SUPERNOVA ERA, HOUR 6 Although a large number of red points remained on the map, the report from Digital Domain announced that the country as a whole was no longer in danger. At the start of the Supernova Era, human society underwent shocks and changes more drastic than any in history; periods were reckoned not in the decades or centuries of the previous era, but in days or even hours. To later historians, the first six hours of the new era were treated as a single period, known as the Suspension.