go dark
verb1
Government, Military, Politics, War Often To cease operation or shut down, often for purposes of concealment.
2
Government, Military, Politics, War Often To cease communications.
- “But this third cell,” Butler said, “they went dark. No one had heard from them in months. That is, until the bombs started going off last week.”2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204:
- More systems have gone dark as their comm buoys were destroyed, and millions more batarians, trapped on their planets, sit waiting for the Reapers.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry: