***…all channels overload…shutting down main effectors…massive EMP pulse…could be a coronal mass ejection event…***
Winger noticed his helmet face shield had shifted to maximum dark and his rad shielding had gone active. The hypersuit’s bot screen had erupted and formed a radiation barrier around him, a bubble of interlinked bots that tried to fight off the particles streaming down from the sky. He chanced a brief glimpse skyward and saw that, as the brilliance began to fade, a massive starburst had formed in the heavens…a supernova and nearby too, flooding space with violent energetic particles in all directions.
But this was supposed to be a sim. How had a sim made his rad shield go active?
“Okay, Doc…what the hell’s happening around here?”