yeah, it was overly long looking back at it, I really want to make sure the reader can follow what I'm doing, plus I wanted to explain the idea at first which took a half or more of the actual OP, going through the simple case of 3x3, presenting the idea of mapping last independent face turns...
Kilominx and Megaminx God's Number searches are already pretty tight, at 18-34 and 48-194 respectively in terms of their lower and upper bounds verified, but I couldn't find much on other same-shaped puzzles such as Gigaminx or Teraminx, so using the same method as ones used for calculating...