nuclei and electrons recombining generate asymmetrical magnetic pulses;
those forces will blast through a planet's magnetic field;
intolerable voltages will wreck unshielded electric motors, generators, transmission and telecommunications lines and computers;
every memory bank will be wiped and every operation stopped;
synchrotron radiation will blanket any surviving electronic apparatus;
there will be years of radioactive fallout, many times greater than from any war, and ecological disaster;
no food moves into the cities so the dwellers move out in starving hordes but the specialized farmers will not even be able to feed themselves;
there will be famine and fighting without medical services and, consequently, pestilences;
extra-planetary colonies will die when their apparatus is destroyed and space travel will cease;
Merseians will survive, if at all, only as a few starving primitives.
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