What's this nonsense about quarks not existing? Berlo, are you high? Okay...what about gluons? All your metals and elements must be made out of *something.* Maybe gluons are what the bonds are made out of, if not electromagnetic connectivity. Let alone whatever funny business is going on with the triplex...

And passing bits through that Von Neumann bottleneck is insanity. I had to take a step back with a fresh pair of eyes and verify that the one difference I thought I saw was actually there, and that I could take advantage of it. Thank you, transcendental guy.

Solve programmed in f43dit and omnomnomnom...er, omclone. (Omnomnom would be a fun name for a tool.) It's not great and it doesn't have to be. Arm 5 catches atoms on cycles 1-2-4, 2-3-4, and 3-4-5 within its looping action; of which was the first thing I imagined for the puzzle. Everything else is built around it; the left side ensuring the gluons go in in the right order, and arm 6 putting the footprint in properly depending on the timing.

Holy fuck.