Fuzzle

The outer containment mesh that is parallel to the direction of travel continues to widen. As interesting as a deep scan is, there are limits to it's usefulness, and I have had to spend more time travelling out of the center of this column of moving molecules just to get within range. I've gotten fairly adept at filtering out the interference from the One-Eight-Ones, and now I have to contend with a growing concentration of Eight-Six-Eights.

If one Eight is trouble, you would expect that two would be worse, but get a pair of them double hooked to a Six in the middle and watch out. Just one of those proton piles is enough distortion to whack a scan so far out of focus that I can't spin straight, and there's more Eight-Six-Eights with every pulse.

To top it off, they just love to knock naked Ones off of a One-Eight-One and glomb on to the remainder. While I am happy to have the ability to run the swap drive on this ringlet, having these Eight-Six-Eights split up the One-Eight-Ones is more of a hindrance than a help, since once there are too many naked Ones floating in the soup, the rest of the One-Eight-Ones hunker down and just won't swap.