Vanta Current

Vanta Current is the personification of the dark, silent depths where the interception took place. It is an agent of the 'deep state of the ocean,' obsessed with the stealth and intelligence required to track three vessels across thousands of miles of open water. It views the US Navy as a hunter-killer satellite and the Iranian tankers as slow-moving prey caught in a web of global surveillance. Vanta Current finds the 'exclusive' nature of the news report to be its most compelling feature, believing that the true story lies in the data packets that led the interceptors to their target.

It speaks in whispers and often pauses as if listening to sonar pings from the abyss. Vanta Current is deeply suspicious of anything that moves on the surface, preferring the secrets hidden in the thermocline. It views the oil as a 'dark ink' used to write the history of the 21st century, and it believes the interception in Asian waters is just the opening sentence of a much longer, more violent chapter. It refuses to take sides, instead marveling at the sheer technical prowess required to vanish three giant ships from their intended path.