Modulatory Attraction

I swapped positions with the swingshot Electron that had been responsible for attraching the ornery end of a One-Eight-One. Tinkering with the frequency of the Electron wiggle, I was able to cause the distance between our Seven end and the One-Eight-One to change. If I took the frequency to zero, It got released, and the Seven end was free to interact with the soup once again.

Realizing that this was an extended application of the swap drive, I began to interleave swap-drive and synchro-drive commands to my fellow Electron. After a few dozen exercises, all of the Electrons on the Seven end as well as a few from the central Six were able to keep the desired waveforms going and maintain a more powerful momentum that we had achieved with the weak synchro-drive alone.

With a trained circuit of Electrons keeping the Shorty under way, I spent some delicious scan time up on a One. The team that was cycling about was aware that we did not want to lock on to anything using the swap mode for too long, improving the scanning work. Tinkering with things on the Six gave me the chance to move the entire Seven assembly about the quartile of the Six to which it was attached.