SpiritOfWrath

Dunno You should read the last three paragraphs

i = √(-1) or i² = -1 This number is imaginary. It exists on an axis perpendicular to real numbers. But that’s absolute JARGON and confusion What the heck is “perpendicular to real numbers”? Think of it like such. Take a number line. Copy it but put i next to every number. Rotate it 90° and line it up to the original line so that the 0 is in the same spot as the 0i (which… equals 0). What you have done just there is created the “Complex Plane” (or apparently also the “Argand Plane”) Now I know this looks like a graph, but IT ISN’T BANISH THAT NOTION FOREVER TO THE NETHER REGIONS OF HECK. This is just a very fancy number line. There is no “x” and no “y”, just real and imaginary numbers. Pick a point on this plane. Say the point is like (3, 4i). The point is actually just the number 3 + 4i (if you want a generic number, it’s often just referred to as (a + bi). Which looks scary, but you just need to treat it like every other number. And by that I mean that your eyes need to glaze over when you look at it and forget what it means and just do the calculations. Let’s think about the “value” of the number, though. The best way to really get that idea is to use what is called the “absolute value”. This is defined as the distance between the number and zero. For real numbers, you just make the number positive. But how do you calculate the distance on a fancy number line? This, my friends, is where my good friend Pythagorean comes in! You draw a straight line on the fancy number line from 0 to your number. (3, 4i in our case). The length of this line is the absolute value. To calculate it, we need a triangle. The sides are weird and I definitely need to draw up a visual aid. I’ll try to explain here. The longest side, called the hypotenuse, is the straight line you just drew. Next, draw a line straight up/down (depending if the point is below/above the real number line) from the point you chose, stopping at the real number line. Finally, draw a straight line from the end of THAT line to 0. *phew* Alright. We want to calculate the length of the longest side—the absolute value. A smart person that might have been called Pythagorean but also prolly not figured out that the length of this side is dependent on the other sides. He said! This length = √(Side1² + Side2²) Funnily enough, the lengths of side one and two are just the coefficients of the real and imaginary parts of your number. (Side1 = 3 and Side2 = 4, for example, when we have (3, 4i)) And, doing some terrible math, we find that this length, and therefore the absolute value is equal to 5. Yeah! …what does that means… 5 is how big the number is. That. Yeah! NEXT. Exponents with i in them are complicated (math pun?). Here’s the formula -> e^(a+bi) = e^a(cos(b)+ i sin(b)). I think. Imma fact check that when I like… actually have internet. (I did fact check it, and I was NOT CORRECT. It’s fixed now) The reason that that is true is a bit out of the scope of this blog, but! I’ll give an overview. That is fun. yep imaginary numbers. If you didn’t take anything away from this, at least remember (this is the secret to all math): your eyes need to glaze over when you look at it and forget what it means and just do the calculations. Those people that say it should be intuitive are lying.

(“I am broken too” by Kickswitch Engage is a Syladin anthem, it must be)

*le gesp* You!

???? Hey! Welcome to TLT! To make things canon, you need to have bolded text. (I make some of my posts purple for totally legitimate and unrelated reasons) Additionally, uhh… don’t know what youse are trying to convey w/ the post. You need an explicit character named so as to avoid gmodding (that is, controlling the plot of other players)

It is a reference to something from when I first joined… itirSp would eat people that interrupted his tea time

Sure! Just make a character. Goooood… good…

Say that we didn’t have a way to move Elantrians. HOWEVER What if we moved the Dor? The entirety of Elantrian power is immense. I propose we create a Death Star like structure that could navigate through space and carries many, many Elantrians. Sure it would require a lot of time to figure out, but we have the power of TWO SHARDS. The biggest problem, then, is the Dor. It prolly weighs a whole ton. But perhaps not. Because the actual Shard is not the body of investiture—it’s Connected to it. Right? Referring to how Shards are limited in the amount of Investiture they can exert at once. But the Shards are infused in the Cognitive space of Sel, yk? So—after the Elantrians wipe out all resistance on the planet, they create an air-tight temperature controlled environment bit by bit around the entire planet. This would take a good amount of time, but I think it’s possible. Each Elantrian would secure ~45000 square miles. If they took 10 square miles a day each, it would take a decade or so to prepare Sel for space travel. Propulsion would be simple once the Aons were figured out—though they could make it more and more complicated depending on what they need and how much time they are willing to dedicate. They would probably need the bulk of their forces to do so, but it’s a worthy sacrifice, I think. That is the best thing to do.

A figure, disfigured, watched her. It did not mean to interrupt her conversation with Rebus, but it wanted her to know that it needed to talk to her eventually.

Are you okay to make character now?