Nexus Pharma

On the surface, Nexus Pharma markets itself as a forward-thinking biotech company dedicated to “advancing human potential through chemistry.” Their PR campaigns showcase smiling families, miracle cures, and shining towers of innovation. But behind the corporate mask lies one of Night City’s darkest truths: Nexus thrives not on healing, but on addiction, dependency, and control.

Rivalry with Biotechnica

Nexus and Biotechnica have been locked in a vicious shadow war for decades. Biotechnica pushes agricultural dominance, biofuels, and gene-tech with global legitimacy, but Nexus sees them as hypocrites—pretending to “feed the world” while cutting just as many corners as anyone else.

The tension escalates around cyberpsychosis stabilizers. Biotechnica develops legal, expensive treatment regimes for corporate elites, while Nexus pushes faster, dirtier street versions that flood the black market. Biotechnica accuses Nexus of sabotaging their research and weaponizing addiction, while Nexus mocks Biotechnica as cowards too weak to admit what people really want.

Espionage between them is constant: Nexus has stolen biogenetic data from Biotechnica labs, and Biotechnica has quietly assassinated Nexus chemists in “accidents.” Their rivalry isn’t just corporate—it’s ideological. Biotechnica wants order and control through food and life sciences; Nexus thrives in chaos, feeding the city’s hunger for pleasure, escape, and chrome-fueled madness.

Alliance with Lazarus

Where Biotechnica loathes Nexus, the Lazarus Group embraces them. Lazarus, mercenary specialists known for resurrection and battlefield medical services, discovered that Nexus’s drugs could extend soldier endurance, numb trauma, and keep fighters alive when they should be dead.

In exchange for test subjects, field data, and access to Lazarus black ops, Nexus provides Lazarus with exclusive “combat chems” and advanced stabilizers. Together, they’ve created terrifying prototypes: soldiers pumped full of Nexus drugs, able to fight through shattered bones and neural overloads until their bodies simply burn out.

This alliance runs deeper than profit. Nexus sees Lazarus as proof of concept—that their science isn’t just about addiction but about reshaping humanity into something new, something beyond the frailty of flesh. Lazarus, for their part, doesn’t care about morality—they care about results, and Nexus delivers.

Role in Night City

In the streets, Nexus is whispered about with both fear and reverence. Gangs know that Nexus keeps them supplied with the best “party favors” in the city, while corpos fear their quiet ability to spark riots and gang wars at will. Their stabilizers keep cyberpsychos just barely in check—long enough to weaponize them, or leash them.

Where Biotechnica represents the cold hand of corporate civilization, Nexus is the fever-dream—unregulated, dangerous, and intoxicating. Their alliance with Lazarus ensures they have muscle and mercs to enforce their will, while their rivalry with Biotechnica keeps the corporate wars simmering in both boardrooms and back alleys.

Nexus’s Core Philosophy

“Medicine is not about curing the human condition. It’s about rewriting it.”

Nexus doesn’t just sell drugs. They see themselves as architects of a new humanity—one driven not by biology, but by chemistry and desire. Addiction, in their eyes, isn’t a disease but a tool. Each pill and injection isn’t just profit—it’s programming, conditioning society into dependence.

Where Biotechnica dreams of engineered order, Nexus dreams of engineered chaos.