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Prologue




November 28, 1970, 20:35 local

Naval Headquarters, Research Center

Hanoi, North Vietnam

Lu Pham rolled back from his workbench and set his slide rule down and swiveled his stool around.
Placing his elbow on the desk and his hand under his chin, he sat reflecting.

“So”, he thought, “it can be done! … the secret is simply maintaining the wave form that keeps the cavity
stable once that cavity has been achieved”.

Lu had been working on this problem for over a year, spending uncounted off-duty hours creating the
mathematical models, which would prove or disprove his theories. In his capacity as a naval research
officer, Lu was working to reduce the noise signature of North Vietnam’s coastal craft by studying the
cavitation the propellers created and finding ways to reduce it.

He was being funded in the endeavor through Soviet monies, the USSR having earlier become aware of
Lu’s remarkable mathematical abilities. In the process, Lu had become obsessed by the cavitation itself.
In the environment of his official research, cavitation was a bad, dangerous thing. Cavitation of that sort
meant sound, sound that the detection devices of the imperialist U.S. Navy could detect and use to either
destroy the craft of his nation, or to avoid them.

But the cavitation that Lu had succeeded in predicting was a far different matter. Such stable cavitation
could only be created at extremely high speeds, and only by a proper, sleek body moving at those
speeds…towards the ships of the U.S. 7thfleet. Lu only had to document these findings and present them
to his superiors. He was sure they would jump at any chance to deliver a decisive blow to their
enemies…to his enemies.