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[red_room]

Dozens of different species meeting and mingling. Hundreds of potentially dangerous individuals all converging in one place. Some most definitely a threat to any world and to the Nexus should the AV field ever waver. But nearly all a threat in some way.

And yet.

Quiet streets on a crisp morning in the plaza with no wind. Humans and non humans mingling to do their daily shopping and travel to and from their worlds. How is it in a place with so much chaos inherently present it's more peaceful here than Natasha's home world?

"How in the hell have we not destroyed this place and each other yet? My world's a mess and it doesn't have a third of the dangers this place does."

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[rebelscumfather]

The Nexus is a profoundly odd place. No doubt about it.

Take for example the presence of Han Solo himself. His discovery of the nexus meant that he came to the discovery of his own alternate. A man less than half his age who - as far as he could figure - was some kind of space cowboy or a ... pirate? He ain't really sure, but it's f*ucking weird all the same. How their alike and not alike.

Another example is his relationship to the Black Widow. It's never been overt and they've never discussed it directly, but she looks at him with something like familiarity - the color of his eyes, the scar on his face - because she knows the other. And it's a hell of a thing to talk to someone you hardly know who is giving all the non-verbal cues that they know you.

It doesn't occur to him that the spy does this to everybody to some degree. She just doesn't have to pretend so much for him.

"Strange isn't it? The place that feels unreal half the time in better shape than your own world?"

[chiron_survivor]

Adia is sitting at a nearby Nexus terminal with a cup of coffee. She looks up at the question, as it is something she has thought about herself, but hesitates to answer. The attractive, polished woman who asked it intimidates her a little, but then again most strangers do.

"Many people think of this place as a refuge," she says quietly. She fidgets with the scarf around her neck. "They don't want to bring the troubles of their own world here."

[withoutathorn]

Katherine happens to be nearby--she's heading from the inn she stays at to get some chocolates from the candy store. She stops and ponders the woman's question--perhaps a touch of a second too long. No one ever said Katherine was particularly bright.

"I've never thought of it that way," she replies, her British accent refined, at least enough for a teenaged queen, anyway. "But not everyone, I suppose, is dangerous."

Maybe it all evens out, she thinks.

[pathfromdarknesstogray]

"Field or no bloody field, I'm amazed that we haven't all killed each other yet." This comes from Dia, who in a departure from her usual robes is wearing a black longcoat, pants, and heavy boots. The lightsaber isn't visible for once, but undoubtedly, it's on her person somewhere.

"I'm not complaining, but even the most neutral places I've seen are still a bloody hive for scum and villainy to get away with everything they can."

Of course, Dia's experience with neutral worlds and places tends to be the Hutt controlled ones, so her experiences might be a little biased. Supposedly, there's the Voss's homeworld, too, but she's never been there.

[h_hollister]

Have a snarky blonde laughing herself silly, Nat.

"Giiiiirl," she drawled, shaking her head. "Giiiiiiiiiiiiirll. The Nexus is totally self-correcting. Like a grain of sand in an oyster. We're just too self-centered to see the pearls."

Hips had opinions about the Nexus, and its mucous layer of self-preservation. Not that anybody ever listened.

[protolawyer]

Shark stops fiddling with a toothpick between his chompers, letting it dangle from his lips instead as he looks the redhead over skeptically.

"So is that, like...a threat? Cuz I think people live here and shit. Not that that's stopped worldwide destruction before, but just saying."