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Nexus Pod

Experimental Lost Team gate-probe pod.

Catalog: RTW-PROD-NEXUS-POD
Source: Catalog photography, planning notes, and collector reconstruction
Condition: Reference only, original not located
Status: Prototype / story artifact - Wave 3 - 1988
Product record: Prototype and story-development record, Spring 1988 Created during the 1988 Wave 3 development period as a prototype or story artifact. It was not a standard retail product.
Faction: Original Sector
Format: Small vehicle / prototype

Abstract

Original Sector probe vehicle tied to the Lost Team disaster. Single-seat, short-range, and designed for gate investigation, not combat. The degraded Sector markings told kids this thing had started its life in a classified warehouse since the late 1970s. Its presence connected the Lost Team tragedy to the earlier generation of Axis research that C.H.A.O.S. inherited without fully understanding. The pod's failure is part of why later C.H.A.O.S. protocol around active gate routes was more cautious.

Archive Notes

Referenced in the Lost Team arc (Episodes 49-53) and connected to the "Downland" novel continuity.

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