[@Crimmy]: The Scaglietti drone was just physical damage. Which, for how bad the injury was, she bounced back from remarkably quickly. The only time her Linker Core had anything done to it was during the Book of Darkness incident, where it regenerated relatively quickly and was perfectly fine. I mean, Nanoha's completely ridiculous power-wise in StrikerS so I'm pretty sure she's okay in that regard.

... Buuuut this isn't really relevant to the point was I making. ^^;

Attacks can be perfectly nonlethal, but when things go wrong it's less predictable.