BlinkDrive

BlinkDrive, or Blink Drive (Noun)

Definition:

The BlinkDrive (formally Blink Drive) is a form of FTL drive, using Multiverse stabilization to boost FTL performance, invented by Arthur Godwell in 2179C.E.. Developed, manufactured and sold, by Blink Industries. Blink Tech, a division of Blink Industries, has been licensing the manufacturing of BlinkDrives by other 3rd party venders, governments and factions.

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Blink Industries BlinkDrive: Celebrating Nearly Two Millennia of Excellence

**Pan Galactic Media**

*Starship Tech Digest*

July 7, 3708

FTL is by no means a new concept. There are many fly by night vendors willing to sell you a hyperdrive for your first ship. Anyone can slap a hyperdrive on their ship and go. However what Blink Industries has done has revolutionized the industry.

Blink Industries was certainly not the first to develop FTL technology, however the advantage that Blink Industry has over its competitors not only in its BlinkDrive but in other vital ship systems is its ability to utilize and harness the Multiverse.

The Multiverse, infinite universes, or parallel universes, works under the core principle that there are infinite possible versions of you and by extension infinite possible versions of your ship. What Arthur Godwell did was tap into these parallel versions and stabilized those versions in this universe.

The BlinkDrive and any Mulitverse enabled ship section functions with the adage, more is better.

And it certainly is.

In essence when you install a BlinkDrive it searches the Multiverse for parallel versions of your ship and its hyperdrive from other universes and stabilize them in this universe. These “Multiverse Sections” increases the performance of a ships system by two, four, eight, or sixteen times what a conventional FTL system offers. Blink Industries has recently even announced a thirty two times version of the BlinkDrive.

We will be reviewing the Multiverse Mega Ultra Platinum XT 32x BlinkDrive as soon as we can get our hands on it, slated for release 4Q 3708.

This Multiverse Technology has over the year found its way into other Blink Industry ship products, and Blink Tech partners products.

The BlinkDrive though is Blink Industries “Flagship” product, and has found more widespread adoption. Though due to licensing agreements, manufacturing inconsistencies, and cost cutting, and drive incompatibility not all BlinkDrives are created equal.

CTO Gideon Thompson when asked why Blink Industries would allow inferior versions of its products to be sold under the Blink Tech brand, especially a non-multiverse version, said this:

“I don’t think we are selling or licensing an inferior product. We are simply offering a budget friendly choices for our customers who want to own one of the most reliable FTL drives ever made.”

And it is true, for generations now Blink Industries' BlinkDrive has received some the highest ratings in reliability and customer satisfaction in the industry.

But whether a Blink Tech badge on your FTL is worth the added expense when it’s not the Multiverse version is up to the individual consumer.

However it is undeniable that the Multiverse BlinkDrive holds the advantage for getting a ship where you want to go in the least number of jumps. Just be prepared to shell out a small fortune if you want the top of the line version, and with its power requirements, you may want to look at Blink Tech's line of power generators and power storage solutions.

We will be reviewing the Multiverse Mega Ultra Platinum XT 32x BlinkDrive when it drops, so make sure you subscribe.

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