Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The Royal Chariot

A Tracked All-Terrain Suicide Machine: a snowmobile track, two rubber wheels, a silent train-cart engine and a swivelling seat with a four-tube missile launcher, built in two hours from an interdiction cart's parts and Katia's downloaded engine knowledge, named by Donut before it existed. It comes apart into two halves for inventory; its back seat was, once, Katia.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 4 — The Royal Chariot; Ifechi
• Chapter 6 — City hall
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
• Chapter 33 — Phase three

Progression

Built and named (ch. 4); a missile tube beside the seat, a telescope clamped to the chair, a boss killed on the move (ch. 9); its back seat removed to be Katia (ch. 11); across the Lacuna back to bubble 543, 'in less than an hour' (ch. 33).