Planar Complex
by Joseph DeVincentis
ANSWER: CYBER HUMAN
As suggested by the flavor text, each of the numbers is a product of Gaussian integers representing the different letters. A careful bit of complex arithmetic can solve for each letter in turn:
E = ERA*THE/EARTH = (2+1i) I = ITS*ERA/STARE = (-5) B = BRINK*LIMIT*WHOA*E/(MILK*NOW*EARTH*I*I) = (2i) A = BLITZ*NAMES*TO*I*ERA/(LIMIT*ZONE*STARE*B) = (3-2i) O = WHOA*STAY*ERA/(WHY*STARE*A*A) = (-3+6i) T = TO/O = (5+2i) R = ERA/(E*A) = (2+1i) S = STARE/(ERA*T) = (-4-1i) Y = STAY/(S*T*A) = (-2+3i) H = EARTH/(ERA*T) = (-3+1i) X = AXE/(A*E) = (6+0i) W = WHY/(H*Y) = (1-5i) N = NOW/(O*W) = (5-3i) M = NAMES/(N*A*E*S) = (1-1i) L = LIMIT/(I*M*I*T) = -3j K = MILK/(M*I*L) = (-1-2i) F = FLARE/(ERA*L) = (5+5i) P = PLATE/(L*A*T*E) = (2-4i) V = LEVER/(L*E*E*R) = 5j Z = ZONE/(O*N*E) = (-4-4i) J = JAZZY/(A*Z*Z*Y) = (4+2i) C = CLAMP/(L*A*M*P) = (-4+4i) D = CHARD/(C*H*A*R) = (2+4i) U = DOUBT/(D*O*B*T) = (-1+0i) G = GOURD/(O*U*R*D) = (-2-3i) Q = QUARK/(U*A*R*K) = (2+5i)
Plotting the positions of the letter values in the complex plane yields:
O ^ V Q F C D Y B JT H E <- I U R X -> S M K A G L N Z P |W v
The answer CYBER HUMAN is spelled out on the 2 prominent diagonal lines.