Omega Deep

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It was 10:15 p.m. exactly when the cold, rigid plane of the submarine’s sail deck broke the icy surface of the Norwegian Sea. The rounded belly of the steel predator — a heavily modified and experimental Virginia class block VII nuclear-powered fast attack submarine — slowly rose until she was resting on the almost glassy surface. In the calm and moonless night, the sea looked like a series of fragmented shards of jet-black shale being slowly jolted together.

The darkened sail deck made a silhouette barely the length and breadth of a small whale, but even that would be visible to the prying eyes of enemy satellites. A test like this would likely draw the attention of any number of enemy and friendly nations. In fact, they had made sure of it. Not letting the enemy know one’s capabilities was as absurd as trying to maintain a nuclear deterrent without acknowledging one has nuclear weapons.

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