Star Citizen: Loremaker's Guide to the Galaxy - Nexus System

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   [Music] go hi everyone my name is Adam Weezer and I will be the host of this week's L makers Guide to the Galaxy uh for those who haven't seen this before it's uh a segment where uh the various L makers on Star citizens sit down walk you through a particular system give you a little bit of the history a little bit of the science data behind why it is the way it is so uh this week we're going to be talking about a pretty interesting

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   system because it is technically a UE system but for those who live there both on on both sides of the law um there's pretty strong agreement that the uee doesn't have full control of it so this week we are going to go and check out the Nexus system so to do that we're just going to hit uh forward slash here on the star map so you can bring up the search bar and we're going to put in Nexus there there we go and here we will travel from soul to the Nexus system so we're going to do a broad overview to start this is a uh five Planet system that has an asteroid belt here between Nexus 3 and Nexus 4 um at the center of this system is a uh wow that's a very very close in Zoom we got

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   here uh this is a typ a main sequence star that is bluish white in color uh and just you know it's about 1.8 times larger in solar mass than the Sun at the center of our own system um but to really kind of you know just kind of set the table for what Nexus is I want to start by talking about Nexus 2 now Nexus 2 right here this is a terrestrial smog Planet so it's got this very thick and soupy atmosphere which uh kind of gives off this really interesting glow um I don't think the the skin color on this is going to be the actual color in the game but uh we'll see about that um but the this atmosphere is going to Glow a little bit because of something up uh that's a part of it called aerosols and aerosols are basically you know solids

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   and liquids particles that are in a gas or in the the case of Nexus 2 in the upper atmosphere of this planet now you're familiar with aerosols because you know when they get big enough they draw your attention to them think of a a hazy smoggy day think of that red Hue you see on the horizon during sunrises and sun sets those are all because Aerosoles are absorbing and and scattering light because they've gotten big enough um while up there in the atmosphere now why this makes sense for the Nexus system is because prior to 2930 this entire system was basically even though UE in name was basically a pirate free-for-all and it wasn't until Keller's run in 2930 that the uee actually saw saw the how big of a pirate problem was in the

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   system and what needed to be done to kind of like put a stop to that now uh Dean Keller was a lifelong criminal he was an assassin for various pirate Crews he was a very very skilled pilot and on May 20th of 2930 he shot an undercover uee agent in a cathart bar what uh proceeded from there was a five system run he went on with the uee advocacy in Pursuit suit uh which kind of culminated here in the Nexus system now what really shocked the uee advocacy was that they came into this uee system hoping that they could finally Corner him only to see the pirate uh Clans there not back down from their presence but actually kind of come at them um while they were there and that was shocking for them the

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   advocacy wasn't even the group that finally ended color's run it was a civilian by the name of Anna Flynn who uh finally you know did the last shot that that took him down after seeing the spectacle on the Spectrum she joined the uh the hunt to to end Keller's run and wound up with the the the big Bounty she got for for making the most famous probably catch in Bounty history uh so um once again that happened in 2930 it's right now 2946 in the uee and by all accounts even by the ue's own account this system is still not fully within their control it's still a very heavy pirate presence here here and part of the reason to understand why this is happening is if we go out to the the bigger view here so Nexus only has four jump points into it uh they're all all

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   access I'll turn all these on so you can see there's the medium and they're the small but still Nexus only has four and out of those four three of them as you can see are unclaimed systems with uh that probably see a lot of unlawful uh activity in them so it's very hard for the UE even to this day to control the you know uh Pirates and other uh unlawful people coming in and out of this system um as you can also see here um Nexus got its name because it does sit at the center of these uh these pirate systems and that's one of the other rumors that that kind of went around was that the uee pushing hard to reclaim the Nexus system was less about Ker's run and it was more about the the strength of Cathcart and the strength of Nexus as pirate Havens

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   that they might actually start their own independent government there were Rumblings of this in the Underworld at the time and so um some believe the uee actually pushed into the NEX system to be able to break up this little uh swarm of pirate systems so they didn't have a completely uncontrolled neighborhood in the uee um that that they had nothing to do with so um of course the real question is how did this even start now Nexus was discovered a long time ago it was discovered back in by a un Navy pilot by the name of Dominic thappa now Dominic thappa actually found this system from Cathcart so let me uh back up here so you can see this again so he actually came in from Cathcart which you see is an unclaimed

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   system but in the 25th Century was actually a military classified system so the military had the system that's how they found this jump to go to Nexus but they also had an issue um if this was a military classified system how do you get civilians how do you get citizens into Nexus without going through this part of space that you don't want them to go through so for the first 20 plus years of the UN of the nexus's um uh being known to humanity um this was known simply as the military designation which is UDS 2445 309 just the discovery date UDS um and the military came on in and they decided okay well if we don't want to let any want get here let's see what we can do with it so what they did with it is they set up their operation the main

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    operation here on Nexus 3 which is a naturally habitable planet so the perfect place to set up their operations um we come out here they also started to terraform Lago because Lago is a uh has a ton of minerals and resources on it so they began the terraforming process there and then let's go back to Nexus 2 the place we started um that I thought was so interesting this like I said is a smog Planet so it's got a very thick supy atmosphere uh that atmosphere is actually made out of nitrogen it's a majority nitrogen atmosphere which is not all that common um in our solar system earth has an a majority nitrogen atmosphere and the only other one that's like that is uh Titan the the moon of one of the moons of Saturn so um this being the 25th Century this being Humanity first

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    starting to real strike out into the universe they figured well let's see if we possibly terraform this smog planet to make it human habitable and they dropped a lot a lot of money into doing this unfortunately none nothing they did stuck what they did do is they did rack up big budget deficits terraforming this planet terraforming logo having this entire system that uh Unfortunately they weren't quite really getting any resources out of yet so with the um the Universalist L government at the time in the UE realizing that they were in some some serious budgetary constraints they had kind of a brilliant idea once again we can't just let anyone and everyone pass through Cathcart C pass through this classified system to come visit Nexus so they decided to sell the entire system to one company now some of you

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    this may sound familiar because this was actually a strategy the UE government would use a few hundred years later in the Stanton system instead of selling the entirety of the Stanton system there they sold each specific planet to a corporation as a way to to raise funds for the government so uh this is where it all started in Nexus and so in uh 2468 the hather group bought Nexus from the UN and basically moved in and brought in their own contractors to start the mining process now like much like the UN they set up the main operations here on Nexus 3 uh and they started to work the LCRA asteroid belt here which is just chalk full of uh of resources they also I'm going to swing this around uh started to uh really uh strip mine logo because remember this

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    was a company that had spent a lot of money on this entire system they weren't worried about building up civilian infrastructure anything like that they just wanted the most efficient way in which to extract these ores and these minerals from this planet and that was literally just strip mining them away so over the next like 200 years this this system wasn't really known as Nexus it was known as hather because of the um because of the company that owned it um at that time also um a few things happened which seemed to affect the fate of Nexus we're going to go back out to the wide view here first the cathart system which was military classified the uee walked away from they decided they didn't need it anymore that it wasn't going to be of any benefit to them so they left and a pirate presence a very unlawful strong and lawful presence

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    started to move in and turn Cathcart into the system we know it as today uh within that 200-year period also these three other jumps were discovered into Nexus which meant now now there were new routes or new ways for people or Pirates to get into this system so um for those 200 years while hather ruled this there were really only two businesses that were uh functional in this system the hather mining group and criminality people coming in to to to drink and gamble with the with the with the miners that were that were working in this system eventually in in uh 2672 the hather group looked at their books and they realized they'd ripped out most of the resources on Logo they'd kind of depleted the LC re belt and the money they were spent protecting

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    shipments in and out of the system finally exceeded any of the profits they were making here so the hather group just left they they were done with it they had gotten what they needed out of it and they turned it over completely to the Pirates so at that point um in the late 27th century into the 28th century is when the pirate presence in Nexus really grew that's where it got the name Nexus for being a Nexus of uh of jump points connecting pirate systems um that brings us up to 2930 that that presence only grew until Keller's run in 2930 where the UE finally decided to push back in and try to reestablish their Authority in the system so now that you kind of have an understanding to the the complicated and tumultous history of the system let's let's get back into a little more details on what's actually

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    here so uh Nexus one is a rocky protoplanet that you can see is extremely close to the um well it's close to the the star again these uh these aren't quite to St scale but you can tell by by the distance that it's it's been charred thoroughly uh hather group did do their due diligence and they checked and they made sure that there were no resources of anything worthwhile on this planet uh to mine uh Nexus two we talked about that's your uh terrestrial smog planet um once again right now there's there's nothing to to really do there you can't live there Nexus 3 as I mentioned before was naturally habitable so it became the main base for basically every group that kind of had control over the nexus system it's where the UN first established their operations it's where

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    the hather group um Central kind of like mining command was all based here and after they left it is where the Pirates immediately moved in to kind of like uh you know some of the main pirate groups were based here to so in 2930 when the u e decided to retake this system this planet Nexus 3 is where they primarily focused to start um so once they push the Pirates off this planet this uh they basically turn this into Central Command for the system um and it still is that to this day it is a military classified Planet so when you visit Nexus system unless you have the proper clearance codes please do not go anywhere near this planet because they will not take conly to it um next uh the next thing in the system to really talk about is you'll see rimmed here is the LCRA

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    asteroid belt again it was filled with uh minerals and ores which the hather group uh mined away but recent advances in um scanning technology have revealed that there are are pockets of really valuable uh really valuable minerals and ores here that hadn't been discovered before so um it's another one of the conspiracy theories out there about the Nexus system is the UE wanted to push back in not because of the pirate presence but to ensure that they had access to these valuable minerals and ores here in the LC belt um this uh belt was also the location for probably the most famous moment in Keller's run um after spending hours kind of like dodging in you know uh around asteroids and and kind of like killing pursuers uh uh Dean Keller had to make an emergency

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    landing inside an asteroid to do some repairs on his ship now when he did this a bunch of bounty hunters surrounded that asteroid and kind of covered every exit out um and began to negotiate his surrender with them now while he was negotiating with them he also was eving out of the asteroid and sneaking up on one of the Bounty Hunter ships he got inside he threw the Bony Hunter out of the airlock and then took his ship turned it on the other bony hunters and continued on his way so that very exciting event happened right here in the LCRA asteroid belt um so we're going to step back and go to Nexus 4 which is known by Lago now logo is a name which came from a uh it came from a 26th Century vid about a pirate Paradise so

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    again this came um this came later on at the ha gr play left this became known as logo based on that 26th Century vid that's how it earned this name and the UE just hasn't been able to shake it the real battle for the Nexus system is centered right here on Lago for for one main reason and that's because the hather group strip mine the surface which means there are the Pirates are really really embedded there are a lot of encampments embedded into the Planet Side here it was a lot easier to clean out uh Nexus 3 Logo has been a lot lot more difficult so as the uee has made small strides in kind of pushing the Pirates off this planet they are trying to figure out ways to hold hold that land and maybe start to make it habitable for respectable uee citizens and civilians um they decided to do this

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    by offering sweetheart land deals to uh people in the military because again Nexus 3 has a big military contingent so they've offered family members an extended family of the military uh deals to come in and live here so you can go you can visit logo 3 the the encampments there are still pretty small they they do have what you need they they do have cassaba Outlets they'll have they'll have bars they'll have advocacy ages they'll they'll have all those things they're still just going to be heavily fortified because pirate attacks still do happen pretty frequently in uh on this planet um also if you're an entrepreneurial uh uh hauler that's looking to maybe make a little bit extra on some basic Goods this might be a good place to take it that is if you're willing to accept the risk of even

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    venturing into the Nexus system in the first place uh and finally the last uh the last planet here in the system is a g giant called the red God now I I warn you this is not to scale this is this is way too small for for what it should be um but you get the idea I'll zoom in a little bit um so again this is just a a gas giant on the uh you know past the the green band here in the Nexus system it's got a a reddish Hue a reddish color to the atmosphere which is how it earned the the the nickname the red God by a It is believed a a cryptic group of pirates based on Logo by the name of the sang gestas actually worship this planet and called it their red God and uh their their worship of this this planet and their affiliation to it is what kind of earned it this name which is stuck to

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    this day so uh that's it for the Nexus system you've got again five planets star at the center this one asteroid belt and uh an ongoing battle between uh Pirates and the uee for for anyone out there that's interested in uh in this game this could be a pretty fun place to go and uh uh explore and see what kind of trouble you can get into or how you can help so thanks again my name's Adam Weezer and this has been another episode of Flor makers Guide to the [Applause] Galaxy