Blink Industries

**Blink Industries (Blink Tech)**

*-There in a Blink-*

A major manufacturer and developer of FTL Drives (BlinkDrive formally Blink Drive) and Shielding Technology as well as other ship components using Multiverse Tech.

## **Blink Industries Storied Past and Uncertain Future**

**Pan Galactic Media:**

Everyone has no doubt heard of Blink Industries and its brand, Blink Tech, you probably have a Blink Tech brand FTL drive, a BlinkDrive, in your starship right now. The company after all has been developing and manufacturing some of the best FTL Drives (BlinkDrives) for more than a millennium. Thats a long time doing the same thing and while it had a head start on shielding technology the years have not been kind to this once illustrious Mega Corp. Due to a history of corporate mismanagement and a lack of innovation it’s now a shadow of its former self. Can a revolt of Blink Industries major shareholder and a company outsider CEO Vergal Montegue III, set to take the reins this week, usher in a new renaissance for Blink Industries?

Maybe.

“Whoever we pick to lead Blink Industries, they need to be mindful of our corporate heritage and learn from our past successes and failures. They have to take the principals our Founder Arthur Godwell and adapt them for the times we live in today. He was such an innovator, an inventor, a true legend, if we could just find someone that is half the man he was Blink industries could get out of the rut it’s been in for centuries now. We used to build ships and take risks and now we just license our technology to our competitors. And now we can’t even do that, it’s crazy.” One corporate insider said at a recent shareholder meeting.

So dear readers let us take a brief look at the history of Blink Industries, how it came to be and how it ultimately fell from grace.

First established on Earth its founder a young 23 year old Arthur Godwell invented a new form of power, channeling the energy from many different universes “the multiverse.” These Blink Generators and the science behinds its creation helped to both literally and figuratively fuel a technological boom, establishing Blink Industries as a corporate power house.

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> An intern found something in our archive today something that proves that Arthur Godwell didn’t invent the Multiverse Technology he claimed but found the tech from some kind of alien wreckage. We obviously have to make sure that this doesn’t come out.

> I’ve “promoted” the intern and have reassigned him to the Icarus III

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Godwell would use the multiverse technology to create improvements to many different systems vital to ship operations under the brand “Blink Tech” including thrusters, engines, power storage, hyperdrive coined the “Blink Drive” even crew quarters were improved by the multiverse technology. But set backs and accidents did occur especially in the early days. Before stabilization technology was perfected merging of multiverse sections was a problem resulting in loss of output from those ship systems and in some rare instances loss of life or the ship itself. Such a tragedy occurred aboard an experimental craft flown by the Blink Tech founder, in an investigation after its destruction the Starfarer hyperdrive was found to have merged in mid jump resulting in the ship being tossed into subspace.

* Consult a medical professional if these feelings or symptoms persist outside of designated multiverse areas as this may be a sign of Multiverse Psychosis.
* If you see evidence of Multiverse containment loss please notify your superiors immediately as this could result in the implosion of the multiverse and possible merging of realities.
* Blink Industries values its employees and its customers and wants to ensure everyones safety when installing and operating Blink Tech.

With the loss of its founder Arthur Godwell in 2324 at the age of 57, and the technology in question Blink industries was in dire straits, it needed to fix its stabilizer technology and prove its technology was safe. Its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Barbra Mcgoverns took the reins of the company as its new CEO vowed to improve quality and safety. Through the next 32 years quality assurance teams and new manufacturing techniques limited incidents of catastrophic merging to below .001% In her retirement speech she said, “We have proven through hard work and dedication that our brand is the safest in the industry and our products offer advantages that our competitors simply can’t compete with.”

We will never forget your sacrifice.

*Correction The Icarus III,*
*We apologize for the error.*

Her words were prophetic, over the preceding centuries Blink Industries increased its market share to close to 50% of all ships at one point used some form of Blink Tech in their ships before the calamity.

Blink industries gradually got out of the ship manufacturing business and focused on increasing its market share and profits through manufacturing ship components and partnering with corporations, sometimes its former competitors, and governments through out the galaxy.

This strategy worked even through the various conflicts and major wars. Blink Industries supplied all sides with the technology they needed for basic ship operation.

This licensing of technology would ultimately shift from Blink Industries being a manufacturing company to an intellectual properties company using its patents issued by the Pan Galactic Council, licensing manufacturing partners to build the components and use the Blink Tech brand. And should a competitor infringe on their patents, its team of lawyers would enforce its patents and crush their competition by threatening financial ruin.

Profits rose ever higher as the company lost its innovative spirit. As Herbert Gunther CEO of Blink Industries (3647-3664 CE) once said, “Maximum profit for minimal effort.”

Unfortunately this increase in profits through licensing and cost cutting, including reducing its R&D budget year after year and selling much of their manufacturing plants and shipyards, would have a disastrous effect when the Calamity occurred. With the fall of the Pan Galactic Council the patents Blink Industries held are not recognized and are no longer valid in most faction space. Cut off from its partners and having little infrastructure of its own Blink industries is on the brink of collapse.

Which takes us to the present day, with Blink industries still in disarray, rudderless, in need of a new strategy and new leadership, something must be done.

Can incoming CEO Vergal Montegue III right the ship? Only time will tell. But if the market is any indication investors are optimistic, shares are up (BLKI 2.53c) or 3% at the time of this article.