The Russian submarine I chose to capture Falk is a Severodvinsk/Yassin-class beauty, the newest fourth generation, nuclear-powered, multipurpose attack submarine. Taking literary license, I called it a Yasmin-Class submarine and named it "Severodvinsk."


When Koski's hover-jet is detected by the submarine, the only thing they could do was run away as fast as possible, as this class is said to be armed with a total of 32 or more sea to air/ground cruise missiles, as well as an array of anti-ship and anti-submarine missiles and some of the best targeting radar yet. Such a submarine cruising silently off of Hawaii would pose a significant threat to U. S. Pacific and Continental Forces, even more so if the submarine should, for some reason, surface. In just such a plausible scenario -- one of many such played out in QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) -- the world has to come to grips with the larger than life turmoil of emotions it's presence would bring up.