The Imiteles Space Station
"Don't blink away, we can fix you," the engineer said.
The Mind of the space station powered up its blink drive. "I think I'm fine as I am."
Then it blinked away into a neat orbit around a gas giant.
The station's Mind had become obsessed for 3.1 milliseconds with an ancient tale called Doctor Who. In it was a ship called the TARDIS, that could travel across space and time and bring its passengers not exactly where they wanted to go, but always where they needed to be.
Imiteles couldn't travel across time, unless you counted going steadily 1sec/sec only in one direction, but it could travel across space with its blink drive.
That was a happy accident. Blink drives didn't exist. Nowhere. Anywhere. The physics behind them were complete and utter bollocks, inc
