Akula
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 9 (9)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 23The group must reach the submarine Akula and turn off its pump to fully drain the necropolis.
- Ch 25The Akula is a carrier-sized submarine lodged nose-first in the necropolis base; its torpedo tubes pump ocean water into the structure.
- Ch 25Each of the Akula's three escape tubes above the bridge can be used only once; two have already been used.
- Ch 26A male Octo-Shark drags the Akula down to the 1,500-meter ocean floor, where Lusca bites the sub in half.
Connections
- related toChris Andrews 2took the throne room on its bridge
- inWater Quadrant
- related toNecropolis of Anserlodged in its base, pumping water in
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 25Chum bombs and the dive
From the flying house, Donut detonates chum bombs to distract the concierge sharks, then Katia becomes a diving bell and drops Carl, Tran and Vadim onto the Akula's hull.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Into the drowned Akula
Carl, Tran and Vadim swim through the flooded Akula, drain an airlock, and loot the neighborhood map from the sentinel gun boss's hidden control box.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Quetzalcoatlus attacks
The ghost of Quetzalcoatlus screams through the bulkhead, nearly killing Vadim, while a gigantic creature approaches the sub and reaches for it as Katia flees.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Henrik's body found
As the Akula is dragged to the sea floor, Carl reaches the bridge and loots Henrik's corpse, briefly triggering a Syndicate court lock over the gate items.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Lusca boss battle begins
Lusca swallows the Akula in a live-commentated special event; Carl orders the depth charges dropped and everyone topside to saferooms as a ten-minute timer starts.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Bloodlust bomb in the Akula
Trapped as Lusca's babies flood the bridge, Carl seals himself, Katia and Tran in the stateroom and detonates a bloodlust-potion bomb that makes the juveniles devour each other.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Vadim's death
Vadim fires the last escape pod through the dead shark and the jellyfish layer, then dies when pain amplifiers get inside.