History Characters / TheNexusSeriesEmergingRisksDirectorate

Members (or allied members) of the Emerging Risks Directorate, responsible for fighting transhuman technology in the United States:

* MindRape: Done to her by Shiva in Crux, forcing her to kill her adopted father figure Nakamura before Kade chased him out of her head. [[{{Understatement}} This experience has considerably soured her opinion on Nexus in general]].
* MoreThanMindControl:The ERD can't fathom why Sam would fight them for any other reason than her being controled by Kade or Shu. Nakamura needs it spelled out to him in Crux that Sam turned because she felt the deaths for several civilians caused by ERD crossfire, including her newly adopted little sister Mai.

* [[spoiler:BigBad: Of "Nexus".]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]
* [[spoiler:HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee: Faces this after his last mission to capture Kade causes an international incident. Is given an [[LeaveBehindAPistol alternative]] by Barnes instead]]
* [[spoiler:LeaveBehindAPistol: Takes a heart attack pill to avoid damaging the ERD and the President.]]

* [[spoiler:FunctionalAddict: Uses Nexus to up his opiate and dopamine count to cope with PTSD in the wake of the assassination attempt on the President. Kade cuts him off.]]

* [[spoiler:LeaveBehindAPistol: Subverted- Barnes pretty much forcefeeds the heart-attack pill to him when he refuses to take it willingly.]]
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: His last actions in Crux are to orchestrate the release of Rangan and the autistic Nexus children, and then upload all his evidence against the ERD and Barnes to the internet. While the release was a compulsion placed by Kade, the rest was his own choice. Barnes promptly kills him.]]

* [[spoiler:Big Bad: The driving source of conflict in the series can be traced back to Barnes' activities]]
* [[spoiler:BioAugmentation: Implied during his murder of Holtzmann, who cannot understand just how strong he is...]]
* [[spoiler:Complete Monster: Arguably the least sympathetic character in the series to date. ]]

* [[spoiler:EngineeredPublicConfession- Pulled off by Holtzmann of all people.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilChancellor]]
* [[spoiler:FalseFlagOperation: Barnes' MO is to use the Posthuman Liberation Front to stage some terrorist attacks that the ERD can stop just in time, and uses one at the start of "Crux" to drive up support for President Stockton (who is oblivious). Holtzmann is killed for figuring this out.]]
* [[spoiler:WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Keeps suggesting "euthanizing" the autistic children who have Nexus.]]
* [[spoiler:LeaveBehindAPistol : How Barnes deals with loose ends like Becker and Holtzmann.]]

* [[spoiler:ReasonableAuthorityFigure:Actually stops Barnes from interrupting Holtzmann when the later voices his opinion that they should embrace the Nexus children who are starting to demonstrate [[HiveMind collective congnition]]. Stockton hears him out, but states that while he won't resort to euthanizing the children as Barnes suggests, he will do everything in his power to make sure regular humans are not replaced and made to go extinct.]]
* [[spoiler:ThinkOfTheChildren: He really does want to protect the American People. He just doesn't want them to be replaced as a species.]]

* BrokenBird
* [[spoiler:ConflictingLoyalty]]
* TheCynic
* Dark and Troubled Past
* [[spoiler:DeadLittleSister]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Feels this way about herself and the BioAugmentation she was required to get to do her job.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: While she wasn't really bad to start with, she was antagonistic to Kade and all transhuman technology users, until she met Mai, who helped her finally heal from her experiences at Yucca Grove.]]

* [[spoiler:MindRape: Done to her by Shiva in Crux, forcing her to kill her adopted father figure Nakamura before Kade chased him out of her head. [[{{Understatement}} This experience has considerably soured her opinion on Nexus in general]].]]
* [[spoiler:MoreThanMindControl:The ERD can't fathom why Sam would fight them for any other reason than her being controled by Kade or Shu. Nakamura needs it spelled out to him in Crux that Sam turned because she felt the deaths for several civilians caused by ERD crossfire, including her newly adopted little sister Mai.]]
* [[spoiler:RapeAsBackstory]]
* [[spoiler:RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Goes absolutely ''mental'' when Mai is killed in ERD crossfire.]]
* SuperSoldier

* [[spoiler:MindRape: Done to her by Shiva in Crux, forcing her to kill her adopted father figure Nakamura before Kade chased him out of her head. [[Understatement This experience has considerably soured her opinion on Nexus in general]].]]

* [[spoiler:MindRape: Done to her by Shiva in Crux, forcing her to kill her adopted father figure Nakamura before Kade chased him out of her head. [[Understatement This experience has considerably soured her opinion on Nexus in general.]]

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* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: His last actions in Crux are to orchestrate the release of Rangan and the autstic Nexus children, and then upload all his evidence against the ERD and Barnes to the internet. While the release was a compulsion placed by Kade, the rest was his own choice. Barnes promptly kills him.]]

* IHaveManyNames: Sam has a number of aliases, and can slip into some them completely with a [[TriggerPhrase code phrase]].

* AFatherToHisMen: Shows specific concern for Sam's saftey and tries not to put Sam in Harm's way without backup. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this backfires in a horrible fashion when said backup kills Mai right in front of Sam, causing her to flip.]]

* [[spoiler:FunctionalAddict: Uses Nexus to up his Opiate and Dopamine count to cope with PSTD in the wake of the assassination attempt on the President. Kade cuts him off.]]
* IgnoredExpert- His objections to how the ERD is treating the NEXUS users are brushed aside in the name of security. Not that he tries very hard most times.

* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: His last actions in Crux are to orchestrate the release of Rangan and the autstic nexus children, and then upload all his evidence against the ERD and Barnes to the internet. While the release was a compulsion placed by Kade, the rest was his own choice. Barnes promptly kills him.]]

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' go over his head. [[spoiler:Holtzmann learns this after voicing his opoinion directly to the president that they should be supporting the Nexus children, and not fighting them or looking for cures.]]
* [[spoiler:Big Bad: The Driving source of conflict in the series can be traced back to Barnes' activities]]

* Corrupt Politian

* [[spoiler:WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Keeps suggesting "Euthanizing" the autistic children who have nexus.]]
* [[spoiler:LeaveBehindAPistol : How Barnes deals with Loose ends like Becker and Holtzmann.]]

* BigEater ( justified when she's wounded, her body needs the extra calories due to her [[BioAugmentation genetic enhancements]])

* IHaveManyNames: Sam has a number of alias, and can slip into some them completely with a code phrase)

* [[spoilerFunctionalAddict: Uses Nexus to up his Opiate and Dopamine count to cope with PSTD in the wake of the assassination attempt on the President. Kade cuts him off.]]
* IgnoredExpert- His objections to how the ERD is treating the NEXUS users are brushed aside in the name of security. Not that he tries very hard most times.

ReluctantMadScientist: Hates the hypocrisy of his job and knows he's too much of a coward to change

* [[spoiler:Evil Chancellor]]
* [[spoiler:ItWouldBeWrongToSayGenocide: Keeps suggesting "Euthanizing" the autistic children who have nexus.]]

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[[folder: Samantha Cataranes [[spoiler(Sarita Catalan)]]]]

Kade's best friend and a notable Flux DJ.
* [[spoiler:ColdBloodedTorture- The ERD waterboards him to get the access code. They succeed in breaking him, but fortunately Kade has already changed the password by that point. Not that he knows that...]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding- Arguably gets the best ending of anyone in Crux:[[Spoiler: He finally finds redemption for breaking under the ERD's torture by convincing Holtzmann to free the autistic Nexus children and later protects the underground railroad by destroying the Van used to rescue them, all in the middle of a Hurricane. And he survives.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:[[spoiler: Once he realizes that Nexus 5 has already been released and that he just handed the ERD the backdoor password, he goes into a deep depression.]]
* OddFriendship: [[spoiler:The Indian playboy DJ Neuroscience Grad student becomes fast friends with Bobby and the rest of the Autistic Nexus children, with whom he communicates through a flaw in their cells shielding.]]
* PlayfulHacker
* ProHumanTranshuman
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInKindness:Becomes a lot less self centered after his time in prison. Mostly due to the OddFriendship mentioned above.]]

* TheAtoner
* BadAss
* BadDreams
* HeartBrokenBadAss
* ShellShockedVeteran:[[spoiler: Done in a unique manner. When he was captured in Vietnam, his captors used [[BrainComputerInterface Nexus]] to make him [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead live their memories]] of the abuse they had suffered at the hands of their government. This causes him to [[DefectorFromDecadence flip entirely]] and join their resistance, at least until his [[UnwantedRescue brothers in the Corps come to rescue him]], killing his new family in the process while he feels them die.]]

[[folder:Maximillian Barnes (Special Policy Advisor, [[spoiler:laterDirector of ERD]]) [[spoiler:(Zarathustra)]]]]

* CantStopTheSignal: Invoked by name at the end of Nexus
* TheHeart: So much so that Kade hears her voice as his conscience
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Knowing that everyone breaks eventually under torture, she uses her Nexus program to stop her own heart rather than give the ERD the password to the Nexus 5 backdoor.]]
* [[spoiler:SenselessSacrifice: Unfortunately, Kade had already changed the password to the back door before uploading it to the internet...]]
* [[spoiler:VoiceOfTheResistance: Arranges it so that after she's been captured , a message goes out on the internet explaining the conditions of her arrest and exhorting people to speak out against the government's draconian policies.]]