About Akbulkabi
Akbulkabi is galaxy 148 of 256 in No Man's Sky, a normal galaxy. The standard odds. The game calls them Imperfect, Improved, Parallel or Rebuilt galaxies, under a cyan hologram. Most of the 256 are normal.
Travellers arrive here from the centre of Drewweste. From the centre of Akbulkabi, the road goes on to Homskiw.
This atlas holds 352 charted regions and 7 star systems of Akbulkabi, each with its portal address.
A white spring
Akbulkabi begins like the place names of the steppe. In the Turkic languages, ak is white and bulak a spring: Akbulak (Акбулак), the white spring, is a real town of Russia (Россия) near the Kazakh border. Ak alone comes back across Central Asia, in Aktau (Ақтау), the white mountain, or Akmola (Ақмола), the old name of Astana (Астана).
A white spring at the start: fresh water for the road.
Image: Carte marine de la Mer Caspiene, Guillaume de L'Isle, Philippe Buache, 1745, Public domain.