> On Mar 8, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 12:58:39PM +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:
>> Yes, this is supposedly surviving the Maghiz.  On Spume, Jump-1 from
>> Darrian.
>
> I'd not worry about any sort of physical plausibility.  The Maghiz EMP
> crossing interstellar space to eventually damage equipment on all the
> colony worlds parsecs away is way more implausible than anything
> you'll ever write.  Whatever it was, it was not an electromagnetic
> pulse.  Those are subject to inverse-square law.  So just make your
> rock something that protects against that particle-of-the-week and
> you're fine.

Or they propagated an EMP through jumpspace. An expanding wave that precipitated out in stellar gravity wells as it went.

What do YOU think caused the Carrington Event?

:-)

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