KH Super Platform

A named U.S. orbital surveillance platform — the KH Super Platform — presented as a large, reroutable intelligence asset with long-range sensor capability and multi-spectral collection arrays. In the Situation Room it registers not as a tactile prop but as a live, taskable node on briefing consoles: staff reference it, operators prepare to redirect it, and the President orders it diverted, treating it as the administration's immediate window onto unfolding troop movements.

2 appearances

Purpose

Provide wide-area, high-altitude surveillance and intelligence collection; to be tasked or diverted in real time to monitor military activity and produce actionable imagery and signals for national decision-makers.

Significance

Functions as the crisis-management lever that converts an intelligence failure into an actionable response: diverting the KH Super Platform becomes the administration's first technical move to observe the invasion, inform military and diplomatic choices, and attempt to avert regional or nuclear escalation.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E11 · Lord John Marbury

Midnight Briefing — 300,000 in Kashmir

The KH Super Platform is explicitly tasked to a stationary orbit over the Northern subcontinent as an immediate intelligence response—named as the high-end asset the CIA will use to fill the surveillance gap and supply imagery for follow-up decisions.

Before: Available and reroutable in orbit (not yet focused on the crisis area).

After: Tasked and scheduled to reach station over the Northern subcontinent within the provided ETA (six hours), mobilized as the administration's primary sensor asset.

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S1E11 · Lord John Marbury

Missed Warning — Bartlet Confronts Intelligence and Activates Crisis Task Force

Referenced by the CIA Director as the taskable orbital asset now being diverted to hold stationary over the Northern subcontinent; narratively it represents the administration's immediate technical remedy to an intelligence failure.

Before: Routinely assigned to global surveillance duties, not focused on Kashmir when the invasion began.

After: Tasked and being diverted into stationary orbit over the Northern subcontinent to provide sustained, high-resolution surveillance.

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