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"A portable form of Gate's space shield could take some of it, but it has to have somewhere to shunt energy to or it'll overload," says Zero. "As long as it can get rid of what hits it, it's fine. But without that, there's only so much it can take. Between the fall, and being at the center of an explosion powerful enough to destroy a space station, any portable version would fry."

"I ran it past Gate, without mentioning just why, but he hasn't gotten back to me on that yet."

"And, hell, when Weil starts to explode, is there even going to be time to put a shield up?"