The Great Tree

[Lord Chaos]

How'd I get coordinates in the Nexus? I just opened my KI and there they were! Either somebody goofed--the opposite of the problem that crops up in the lower Bahro cave, which has no coordinates although it's in the Cavern ceiling--or the Nexus is in Ae'gura. Victor Laxman guarantees that the KI never lies.

[dcos]

My guess is that its a goof. The prohibition/impossibility of Intra-Age linking is one of the rules of D'ni Writing . Of course its possible with the Relto book because Yeesha didn't give two shakes of a Squee's tail about the D'ni rules. But if the Nexus is to function as a "bridge" Age (or should that be "abridgement" Age?) then it would need to be in another Age than our own.

So it can't be in D'ni unless the Maintainers and Writers involved in the construction of the MT-Nexus system were playing a bit fast and loose with the rules. But surely the construction of a huge facility on Ae'gura would be noticed?

And it would need to be a large building to accomodate all the nexus "pods" required for the mechanical distribution of linkers, which is what is the mostly likely method to have been used if there is only one Age in which the nexus existed.

And I'm sure no one will suggest that there is more than one instance of the cavern! I mean comeon, thats just crazy talk.

[Daedalus]

If I remember right (isn't my memory a hoot), there was a time in beta when the other ages had KI coordinates (perhaps from the maintainer seal). How do marker games work in the other ages on the other UU shards?

[Lord Chaos]

Marker games work just fine in all the Ages of other shards. You should have seen the one Ehren set up in Kadish. He turned all the struts around the Vault into strings of pearls. The markers don't show coordinates, though.

You can get some interesting bugs. Do a marker game in one age, then go to another and open it, and poof! You have markers all over the place. Do one in Eder Gira and open it in Relto, and there are markers way out in space. I'm not sure how consistent this is.

As for the Nexus, there's lots of room under the Great Zero to fit the Greater D'ni Transit Authority's Mechanical Link Selection System. I know it's said to be impossible to link within ages using the D'ni Art, but there are enough people who ignore this that I think there are secrets we don't know. I think that what the D'ni knew about linking is a small subset of what the Bahro know...

[Lord Chaos]

I've done more investigating on the Nexus coordinates. The coordiate I have in my notes is written on a sheet where I recorded the locations of CGZM mission #1, probably on Tapestry shard UU. Given the number of bugs in UU this is probably general weirdness.

Anyway, I've been unable to get coordinates in Uru CC standalone. Take your pick.