Object

North Korean Luna Class Destroyer

Sleek steel predator slices through tense East Asian swells, sonar arrays probing depths for submarine prey. Luna-class hull bristles with anti-submarine torpedoes and depth charges, a silent hunter that the USS Portland outmaneuvers by plunging deep into hushed oblivion. Radio crackle delivers evasion news to rapt Situation Room faces—Albie's warnings dissolve, Bartlet's jaw sets in vindicated steel—as officers relay the threat's retreat into irrelevance.

2 appearances

Purpose

Hunt and destroy enemy submarines through sonar detection, depth charges, and torpedoes, enforcing North Korean naval dominance in contested waters.

Significance

Looms as the razor-edge peril that Bartlet defies, its evasion via Portland's stealth dive shattering crisis deadlock, affirming bold command over Albie's grim histories and forging controlled triumph from brink-of-disaster tension.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S3E6 · Gone Quiet

Bartlet Overrides Albie's Dire Warnings, Orders Rescue as Portland Breaks Silence

Invoked in Portland's triumphant radio report as the evaded Luna-class destroyer via 'close-aboard contact,' its lurking threat dissolved by sub's deep-and-quiet dive, retroactively validating Bartlet's gamble and deflating Albie's dire warnings.

Before: Actively pursuing U.S.S. Portland in contested waters

After: Shaken off, retreating as irrelevant to restored ops

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S3E6 · Gone Quiet

Portland Breaks Radio Silence, Evading Destroyer

North Korean Luna-class destroyer invoked in Portland's report as evaded threat via deep-and-quiet maneuver, shifting from antagonist peril to neutralized risk, vindicating Bartlet's trust and easing war brink tension.

Before: Pursuing Portland in close-aboard contact

After: Shaken off, no longer immediate threat

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