Plasma storm

That's no purple star in the distance. It's a plasma storm!

Aplasma stormoccurs when a star unleashes a large amount of plasma. Plasma storms wreak havoc on machinery, includingTransformersandspaceships.As a general rule, one does not want to be anywhere near the vicinity of a plasma storm.

Fiction

Primecartoon

Optimus PrimeandWheeljackwere on a mission to retrieve theAllSparkfromTheta Scorpiiwhen a plasma storm occurred. In order to avoid damage to Ultra Magnus's ship, Optimus decided to venture out into open space and bring back the AllSpark himself. Although he made it back to the ship just in time, an asteroid thrown about by the chaos hit the ship, and damaged its communication systems.Predacons Rising