Cubic Odyssey: Lost Portal Locations within Nexus

What is Nexus
Nexus is a just a planet. It is the source of the corruption and happens to be almost certain death in early stages of the game.You cannot immediately warp to this planet. Instead, you need to find a lost portal and go through it. Luckily, you do this in the main campaign.

The quickest overall route is to:
1) Go to Bardwell 1 (Part of the main story line / campaign)
2) Help defeat the first red darkness attack
3) Jump through the “lost portal”

You are now in the Nexus, but do not know it yet.

If you do not have a space ship
– Stop the corruption (as per story line)
– Jump back through the portal and continue the campaign.

If you do have a spaceship, and are so inclined
– Use tab to teleport it to Nexus and board it.
– You can leave the planet, scan the system and cruise to the warp gate. From this point on, Nexus is available to you at warp gates.

The image below shows the locations of the lost portals within Nexus.

• Go to these locations in Nexus and you will find a portal
• Activate the portal and go through it
• You will be transported to the planet hosting the other end of the portal in the named system
• Later, we may be update this guide to show the locations of the portal on the target planet
  Table
  The table below shows the same information in alphabetic order of system.
  • Planet / system that hosts end 1 of the portal
  • X and Y coordinates of end 2 of the matching portal in Nexus
    Portal to

    Xord

    Yord

    Abed

    -3385

    -626

    Ardina

    519

    1368

    Bardwell

    1971

    2147

    Barmettler

    17

    705

    Bodwell

    -3136

    -1293

    Buechele

    -1216

    -1815

    Darriana

    2865

    -829

    Dugal

    1802

    -2027

    Esmantes

    -3338

    -255

    Eycke

    -1616

    -3428

    Heathcoat

    -2005

    1394

    Jerricha

    408

    1819

    Jorrel

    2084

    2648

    Kappes

    -1355

    -3195

    Lemert

    -1066

    480

    Mader

    1075

    -2404

    Malanphy

    1372

    -3201

    Malyia

    2139

    3202

    Melihcan

    2005

    -339

    Molleda

    -2130

    1965

    Myril

    2852

    -1451

    Obdulia

    -2452

    2167

    Orte

    -269

    -553

    Renko

    -728

    1792

    Romanie

    -2051

    3111

    Seweta

    295

    136

    Takanari

    -3409

    -1171

    Tieshia

    986

    -2994

    Wiles

    3143

    -1536

    Additional spoiler The portal is always on planet 1 of the system (EG Abed 1, Wiles 1, …)

When you start visiting systems and planets you may get notifications that a lost portal exists.

• When you reach a system – “A lost portal exists in this system”
• When you reach the right planet in the system – “A lost portal exists on this planet”. You are not told where it is. You need to look for it. It will show up on your scanner as just another point of interest. It is up to you to find the right one…

When you find a lost portal

• Jump through it and you will be in a new location on Nexus.
• As with Bardwell, block / stop the corruption and the portal is yours to use again.
• Either fly around Nexus looking for more portals, or return to the originating planet.
• Blocking a portal provides a reward…Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

There are a number of ways to search for portals within Nexus.

Pick a direction and fly

• Works
• A bit hit and miss
• Allows you to shoot various fauna and collect goodies
• Allows you to collect unlimited red dust
• I did this for a while – Unrewarding after a while.

Fly above the Red Dust Tornadoes and look down (game exploit?)
IE, just fly your ship up until the tornadoes disappear. Look down. You can just about to see portal plinths dotted around.

• Works
• A bit cheaty
• Easy to get disorientated and end up revisiting the same portal many times.
• The method I used for most of my investigations – It works quite well, but… is a bit cheaty.

Scanning
Does not work

Nearby Signals
These do show up, but 90% of the time it was enemies / pirates / zombies. When it did hilight a portal, it was usually (always?) one I had already found.

Other (game play?) method

• Play the game as intended
• Explore the galaxy and have fun
• Reach a system that has a portal (it will tell you)
• Find the planet that hosts it (it will tell you)
• Scan and search the planet until you find it
• Jump through, block the corruption, jump back.