Probably a bug on the rendering side. When observing the ACs work in action, I noticed that some arms just pop into existence. I started recording and then watched it frame by frame. And they certainly do.
The arm to the right just appeared in this state (previous frame: no arm), at 0:23. Many more appeared in less-distant position.
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This was looked into and found that if we fixed it - asteroid collector arms frequently miss asteroid chunks. Rather than try to address that as well I'm deciding that we're going to leave this as is.
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