Yeah, well, that's about as much as anyone's ever told me about how it actually works.

[ It's accompanied by a flash of irritation, although that fades fast. It's not like she has any reason to know just how little guidance of any kind he's had to figuring out how to Nova properly. ]

There's this energy field, they call it the Nova Force. The helmets channel it, and no, I don't know anything more specific than that. There used to be a lot of Novas. Now there aren't. So I've kind of had to make it up as I go.