Editing Justicars: For Great Justice!/Nexus (section)

=== The Paradox: ===

The source of Nexus's powers, Jerome gave this mysterious object to his past self when he retired from superheroics. Said to be an artifact forged by the shadowy denizens Paradox Realm, it appears in our world as a softball-sized sphere through which an observer can see some other place made of swirling energy and stars. It follows it's owner and generally ignores the laws of physics.

The power of the Paradox allows Nexus to summon living beings from the past and inanimate objects from the future. The more distant the time of origin, the easier an object is to summon. So, while dinosaurs are easy enough to pull into the modern world, a conversation with Abraham Lincoln might require a week or more of intense concentration. At the end of his career, Jerome will somehow send himself backwards through time to meet his earlier self, though whether that will be possible through a better understanding of the Paradox or some other method is unclear.

When summoning dinosaurs or other animals, the power finds the individuals who, out of the trillions throughout time, are most predisposed to doing whatever Nexus needs them to do. This, along with the Paradox's uncanny ability to predict what it's owner will need in the near future, can make it seem as though Nexus has direct control of the creatures he summons. In fact, he has no such control, which has led to a few near disasters. Luckily for citizens not disposed to being eaten by spinosaurs, sending creatures and objects back to their time of origin is much faster and easier than summoning them originally.

Summoning artifacts from the future is an even less predictable use of the power, in part because Nexus has no way of knowing what artifacts are actually possible. Additionally, artifacts from beyond a millennia or so in the future seem to almost always be constructed from a seemingly nano-technological material that turns into radioactive ash seconds after appearing in our time.

Some notable things Nexus has summoned over the past few years include a small spacecraft (that he gave to NASA for study), Jesus (who stopped answering questions after witnessing a crowd of protesters erupt into a riot at his appearance- a fiasco that cost Nexus a lot of public support), an unidentified self-replicating device (the duplicates of which are currently building something on the moon, even after Nexus dismissed the original), and Abraham Lincoln (who was really very pleasant).

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