Although I've got a theory that it is indirectly responsible -- I think this phenomenon may have been what temporarily drained the shield. I think we collided with this thing, maybe a sort of wormhole, and it got caught in some interaction with our shields that slowed it down and brought it to rest on the surface while doing the fatal damage to the shields.

[irked] That's the problem. How long do we have to go on with this farce of reporting to a mayor whose mind is half gone?!

[talking fast with urgency] I think it may be a bomb! Anton, call everybody and tell them to get off this level, I'm going to try to disarm it...