Flash Transporter

A Flash or "Point" transporter system is one of two primary transporter technologies employed by the controllers, and the newer of the two methods for point to point instantaneous transport currently in use. While better, faster and newer than Gateway Transporters, the system currently has some serious shortfalls. For example, unlike the Gateway Transporter, a flash transporter is limited in the distance and size of cargo or individual that it can transport. Plus it is only able to transport one object at a time from one point to another through the principle of "quantum duality". It also has much higher power requirements, which is part of what limits its ability to move larger objects in the same way as a gateway transporter. That's not to say that a gateway transporter is all that energy efficient. However, its energy needs are about 1/10th that of a flash transporter.

The biggest advantage of a flash transporter over its near cousin is that it is many, many times safer to use than gateway transporters due to the fact that it employs quantum duality in the process of transportation, whereas gateway transporters use folded space, and quantum gateway, which is a much more dangerous form of transport given that, should the transport fail or falter at any point during which an individual or item is passing through the gate, it has the potential of cutting them in half, leaving part of them at the source location, and part at the destination. Flash transporters were created as a means to get around that potential hazard and create a safe, fail proof means of instantaneous transport.