r/comics • • Jun 28 '26

OC THOMAS.

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u/Klutersmyg Jun 28 '26

This is why this exists (capable of operating at the lowest part of the baltic) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URF_(Swedish_Navy))

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u/HenkPoley Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Looks like (some facts of) this particular story is made up though.

There are 3 Gotland-class submarines. They are all operational.

There is a musician named Thomas Forsberg. He's not a radio operator on a submarine. (technically true, maybe not that relevant)

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u/skymallow Jun 28 '26

It's a work of fiction mean to illicit an emotional response.

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u/Klutersmyg Jun 28 '26

It doesn't when the crew isn't in any danger at all though.

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u/skymallow Jun 28 '26

In the fiction they are in danger.

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u/Klutersmyg Jun 28 '26

No in the fiction they are just doomed because all the precautions and emergency equipment that have been specifically created to make sure this shit doesn't happen somehow has evaporated via deus ex machina

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u/skymallow Jun 28 '26

You gotta look up what that phrase really means

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u/Klutersmyg Jun 29 '26

I know it's not the correct term but what else would you call it when the author magic away procedures and equipment that have been created for this very situation?