Fan Casting Mole Master in The Quantum Four

A twitchy, deeply bitter industrial chemist whose life's work and patents were stolen by the university’s geological engineering division. The primary antagonist. Petruski breaks into the ruined lab and discovers the quantum energy has stabilized the ancient fault lines deep beneath Seattle. Encased in a crude, heavy mechanical exoskeleton, he tames the blind apex predators of the deep crust and organizes the pale subterranean outcasts (the Moloids) to drag the surface world down into the dark, genuinely believing he is saving the planet's mantle from reckless human physics.