Michael Layne
Subject:Re: DG: Igor's sad tale, and a Victor (long)
Sent:27 January 1999 06:34
There would probably be a combination of clues:
The KIA Naziworld commandos in China (Hong Kong?) could be found
to be genetically engineered (see GURPS Biotech for some interesting
possibilities there)...
ONI (and MI-5?) get word of a probable Russian SSN/SSGN sale and
some digging shows it wasn't to India after all, but to some folks they
find are front-men for the Russian Mafia... and then (as if that wasn't
bad enough) they find these nice folks are only getting the sub to sell
it to the Karotechia...
Other intel data indicates that the sub in question has had its
reactor refueled.
The "Los Angeles" class submarine USS "Hartford" (SSN-768),
commanded by CPT Lawrence MacInnes (an old character of mine, looks
somewhat like Scott Glenn (who played Al Shephard in "The Right
Stuff")...):) on "gatekeeper" duty off Vladivostok, detects and attempts
to trail a Victor III (or the Papa class SSGN?) "coming out of the barn"
at the Russian Navy's primary Far Eastern base. Everything goes fine
until the Russian Navy's "linebacker" SSN -- a Sierra class boat --
shows up and begins to ping the American SSN, play "chicken", etc... Mac
avoids a collision, and no shots are fired by either side, but he loses
the original contact. (Even a submariner with his Military Science and
Shiphandling (SUbmarine) levels can have a bad day...) Interestingly,
Mac wonders why a new Sierra was protecting an older boat? This sort of
treatment, scraping off the "tattletale", is usually reserved for Russian
"boomers" (ballistic missile subs) or prototypes of new classes (which
the older Russian made sub wasn't)! (This could be especially
interesting if the boat the Special K bought is K-222, the sole example
of the fast, titanium-hulled Papa class SSGN (The sonarmen probably
nicknamed it "Papa Bear"...:) which has been sitting at a pier since
1991!) Once disentangled from the furball with the Sierra, the
"Hartford" clears datum, goes to periscope depth, puts up her satcom
antenna mast (yes, the 688Is have a satellite dish -- only theirs is
retractable, much smaller than those on residences, and 2-way) and beams
the report up to a DoD satellite. (If NRO & MJ-12 somehow end up with a
copy, that's their problem...)
A DG Friendly with the NRO notes an odd energy signature on an
archived satellite scan of Grey Dragon Island -- the UT arriving from
Naziville! One of his previous cases featured an attempt to contact
other dimensions that went awry (Philadelphia Experiment III?):), and the
signature looks familiar. He gets a PGP-coded message to the DG Agent he
is in contact with....
Interestingly, this is the area where HM Submarine "Turbulent"
(S110) was lost with 129 chaps (counting the SpecOps force).... Check
of other satellite data shows a monochromatic energy burst, and evidence
of a subsea explosion... (KMN "Ultima Thule" got off one or two good
shots with the underwater laser thermal weapon before some frammis or
greebly -- overstressed by the dimensional jump -- blew out...):)
Somebody starts putting these, and other facts, together.
(Alzis, walking up to talk to an agent or Friendly in a Pentagon
corridor, or at PACFLT HQ at Pearl Harbor?) Calls and emails are made,
people begin going "Hmm..." (Sanity rolls are made?):)
The team members contact a mercenary in Hong Kong for transport
to SVB, and/or the "Hartford" receives a message from COMSUBPAC to
proceed off station and rendezvous with a helo carrying SpecOps
personnel (Delta Green agents and Friendlies) for landing on the SVB....
(Cue "Ice Station Zebra" theme... or would "Hunt for Red October" be more
appropriate?):)
("So, Mr. Scroggins, I'm to extend to you and your people every
assistance, short of endangering my boat and crew?")
("Your mission is very simple, Captain -- get me to
Tefelhaus!"):)
Michael
theherald@juno.com
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