35ED003 Era Digest Dark AgeGRAY MONDAY. 1 August 3132. On that day, eighty percent of the hyperpulse generators throughout the Inner Sphere fell silent and humanitys communications link across the stars was severed. While many looked to the Republic of the Sphere for guidance through the darkness, others used the crisis to advance their own agendas and political ideologies. As a new era began, old hatreds and rivalries, long suppressed in the optimism of Stones Peace,