Teacher, Teacher, I didn't have time! I had all sorts of other homework to do! ^^
Nope. The order is hella screwy. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 10, 9, 11, 7/8/12 (all at once, a year before StrikerS). I was after Tre, but well before Cinque- 3.14th?
Not sure. Sails are hundreds of km^2 in area- not sure I could manage that much gravity strength over that large an area, for long enough to make a trip. I might be capable of force-harmonizing nodes that were knocked out of tune, but not acting in place of one.
Compensation for a light craft? Not easy, but doable.
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The subprocessor couldn't quite manage my portions of both of them at once. I could feel it alternating threads, trying to handle two tasks with one core... only for both of them to suffer for it. If a properly cast spell sounds like a jet engine spinning up, the result I was getting sounded like two jet engines, only one of them was winding down at any given time, the other was spinning up too slowly, and which was which alternated a few times a second.
I finally had to step in, mentally speaking, and consciously start solving some of the calculations. Once I did that, the spells spun up as normal, six missiles formed in front of each of my arms, and I smiled. [Fire!]
[BEGINNING FIRING SEQUENCE], Malleus responded. Six missiles were let loose, followed a tenth of a second later by the other six. Now that I wasn't busy calculating, I zoomed in on the target to watch the results.
Five of the first six shots hit the rather beat-up chunk of rock, energetically blasting it to bits. The next volley came in, hitting the chunks of rock in midair. Like before, the mana they carried splashed out, spreading across the rubble in mid-air, before forcing it to the ground at high speed. The larger chunks pulverized themselves against the ground, leaving nothing but a pile of gravel.
I couldn't help but grin at the sight. It worked. The mana regulator really worked!
Entry 39 (Day 550)
The mana regulator works, and I've proven it.
The test I set up had me casting two spells, both variants of Magic Missile, with only a slight time offset. I'd designed these variants to conclusively test my ability to control how much grav-element mana I was using at any given time.
MM Test-01 was designed to test the presence of grav-elemental mana in my system. It was designed to use unaligned mana to propel the spell if and only if it couldn't detect any grav-aligned mana to use instead. If the spell acted like a normal Magic Missile, then I'd managed to pull pure unaligned mana. If it fell straight down and exploded, I hadn't.
...now that I think about it, I really should've used flash as proof. Would've been safer.
MM Test-02, on the other hand, was designed to abort if it didn't get a sufficiently high proportion of grav-element mana, and to fall to the ground if it went over the proper percentage. The golden range for the spell was 40%-42% gravity-elemental mana, 60%-58% unaligned.
Casting them both nearly simultaneously required me to start with pure unaligned mana, link one spell, and then adjust the ratio, accurately and on the fly, before linking the second. It worked perfectly. Somewhere, there's a pile of gravel that, if it were able to speak, would testify to that- possibly in between moaning in pain and threatening my life.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some ideas to test out. Today's a good day for SCIENCE!
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
Nope. The order is hella screwy. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 10, 9, 11, 7/8/12 (all at once, a year before StrikerS). I was after Tre, but well before Cinque- 3.14th?
Not sure. Sails are hundreds of km^2 in area- not sure I could manage that much gravity strength over that large an area, for long enough to make a trip. I might be capable of force-harmonizing nodes that were knocked out of tune, but not acting in place of one.
Compensation for a light craft? Not easy, but doable.
**********
The subprocessor couldn't quite manage my portions of both of them at once. I could feel it alternating threads, trying to handle two tasks with one core... only for both of them to suffer for it. If a properly cast spell sounds like a jet engine spinning up, the result I was getting sounded like two jet engines, only one of them was winding down at any given time, the other was spinning up too slowly, and which was which alternated a few times a second.
I finally had to step in, mentally speaking, and consciously start solving some of the calculations. Once I did that, the spells spun up as normal, six missiles formed in front of each of my arms, and I smiled. [Fire!]
[BEGINNING FIRING SEQUENCE], Malleus responded. Six missiles were let loose, followed a tenth of a second later by the other six. Now that I wasn't busy calculating, I zoomed in on the target to watch the results.
Five of the first six shots hit the rather beat-up chunk of rock, energetically blasting it to bits. The next volley came in, hitting the chunks of rock in midair. Like before, the mana they carried splashed out, spreading across the rubble in mid-air, before forcing it to the ground at high speed. The larger chunks pulverized themselves against the ground, leaving nothing but a pile of gravel.
I couldn't help but grin at the sight. It worked. The mana regulator really worked!
Entry 39 (Day 550)
The mana regulator works, and I've proven it.
The test I set up had me casting two spells, both variants of Magic Missile, with only a slight time offset. I'd designed these variants to conclusively test my ability to control how much grav-element mana I was using at any given time.
MM Test-01 was designed to test the presence of grav-elemental mana in my system. It was designed to use unaligned mana to propel the spell if and only if it couldn't detect any grav-aligned mana to use instead. If the spell acted like a normal Magic Missile, then I'd managed to pull pure unaligned mana. If it fell straight down and exploded, I hadn't.
...now that I think about it, I really should've used flash as proof. Would've been safer.
MM Test-02, on the other hand, was designed to abort if it didn't get a sufficiently high proportion of grav-element mana, and to fall to the ground if it went over the proper percentage. The golden range for the spell was 40%-42% gravity-elemental mana, 60%-58% unaligned.
Casting them both nearly simultaneously required me to start with pure unaligned mana, link one spell, and then adjust the ratio, accurately and on the fly, before linking the second. It worked perfectly. Somewhere, there's a pile of gravel that, if it were able to speak, would testify to that- possibly in between moaning in pain and threatening my life.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some ideas to test out. Today's a good day for SCIENCE!
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.