Since its original debut Nexus Prime has gone through many different changes and appearances, but at its heart has always remained the same. The concept for the city, with its style based on popular futuristic cyberpunk themes, was originally proposed by Bel Muse on 03/12/03. The idea was met with much enthusiasm and many volunteers. When Linden Lab decided to offer help to themed community ideas, Nexus Prime was one of the few selected. Work soon began and Nexus Prime made its appearance when Bonifacio was brought online (03/26/03?). The city featured all that it promised, high rise buildings, shops featuring equally themed objects for sale, sewers to get lost in, and a dangerous yet fantasizing appeal. Nexus Prime naturally also became home to many sci-fi and cyberpunk themed events, gaining popularity quickly enough to even have Governor Linden stop by for an event. Nexus Prime has always been high on interactivity, featuring missions to hack the cities unstable AI, or to hunt down lost objects in the haunted underground tunnels, or even to have good old fashion shoot outs in. There has even been a “Mechinima” movie set in the streets of Nexus Prime, in which a noble fearless samurai takes down a diabolical plywood cube in one motion. The city has undergone minor and major revisions over time. Nexus Prime has ranged from an open city with a bird of prey perched high above it, to an interactive game-like experience enclosed in menacing walls, to a smaller stature more run down city. Some things have remained slightly unchanging, such as streets intersecting the city, sewer tunnels running underneath it and intricate design through-out. It seems as though Nexus Prime has never been “finished”, remaining forever in a state of constant change. Things have been constantly added or redone, never staying the same long enough to become boring. Nexus Prime is a good example of a project in Second Life – it’s open for everyone to see, so you can see a project within it that you may think will be really cool just to see it gone the next day (but replaced with something equally interesting). Today Nexus Prime stands as a 4 level sim. A level of towering buildings of in-world corperations including The TC (Tyrell Co.) building,and the currently renovationg SkyPort, called CorpCom, The lower industrial level of buildings, the “Old Town” with the image of a aged city, and the hidden sewer maze called “The Warren”.

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• Submitted by: myrl
• Submitted: 19 Mar 08