The Real World

*Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.*
*The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.*
*Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.*
*The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.*
*It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.*

## Summary

**Real Life/The Real World/Reality**. It is where we all live. Real Life is the conjectured state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether it is observable or comprehensible. A still broader definition includes everything that has existed, exists, or will exist.

One of the advantages in real life versus battles could be said to be clarity, due to the unambiguousness of something as real as the world that all of us actually live in. The primary way to debate real life would be to link to studies or factual data. This page links to profiles on various things in real life that might crop up, such as lions, tigers, bears, and helicopter-mounted miniguns.

## Power of the Verse

The Real World varies widely in destructiveness, although, on average, the real world (In particular, life on Earth) tends not to be very strong. Current Earth life is generally capable of Below Average to Wall level Attack Potency. However, stronger animals like Dinosaurs existed in the past, and with technology, humans, although with weaponry mostly in the Tier 9 and 8 range, can achieve far greater levels of power, reaching up to City level destruction with individual nukes. The real world's high-end feats tend to stem from asteroid impacts, stellar explosions, and other natural phenomena. In terms of living organisms, the speed lands between Below Average Human to Subsonic levels, with reactions being at most Subsonic speeds, but are common for small animals to have. Human-made vehicles have faster travel speeds, going at up to Hypersonic levels of speed, and movement amongst celestial objects and stellar explosions can go much faster. The speed limit for matter in the real world is the Speed of Light.

Unlike fiction, having a high reaction speed isn't always beneficial, as sometimes, fast perceptions mean animals view slower-moving objects to be even slower, an example being a slow moving hand appearing completely still to a housefly before it gets attacked.

**Note:** Unlike most fictional verses, the Real World does not violate any laws of physics or thermodynamics and as such, everyone and everything will be judged based on their own calculations. Numerous aspects such as the distinction between destructive capacity and attack potency, calculation stacking, power scaling, et cetera do not apply to the real world. Weapons and animals harming other animals or damaging vehicles via piercing attacks, leverage, or similar are not indicators of scaling, unless an opponent can be overcome through sheer raw power.