What you don't know would surprise you.
He points out that whatever force is responsible for novas, it can't be radiation, which doesn't work that way outside comic books. (What he doesn't know is that telluric energy works very much that way, of course.) He speculates that it was some hitherto unknown type of bioweapon (similar to the wild card virus, perhaps?).
1999
[Aberrant] Bill Masters, of the CIA's directorate of science and technology, sends a memo to the DCI, disputing the popular belief in the relation of the Galatea incident to nova eruption.
He points out that whatever force is responsible for novas, it can't be radiation, which doesn't work that way outside comic books. (What he doesn't know is that telluric energy works very much that way, of course.) He speculates that it was some hitherto unknown type of bioweapon (similar to the wild card virus, perhaps?).