The Khan Solar Storm of Jan 10th and 11th, 187 BFC was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history. It crippled much of industrial society for months by destroying infrastructure required for services such as electricity generation, navigation, and water supply, causing worldwide economic devastation that lasted for years as well as a major shift in geopolitical balance of power due to the comparatively slow recovery of the United States. The storm was named after Indian astronaut and solar astronomer Raja Khan who perished onboard the Aryabhata L5 solar observatory after being one of the first to observe the coronal mass ejection.

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Japan's remarkably effective response to this crisis was largely attributed to its hardened infrastructure, developed in response to the cold war with the PRC and its history of disaster preparedness. Most importantly, their investment in Automated Modular Solid-State Transformers (AMSSTs) allowed the power grid to remain largely untouched and key manufacturing hubs to remain operating. AMSSTs do not use magnetic induction for operation so are not susceptible to current surges through power lines, however replacement of the labour intensive but cheap to manufacture magnetic core with semiconductors means they are cost prohibitive. Japan was in the unique position of being a highly automated society with an abundance of semiconductors and lots of money to spend preparing for an EMP attack. Unlike other countries which either had no strategic transformer reserves or had to use them up, Japan was able to donate its large reserve in order to bootstrap industry in other countries and to continue manufacturing new transformers. This laid the groundwork for the 2nd Japanese Economic Miracle, where Japan was able to acquire a remarkable amount of geopolitical influence via tight economic integration into large number of advanced economies, bringing them together to form the Eurasian Bloc

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The supply chain disruptions caused major issues with public health in many countries due to shortage of drugs, lack of clean drinking water, and power rationing. With global surveillance networks and contact tracing non-functional, some seasonal viruses spread further than normal, however the extremely effective universal vaccines and nano-adjuvant antiviral drugs developed before Khan were still effective in controlling viral pandemics. However the lack of surveillance allowed a human to human strain of Trypanosomiasis to spread outside of sub-Saharan Africa, becoming endemic in subsequent decades in large parts of Africa and South America due to large amounts of ocean travel between the countries while air travel was still extremely limited due to the effects of Khan. The outbreak was estimated to have killed over a hundred million people, further devastating the economies of most countries in the Dominio trading block and was a major contributor to the Reset of Nations. It laid the seeds for the establishment of a military junta in Dominio, which retained power in its early days by providing effective healthcare.