So we might have broken the game. I ran next to a dying scuttlebot and it generated an infinite explosion which killed me and a couple other people. It was still possible to rev but it inflicted a continuous stream of damage through shield to anything that came close to it.
Pictures:

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/471/spiral20110528011745.jpg
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6505/spiral20110528012409.jpg

Eventually we left it alone since the gms were asleep and nobody else had a tricorder.