Nexus Prime

A bit more than a month ago (that is, I am completely lost in time so I actually have no idea when it was) I TP'ed to Nexus Prime and saw skyscrapers devastated all over the street of the corporate level, smoke of burning tires, broken TV sets thrown around and all kind of mess. It was like a morning after a riot or revolution. Though, through the smoke, one could see some distant buildings intact, like that one where that weird cult resides, cathedral and the oil rig. OK, I am not sure about the oil rig, maybe those were my hopes projected cause I am very fond of that place.

Those TV sets had a notecard to give and there was an explanation of WTF happened. Well, kind of explanation:

In short, devestation. A considerable portion of the nexus prime infrastructure is now gone. I will not go into specifics of how this happened I will only apologize that it did. We are working under the assumption that this was accidental however, all appearances would indicate that it was not. The city cannot function as it is. You are all free to visit as always but things are a mess to say the least. The damage is very significant I can offer no time frame on any solution.  -Spider

The gathered crowd had the expected amount of rumors and guesses. Yes, most of them included regular dose of second life drama but in this case even regular drama has mythic proportions. It's the one of the oldest places. It's the history. But even if I wanted to share those gossips, I hardly remember them. Speaking of me as a bad reporter and even more bad historian, last week I succeeded in permanent deletion of all of my second life photo documentation (and many other things as well), so I cannot offer you any of dozens images that documents that moment. If somebody have them, please share the links in comments.

Anyway, I never had a heart to delete Nexus Prime from my picks. Hell, that's the place one come in the early days, see it, roam a bit and leave. Or spend some days there. And then, that someone might find itself one year later stunned about the sim that still have hidden corners, more and more amazing as they are harder to find. Like that weird chaos game theory place up in the skies. The one that kills your sense of direction and orientation in the way that mini-map doesn't help at all. Seen that? It was just above that space station or whatever it is on 400 meters above the oil rig. Oil rig is outside the city walls, there is a hole on the ground level you can sneak through. You know that. Good.

Sorry for saying 'is' where I should say 'was'. Oil rig is not there. Nor I can get up in the sky to check chaos game theory place. Before and after all, I was running to find if the Black Sun is still there. Not that shiny club that attracts noobs and that just have the name of the legendary place. The one that was a sanctuary for so many cyberpunks and datafreaks proudly wearing their googles. Luckily, Black Sun is live and well. It just changed it's position a bit and there is no network console around to TP you in. But, cheats in the form of altcamming and dirty ways to get inside the closed object are OK in this case. I hope they are OK. 

No matter how bad it was to see Nexus Prime in flames and smoke it was much worse when fires went down, old prims been deleted and parts of sim cleared to the level of the ground texture. But still, that was, however weak, a promise that something will rise again. And occasional visitors could see that some things are showing up in the sky, parts of the buildings, models, plans. Usually, visitor would leave after a bit, but here and there there were groups or singles doing whichever biz they had in the half devastated, half under-construction sim. Like Nexus never had dirty deconstructed parts. Some things you just cannot destroy easily. 

Nexus Prime is being rebuilt and now you can see the first levels rising. Tons and tons of concrete blocks are being placed, first shapes start to appear. It is not the same place it was few months ago. And please, don't go all cheesy and romantic like "it will never be the same again". If you sneak into Tyrel Corporation's rooms, you can see some scatches and drawings. No, it won't be the same. But it will be Nexus Prime. There will be enough dirty corners to do your biz, places to explore and spaces to twist your mind and provoke your imagination. And you don't need to wait for it to be officially open. Just watch your step and who you are talking to.

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