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

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   [Music] w hello and welcome to another edition of lore makers Guide to the Galaxy uh this is where a member of the cig lore team takes you through uh the sort of science uh history character flavor whatever you want to call it uh for one of the many many systems uh that will

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   appear in the Star Citizen Squadron 42 Universe uh again i' like to thank all of our subscribers for helping us provide that little extra uh money every month to do content like this uh and let's get started I should probably introduce myself uh my name is Dave hadock I am the lead writer uh okay so uh today uh we are going to be talking about NYX uh you've probably seen it mentioned a lot in uh some of the jump points and uh and some of the ATVs behind the scenes stuff um and we'll get to why you might know it in a little bit uh but to start off we'll just start here in our wonderfully beautiful uh star map here uh we're in the Sol system so let's go

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   find n all right so byby Earth and N here we go so we'll start out a bit wider just to kind of show you where where it uh is situated so uh here you have NYX basically it's it's kind of been a nice little Confluence of of jump points here you have Odin and bramman and uh to heel and costra and Pyro and uh but n is say an unclaimed system so that means that basically for whatever reason the uee or whatever governing body decided uh in this case it was uee decided that uh it wasn't worth basically incorporating into uh the Empire properly uh sometimes that means it's you know

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   people call it Outlaw system stuff like that but you know we try to stick with unclaimed uh just because uh there are various reasons and we'll get to that in a second anyway so jumping in uh you'll notice it's a very kind of simple system uh three planets two asteroid belts and a star uh very exciting stuff so the star is a uh ftype main sequence star uh basically none of the planets here are inhabitable to get that out of the way that's part of the reason why the uee decided not to uh Indo basically incorporate it into the Empire uh it was discovered in 2582 uh by Carla Larry and uh basically the idea was that surveyors basically

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   showed up there and were took a look at thing and uh the system itself and decided that it just basically wasn't worth the money uh that it would cost but there were resources there so they were worth the money to come in and take but the system itself wasn't worth it so uh a little backstory about the name itself uh NX is uh named the Greek goddess of Darkness night uh and the idea being uh early on that there was this sort of that there was poor visibility in the system that it was basically kind of difficult to to navigate around which made it kind of Ideal for uh more nefarious types to to hide in and around uh the other reason actually is because I was a fan of Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions and I like the name uh so we'll go through the planets now and NX one is basically it's

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   a coreless of kind of Rocky terrestrial planet uh when they first took over the system basically this was sort of earmarked for a lot of potential resources and uh over the course of the centuries they've basically just you know strip mined a lot of it and uh while it means that there's basically no large scale resources that would justify a major company coming and taking in it doesn't mean that there's it's necessarily depleted uh but just uh at a certain point it's just not worth it to set up a uh a uh facility there basically so I'll give you a bit of context about the system when it was discovered uh historically so it was 2582 as I mentioned earlier before so this is uh 40 years after Ivar Messer has ascended to uh has basically established the imperor rank named

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   himself thus and established the United Empire of Earth uh so in as far as the Universe goes this is still sort of I guess what you call I mean the Messa era is known reputedly known as like one of the worst darkest eras of of human history and but this at this point it was still early on so this is between the first and the second Taren War so right now it's sort of at its best if you could call it that uh people think that honestly protecting them so the public have not been as downtrodden but he's doing that thing where he's a very smart Savvy dude so he's been basically kind of still coalescing his power and and subverting uh sort of reorganizing control to get himself more and more power uh and but again because people think that he's he's doing a good job

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   they're kind of okay with any changes and stuff like that and they're still obviously came off the very devastating tar War so um uh car Larry founds the system pops it over to the uee and basically they come and take a look and decide it's not really worth spending the money so they left it alone uh NX one was the one who obviously got got mined a lot because there was a lot to take uh and uh next two is basically it's an uninhabitable kind of smog plan I can't the actual designation of it yeah SW it there we go uh so the technology this sort of idea we were running with is like um it was sort of like Venus that like very high pressure kind of sulfuric acid type type thing so very very lethal

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   and the technology didn't quite exist to be able to terraform that so you know we we have a couple of those scattered throughout the universe that that basically seemed like they couldn't be terraformed and then later on maybe technological advances uh push terraforming technology so they were able to do it so it's possible that maybe in the future they might go something might be developed that would let them take a a second look at n two and try to uh Sor uh try to terraform it but in the meantime it's just basically uninhabitable and and very very lethal uh and so we'll just go through the planets real quick so uh NYX 3 is an ice giant basically situated all the way over here and that's pretty much it it's pretty much a nice Planet nothing really can't inhabit it uh can't really do much with it uh as of yet uh so the other and

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    probably the most important aspect of this system are these asteroid belts you have two uh there's this one between uh NYX 2 and Nyx 3 called the glaum ring uh and then you have the keer belt which is way sort of like the Border kind of encircles the entire thing so it's a very it's a much less dense uh but the the glaum ring is the one we want to kind of focus on uh because this is much more dense and uh kind of is where our main point of interest is in this system so uh again obviously asteroid mining uh is a very very big thing of of what we're trying to do so uh the idea was that there was basically this company called QV planets Planet services that discovered a planetoid size asteroid located in here and decided hey you know we're going to roll the dice and

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    apparently it was very you know the idea is that it was very difficult to get because it was so dense very difficult to get large ships in here so it was it was a tricky thing but they were undeterred and decided that they were going to try and do it anyway and set up this massive facility on a planetoid uh and basically we're in operation for a handful of years but ultimately decided that it just it it wasn't worth the cost to try and get stuff in and out of there and ships and and stuff like that so they basically uh abandoned it uh so uh after that basically the system was pretty much useless like it was there was nothing really nothing going on here so Flash Forward uh to to uh to much much later and we have basically a group of refugees uh who are who want to get

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    out of the uee so the messers have gone dark side if you to use the parli of our times and uh we're we're in sort of like the Corson Messer who is the fifth Messer uh era and so this is like the very dark sociopathic like vicious desperate type uh type ruler so there was this small group of people who basically said we're done we can't we can't in any good conscious live in this this type of of uh of government environment whatever you want to call it and so they're like we're out we're done so they were they they set off to try and find and establish their own kind of community and so sure enough they come off come across uh the Nick system and they go to uh the old facility that was formerly run by QV Planet services on

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    this planetoid that they basically just walked away from it was cheaper basically to just leave it uh and so they basically showed up there and uh took it over got it back up and running again so it was habitable and decided that this was where they were going to build their own egalitarian community that uh represented everything that The Messer regime was taking away so you know it's about Community it's about comaraderie and you know people working together and overcoming problems and stuff like that so uh that became the landing Zone that is known as leski uh so um so yeah so basically um you have an independent government that is trying to be a truly egalitarian

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    community and uh that's what they've been doing so they basically started collecting people uh accepting refugees from coming in from the uee who are also kind of sick and tired of of of living under the Mesa regime and uh we're really trying to make it go of being a a self-sustaining independent uh government now uh in time obviously the messers fell fell the people eventually rose up and uh and overthrew them but leski still maintained so they they are still trying to uh kind of keep their government going and while they probably aren't as ideologically opposed to the current UE regime I think they still view it as like big government you know corporate serving corporate interests

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    stuff like that uh so they're still doing what they can to try and maintain this this ideal that they've been pursuing and uh but there's sort of a trick to it so the catch with with lesian we'll kind of jump behind the scenes for a second I mean one of the things as we were saying earlier like the uh This was meant to be an unclaimed system and originally in internal discussions within the company there was these sort of uh there was uee systems and then they were called pirate systems or outlaw systems and stuff like that and so uh it felt like there was only just to give flavor within the outlaw systems the idea was that basically we wanted to uh switch it up a little bit so not every Outlaw system should be a hive of scum and villainy type thing so uh so leski sort of that's how leski

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    kind of came about as as an original concept was how can we do something that's that's not a uee thing that's that's a Outlaw organization that's not necessarily criminal uh so hence the idea of this sort of independent government uh came about so um but the fun thing was it because it was still an unclaimed system it still had to have sort of serve that sort of criminal element thing if you you can come here and stuff like that so how do we how do we strike that balance uh so the idea was basically because they was they had the sort of Open Arms policy of you know will take anybody you know everyone is is is worthwhile and and deserves to have a chance at at peace and happiness and stuff like that uh it's a really it's a really great idea

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    and a really beautiful thing to pursue but at the same time there were people in the more nefarious people in the universe who viewed that as basically as a vulnerability as a weakness so uh criminals started taking advantage of the fact that they had this place that they could go to that would just sort of unconditionally accept them and and stuff like that and so what you have is now leski is is in a sense threatened by uh in a growing number of criminals who are just using their sort of good nature against them as a hideout basically so uh you you get to see this very interesting Dynamic and it's it's it's kind of one of the things that I like most about this system is that or this location is that there's a

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    sort of sad tragedy to it because you can see them trying to uh hold on to this ideal of of community and stuff like that but when you have people within that Community who aren't on the same page and don't share your ideology it kind of it you get a nice conflict going on so I think that that that's what gives this place a very unique flavor to it because you have this sort of criminal element that's just underneath the current of these people who are really trying to do good and them sort of that battle and and how what does it take for the good people to start to shift their ideals to block out the people that they think are are you know causing problems for uh uh for the location so um so yeah that's basically leski in a nutshell lots of idealistic

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    egalitarian uh people who are basically just trying to do their best in the universe and you have a group of people who are trying to you know basically self- serving do crime whatever they they do and uh and the sort of justos between the two uh so yeah that's it that's uh for this episode of L makers I hope you enjoyed it uh again uh all of this information or a lot of this information you can find on our star map uh if you go to the robertsspaceindustries.com website uh you can see for yourself and go for a wander around our universe uh thanks and see you next time thank you for watching so if you want to keep up with the latest and greatest and Star Citizen of Squadron 42's development please follow us on our social media channels see you

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