Training the Wheels

With the extra electrons passing into the distance, we twisted the Shorty into position and cradled the Twenty in transfer position. I grabbed one of the original electrons from this Shorty and started pair-trades with the Twenty. After getting the B-pair to hop and swap several times, I was more confident in their abilities to follow, but still, these two needed a bit more training.

Back on the Shorty, the pairs and I set course for the nearest meshwork, and I made a decision. Rather than letting the A-pair take one Eight and the B-pair take the other, I had them split up and cross over. Now, there was an AB-pair and a BA-pair. These swapped pairs were sent to the Eights for drive detail, as I monitored the faint ripples of the pair taps that occurred.

As we approached the meshwork, I twiddled the Ones on the Seven end and set up the Eights for contact. I discovered that the A's were chatting from pair to pair and after some time, the B's began a similar conversation. The intra-pair communication ramped up, and the drive waveform began to take shape.

The angle of approach gave us a smooth contact with the meshwork, as I leaned the Seven forward. Engaging the meshwork, the Eights took hold and rolled, sticking to the Ones on the meshwork. I punched out an accelerate tap and that we did, pushing the Eights forward faster than the Seven was travelling, normalizing the axis of the shorty to the meshwork. Having synchronized and adjusted the attitude, it was time to roll.