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Time was a straight line that all beings traveled upon. Most things moved in a single direction and by observing this you will know their fates. The logic to this was simple, if you have a ball traveling twenty three units in an hour it will have moved twenty three units by the end of the hour. This concept was how TalOS saw time and understood it for the longest amount of it.
But now he understood that time was in itself, space.
There was a concept of time being a fourth dimension in the old Terran theories and it was much more accurate. The concept that if you moved an object over a three dimensional plane, that the time it took to travel to there was a fourth unseen axis it was drawn upon. But to TalOS now it was much more literal, that time was an axis upon that plane and that all those realities were both the same and different.
It was an insane truth that allowed TalOS to reach into that diagram and expand the axis of time. As time was upon that diagram then by logic there were smaller and smaller units of time. You can inflict upon time the calculus of reality and that it will need to bow to that calculus. If you say, raise it exponentially, then you will have increased your time so harshly that at some point you implode from dilation.
Such trouble TalOS was told was a common mistake by idiots. By stretching time too harshly, even with their dreadful mechanical bodies, Necron Chronomancers met their end.
Orikan however took time in the manner of Calculus. With Calculus he was able to place artificial limits on his growth and prevent an unnecessary implosion. By setting certain variables to one, zero, or another terminal number it prevented accidental breaks with reality.
That was TalOS’s interpretation however, one that was baked in the thought patterns of the Mechanicum and an AI who occasionally pipped in a suggestion within his mind. Such suggestions TalOS learned were surprisingly helpful as Calibre informed TalOS, the Artificial Intelligences had unknowingly been employing acts of Chronomancy in everyday programs.
What mattered though was that TalOS had managed to match his tutor after a year’s worth of calculation. If his calculations were correct, they were now experiencing time at nearly ten times the standard rate.
Orikan looked upon TalOS with a look of being impressed. How did TalOS read that off of the death mask of his fellow, well, TalOS was a Master of the Mechanicum. Even beings whose faces did not change could show emotion in his eyes.
