Detentia

While I had a great deal of fun nudging the attach point of the Seven onto the central Six, the range of motion was limited and not entirely stable. It was always the case that the attachment quartiles on the Six were working to achieve balance. Once I released my influence, the Seven drifted nearly to its original position in relation to the Six.

Rotating the Seven, however, was something that did work and stay. It was happy to respond to my lead and the trio of attached Ones followed along with the Seven. With nothing to stop the Seven from rotating forever, the focus of the synchro beam now swept with more regularity than my scanning. After the third rotation, I began to notice a pattern.

At times, the Seven would pull away, rotating ahead of me. As I would race to catch up, the rotation would slow slightly until I was working harder than normal just to keep the rotation going. After a few more thumps from my Six orbit, rotation remained constant until another acceleration and jump away. After passing the same point in the rotation several times, the influence began to wane, and I was able to detect similar and opposite force patterns around the entire rotation.