Sharks' Lair

The **Sharks' Lair** was a location in Mon Cala's Valley of the Giant Oysters. Various sharks appeared to reside in a sunken Quarren submarine surrounded by various naval mines left over from the Quarren War in 42 BBY.

## Characteristics

### Minefield

An area full of mines, anything that swam around the mines had to be careful when swimming across the minefield. Pieces of wreckage left over from the Quarren War were littered near the mines.

### Sunken submarine

An area inhabited by sharks. The lair itself was a sunken Quarren submarine from the Quarren War in 42 BBY and a place where sharks lurked around this area. The texts seen on parts of the sub were written in Quarrenese. On the other side of the sub was a torpedo, which was not launched after the submarine was sunk.

## History

During the Quarren War in 42 BBY between the Mon Calamari and Quarren, a Quarren submarine was destroyed and sunk in the Valley of the Giant Oysters within a minefield that was laid during the conflict. At some point after the conflict ended, the area became the territory of dangerous sharks that made the hulk of the sunken submarine their lair. Most creatures, such as Whaladons, generally avoided swimming in this area due to the danger posed by the mines.

In 5 ABY, aboard the Trident-class assault ship *Trident*, Boba Fett and Indiana Jones were searching for the long-lost Glove of Darth Vader on Mon Cala, entering the minefield and passing by the submarine. When they came upon the wreckage appearing to have come from the Death Star II, they used the *Trident* to create a whirlpool that sucked up a portion of the debris in order to find the glove. To their success, Vader's glove was there, with Jones going out in a diving suit to get the artifact which had floated up from the seafloor due to the whirlpool. Afterwards, however, they were immediately attacked by two sharks. Fett and Jones used the laser cannons of the *Trident* to injure one of the sharks and then wrapped the ship's tentacles around the fish's body, throwing it against a large rock and onto the seafloor with such hard force that the shark was killed from the impact. Jones and Fett piloted the *Trident* away with the second shark in pursuit.

   Fett had an idea to create a whirlpool to eject a portion of debris from the seafloor to create a distraction in order to shake off the shark, and as they neared the minefield and sunken submarine, Jones pressed a button that caused the *Trident* to generate a whirlpool over a pile of twisted wreckage on the seabed. They then watched as the shark, who was distracted by this, followed the ejected debris floating into the mines near the wreck of the submarine and rammed itself repeatedly on one of the vehicle's torpedo bays in an attempt to consume a piece of wreckage that had drifted inside, inadvertently releasing an unexploded torpedo into its mouth in the process. The shark was able to yank the torpedo out of its mouth, sending the torpedo flying out and hitting a mine. The resulting explosion destroyed most of the mines and caused the wreck of the submarine to slide into the abyss only to be stopped by a nearby wall. Fett and Jones were able to escape the scene in the *Trident* as the explosion occurred.

## Appearances

* Raiders of the Lost Darth (First appearance)