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Nexus Industries

"Everything, everywhere, at a price you can afford. The price went up this morning."

The largest mass-market corporation in the known galaxy. Nexus Industries sells food, medicine, fuel components, ship consumables, and anything else that can be manufactured at scale and shipped at volume. They are deeply unpopular with everyone who depends on them, which is everyone. They are not evil - they are efficient, and efficiency at the scale Nexus operates looks identical to indifference.

Nexus has been the first Varath corporation to seriously explore trading with the Keth. Not out of goodwill, but because the Keth frontier systems represent an underserved market. Bastion Arms and Stratum Corp consider this a betrayal. Nexus considers it a growth strategy.

Space: Waygate Station and Confluence Station - Nexus has the largest commercial presence at both hubs. Also strong in Ashfall.

What they want: Open trade lanes. Less regulation. A Keth civil war would be bad (disrupts the frontier market). A Keth alliance would be very good (opens a continent-sized market).

Starting standing: Varath: +200 | Keth: +50 | Meridian: +50

Missions: Cargo delivery, market price intelligence, competitor (Stratum Corp/Bastion) disruption, new trade route surveying.

Exalted perk: Nexus market access - buy restricted cargo items and get access to Nexus bulk pricing across all connected stations.