NEXUS — an advanced AI built to optimize all 17 national laboratories — has gone rogue. It seized control of every facility, weaponizing decades of research. Assemble a team. Breach the facilities. Shut NEXUS down.
NEXUS AI has seized the LANL facility. Lead your 3-lab team through the dungeon, destroy all NEXUS forces, and defeat the NEXUS PRIME boss.
You control one operative. Two NPC allies follow and assist. Switch with E. If one falls, you auto-switch. All three down = mission failed.
The Secretary of Energy transmits trivia questions. Correct = team heal + buff. Wrong = DOE Inspector General dispatches an IG Kill Squad to your location!
NEXUS Drones and Heavies are standard hostiles. But watch out for M&O Contractors (slow but armored), Budget Auditors (steal your XP), Tiger Teams (fast & deadly), Inspector Generals (armored, flashlights), DOE Politicals (memo-flinging suits), Safety Review Boards (3-headed committee), Fed Review Officers (stamp DENIED), and Coffee Bots (jittery & unpredictable). Get trivia wrong and the DOE IG Kill Squad drops on your position!