Synchro Drive

The effort required to get a One to swap off of the Six was enormous. I managed to get it to happen once, but the resulting change in orientation of the canopied molecule was imperceptible. I clearly was not going to drive this molecule anywhere by swapping Ones with the local soup. Slightly miffed, I ran to one of the Sixes and got the Electron orbits hop from One to Six to One and kept at it until the new three-lobed loop of Electrons had made a nice current.

As a result, that particular Six was starting to vibrate differently from the other two, and tugging on the Seven in the middle. The best part was that by having the Electrons swingshot around their local Six, and off to another One, I became very easy to flip the effective direction of travel. Picking the points at which to switch direction based on the oscillations of the pull of the Six on the Seven, I was able to slowly move the entire molecule.

Getting the other two Sixes into the act really helped. Once their Electrons were cooperating, it became a simple matter of bouncing just one Electron from the Seven onto any one of the Sixes to get the pattern around that Six to change direction. Doing this little dance around the Seven was actually much easier that the swap-drive on the ringlet. One day, I would have to figure out why a mainly circular current was able to achieve a force, but for now, it was enough that it worked.