Sobrukai

Fictional enemy of the EDA in the Chaos Terrain games Armada and Terra Firma. They act as stand-ins for the Europans.

In the videogame, the sobrukais are an hostile race of sapient cephalopods from Tau Seti V. altought only it's "supreme leader" is depicted in the game. This design is based on the scientific speculations of what kind of intelligent life could theoretically inhabit the occean under Europa's icy surface but among the veteran members of the EDA there is a rumor that the design is actually based on the alien corpses retrieved from a manned scout ship that was knocked down by the military in the 80's (this rumor appear to be disproved at the end of the novel). The famous special effects company Weta Workshop created the design of the aliens.

The name "sobrukai" came from the french word "sobriquet" that means "nickname".