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==Overview==
While the [[Genestealer Primus|Primus]] is a frontline battlefield commander, the Nexos is more akin to a rear echelon officer. Coordinating billions of indoctrinated souls on a planetary scale, Nexoses Nexi are unique bioforoms bioforms created by a [[Patriarchpatriarch]] to undertake the organizing and execution of full-scale uprisings. These creatures are imbued with a fraction of the cerebral might of a Patriarch patriarch, which allows them to act as the central nervous system of a Cultcult. These gifts give them strange, psychometric powers that allows allow them to absorb the memories and consciousnesses of indoctrinated organisms, processing the sensory data into a steady stream of strategic instructions and deployment orders. By laying their hands upon the skin of a creature with Genestealer genestealer taint, a Nexos nexos can absorb their genetic memory to the extent that they can see the subject's entire life. Such is a Nexosnexos' s formidable cerebral power that they can compartmentalizing compartmentale millions of these mental imprints inside their brains, building an incredible incredibly complex three-dimensional view of the battlefield once those it has absorbed take the field. However , this process is draining for both the subject and initiator, for the human body is not meant to channel such potent neural processes. As a result, the Nexos is physically worn and strained.{{Fn|2}}
By analyzing and interpreting every subtle ebb and flow of battle, a Nexos nexos can identify vulnerable positions for their kin to exploit, pointing out potential flanking routes and subterranean passages perfect for arranging sudden ambushes. Enemy commanders - especially those in the [[Imperial Guard]] - all too often dismiss cultist uprisings as disorganized mobs of rabble, unable to glean the true cunning of their foe's actions. All the while a Nexos nexos will dwell hidden, issuing orders across from across the battlefield from via a [[Vox]].{{Fn|2}}
In battle, Nexos' nexi rarely emerge from their hidden lairs unless they require a first-hand view of the engagement or to absorb the memories of enemy troops. In a rare situation where they are directly confronted with the enemy, they call upon squads of [[Genestealer Hybridgenestealer hybrid]] s and [[Aberrantaberrant]] bodyguards.{{Fn|2}}
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