The movie takes place during a trip across the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
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Nexus is believed to have been formed three years ago as shipping companies grew more concerned about the rise in pirate attacks in the Red Sea and Arabian Ocean waters, especially off of Somalia and Yemen.
All of the conflicts in this tinderbox, which controls shipping lanes from the Indian Ocean into the Red Sea, can potentially give rise to regional, and indeed global conflagrations between competing regional actors and global powers.