Gadget Toaster

The gadget toaster was a Radical Age weapon, in most accounts a mythical EMP device that every hanyo corporation believed had been developed by their enemies. The irony is, most of the 'effects' of this mythical weapon can now be ascribed to the sun's increasing ability to get through to earthbound systems, due to the collapse of earth's magnetosphere resulting from migration of the poles. The collapse of Norway's power grid, the explosions in Berlin in 110 Preflorian, 2064 OS, the loss of the Exxon Megasaur, all of these were ascribed to the gadget toaster, although no one could escribe exactly how it worked or got these devastating effects. So extreme was the hysteria around the gadget toaster that a ship full of radioactive waste was sunk off Hamburg in 102 Preflorian, 2072 OS because it caused some readings to jump and the harbour owners wrongly thought it had a gadget toaster on board.