go dark

English

Verb

go dark (third-person singular simple present goes dark, present participle going dark, simple past went dark, past participle gone dark) (often military)

1. To cease operations, to close.
2. To cease communications.
   • 2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204:

     “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.”

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry:

     More systems have gone dark as their comm buoys were destroyed, and millions more batarians, trapped on their planets, sit waiting for the Reapers.