Mr. Oragahn wrote: Since the beginning, all those most extreme ki techniques have been nothing more than concentrators of energy, with the most extreme form seemingly creating a large vacuum. Hence the name of the technique.
Other than that, nothing there remotely seem to approach the completely extreme spacetime distorsion effect of the Tanden Engine's use.
At best, teleporation (such as Dhalsim's) might be based on a very distant application of some common principle.
Fact remains that we haven't seen anything like that without the use of the TE engine. It's straight forward, unarguable.
It's an ability clearly allowed by the TE.
This sounds like you are moving the goal posts. First you asked for an example where Ki is used to suck stuff in, and the Hadoken and its variants fit the bill, but now you want someone else using the same technique as Seth it seems.
Mr. Oragahn wrote: 2. Indeed.
But it isn't hard to picture Street Fighter characters sharing a universe with Darkstalkers characters. Rose, Gill, Akuma, Gouki, and M.Bison would fit in perfectly as Darkstalkers characters.
Mr. Oragahn wrote: Game wise, 3.3 and 2X probably are the crown jewels of the series, but they're obscure and hard as hell for any beginner. Still... red pary. Damn. :D
You lost me. I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
Mr. Oragahn wrote: 4. Yes, but it's gone after that. Which was my point. Minor mentions of brain implants and like Q's odd look are about it. In a sense, it's perhaps just one notch above the level of science fiction seen in SF2. SF4 is the only arc that features characters who owe so much to technology.
A fighting game that revolves around a martial arts tournament really isn't going to highlight the setting's technological gems normally.
The Psycho Drive, Tanden Engine, and Fengshui Engine all seem to be the same Ki generator technology. The Psycho Drive would be the most primitive while the Fengshui Engine would be the latest design, but still in testing. They have psychic/Ki using superhumans as part of their standard military and police forces so odds are "Ki" is well studied.
Karin's particle beam satellite, Crimson Viper's battle suit, Necro, and 12 would imply there is a lot of high end technology we don't see do to it not being plot relevant normally. Energy storage, energy generation, and nanotechnology
The Fengshui Engine and Crimson Viper's battle suit would imply a high capability to shrink systems in size.
If you take Karin's ending in Campon Fighting Evolution then Street Fighter Earth may have artificial gravity.
Mr. Oragahn wrote: 1. Yes but even the SFA series hardly pushed the SF side that far if you limited yourself to games. And frankly, I much prefer SF with the esoteric mix of magic and tech constrained to Earth, than plots involving lame rocket ships which can blow up huge space bodies in a way equally embarrassing as the awesome powers of the Ewoks and their four seasonal gods.
Mr. Oragahn wrote: 5. Oi! It was a Ceres-like asteroid, at least. Remember?. And fuck, the meal at the moon base. It's not that it is technically infeasible, especially with the crazy stuff of Street Fighter 4, but it's such a big departure from something that would be more cyberpunk without aiming for space adventure.
Well, it does not matter anyway.
I can't see how you can get a scaling of the asteroid from Karin's ending. We don't see the asteroid until it is blowup, and we don't see how Karin did it.
Karin's shuttle and Moon base seem to have artificial gravity if you look closely
Mr. Oragahn wrote: Precisely the point. It's missing. Best considered lost tech.
Nazi Germany had jet fighters, but it took years after capturing Nazi technology at the end of WWII for the U.S.A. to get jet fighters into production.
They need time to reverse engineer the "Ki" generators, and then test them. The testing will be the hard part as you need healthy human test subjects, and unlike S.I.N. most organizations don't want uncontrollable mass murders running around.
Mr. Oragahn wrote: Yesssssss. I liked the OAV wherein she e-tortured Cammy and pushed Ryu to turn evil. >:]
Crimson Viper was a deep cover C.I.A. agent and single mother. She has good reason to want her mission to be successful.