Rip works on Beerus which is....iffy.....as far as I know or that Galaxia is just way stronger then him and I don't think you can really prove that since again these mulipliers are super inexact and I don't think should be used in such a direct sorta let's count the numbers game.

There's one last point I want to bring up since people care about my opinion seemingly. Given all this and how I don't think you can definitively say either side is stronger then the other, do I dislike that they used that as part of their basis for Beerus would win. No. Look, Galaxia is my favorite villain of all time and one of my favorite characters as I explain here. If I thought this was a match she should clearly win and got robbed I would say so. Fact is that isn't what happened here. This is a matchup where you can make a compelling case for either side. You can either want one-sided matchups and then watch the expected happen or you can want these debatable matchups. If you want the latter you should expect nothing more then a reasonable argument for one side, even if you do some have some disagreements. As far as I can tell this is a matchup you can make a compelling case for either side, they picked the case they thought was most compelling and presented it in mostly the optimal manner.

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

What are the strongest powers in fiction

There's a lot of powers in fiction however what are the strongest powers? I can give what my current understanding is. Currently my understanding is the strongest powers are generally one set of abilities. There is one subset of those abilities that can be even stronger hypothetically.

This set of power is what I call Transcedence (X) where X is a concept that the character transcends the existence of. The more universal the concept, the more powerful the Transcendence though for any common concept, Transcedence will give an incredibly strong state of existence.

One of the most common is transduality which is Transcendence (2) meaning the character transcends 2-ness and thus duality. Transdual characters are at one with all being since there is no twoness that can be applied to them. This means that they are incredibly difficult to kill since they are a part of all being, including their opponent and any attack tried to use again them. Transcendence (1) means the character transcendence the concept of one-ness and thus is always of an indeterminate amount and wouldn't be able to be properly reduced in number as per normal. One can have with Transcedence (Numbers) or Transcedence (Quantificaiton) where one transcends any numerical system or quantification. Transcendence (Spacetime) is what vs battles wiki calls Outerversal and Transcedence (Power) is what I use to qualify for my Tier 1 characters, characters that are beyond the concept of power and which you can't be stronger or weaker then. Transcedence (concepts) includes all the below and would refer to a formless entity that can not be described by any concepts. You can then have hyper-concepts, the concepts of concepts which can be transcendence or meta-concepts of a higher metafictional layer that themselves can be transcendence with Transcedence (Meta-Concepts) or Transcendence (Reality-Fiction).

At the hypothetical furthest extreme there is the Absolute. The Absolute is by definition the highest form of being. By definition therre can only be one Absolute, though it's possible to appear to numerous to lesser beings via them seeing it from different lower perspectives (which is how I try and reconcile it when verses claim multiple absolute forces). Absolute traits of characters are defined as traits that have Transcendence (All), or in other words which are beyond any limit or boundary. A character that has Absolute Destructive Power for instance can destroy anything completely and without any fail even if not transcends normal concept of destruction. This is because it's defined as Destructive Power transcending all things.

I've long wondered how to deal with two verses absolute properties colliding. The boring answers are if they existed in the same verse they would just be the same or they would just be the same. The more interesting answer that I like is you work off feats, and try and find how many absolute properties exist to try and find a victor, IE see how many things in the verse are relevant to the Absolute Power.

Note: you can hypothetically have an Absolute Property and not be one of the strongest characters in fiction. Spider-Man has an Absolute Willpower feat where his will when put into the Nexus of all Realities effected the transcendent plane containing all of Marvel. However he's not like Lucifer Morningstar where his abilities allow him to manifest his will onto other things. It basically just means that if ONLY willpower is needed from him, he will always succeed, unless matched against another Absolute property in which case it's indeterminate since again by definition only one thing can have the "Absolute" property.

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Imperator100 Reacts to Death Battle: Beerus vs Galaxia (Spoilers)

I've had a lot of personal problems in the last few days keeping me from doing much online but I was definitely not going to miss this. I want to personally thank Death Battle for using a Sailor Moon characters and it's research team for considering me in their creation of it. I am happy to help however I can.

I was internally debating just playing the video through, getting the full "impact" of it as it were and then giving my thoughts or continually pausing it to give my thoughts on each point. I decided on a hybrid where I would go through each section uninterrupted and then give my thoughts on it before continuing.

As I have pointed out before, I don't decide how I like an episode based on the verdict. I care much more about the character personalities being properly presented and the arguments used in the video rather then assessing based off who wins. What I like about this matchup in particular is, with a few exceptions, most seem to think this is a relatively even battle that could go either way. I won't be upset if Galaxia loses. My real hope is they present her personality well. She is my favorite villain and I hope people learn about her from this.

My pre-watching predictions and these aren't my thoughts on the fight, these are my guesses as to what they will say based on the previews and research blogs:
-I think they are going to end up saying Galaxia is a bit faster and Beerus is a bit stronger. They will probably say Galaxia is Uni and Beerus scales to Dragon Ball Macrocosm which has a few universal sized structures. They tend to go more off vs battles wiki type logic these days, so I am guessing they're scale Galaxia to the Usagi's light going to the end of spacetime feat calced at over 1 quintillion c and put Beerus at hundreds of quadrillions c. I could very well see them saying they mirror each other in stat advantage with something like Galaxia being ~3 times as fast as Beerus and Beerus being ~3 times as powerful as Galaxia
-I imagine they will say Galaxia and Beerus can't existence erase either one of each other. For Galaxia I imagine this is because Galaxia has resistance to existence erasure since they said in the blog for Galaxia that Senshi have resistence to physical, spiritual and temporal existence erasure. For Beerus probably because he scales above people who resisted destruction energy?
-They might bring up Galaxia being able to sense intent and Beerus being able to act without thinking as one of the counters since they seem to really like counters
-If they side with Galaxia, I imagine it will probably be either due to stamina or abilities. Stamina because in the Beerus prediction blog they said Beerus's omen can only last a few minutes while they stamina scale Galaxia to Usagi which I don't really agree with the logic for, but it's not a huge deal.
-If they side with Beerus it's probably just because they think he's stronger I imagine. He can counter her ability to sense intent but I don't think any of his abilities are super impressive enough for them to say Beerus wins, unless they are just really impressed by his pressure point combat. Though I imagine they could easily say Beerus is stronger as SM scaling is a lot more screwy.
-The prediction blog said that Senshi have regen and seem to use vs battles wiki's reasoning for it, which I am not a major fan off. It's based of it being stated that if Hotaru awoke as a Sailor Senshi her power as a Sailor Senshi would regenerate her. Now I always thought this was related to Hotaru's specific nature as the Soldier of the cycle of death and rebirth, hence why she has healing powers even in her civilian form. TBF it isn't stated that it's a power unique to her but if it isn't you have to ask why the senshi were threatened by normal physical attacks otherwise when Hotaru regenerated from physical and astral destruction. If you say well it's their energy that regenerates them so it only runs out when they run out of stamina, then Galaxia should stomp as she would be able to regen from even Hakai and they are going with she has infinite energy/stamina meaning she can't run out. Based off the preview vid for Galaxia, where they only stated she "heals fast" (going based on an anime scene, which tbf Anime Galaxia does have a mild healing factor) so they don't seem to be using that which is good.
-The thing I think could give Galaxia it is that the Sailor Moon manga has a whole bunch of random things happen in it via magic like exiting/entering video games or giving items conciousness and I could easily see them taking one of those and saying it was the decider.

My real hope going into this is that Galaxia's personality is maintained.


Beerus Section:

Don't have many comments here. I have seen barely any of Dragon Ball Super nor do I care very much either way about it.
-I thought it was cute that Beerus was based off Toriyama's cat (and the general cat footage)
-Interesting that he was put at 200 Quadrillion C (and I am glad they are describing it in multiples of light as opposed to just km/h per hour like they used to which sometimes obfuscated the answer). IIRC there was something putting him slightly higher then that wasn't there?
-I knew Beerus had energy nullification, didn't know how strong it was
-They didn't actually mention him having existence erasure resistance....perhaps that suggests they are gonna have Galaxia star seed remove him?


Galaxia Section:

-Small thing but I want to give credit to Ben's voice acting here, if he bothers to read this not that I think that's likely. At a few sections like when saying "the moon", talking about Galaxia's vanity or the climax of her arc I though he really captured the sense of gravitas the Sailor Moon series tries to build up.
-At one point a note comes up that Tuxedo Kamen is a Sailor Senshi. I am not sure where this comes from. Naoko has stated firmly and stronger that only women can be Sailor Senshi, which is why she was angry about the anime making the Starlights gender shifters. Tuxedo Kamen has the Sailor Crystal of Earth but he can't transform into a Senshi.
-The English Dub was a bit ehhhhhhh but I get it's for the casuals who half remember a few random anime eps.
-The DIC joke was funny. Have actually made similar joke before. I don't remember the context but we were talking about Sailor Moon and I said "Come on guys, don't be a DIC"
-Cute connection with Usagi being trained by a cat and Beerus being a cat
-Galaxia's age is a bit odd. I don't know what in the manga would suggest her age, unless it was something from the anime.
-Galaxia's star seed removal is, I think pretty well explained. I know the star seed stuff and the power of destruction can be somewhat confusing for new viewers.
-Just in case it's not known by any readers, Galaxia Superstring referes to the superstring theory of the cosmos being in 11 dimensions iirc. Galactica Inflation refers to the idea that empty space is expanding all the time.
-"Man, Magical Girls are metal as hell!" 😉 I love this genre.
-I am not sure where Galaxia desiring to kill Usagi to "maintain balance" comes from. Galaxia wanted Usagi to release the full power of the Silver Crystal to annihilate herself and Chaos so Galaxia could have both Silver and Saphire crystals and be supreme ruler of the universe.
-I am glad Anime and Manga Galaxias are being delinated, they are NOT the same character. The Sailor Moon Anime and Manga are basically differnet series, their plots being very unrelated.
-Interesting they are using Sailor Moon lighting up the universe as an attack for a feat. It's not a problem, but it's feels like one of the more sketchy feats to draw from. Still, no complaints if you want to use it. It's not like it's inconsistent given Nehelenia's feat.
-So they are giving Galaxia a speed advantage, albeit not as big a one as I thought they were going too, assuming they don't bring any more speed feats.
-In sidebar they mention the disrupting spacetime thing. It's a weird feat and I'm not sure if they are going to use it in the fight or if they do how they will.
-I am glad Wiz explained Galaxia's end. It is one of my favorite moments in fiction. The Soldier of Destruction rejected world after world unable to find something worthy of her, something eternal that would not leave, something worth loving. Usagi showed her that in loving the temporal, the fleeting, you find the eternal, that love. It is ironic, sad and beautiful that despite finally seeing the thing worth protecting she can never reach it.


Fight Section:

-I know what people are probably most interested to hear about it is my reaction to the results. Like I said earlier, this one seems like it could go either way so I am more interested in their reasoning for Beerus. I am going to talk about that in the conclusion section
-I thought the fight was really good. I think they did a good job of mixing Sailor Moon style combat with Dragon Ball style combat, which are not very similar overall.
-I thought the energy animations were really impressive
-I thought it was a bit odd that Galaxia tried to melee Beerus. Physical strength is not really her forte.
-They are going with the two both resisting each others' techniques.
-I was confused later on when Galaxia removed Beerus' star seed but he managed to restore it? Unless they were just saying he could resist existence erasure and didn't need his star seed I would think that would erase him.
-It was amusing that they broke spacetime while fighting. I imagine this is based on Galaxia warping spacetime and Beerus scaling above Buu who broke spacetime.
-It was weird hearing Galaxia in English. Her voice actress did a good job though I thought, particulaly in her saying "The hard way it is, then!"
-It seemed an odd halfway point between her manga and anime personalities. I am really glad they didn't do the whole "Galaxia would just stand there and let Beerus attack her because she's arrogant" thing. Anime Galaxia did stupid things like that, but first off all that wasn't even her real personality since she controlled by Chaos, and more importantly manga Galaxia doesn't do stupid things like that. I would say she acted over the top like Anime Galaxia but fought like Manga Galaxia.
-I would say in particular I liked the part where they were in the exploding star, I thought it was really aesthetically impressive there

Conclusion Section:

-"Galaxia is faster, but Beerus's ultra instinct and fighting skill made up for it." Yeah, while I think the two are both probably a bit faster then Death Battle had them, I would overall agree I think Galaxia is a bit faster but not so fast Beerus couldn't keep up.
-"Galaxia not having martial arts." This is definitely true, it's something I myself said would be an advantage for Beerus. Sailor Moon fights are usually just "I have more power so I one shot" or "I have broken ability so I one shot"
-There is a sidebar comment that both can resist destruction because both control it, and because both are similar to beings that resisted it. This isn't how I would phrase it, but I get what they are saying, both scale to existence erasure. Fair enough. I don't know how their potencies match up but that sounds reasonably plausible.
-"Beerus can break out of dimensions because he's stronger then weaker Dragon Ball characters who could do the same so Galaxia can't dimensional BFR". Wow. That's actually again something I said. This analysis is really good.
"Galaxia's arsenal is ranged attacks, mostly energy, and Beerus has power nullification." (paraphrased signifigantly) Yeah, that is perfectly legit.
-Really tiny note but props for pronunciation on "Nehelenia". I know it can be tricky to pronounce at first.
-Saying ESM is only 8 times stronger then Nehelenia during Galaxia fight is I think a pretty signifigant lowball since Civilian Form Galaxia was stronger then Nehelenia and the Base to Super Henshi is 10,000x Base. That said I know Beerus is also way stronger then baseline as well, and as far I know it's contentious who has actual power output.
-I am VERY impressed they are doing actual scaling of Animamate~Fourth Arc ESM. This is good SM scaling, even if I disagree on the degree of the power increase.
-Not sure I'd agree on Lowballed Beerus being > Highballed Galaxia but sure, I don't think Beerus having more raw power in general is unreasonable.
-I probably would have been ambigious about their energy but said they both nullify energy attacks while Galaxia's physical strength couldn't hurt Beerus and Beerus' could hurt Galaxia, but that's a minor thing really.

"Special Thanks: Imperator100"
Happy to help, I am glad to help spread information about Sailor Moon around.



General Thoughts:
In general, I thought it was pretty good. Didn't agree on everything but thought it was a very reasonable argument for Beerus. It's up there in my Death Battle ranking. Probably not my favorite ep, that would still be Doctor Fate vs Doctor Strange, but it's one of the greater ones, I would say. Thank you very much to the Death Battle Team for making this and accepting some help from me.

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

How they Compare: Israphel (Shadows of Israphel)


Little is known about the Dark Lord Israphel of the deserts. What is known is he seems to have been the son of Reverend John of Terrorvale, the "quaintest little hamlet in Minecraftia". He was a mischevious personality and so he worked under the eccentric Professor Grizwold. When the professor's experiments went wrong, Israphel died by accident to creepers. 

However it seems some dark force related to the ancient sealed Sand God resurrected Israphel from the grave. Israphel now isolated due to his undead nature would take to pranking and trolling all the living he came across. However these acts grew more and more malicious, possibly as his sense of isolation or his devotion to the mysterious Sand God grew over time. As such he's gone from a mild troll to a force of chaos that wants to conquer all of Minecraftia and unseal the Sand God.


In terms of power, Israphel is one of the strongest fighters in the main Yogscast-verse. He almost completely destroyed the Yogcave, a structure containing many rooms, showing that he would be likely a building+ level entity. He's far above Swampy Bogbeard whose power was enough to restore an Oasis which would also likely be in this level. It's possible he could be much stronger if you scale his weather feats to his raw attack potency. 

In terms of speed, Israphel is known for being evasive and hard to catch. He's also fired arrows so quickly that it seemed like they were a single continuous stream of arrows, easily requiring subsonic+ speed.


Where Israphel really excels is in his abilities and skills. Israphel is a skilled fighter, superhumanly skilled with bow and at least proficient with a blade as well as being incredibly skilled at evasion, often evading BlueXephos and Honeydew's pursuit and employing both stealth and agility. He is also known for his incredibly manipulative skills called the puppet master who has masterminded the creation of the cult of Israphel across many cities serving his will. 

He seems to get stronger with his resurrections. He has slowly grown more and more dark powers as his mind and heart have descended into darkness. He and his minions are known for their usage of fire, and he has shown the ability to project fire.

Israphel is also known for his ability to manipulate the weather, creating a mini storm over part of the desert during his battle of the breach. He's also implied to be responsible for the neverevending summer with high temperatures. 

Israphel is also known for his necromancy/corruption. He resurrected his old father Reverend John turning him into a undead cultist of Israphel to advance his cause.  He will also resurrect automatically, giving him a strong regen factor. He can exploit this by making himself explode only to regen later.

Israphel has at times displayed ghostlike properties of non-corporeality and disappearing from one place only to appear in another, teleporting, though this is inconsistent and possibly a state he exists in between regenerations. He also sometimes demonstrates the ability to slow time to a relative crawl around him and possibly to time travel? It's unclear if it's an ability or a plot hole but it's stated he created the sands despite them existing before he was born. 

Israphel also has various mental tricks. He can enter into the dreams of others which he did to haunt Enoch. He focuses this through his special technique, the taint of Israphel. The taint of Israphel can passively occur to people just from being near Israphel but he can hasten it's effects by focusing it on an enemy. The taint can effect the mind of the target, turning them insane or brainwashing them to Israphel's cause. It can also act as a virus deteriorating the victim's health, age them rapidly, cause them to explode in blood and gore, and can even resurrect the dead raising them with dark powers. It is possibly this is where his necromancy comes from. It's also implied he can remove memories with it. The Taint of Israphel can effect an entire city at once as did to the Dwarven city of Stoneholm.

Finally Israphel has corrupted and gained some control over the Sands, magical living sands, which convert that which they touch to sand or sandstone.

Israphel's only notable weakness is that he seems to be at heart still a bit more of a troll then a conqueror and prefers even with his elaborate plans to wreak havoc to go straight for his objective.


Name: Israphel, The Dark Lord, The Pale-Faced Man
Origin: Shadows of Israphel
Classification: Undead Cultist of the Sand God
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Stats, Regen (Mid-High), Can self destruction, superhumanly skilled in archery, fire projection, weather manipulation, non-corporeality/time manipulation/teleportation (occasionally), can enter the dreams of others, mind manipulation, disease manipulation, can make others explode, necromancy, corruption, disease manipulation, transmutation
Weakness: Can be a bit more focused on creating chaos rather then directly winning
Destructive Capacity: Building Level, possibly higher
Range: At least many kilometers (altered the weather for at least this far)
Speed: Subsonic+
Durability: Building Level
Stamina: Unknown
Standard Equipment: Bow with arrows, sword, TNT
Intelligence: Puppet master, very manipulative and cunning. Excellent at evasion and stealth, and supernaturaly good at archery. Built many complex structures.


So how would he do in other verses?


In the DC Universe, his raw power would be fairly considerable for the street tiers, though he would be massively slower then most serious fighters. That said unless he's fought by a magician, his regen and his more powerful hax abilities would allow him to quickly become at least a local threat, if he resurrects low level metahumans to be his minions for instance or if he uses his magic to cause someone signifigant to go insane as his mind hax would be quite strong in the verse. He'd only be signifigantly threatened within the street tiers if he fights the strongest street tiers or the magic-users. Or if he fights Dove of the Dove and Hawk Duo given her purification powers as shown in Blackest Night.


In Marvel Comics, Israphel's raw power would be negible compared to most street tiers, as would his speed and his mind hax while not nothing would be a lot easier to deal with given the regular levels of psychics and psychic resistance. Their science would also deal with the virus component of Israphel a lot easier. That said they might have some difficulty putting him down without going above the street tiers and his magical transmutation would be extremely dangerous. Best tactic I can think of is psychic tricking him into going in their dreams and creating a psychic battlefield. 


In the Dead Space-verse, Israphel would be comparable to most high tier non-boss Necromorphs physically, scaling off Isaac who can survive strikes from skyscraper sized Necromorphs and keep pace with the Twitchers, the fastest Necromorphs. That said Israphel would be a much smarter undead then any necromorph save a Breathern Moon. Israphel can potentially use his necromancy to control the Necromorphs but if he can't he can hypothetically use the taint of Israphel to make their bodies explode at their weak points or just turn them into sand. He can also regen from most physical strikes with the only real way to put him down being the Marker's mind hax which may not work as it's a form of corruption or some kind of biological assimilation, which also may not work. He'd have a particularly interesting fight against Isaac. His time-slowing would probably equal Isaac slowing an enemy with stasis and Isaac resisted the Marker which has similar corruption/mind hax as Israphel. Overall Israphel would probably be able to beat anything in the verse one on one save a Brethern Moon.


In the Prince of Persia-verse, Israphel would actually fit in pretty well. He's faster but not quite fast enough to blitz and they're stronger but not quite strong enough to one-shot, suggesting he'd be a bit of a fragile speedster in the verse. His time manipulation and magical sand manipulation would both fit in the verse well. His time manipulation is not nearly as versatile and is seemingly much more conditional but he has numerous other haxes that would make him a good fight for most of the verse's high tiers. Israphel vs Dark Prince would in particular be a really cool fight especially given their personalities.


In actual Minecraft, Israphel does....interestingly. Israphel has about as much power as Mid-Game Steven, and is faster then him even then. However both of them have a regen factor the other can't really get past and Steve has ways of defending against Israphel's haxes with purification and probability manipulation. 

What this means is that the two would get into a long long stalemate with Israphel trolling Steve. Steven could possibly eventually beat Israphel by tricking him into another dimension or purifying him, but both would take a long time especially if Israphel is ruining his efforts all the while. What most likely happens if Israphel wins 1,000,000 individual battles with Steve but eventually loses the war.

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Chaotic Conquer: The worst flash game?

So there exists a game on the internet called Chaotic Conquer, a game based on the teleivision show Chaotic. I must be the only person in the world who cares about this game, but it does exist and with flash apparently going to die, I am worried this game will be lost when it should stand as a testament to poor game design in every possible way. This is my rant immortalizing Chaotic Conquer as how not to make a flash game. There's definitely worse, but certainly none then I've played. As of time of writing the game can be found here.

Chaotic Conquer is a game spin off of Chaotic, a tv show made by 4kids as basically an advertisement for the trading card game Chaotic. I watched it to gather feats and found it surpringly watchable. No revolution in children's television but pefectly capable of holding your attention. Just to go over the series a bit, the show features the world of Perim, divided primarily between 4 tribes. There's the Overworlders who are beast-men and oddly colored humans who are noble and have codes of honor and their primary mechanic is increasing their power from elemental boosts or from teamwork. Their opposite are the Undeworlders who are demonic creatures or animal-people that are meant to be more scary like snake-people or bat-people. They have a philisophy of survival of the fittness and their main mechanic is debuffing people or sacrificing their own creatures to gain an advantage. There's the insectoid Danians who basically are just serving the will of their insect queen and their main mechanics are their weaker creatures giving boosts to their stronger creatures via hive mind and later infecting opponent creatures to turn them into insectoids. The Mipedians are desert-dwelling lizards who are a mix of laid back/friendly and sneaky/deceptive. Their main mechanics are invisibility and speed, and are a bit glass cannon-y being able to do a lot of damage right off the bat with ambushes but lose in a long run match. They later added a secret evil fifth tribe of lovecraftian monsters though that's neither here nor there. Humans that are from "our world" teleport into Perim to scan creatures and places and whatnot to use in the actual card game. Some of the creatures there don't like humans and will kill them while others like to use their ability to teleport anywhere to use them as scouts in their war with each other in exchange for scans. The show's human characters are fairly likeable, and it's lore is decently developed. It also shows actual strategies used in the game being used in the show which is surprisingly rare for a TCG show, who usually go for what's dramatic and flashy. The show had some problems with it's messaging however, in particular it pretends that all 4 tribes are equally valid but the Overworlders are constantly being painted as the "good guys" and the Underworlders are constantly being painted as the "bad guys". There's an episode that tries to go against this by showing an Overworlder oppressing some Mipedians, and if you've seen the earlier Last Airbender episode with Jet oppressing a Fire Nation village, it's like that but stripped of nuance, depth or consistency with worldbuilding. Also the artwork for the series after the artwork changed, I really don't like. I'm not usually a visuals person but...

Anyway to get off this massive tangent, what good I can say about the show however does not at all translate to the game. I give such a long description because I wanna give an impression of just how many opportunies were missed with this game. The game is basically a Risk Clone except simplified even further. Risk is on the border to those games that are purely luck. If you look at a game like Monopoly, there's hypothetically some skill in it but in reality it is basically just luck who wins, especially without auctions. Risk is the most luck reliant game I would say actually does take some skill to win. Simplifying it down removes that skill element.

Let's start with probably the first problem with the game you'll notice, outside of it's weird scratchy audio of some of the show's music. When you begin the game you are given the choice of which tribe to pick. However no matter what you select, you are given the Overworld tribe. This is not intentional, the game gives you a screen to select a tribe but no matter where you click you are given Overworld. There's something almost comical to how the show went so far to try and make the Overworld the good guys, the ones you want to root for and the game then basically forces you to play as them. I know that in reality it's almost certainly just a bug, but it makes me imagine them saying "present them a choice, but they're DEFINITELY going to choose Overworld". Bear in mind the brief time I looked into it, the player base who actually play Overworld in the game are actually commonly disliked. I remember seeing one forum post of "proposed alliance of Mipedians, Danianis and Underworlders against the Overworld".

Anyway upon beginning the game you'll find that starting the game is quite different from actual Risk. In Risk you take turns choosing territories and then placing armies in those territories. That isn't what happens in Chaotic Conquer. Instead the game gives you an auto-generated map with territories randomly divided beteen the players and a random number of armies on each territory that all equal the same amount asking the player to accept or to reroll. There does seem to be a minor selection bias that territories controlled by each tribe are closer together, but you will often have numerous individual territories that are completely isolated.

Most of the flaws of this game can be explained as the designers were lazy/rushed or it was simplified for children. Simplification for children I don't think can explain a lot about this as children can and regulaly do play Risk. It's not that complex a game. This system of randomly assigning territories I am guessing was some attempt to simplify the game, though I can't imagine how selecting territories in turn is too complex for a child. The ability to keep going though presets is actually extremely powerful as you can keep going until you get basically a corner of the map with all your troops there, something you actually have to do to win but more on that later. And in case you're wondering, no there's no multiplayer at all. Online, hotseat, nothing. It's not like this is a really complex game to make multiplayer for. There are plenty of online versions of Risk, which are more complex then this game, that allow hotseat or online multiplayer including free versions.

So this game only has 1 map, and it's completely and totally generic. This is a massive missed opportunity; a lot of versions of Risk have areas on the map that give special bonuses, and the world of Perim is loaded with interesting locations that have explicit effects. It would have been a great idea to make a two-layered map for the above ground and below ground modeled after map of perim and it's canonical locations. Chaotic already has locations in the show that are strategic chokepoints between the Overworld and the Underworld like the Passage and Cordac Falls. It would have been easy to make those the chokepoints in the game. Even if you aren't going to put in unique effects, the least that could have done was naming the areas after locations. If I'm some kid playing this, I'm going to want to say I'm launching an attack from Gigantempopolis to Kiru City or from Castle Gothica to the Lava Ponds but I can't do that because this map has nothing to do with Chaotic, the series.

Not that there's anything else Chaotic in this. If you wanted to make this right, you'd probably get special "mugic" abilities themed after your tribe. In universe there is mystical music used by the tribes called mugic, and they all get unique ones depending on affiliation. If you're playing Underworld you could for instance cast Cannon of Casualty to wipe out some armies in an enemy territory. Danians could use Song of the Mandiblor to give them an additional really strong roll on their next die roll based off the number of armies they're attacking with. Battlegear might be hard to include but anything is better then this complete lack of anything. And you can't tell me it's for balance purposes when you can only play one of them anyway. Instead of getting cards, which you don't get in this game anyway further removing any strategy from it, have it so each tribe gets a mugic counter each turn if they take territory and they then can spend x amount of mugic to cast one of say 3 different options.

However none of this is the biggest problem with the game. The biggest problem with the game is not what it lacks but what it does actually have, that being attacking territories. Believe it or not, they somehow messed even just attacking territories up. In normal risk attack assigns a certain number of armies to attack a territory, leaving at least one in the territory they attack from. They then roll up to 3 dice. while the defender rolls up up to two dice but wins ties. The highest result from both are compared and the second highest result from both compared with the loser of each roll losing one army. The attacker can withdraw after each roll but if they destroy all opposing armies they move all the armies they assigned to the attack in. Chaotic Conquer simplifies this already simple system causing it to break entirely. You don't choose any number to attack with, instead when you attack a territory virtual dice are rolled for both sides equal to the total number of armies they have. The results of all the dice rolls are added together. The two results are compared with defender winning ties. If the defender wins they lose NO ARMIES and the attacker is left with one. If the attack wins they again lose NO ARMIES, and move all their forces into the attacked territory except one remains in the territory they moved from.

The fact that you get almost no choices in this whole manner, you can't choose to disengage, you can't choose number of armies to attack with, you can't choose how many to move in or out would be bad enough since it removes some of what strategy Risk has, but the bigger problem is how only one side loses armies no matter what. I can not explain how fundamentally this changes the game. This means that every single roll is all or nothing. There are no degrees of success in Chaotic Conquer, every attack means that one side is exceedingly punished. This becomes even more of a problem with how armies are given at the end of the turn. In normal Risk, you place armies at the end of the turn in territories at your discetion. In Chaotic Conquer however you are given armies in random territories you control and you can't fortify at all. What this means is the only strategy that works, the ONLY strategy is to get incredibly lucky, taking a lot of territories early on, walling up until every single territory hax max armies on it and then taking your opponent's territories one at a time. The reason why is the random armies at the end of the turn can only fully replenish one or two territories at the end of a turn (if that, depending on how much of the map you control) so if you lose any more offenses in a turn then that, then you will lose more territories then you take. In Risk, there are degrees of success, so maybe you lose offenses but you deplete your opponent's forces on the border enough that if they try a counter-attack, they will risk the same territories. In Chaotic Conquer, the degree of success vs failure is so absolute that you can only afford failures that are completely meaningless since it will be undone at the end of your turn. If you attack, lose and then don't get that territory refilled at the end of the turn, the AI will take that territory basically for free.

You'd think with a game this poor, the AI would at least have the decency to be fittingly awful, yet somehow, incredibly the AI for this game is incredibly smart and does that exact strategy. Maybe it's because the game is SO simplistic that it couldn't mess it up, but the AI tries to take a lot early, wall up and take territories slowly from a corner of the map. If they had the ability I half suspect they are smart enough that they would resign when the player controls majority of the map.

All of this is compounded by the fact that the AI cheats. I can't prove this obviously, but it's incredibly clear if you play more then one game. You lose even matches the clear majority of the time and lose more often then is statistically probable when you have a larger force. This is partly why you can only afford to attack when any losses you sustain you know will be replaced at the end of the turn. This is the part that confuses me th most about this game. Stripping down the rules of Risk I can understand as some attempt to make the game accessible to children, even though children can understand Risk fine. Having nothing related to the Chaotic series outside of some poor sound assets and the tribe colors I can understand as just laziness or lack of time and resources. But I can't understand why this game cheats in favor of the AI. You would think that would be harder to implement, if only by a bit, because you're adding an extra variable. Children aren't going to like this game, but assuming they did they would only get frustrated by the rampant cheating. Maybe they won't notice it's there, but they will notice they always lose, and very often unfairly. If anything you'd expect some poor flash game made as a tie in to a children's television series to be easy to win, something a child could realistically do. I have no idea why this game has that element, outside maybe some attempt to try and extend the game's playtime by making it harder to win.

Chaotic Conquer is I think a perfect example of how not to make a game.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Why Sailor Galaxia is my favorite villain


Sailor Galaxia from Sailor Moon, specifically from the Sailor Moom Manga, is my favorite villain in fiction, and one of my favorite characters in general. In this blog I wanted to explore why. Obviously, there will be spoilers for the Sailor Moon Manga. 

When I'm considering how much I like a villain, I find that there are three general overarching reasons why I would like a villain which I call:

1: Threatening. This is a description of how much menace the villain possesses, how much it forces the other characters to respond. In a fighting series this will partially be decided by how powerful the character is but oftentimes it has no bearing on power. A character can be very threatening by being very smart, by having a lot of resources, by having a lot of social influence etc. A villain that is very threatening can have a massive presence on the series and can force the protagonists to rise to their very best. A villain that is very unthreatening is easily overcome by the protagonists and has very little menace.

2: Entertaining. This is a description of how fun it is just to watch the character act, how well the character can hold a scene by himself or herself. This is a general measure of how strong the character's personality is. A very entertaining villain can be as fun to watch or more so then their protagonist counterpart, can easily carry scenes alone, are always memorable and make any scene they are in. A very unentertaining villain is relatively boring or flat and requires other people around them to be entertaining. 

3: Compelling. This is a description most of the time for how human and understandable the character's personality and motivation is. It's a measure of how real the character feels and how well you can understand them. For most villains this is simply a measure of how human they feel. The exception is in things like hard science fiction where the villain is an alien in which case it's more a measure of how well developed and believable the biology and psychology the alien species possesses. Compelling is overall a measure of how real the character feels. A very compelling villain is a villain that you truly understand with a personality you feel could exist and you understand. A very uncompelling villain is a villain without any kind of human motivation like a bug eyed alien or a caricature criminal who steals and murders because they're evil and those are evil acts. 

Not all villains need all 3 categories, but all villains need to be good in at least one category. Generally speaking, a villain who has none of the three categories is bad, a villain who has one of the three is fine, a villain that has two of the three is good, and a villain that has all 3 is a great villain. At least that's how I generally feel about villains. There are villains who do exceed Galaxia in each of the three categories, but Galaxia has by far the highest average of the three to me. To go over them

Threatening:

This one should not be very surprising to anyone who is familiar with Sailor Moon. While each final arc villain of Sailor Moon has some hyping, Galaxia is far and away the most hyping of any Sailor Moon villain with numerous characters warning Usagi of how immense and unparalleled a threat Galaxia has. Galaxia is exceedingly powerful within the world of Sailor Moon to the point that Usagi says that Galaxia in her civilian form has a power in a league beyond any prior enemy. Galaxia possesses the ability to kill anyone in the verse by pointing at them just to compound the fact that Galaxia is ridiculously strong. 

But threat is a lot more then raw power, and Galaxia is not just a raw musclehead, though she is again established as being ridiciulously powerful. Galaxia has according to Kakyuu killed star system after star system with their own Sailor Senshi, which is a way of suggesting to the audience that star systems just like the ones we have been following could not stop this threat so how can ours do so?

Part of the threatening part of Galaxia is neither the protagonists nor the presumptive audience know what she is going to do, as both are informed by the prior arcs of Sailor Moon that Sailor Galaxia does not follow. The past 4 arcs followed a pattern where the villain group would send down their minibosses one at a time to face the Senshi and gather information before the Senshi faced the false big bad (Beryl, Demande, Mistress 9, Zirconia) with the first meeting between them being the middle or late into the arc and a dramatic moment. In contrast during the first act of the fifth arc, when Usagi and Mamoru are having a romantic moment at the airport, suddenly Galaxia teleports in, takes Mamoru's Star Seed and teleport out with no dialogue in a few pages before Usagi can react. The shock of seeing Mamoru suddenly killed in front of her out of nowhere is enough to give Usagi PTSD for the beginning of the fifth arc. 

Later after Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter have had their star seeds stolen by Galaxia's minions, Usagi thinks she was able to save Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus from the same fate only for Galaxia to again just teleport behind them, take their star seeds and teleport before Usagi could react. At the midpoint of the fifth arc, Galaxia goes to Usagi while she is walking in the park, the two in civilian form and attacks her before she realizes who it is, planning to surprise blow up the planet. Later when Usagi is in bed recovering Galaxia attacks in her dreams, threatening to suck her inside Galaxy Cauldron in her mind. It's not just that Galaxia is a massive threat, it's that she is a massive constantly active and proactive threat, torturing and ambushing Usagi from multiple angles. Part of this comes from her motivation, which as revealed late into the arc, is to torture Usagi to force her to release the full power of the Silver Crystal which will then destroy both Chaos and Usagi so Galaxia can have both the Silver and Saphir crystals, gaining full dominion over the universe.

Galaxia just has this massive and overwhelming presence over the final arc of Sailor Moon, due to people constantly talking her up and the way she acts as a constant threat to Sailor Moon in a variety of ever changing methods. Moreover symbolically Galaxia represents the power itself. The thematic contrast between Usagi and Galaxia in the final arc is that Usagi represents the world of localities we live in, the world of nearby transient things while Galaxia represents the absolute, the eternal, the extending into infinity. Her destruction of star system after star system is thus a representation of the vast uncaring infinity consuming localities without end. Usagi's fight against her is the fight for meaning and purpose, the local and human to contend with the absolute forces that transcend all else.

Entertaining:

This one also probably wouldn't be very controversial to someone who had read Sailor Moon. While not quite as bombastic as her 90s anime counterpart, Galaxia is still a character full of flair with her arrogant proclamations of her own greatness, and her massive shows of power like destroying a planet with one finger because someone on it mildly annoyed her.

Part of what makes Galaxia entertaining is how her assault on Usagi is constantly evolving and unpredictable. Your first time reading SM, you wouldn't expect her to kill Mamoru, the male lead and Usagi's love interest in the first act of Stars, nor just suddenly pop in and kill Rei and Minako after Usagi though she saved them, or to approach Usagi in her civilian form to attack her. She is the most proactive villain in the franchise history.

Howeer beyond that, Galaxia has a unique mix of elegance and bombast, her manga self being more biased towards elegance and her anime self towards bombast. She has an air of superiority with all her actions, the way she stands and speaks. Despite the fact that she's making all these grandiose statements like "the time has come to forge a new galaxy, a new history" the narrative treats it with such gravitas and dignity that it feels like everytime she runs her mouth on how big and great something is, it's a really important event.

Galaxia can really hold a scene by herself or when talking to her minions. This is partly due to her immense presence, the fact that everything she decides has an immediate and large effect on the narrative, but also due to the fact that she makes it sound like an even more immense event then that. Like Galaxia could probably make eating breakfast sound like the entire universe is pivoting on the food she is consuming. She's a real larger then life figure.

Also on a seperate note, she's got really good imagery. She's got this royal gold aesthetic that perfectly fits her given her constantly treating of everyone else as dirt, as nothing in comparison to her. It's also a sort of visual clash with Usagi given the Silver Moon aesthetic of Usagi.

Compelling:

So this is where people might actually get confused. "Galaxia....the unstoppable force of destruction, the larger then life queen of the galaxy going on about being chosen by God, how could you possibly find her relatable or realistic in any way?" However in a different sense, Galaxia is one of the most compelling villains I've ever seen. And I know that Galaxia's inner struggle is not unique or anything, there are other villains that have this, but I found Galaxia's to resonate with me on a very strong level.

Galaxia's character and her motivation are revealed slowly throughout the last arc of Sailor Moon. We learn that she grew up on a hellish planet she calls "Trash" and when she awoke as the legendary soldier of destruction, she figured that such a world couldn't possibly be deserving of her and started searching the universe for something of meaning. She rejected world after world, destroying them in the process until Wiseman manipulated her to go to Galaxy Cauldron whereupon she "realized" the universe was fundamentally transient (as opposed to eternal) and imperfect due to Chaos, the primordial evil. Her actions across the fifth arc are an attempt to torture Usagi so she'll release the full power of the Silver Crystal and destroy Chaos, allowing Galaxia to create something worthy of her.

Being a bit personal, I've always felt a bit empty attempting to observe things just as they are, as opposed to trying to find something deeper about them. Ever since I was a kid, I was very interested in the idea of higher forms of being, whether that being in physics the idea of fundamental laws that describe everything, in religion the idea of souls or higher versions of ourselves, or in philosophy with the idea of abstract concepts. I was always incredibly interested in the idea that there is a higher form of being. Regardless of the arguments for or against it being true, I found materialism and relativism to be unsatisifactory. In fiction, I quickly became enamored with the idea of personified versions of that; ghosts (disembodied souls) or anthromorphic concepts like Mother Nature.

On the flip side I found myself left cold and without much strong emotion towards I would say the majority of fiction. You'll find that if you show me most forms of art, I am left fairly neutral because part of my brain is always saying "this isn't real...this is fiction." I only get emotional in fiction when it's attempting to relay a personal message that I found to be true in reality. I was, in my own sense, searching for meaning. And there was something wrong to it.

Maybe I wasn't genociding worlds because of something in them, but in a sense everytime I was rejecting world after world because they felt empty, because they gave me no satisification, was I not acting in the spirit of the soldier of destruction? Galaxia is the symbol of the feeling of emptiness towards the particular. Galaxia is the willing to destroy all the instances of a thing in search of an ideal that it can never possibly be. That is why she is the absolute that destroys all worlds, because all worlds will eventually show some failing and not live up to the otherworldly ideal.

Usagi is the opposite of Galaxia thematically, a complete everygirl who lives in the world of temporary existences, of the instance, of the mundane. There's a moment in their battle where, and this doesn't actually help her strategically at all, that Galaxia insists Usagi acknowledge that her talk of love and friendship are just a facade, that she acknowledge that it's all temporary illusions, using as proof the fact that she killed all Usagi's loved ones and brought them back to fight Usagi. When Usagi rebuffs her, saying that it's because of her loved ones that she is as strong as she is, Galaxia comments angrily to herself "Why is Sailor Moon Chosen?" and maybe it's just me but I hear a tinge of resentment there. Resentment that someone who has lived life depending on others, who is so attached to this temporary world that Galaxia sees as nothing more then fleeting illusions is somehow as powerful as Galaxia herself who has strove and search long and hard.

When Sailor Cosmos reveals the fate of this final battle, that Chaos would survive and return too strong to ever be stopped, destroying everything Usagi cared about permenantly and consigning them to eternal war, she pleads with Usagi to destroy the cauldron now, to let it all end peacefully in cosmic suicide. Usagi however refuses, saying that she would light and darkness, war and peace, that is what makes up this universe she loves and she would fight forever for it. Upon seeing this Galaxia realizes that Usagi truly believes what she is saying, who would continue to love the world no matter how imperfect or wrong it seems, that she is "the soldier that embraces all". Seeing such causes Galaxia's bracelets, symbolizing her loyalty to destruction to break and she reaches for Usagi as she disappears, unable to reach her claiming she finally found something worth protecting, something eternal,

It's still hard for me to recognize the value of the instance, of the particular, of the non-ideal but actually substantiated form of something intuitively, but Sailor Moon has helped me to see it with Galaxia's character arc, to see that it is through the individual, through the imperfect that we come to find the eternal and the perfect. That we come to know them. These bodies of ours and this material world we live in shall end, as will all things in existence, but the love of them that we found, shall continue on eternally. 

Sunday, July 26, 2020

How strong is Sailor Galaxia (Death Battle Combatant)


Hello internet, it's Imperator100, most well known for my contributions to SM vs debating. So Galaxia, my favorite villain, is in Death Battle. My favorite verse, Sailor Moon is in Death Battle. Exciting (mostly because now people have to talk SM.) This will be a blog to give you all the relevant information on Galaxia for the purposes of this fight. 

I am certainly no expert on Beerus, so while I will be making some references to Beerus here and there giving what I hope are helpful comparisons, in this blog, I am going to leave debating who actually wins to those who know more about Beerus and moreso focusing on just giving the information about Sailor Galaxia.

This blog will be seperated into 5 sections describing Galaxia's capacities; power, speed, abilities, weaknesses, and other versions. I'll also at the end add some debunks of common misconceptions. This is not going to be vs battles wiki's style of analysis so don't expect Galaxia to be listed as infinite or immeasurable in speed though by their standards she would be.

Power:

Galaxia in her civilian form is depicted as having a power far above any enemy Usagi had ever fought (1). Galaxia then immediatly proves this is true by destroying the Holy Grail (1) (2) which previously absorbed and was the focus of the energy used by Eternal Sailor Moon to destroy Queen Nehelenia the Arc 4 Final Villain (1) (2) (3) (4) (5). Point being Galaxia is massively above Queen Nehelenia and Arc 4 Eternal Sailor Moon even in her civilian form as is Arc 5 Usagi in civilian form. Queen Nehelenia maintained the dark mirror universe which is a dark parallel universe (1)

Usagi would then transform into Eternal Sailor Moon. Bear in mind that Usagi's first henshin into her Super Sailor Form gave her 10,000x times the power of Pharaoh 90 and the Taioran Crystal at it's peak. (1) The Taioran Crystal heavily diminished is relative to Base Sailor Moon at the time and Pharaoh 90 is much stronger meaning that the Super Sailor Transform multiplies power by over 10,000 times. The multipliers for Base and Eternal Transformation are unknown but it took 10 Super Sailor Senshi level entities using all their power, as well as the power of their power guardians and castles to boost Super Sailor Moon to Eternal Sailor Moon (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) so it's likely at least a 10x boost, which suggests as far as multipliers go, Eternal Sailor Moon should be over 100,000 times the power of Base Sailor Moon. This means Eternal Sailor Moon in Arc 5 should be over 100,000 times that of Base Sailor Moon who is some unknown but likely large amount above civilian form Usagi. 

Because the Silver Crystal's power is determined based on the heart of the user (1) Usagi's power would rise drastically within the arc as well. The amp Galaxia gives to her minions was enough to turn civilian level entities like normal inhabitants of planets Coronis and Mau into being relative to Eternal Sailor Moon's power. Despite this Eternal Sailor Moon was able to fight the Sol Senshi after gaining the same Galacia amp, despite being relative to Eternal Sailor Moon's base normally, meaning Eternal Sailor Moon basically squared the difference in power by the Galactica Sol Senshi fight. This requires a lot of scans to show but the full evidence can be found near the end of the power section of this blog.

Eternal Sailor Moon would then go on to destroy all the Galaxia amped Sol Senshi with a single attack (1) (2), an attack which would do nothing against Sailor Galaxia (1) (2) and Galaxia would go on to block an even stronger attack from a vastly more enraged Eternal Sailor Moon (1) (2).

Now I don't use multipliers as a way of getting to a higher "level" or what have you. I only go into so much detail because I know Dragon Ball Super has a massive power scale above "baseline" universe level and so Beerus being massively above baseline universal does not mean he would be massively more powerful then Galaxia intrinsically. I don't know DBS's power scale nearly well enough to directly compare Galaxia's power scale to Beerus power scale so if someone wanted to do a more direct comparison, I hope this information is detailed enough. The quick summary is that Galaxia>>Galactica Sol Senshi who are to their Normal Versions what their Normal Versions are to civilians and their normal versions are relative to Base Eternal Sailor Moon who was likely well over 100,000 times her civilian self who was a league above the level of a casual universe maintainer like Queen Nehelenia. 

Speed:

Speed is a lot simpler. The Amazon Sailor Senshi are rookie Eternal Sailor Senshi much weaker then Galaxia so Galaxia should scale to them easily. They have moved comparable to the Lambda Power  taking the energy of their Star Seeds (1)(2)(3). The Lambda Power was quickly restoring all the star seeds to their proper places in the cosmos across the universe, and the power of the Silver Crystal is only a part of it. The power of the Silver Crystal has numerous times moved throughout and even to outside the universe instantly (1)(2) which is a speed just exceeding 1 quintillion times the speed of light. 

From quick research Beerus is hundreds of quadrillions of times the speed of light scaling off being 3/4th the speed of Whis which suggests that Galaxia maybe has a slight speed advantage, though not an unsurmountable one (about 3-4 times, well within the normal range of being able to react too). Pardon if I am mistaken on Beerus' speed, this was just what quick searches suggest.

Of course if you use vs battle wiki's speed standard, the light of the silver crystal has traveled across spacetime by raw speed which is immeasurable. It's merely an aspect of the Lambda Power which Eternal Amazons moved comparable too, showing immeasurable speed. 

Abilities:

Galaxia does not have the most versatile range of abilities of SM villains, but that's not to say she's unhax. It's moreso she has one extremely potent ability she is incredibly famous for: the Star Seed steal. The Star Seed Hax is arguably the most broken normal ability in the Sailor Moon Universe, with only two entities knowing it and Galaxia is a far greater user of it then Nehelenia. This is essentially a form of existence erasure hax that can one shot basically everyone in the verse. While users of the Silver Crystal are somewhat resistant to it, removing their star seed can still reduce them to a comatose state, it just doesn't completely kill and erase them immediatly. As both Galaxia and Beerus have a distinctive existence erasure ability and I believe some form of resistance, I believe the nature of the existence erasure and her resistance will become fairly relevant.

Galaxia's existence erasure is the ability granted by the Seikinseki or Sapphire Crystal, her Sailor Crystal. By Pointing towards something, Galaxia takes the Star Seed of that thing, and causes their erasure from existence. (1) All things that carry life have a Star Seed regardless of shape, size or name (1) and Galaxia's Star Seed stealing can work on things as large as planets (1), and implied even stars. Like a lot of things in Sailor Moon, the mechanics of the ability aren't explained heavily to retain a mystic air around it, but Star Seeds seem to refer to one's identity as an entity which is why Sailor Senshi have human star seeds which are their human identities and a Sailor Crystal representing their identies as Sailor Senshi. (1) It is known that even Chaos the conceptual entity had a star seed, called the Chaos Seed (1) suggesting Star Seeds are some form of conceptual existence. This is consistent with how Star Seed steal works on Sailor Saturn, (1) a sailor senshi with control over life and death and who can continue to exist as just a soul (1) or a spirit (1). Taking the star seed of someone also causes them to disappear across time. (1) Sailor Senshi in general possess resistance to existence erasure enough that in the second arc the Senshi were able to resist the Existence Erasure of Death Phantom (1), which was erasing the entire planet Earth (1)(2) and was even affecting the spiritual projection of King Endymion. (1).

So to summarize, Galaxia's Existence Erasure involves removing a conceptual piece of an enemy, their identity, can work on a planetary+, possibly stellar scale, can erase spiritual beings and is superior to an existence erasure that worked on a spiritual planetary scale. I don't know how this compares to Beerus's Hakai but there you go. 

After removing the star seeds of entities, Galaxia can then remake them so that they are loyal to her (1)(2) though this is not particularly helpful in a one on one match. There are a lot of other things Galaxia has been suggested to have done, but it's unclear whether this is a part of the same ability or not. Galaxia is noted to have forced people to serve her whim (1) but this clearly seems to be part of her star seed steal. She also killed all life on a binary planetary system by simply appearing on it, but it's unknown whether this is her sheer power, the power of the Sapphire Crystal, or some completely seperate ability. (1)

Sailor Galaxia has a bunch of other abilities. I'm gonna go over some of the more notable ones here and what potential relevance they may have. Some of them are not of the level where they're particularly notable. For instance the Sailor Senshi henshin can create a blinding light. Considering Beerus was unaffected at the center of a light that spread through the universe, that's unlikely to do anything. Some of Galaxia's abilities that are mote notable:

Dream Manipulation: Sailor Galaxia can enter into the dreams of others to threaten them there. (1)(2) This is unlikely to be particularly helpful as Beerus is probably not going to just fall asleep mid-combat. The only hypothetical advantage I can see from this is if there are neutral passerbys, Galaxia could hypothetically enter one of their dreams to avoid detection and launch a surprise attack,

Teleportation: Teleportation, even across dimensions and with other people is a common power of Sailor Senshi. (1) Sailor Galaxia has been shown to teleport personally (1) and is arguable the best teleporter in the series as she has also been shown to teleport many Sailor Crystals away from her (1) as well as teleport her entire castle. (1)(2) This may be helpful in a fight against Beerus, as teleportation was used by Goku to good effect against Beerus, though Sailor Teleport does not seem to be as precise as Instant Transmission. It also uses Henshin which suggests it may take energy since henshin is an emission of stellar energies. Both of these limitations can be seen in Chapter 3, when Ami and Luna told Usagi to transform in another dimension so Ami could lock onto her henshin energy and teleport there. (1)(2) I think Galaxia's teleportation is probably a fairly helpful ability, she could do things like teleport Beerus in front of his own attack for instance, but it's not something she would be able to spam like Goku did. She also can't use it for dimensional BFR because Dragon Ball characters on the level of Buu or above can perform the vice shout.

Galactica Inflation: One of Galaxia's two attacks. Galaxia creates a dark space around her filled with an electric aura. (1)(2). Depending how their power matches up should be damaging but lacks range.

Galactica Super String: Other of Galaxia's attacks. Galaxia creates a wave of cosmic force that is stronger then her prior attack. (1) There's no way to know how much stronger it is but it's basically the same in most cases, since it lacks range.

Attack Nullification: People with the bracelets worn by Galaxia and her minions can negate attacks with them. (1) Assuming Galaxia and Beerus are somewhat relative in power this would be pretty relevant actually as it would prohibit Beerus from using long ranged attacks. 

Can move through barriers: Galaxia can move through barriers (1)(2) as though they aren't there. This could be really strong or not at all strong depending on if you think this means she could just move through ki barriers. 

Clairvoyance: Galaxia can see distant events. (1) At a long range, this could be fairly helpful seeing her enemy without being seen.

Superhuman Senses: Sailor Senshi can sense energy and it's nature. (1) Galaxia sensed Usagi's intent to go to the center of the galaxy while Galaxia was at the center of the galaxy and Usagi was in the Solar System (1) and there's numerous showing of Sailor Senshi seeing and hearing at a cosmic distance. Lethe and Mnesmonye saw things in the Sol System from the Galaxy Center (1), the Outer Senshi saw the fall of the Moon Kingdom from the edge of the solar system and from outside spacetime (2) and the Amazon Senshi heard Usagi's call for help from Earth when Usagi was at the center of the Galaxy. (1) Other Senshi have also shown on a few occassions minor danger senses and senses of malice. (1)(2) This could be pretty helpful. I'm not sure if Galaxia could sense Beerus' ki since iirc God Ki is harder to sense then normal Ki but having constant awareness of where your opponent is for a cosmic level fight is a fairly helpful thing. If one of them gets blasted into the next star system, Galaxia would probably still be able to be aware of her relative position to Beerus' whereas I don't know if the inverse is true. He could have similar senses though in which case it goes from being an advantage to not being a disadvantage. Her danger/malice sense, if she has it, probably isn't a huge benefit, it might come in handy once or twice but isn't any kind of game-changer. It's certainly not Ultra Instinct or Spider-Sense. Her ability to hear intent from a cosmic distance may allow her to get a general sense of what Beerus' plan is but that's about it, which in fairness would probably be helpful. 

Telepathy: Galaxia can transmit images into people's mind to mess with them. (1) This is basically useless here. Galaxia has no prior knowledge of Beerus plus there's no one afaik that's close enough to Beerus and Beerus's personality isn't such that she can mentally torture him by transmitting images of his loved ones dying into his head like she did to Usagi. That was only somewhat effective on Usagi because Usagi is a sensitive girl and is very close to the Senshi. It's not even a combat tactic really since Galaxia was only doing it as part of her overarching goal to mentally torture Usagi until she released the full power of the Silver Crystal which could be used to destroy Chaos. 

Anti-Magic: Again, pretty useless here. Beerus doesn't use magic.

Stellar Energy: The energy Sailor Senshi uses. It can make energy blasts and shields and for the most part is basically just ki tactically. It's shown some exotic uses like breaking spells and enchanting normal items but nothing that will be hugely helpful in this fight.  

Stellar Protection: This is a metaphysical light that Sailor Senshi have introduced in the third arc that's sort of the blanket explanation for why they resist various haxes. Gonna be focusing on the haxes that Beerus have which my searches suggest are existence erasure, transmutation and sealing. Existence Erasure I already covered above, basically Galaxia scales to Planet+ and Spiritual level Existence Erasure resistance from the Death Phantom fight. Transmutation the best feat I can think of is Queen Metaria converted the moon from a vibrant planetoid of life to the cold rock it currently is (1) yet Sailor Moon survived within her (1). Now granted, this may not be fair, since that was Prime Metaria who converted the moon and Metaria was weakened during the fight with the Senshi. However even the Modern Metaria was at least able to convert the North Pole to stone (1) and Pharoah 90 who they fought later converted a continent sized section of the Earth into a strange black lava (1) so Galaxia should have some fairly strong transmutation resistance. Sealing is interesting though. There's nothing explict saying that Galaxia can resist sealing, though Sailor Moon could seal since the first arc (1) and couldn't beat Galaxia. So Galaxia might have sealing resistance but it's not something I would feel confident in. Stellar Protection gives resistance to a lot of haxes, these are just the ones that seem releavant

Galaxia Power Guardian: Galaxia like all Sailor Senshi should possess a Power Guardian, which is a small fairy that is part of her psyche and can manifest. (1) This can help perform minor functions like acting as another set of eyes to warn her of an incoming threat but they don't have a huge amount they can do. They can give their Senshi a power boost as seen near the end of Arc 4, so if Galaxia and Beerus get into a beam struggle, it might break a tie. But that's about it. 

Enhanced Intelligence: Galaxia's intelligence is very high for SM. She was able to know something intuitively even Sailor Cosmos did not know. (1)(2)(3) Sailor Cosmos has the intellect of the Mercury Crystal which scales being above the Perfect Daimon who had intelligence a hundred times that of a human. (1) Assuming this means an average human, this would be decently superhuman. She is also a skilled tactician who came up with unorthodox plans like having her Animamates go into the sol system undetected on shooting stars. All of Galaxia's plans in the series actually worked save for 2, both of which were stopped by the intervention of Sailor Cosmos, the God Tier of the series from the future Galaxia would have no way of planning for. I don't know how smart Beerus is but Galaxia should be decently superhumanly intelligent by scaling and has decent tactical feats.

Weaknesses:

So what's funny about Galaxia's weaknesses is the thing that is her weakness in universe is rarely ever gonna be relevant fighting against other verses, while the things that would be her actual weaknesses against other verses are things that never come up in the series.

So her weakness in series is that her devotion to her crystal of destruction is what keeps it from killing her and if she ever finds something that is worth protecting, her own crystal will erase her. (1) This would only come up if she was fighting against either someone who actually is just a super pure hearted completely noble character like Superman or Cardcaptor Sakura or Pacifist Frisk, or against some kind of incredibly good manipulator type character who can convince her something is worth protecting, whether they believe it or not. Beerus isn't really either of those archetypes so it doesn't really apply. 

In terms of actual weaknesses, it's less so things she has anti-feats for and more so things she lacks feats for. Most notably I think is stamina. All the villains in SM want the Silver Crystal because of it's endless energy. Usagi is the stamina fighter of her universe. Everyone that relies on a physical body that doesn't use the Silver Crystal has an issue of a lack of stamina feats. The Sailor Senshi have on several occassions run out of energy to the point of fainting after what can only be minutes of combat (1)(2) with Minako exerting herself fighting what basically amounted to 50 zombies (1)(2)(3). The best stamina feats Galaxia might scale to are Sailor V being unsure if she could fight 1.3 billion people (1) and Minako being able to keep fighting after losing 800 cc of blood. (1) Galaxia's stamina is probably somewhere between normal human and peak human, maybe low superhuman. Now granted it's fighting on a cosmic level so maybe it's not comparable but against someone in her cosmic weight class she would need to win fairly quickly or she'll just run out of energy. From what I understand Beerus is the inverse, often prolonging a fight out of enjoyment and getting stronger mid-fight via his anger. As such a prolonged fight would begin to favor him if Galaxia can't win quickly.

Also while Galaxia is super strong, cosmically super strong in fact, her strength is not at all enough to enough to hurt someone at her raw level of power. The best feat she would scale to is standing while inside a Black Hole, which is definitely impressive but basically irrelevant compared to characters who threaten the universe by punching each other. Sailor Senshi have unique gifts as Senshi and Sailor Jupiter's is basically having strength equivalent to her power level. 

On a related note Galaxia doesn't really have any feats for being a particularly skilled fighter. She's got feats for being a tactical general, but actual Sailor Moon fights tend to just be a clash of raw power or using a broken ability to win. She doesn't really have the raw skill of someone like Beerus.

Finally, Galaxia's attack range has never been shown to be that large. She can affect planets and likely star systems but she can't hit things on the other end of the universe like someone like Beerus can. This isn't a huge weakness afaik as she has teleportation that can make it so she can simply teleport within range at any point and she has sensory range to know where to teleport. That said it is something I felt I should note.

Other Versions:

So DB tends to do some odd composite versions at times so this is just a listing of what the Anime and Sera Myu add to Galaxia in case it's wanted. Sera Myu tends to add wacky powers to the characters, for instance Sailor Moon gained the ability to come back to life because the audience cheers for it. However for Galaxia it's more modest.

I'll go over Anime Galaxia first. I'll give a description of the relevant abilities and in parenthesis give the episode number.

Soul-Stealing: In the anime, Star Seeds are treated more like traditional souls. Galaxia can shoot soul-stealing blasts from her bracelets. These can be rapid fired (194) and can chase people around. (178) She took all the star seeds on Earth. (197)

Sealing: Galaxia in the distant past sealed Chaos within her (198)

Remote Teleportation: Galaxia teleported the Starlights into her Throne Room (196)

Darkness/Dark Energy Manipulation: Galaxia's presence darkened the sky. (195) Galaxia is stated to steal the brightness of planets and stars. (182) Creates a dark energy lightning field (195) as well as a whirlwind and a dragon out of dark energy. (200)

Energy-Sensing: Galaxia can sense energy on a galactic scale (189)

Energy Nullification: Nullifies energy (196-197)

Weapons: Galaxia uses an energy whip (197) and a sword (198)

Skill/Stamina: Anime Galaxia has actual stamina/skill feats as she fought Chaos for a long time before she sealed it within herself (198)

Can turn into Chaos Galaxia if her bracelets are destroyed, being possessed by Chaos and growing stronger (200)

Sera Myu, the Stage Musicals are divided into "stages" which are different continuities based on which actresses are playing the senshi. Sailor Galaxia appears in 8 stage musicals. In this first stage she demonstrates along with some of the above:

Galactica Magnum: An attack technique. It's somewhat unclear what it does. (Eien Densetsu Kaiteiban)

Space Manipulation: Trapped Usagi in subspace where she could not transform. (Sailor Stars Kaiteiban)

Implied Time Travel: Captured Neo-Queen Serenity who exists in the future (Sailor Stars Kaiteiban)

Sealing Destruction: Broke the seal on Queen Beryl (Eien Densetsu Kaiteiban)

Conceptual Attacks: Fought Chaos for a long time and harmed it with an attack, harmed Queen Beryl who had prior merged with the concept of hatred (Eien Densetsu Kaiteban)

The Second Stage is fairly similar to First Stage so it's mostly the same abilities with the only additions being

Resurrection: Resurrected the Amazon Trio (Shin Densetsu Kourin) and the Heavenly King. (Starlights-Ryuusei Densetsu) This was already implied in First Stage but this makes it a lot more clear. 

Galaxia also appeared in the Fourth Stage Musical Le Mouvement Final though there is no place to watch this legally due to it's recency. 

The Anime and the Musicals also added a bunch of direct universal feats for Galaxia if wanted like Anime Galaxia being stated to be a threat to the universe (178) and it being stated in Sera Myu that if Galaxia and Eternal Sailor Moon clashed their power might destroy the universe accidentally (numerous musicals but first mentioned in Sailor Stars and it's Kaiteban)

Some Debunks:

Finally this is a section to debunk some common misconceptions

Sailor Galaxia can not be galaxy level:

So this comes from two points. One being Galaxia stating she knew it was impossible for her to win against Chaos when Chaos was the size of the galactic center. (1) However Chaos is a living entity with it's own powers. A character's power is not determined solely by their size. Otherwise Godzilla and his enemies could not be any stronger then large building to city block level and Ego the Living Planet from Marvel would be limited to planet level when he can fight Galactus. Chaos' size is not some kind of limitation on it's power.

The other point this comes from is Galaxia, near the apex of her plan when she is going to soon get the Silver Crystal, says the time has come to create a new galaxy, suggesting she couldn't create a galaxy beforehand. (1) There's a lot of problems with this argument but to over just a few:

A: Japanese doesn't have a normal singular/plural distinction, so what Galaxia was stating would be more properly "The time has come to create new galaxy/galaxies..." Also, Chaos on literally the next page states that the time has come to form a new universe. (1)

B: Galaxia never actually expresses a limitation in this page, she is just stating that the time has come to create something.

C: Far more importantly, Galaxia is not a creator being, she is the Sailor Senshi of Destruction, thematically and literally. All of the planets under Galaxia's control are barren wastelands, similar to Galaxia's home planet. (1) She was seeking the Silver Crystal which creates to gain complete control of the universe. (1)(2) Galaxia probably can't create a planet as well, but no one uses this to argue she is sub-planetary. Galaxia simply does not have creation as part of her powerset, not just for circumstantial lack of evidence but because having creation is against her role in the story. So yeah, her not being able to create something is not evidence of her lack of power. 

Sailor Galaxia would lose because she is arrogant:

Galaxia as a person is, in fact, arrogant, thinking she is the chosen one (1) however unlike a lot of villains that are arrogant, she doesn't allow this to interfere with her tactics. It's not a combat applicable weakness. Galaxia always goes for her strongest move, her star seed steal, first. As mentioned above, all of Galaxia's plans work except for the two that involve intereference by the God Tier of the verse Galaxia would have no way to anticipate. Galaxia is fully aware of Chaos being stronger then her and it being impossible for her to beat it. (1) Galaxia spent the entire arc mentally torturing Usagi so she would release her full power and kill Chaos. (1)(2

VS battles wiki claims Galaxia has arrogance and complacency as weaknesses because Chaos was manipulating her into doing what it wanted planning to betray her the entire team. However

A: I don't know where they are getting this. Galaxia was planning to betray Chaos and Chaos merely retailiated after it became aware of that.
B: Even taking that at face, what was Galaxia supposed to do about it? Her plan should have worked regardless and would have if Sailor Cosmos hadn't stopped Galaxia from pushing Usagi into the Galaxy Cauldron

Galaxia is absolutely not complacent. She is constantly getting directly involved with her plans which is partially why they have such a high success rating. When Usagi destroyed Lead Crow fast enough that Lead Crow couldn't take Mars and Venus Sailor Crystals, Galaxia just popped in and took them herself. (1)(2)

Galaxia is arrogant in the same way that Darkseid is arrogant. They are arrogant in their personality, and narratively speaking in their goals, but they don't have arrogance as a weakness because it simply doesn't effect their decision making process.

Galaxia wins because she has powerful regen and immortality

So this is based on two points. The easier of these to debunk is Galaxia stating that Senshi can endlessly return so long as their Star Seeds remain. (1) This is completely removing the context of the scene, however. Galaxia just made Usagi fight her brainwashed friends and is taunting her with how she can endlessly revive Usagi's friends and force them to fight. (1)(2) Galaxia is using this as a way to rebuke Usagi's philosphy by saying that things like love and friendship are only temporary illusions and moveover to mentally torture Usagi so she will get closer to releasing the full power of the Silver Crystal. There'd be no reason for Galaxia to torture Usagi with a simple fact about the supposed general regenerative propery of Sailor Senshi. Galaxia is just talking about her own ability to recreate the bodies of those she's taken the star seeds off.

The other is a bit harder to get into. Basically it's mentioned that if Hotaru awoke as a Sailor Senshi, her power as a Sailor Senshi will regenerate her (1) and later in the arc after Hotaru awakens it regenerates her body and soul. Now while Hotaru does have pretty strong regeneration, I personally thought it was pretty clear this was specifically an ability of Hotaru as the Sailor Senshi presiding over life and death. (1) This is why she has healing even in her civilian form (1) and her attacks as a Senshi are focused around death manipulation. There's no real evidence suggesting that this regen applies to the rest of the Senshi and Senshi have been threatened by completely normal if extremely powerful physical attacks including, for instance, really powerful explosions. (1)

Galaxia has general purpose Power Nullification:

A claim that's gone around is that Galaxia and her minions have power nullification because Tin Nyanko launched an energy blast that took away the Mautians ability to speak in their cat forms. (1)(2) Howewer the text suggests this was related to the damage to the crescent moons on their foreheads. These markings on their foreheads are very important to the Mautions as shown in Act 1. Luna had her crescent moon covered by a bandage and could not use her locator abilities or speak. (1) As such it was likely more a matter of the Mautians biology rather then some ability of Galaxia and her Animamates that nobody ever addresses and never comes up in any other situation.