Decision Feedback

Embracing the tag end of my Shorty, the destination zone attempted to process the Eights and jambed. The Eight just did not fit the pattern in the meshwork, needing something smaller. I was able to scan along the embracement zone and not only was the Eight a mismatch, but the other Eight was incompatible as well, since there were two places for it to go, neither of them the correct size or pattern.

While making the scans to discover the incompatibility, other forces were at work. The pattern of the Eights disrupted the receiver pattern, halting the embracement process and triggering rapid reversal. The synchronization of partial embrace produced a maximum force when the reversal completed, ejecting the tag to quickly that it bent and flipped to the other side of the Eights.

Nearly yanked to a stop by the fact that the Eights were sticky, I found the correct orbit to start the synchro drive in an effort to gain some control of the Shorty. The lighter Eight followed the Sixes first as the One on the other Eight was still clinging to the meshwork. After a couple of double spin-flips and a strong tap, an Electron from the meshwork popped on to the One, and the Shorty spun free from the meshwork.