- 33 hours long. The largest solar storm in the space age. Concludes at 3am GMT on January 1st of a new century.
- Very badly affected.
- Orbital platforms decimated.
- Floating platforms are protected by Venus' very thick atmosphere. They are fine but suffer when supply infrastructure breaks down.
- Orbital platforms severely affected. Lots of satellites burned out immediately. Orbital habitats evacuated where possible. Large loss of life.
- Earth’s surface is protected by Earth's thick atmosphere. People who can see the sky are treated to the brightest auroras in centuries, some even visible at sunrise/set. Satellite destruction majorly disrupts global communication and coordination. This leads to some moderate knock-on problems, loss of power, shortages of some goods but not others. Maybe some civil disturbances.
- Orbital platforms severely affected. Lots of satellites burned out immediately. Orbital habitats evacuated where possible.
- Day-side surface settlements experience damage to electronics and moderate-severe particle bombardment.
- Night-side (not far side) surface settlements and subterranean (sublunarean?) are shielded and unaffected. They take in refugees from orbit and sun-side. With interplanetary supply lines disrupted, residents and refugees hunker down and wait for things to go back to normal.
- Orbital platforms moderately effected. Global loss of communication from satellite damage. What few orbital habitats are there end up evacuating to surface.
- Mar's relatively thin atmosphere and complete lack of magnetosphere leaves its surface open to bombardment. Domes and infrastructure end up with electrical damage, communication lines cut. But anyone under a dome is protected.
- Ceres' old an ill-kept systems hit particularly hard. 8VAC systems taken offline for extended period. Many people flee. Once things are stabilized, the loss of life is severe. Ceres station limps onward but may never regain its former glory.
- Arcturus Station has all systems taken off line for nearly 48 hours. Even when emergency power is restored, the threat looms. Sends out a general distress call, which is answered en-masse by nearby Peregrination and outer ships. A massive emergency repair effort is enacted that saves the station.
- Any other belt station:
- If it's built _into_ a rock, it’s fine. If it’s a can in space, it may have problems at your discretion.
- As settlements near Jupiter need to be shielded against it's large radiation belts and magnetosphere already, there is little direct damage. However, the solar radiation disrupts communications for the entire 33 hour period and after it takes a long time for distance comms to be restored.
- Far enough out that the direct danger is minimal. See Jovian system.
- Anyone outside the orbit of Saturn is unlikely to experience any direct problems, but will see solar system wide comms go down and take a long time to be restored.