Twin Drive System
The "Twin Drive System" is a 200-year-old GN technology concept originally devised by Aeolia Schenberg, and currently in use exclusively in the 00 Gundam (although it was later stolen by the Innovators from Celestial Being and reverse engineered to allow the Reborns Gundam to use two Tau Drives in a Twin Drive as well). The system utilizes two GN Drives with a synchronized GN particle production rate as the basis for the system's operation, which creates a synchronization of the topological defects in the two GN Drives. This ultimately produces a synergy in which the total output of both drives is squared (by coupling the drives' production).
The Twin Drive mechanism will not function with just any two GN Drives - each GN drive is unique in some way and these differences can prevent the system from reaching a stable level of synchronization. Even though GN Drives have been seen in different shapes and sizes, these differences are believed to be more than cosmetic as the inner mechanics of a GN Drive are unknown and have not been seen. Every combination of the drives from 0 Gundam, Kyrios, Dynames, and Virtue failed to operate the system, and only the combination of the drives from Exia and 0 Gundam were able to reach a synchronization level that allowed the system to stabilize and power the Twin Drive System. Even after stabilizing the system, the system was still unstable and activating the Trans-Am System risked a system overload. It was only after the 0 Raiser was used in conjunction with the 00 that the system could be fully stabilized and the Trans-Am system was safe to use.
While Federation mobile weapons have been shown with more than one GN Drive Tau (the GNMA-XCVII Alvatore mobile armor had seven), they only operate in series so they lack the amplification effect of the Twin Drive system. The combined output of multiple GN Drive Taus is merely the sum of the outputs of the individual drives rather than the square of the combined output as in the Twin Drive System.
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