The Akula

The Water Quadrant’s “castle”: the Akula, a colossal 20,000-Leagues submarine docked against an underwater entrance to the tomb, crewed by robots and captained by the reanimated head of the bugbear Shamus Chaindrive in a spider-legged jar. Chris Andrews 2 and two others break in, smash the bugbear’s jar, and take the bridge, but the sub fires a torpedo into the mountain on capture, draining the ocean and flooding the Necropolis from below. The three escape hatches are missile tubes, one to each other quadrant; Chris is launched into the Air Quadrant.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 9 — Chris liberates the Water Quadrant aboard it; the world rumbles as the bubble drains.
• Chapter 14 — Chris recounts smashing the bugbear’s jar and being fired out a missile tube into the Air Quadrant.
• Chapter 25 — Carl, Katia, Tran and Vadim dive 500 m to it; its torpedo tubes are pumping the ocean into the necropolis. They drain the airlocks toward the bridge.
• Chapter 26 — Dragged to the 1,500 m sea floor and snapped in half by Lusca after Quetzalcoatlus kills the boarding changelings.

Related entries

• Chris Andrews 2 (Character)
• Ruckus (Creature)
• The Gate of the Feral Gods (Item)
• The Fifth Floor ("The Bubbles") (Place)

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