I spent way too long on this. I realllly want to know if there is a 26 cycle solution; it feels like there might be if you do bond before the final projection but honestly I'm so deep in the weeds.

otherwise I think you can probably save another 40 gold from removing one glyph of rejection and one glyph of projection. Might be possible without tracks too; I think I had a go at this at one point. maybe some jank with doubling up on arms. I think the winner is gonna be 300 gold and 160 area but who knows - this is literally the first puzzle I've finished after the main campaign. 

I'm glad it endedup looking kinda nice. there was a point where it stopped looking nice and that was sad.