Subj : Deus Ex
To   : KEVIN GIBSON
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Sun Mar 18 2001 11:36 pm

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> Hello Todd
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> TH> If you get a chance, I'd recommend Deus Ex. I also wouldn't mind feedback
> if you ever decide to play and finish it. It's truly one of my favorites.
> One-world conspiracy stuff, the Templars, Majestic 12, and the possibility of
> the world being dominated by AI. Cool stuff.
> 
> Tell me more about the game, please. :)


What? And ruin the plot for you? Well, OK. This be a bit long, but the
story unfolds into 
something quite grand.

 The game starts out with you, JC Denton, being an agent for UNATCO, the
United Nations 
Anti-Terrorism Coalition. You are one of several agents who are augmented
with 
nanotechnology, with the ability to find and install upgrade modules to
give you various abilities 
(infrared vision, enhanced strength, etc.) 

You begin hunting down members of the NSF, a terrorist organization behind
several hijackings 
of Ambrosia, the only known cure for a plague that is sweeping the planet.
Ambrosia is very 
expensive and hard to make, and is therefore very rare. It is reserved for
key personnel in the 
economic, political, and military spheres, in order to preserve the basic
structure of society.

As it turns out, you uncover a vast conspiracy. For centuries, the
Illuminatti have run the world 
from behind the scene, and a man named Bob Page broke away from them to
form Majestic 12. 
Page is also the head honcho as Versalife, the only company that makes
Ambrosia. How 
convenient.

Anyway, Majestic 12 has taken the reins of power from the Illuminatti, and
created the plague 
that is killing so many millions and speading panic. Because of this
created panic, the govts of 
the world, especially the Majestic 12-driven UN, have a convenient
justification for martial-law.

So Majestic 12 is both the creator of the virus and the creator of the
plague. It's all about a 
global power grab. But there's more.

I'm sure you've heard of Echelon, the govt system that monitors
communications for "certain" 
content, right? Well, in the game, the Echelon system was programmed with
artificial 
intelligence, and then turned on it's creators (Majestic 12), labelling
them as a terrorist threat. It 
now calls itself Daedalus (spelling?), and all the world's communications
is accessible to it. 

As it turns out, Bob Page, the head of Majestic 12, was using you as a
prototype test for the 
nano-augmentation systems, and he himself was outfitted with augmentations.
The purpose 
was for his new version of Daedalus, called Icarus, to attack and merge
with Daedalus to form 
Helios. Helios, like his predecessors, had control over global
communications. Page's nanotech 
systems were designed to allow him to merge with Helios.

What a scary thought - a power-hungry dictator becoming one with an AI
system that can run 
the world. In the opening sequences of the game, Page refers to Aquina's
"City on a Hill, and 
assigns a kind of utopian expectation for his plan to rule the world. He
claims he will be the new 
god of the world.

Also, there is a VERY intriguing conversation you have with Morpheus, a
protoype for one of the 
versions of Echelon (probably of Daedalus).

In the end, you have 3 options:

1) Defeat Page's plans and merge with Helios yourself, becoming a
cyber-messiah who will 
bring the world into your vision of the New World Order.

2) Destroy the Area 51 facility, because all of the global communications
have become routed 
through that facility. Cutting off global communications will serve to
isolate the countries from 
each other, and break the globalist empire of both Majestic 12 and the
Illuminatti, allowing the 
nations to rule themselves once again.

3) I forgot the details of this exactly, but you end up siding with the
Illuminatti and get Page out 
of the way. They now resume their dominant influence over the world, and
you become their 
right-hand man.

Pretty cool eh?
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