Prelate Use of Location

	But as the tremendous plasma torpedo neared Spear of Light, something strange began to happen. While the ship hadn’t deviated from its path, the torpedo’s fields sparked and flared as if lit by an invisible flame. Plasma vented quickly through widening weak spots in the torpedo’s fields, and it veered off course—only by a few degrees, but enough so that it only grazed the cruiser’s portside plating instead of slamming into its engine cluster.
	“Minimal damage to target!” the weapons officer said.
	The Blademaster pounded a fist on the holo-tank railing. “Impossible! How could we have missed?!”
	“The storm . . .” Rtas said, as another puzzle piece snapped into place. He now pictured the red dwarf’s maelstrom hitting Duraan’s light side, churning against the planet’s magnetic field and then spilling around its dark side in violent, unpredictable vortices of highly charged particles. These whorls of radiation had torn away the torpedo’s fields just as they were slowly reducing Shadow of Intent’s shields—just as they had already disabled the shields around Spear of Light.

-Halo: Fractures, pg. 176 (Halo: Shadow of Intent)