greetings and welcome recruits I am Athena your virtual intelligence resource and guide for the duration of this briefing inspired by the milky way's Citadel the Nexus is a smaller streamlined Space Station designed to serve as your central support hub and temporary home once in Andromeda the Nexus will carry with it a contingent of officials engineers traders and security personnel on its voyage to Andromeda all remaining humans will travel together 20,000 strong on Ark Hyperion even with faster than light travel it would still take several human lifetimes to cover the 2.5 million light years to your
destination survival will be made possible by spending the majority of this voyage in cryostasis protected beneath the mass effect shields generated by your pods as you travel to the edges of the known galaxy a small escort of combat pilots will defend us from any 12 once we cross it to dark space we will be alone with only our kinetic barriers to shield us during our centuries long journey once in Andromeda the next distant arks will rendezvous in the Helius cluster and operations will commence immediately while the Nexus will be largely functional at launch many elements
of its construction are only scheduled for completion upon arrival at our destination docked to the Nexus the arms will provide additional power and storage to the station you will be revived and assigned quarters in one of the residential blocks for a short time as our immigration staff assist you in choosing a new homeworld until the Pathfinders have completed securing these habitats the Nexus will offer many duties and distractions the archives in the cultural center house the combined history of the many Milky Way species and will assist new races encountered in learning about our galaxy and
its past lush hydroponics gardens are available for a quiet escape or you can also take the opportunity to socialize with a visit to the vortex lounge for any desired off-duty indulgences the operations centre will oversee security and management of the entire station housing everything from colonization efforts to pathfinder HQ where path finders will converge to share information and discuss their progress the state-of-the-art science labs will also be on to investigate their discoveries as they begin to unlock the secrets of this new dogs we will create a bustling center of trade community government and diplomacy the
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