"It was a desperate defensive countermeasure, to reduce the impact on the local, planar environment. Left unchecked and unmitigated, it might have annihilated an area covering approximate sixteen percent of the surface area of the world. Inside the shield, countermeasures were enacted, to reduce the impact to manageable levels. As they were intended to only last several days, with three hundred years to operate, the effect was reduced in effect ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine one seven percent."<br/><br/>Jashah stayed by the stasis pod, as much as she was able to. "What's the plan, then?" she asked, once it was settled into place.