Nyx

Nyx (stylised NYX) was a covert organisation embedded within pre-Shattering humanity, dedicated to contingency planning for what were deemed low-probability, high-impact risks to continued human civilisation. These contingencies took the form of both defending humanity from potential NIGHTFALL events, and ensuring civilisation could be restored from a LONG NIGHT scenario.

An independent organisation with shrouded origins, Nyx enjoyed covert support from both homeworld and colonial governments, with a number of strategic locations throughout the Sol System, and maintained operational contingencies for situations as mundane as asteroid impact or as exotic as temporal invasion.

However, while preparations were in place for overt (and covert) extraterrestrial incursions, the memetic attack vector of the Signal largely blind-sided Nyx, and with initial responses proving ineffective and counterproductive, Nyx was largely unable to stop the Shattering.

Organisation
Nyx was organised in accordance with the ASTER Axioms, which charged its individual arms with each of the five aspects of its mission: