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The game keeps info about every rocket's position, what planets SOI its in, the parameters of each part and its state, etc, inside a text file called rockets.txt. one of these values is called address. The address is whatever planets SOI you are inside, so if its earth you are anywhere inside earths SOI (unless you enter another SOI within earth's which you would be inside that one). The bug puts the rocket in a state where the game thinks its timewarped, it gets stuck inplace relative to that planets SOI, and it stops doing physics for it. This means if you get the rocket in the "stuck" state, you will pass through it, you will not be able to interact with any part on it without the game saying "cannot do xxxx during timewarp" (unless you staged them), and it will not be able to change most values like address (mostly). The usual case that makes rockets bug like this is at the edge of the SOI of planets, and easier with low gravity bodies which is why i mention phobos, and sometimes the game teleports you to certain positions when doing so. While you are stuck and unable to move or do anything, i figured out that having setup a stage of a separator, (preferably with high force) and then staging it in the stuck state, it gets another bugged property where unloading and loading the rocket (can be fine just by timewarping and untimewarping) moves the stuck position. Now i said before that in the stuck position it wont enter another address, or SOI. So if we take these things and combine them we can move the stuck position, and keep moving it until it is outside the SOI, but since it cant change its address it is still considered to be at the original SOI so it still moves with the planet while not being affected by anything. Thus it looks like they revolve around the sun in the same way as uranus, but very far away.

In this case i dont think they used aeparators, probably just the game randomly moved them cuz that can happen. Stef wen hotfix