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JC Denton JC is a 23-year-old (in the first game) clone of his brother (thus he is referred to as the "Secondary Unit" by Bob Page and Walton Simons) Paul Denton and a prototype created by shadowy organization Majestic 12 to test their nano-augmentation program. As a result of testing, Paul was found to have the right combination of biological and genetic factors to make him a good candidate for the nano-augmentation. To create more compatible test subjects, Majestic 12 produced clones of Paul, but most failed to accept the augmentations. His parents, however, were infertile after Paul's birth. They approached MJ12 looking for a method to have a new baby. MJ12 offered one, in the form of the implantation of an embryo. This procedure produced a clone of Paul, which would later become JC Denton. Paul and JC are, thus, identical twins born eleven years apart. // Headline text Cloning is badLink titleBas Bas Bad!!!!Italic textYOU ARE VERT BAD!Insert non-formatted text hereCloning!!!!Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original. ...
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Later, as Paul reached adolescence, he became more independent and MJ12 decided to have him and his parents killed, while JC was sent to a Swiss school where he could be more closely supervised. Paul escaped this attack, and JC grew up unaware of his early childhood with Majestic 12. After graduation, JC joined UNATCO, a United Nations anti-terrorism organization. Spoiler warning: // Basic information UNATCO (United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition) is a fictional United Nations organization in the PC and PlayStation 2 video game Deus Ex and its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War. ...
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JC has solid blue eyes (which are always obscured by sunglasses and are a result of nano-augmentation), though his hair and skin colour can be chosen by the player at the start of the game; changes made to JC's appearance affect those of Paul as well. Overheard conversations reveal that at least one Majestic 12 soldier believes that JC looks German.
There is some evidence that JC was in fact growth-accelerated, and that he is in fact roughly 2 years old. See Deus Ex#Dating. Deus Ex is a computer game developed by Ion Storm Inc. ...
Paul Denton Paul Denton is the older brother of JC Denton. He was the first agent (thus he is referred to as the "Primary Unit" by Bob Page and Walton Simons) to successfully have nano-augmentations implanted into his body. He was a UNATCO agent, and as Deus Ex begins, he is returning from Hong Kong. Since both brothers are clones, Paul Denton looks very much like JC, yet he is of a wholly different stock of character. Where JC is stolid and perfunctory, Paul is passionate and dedicated. Where JC is cold, Paul is empathetic and favours knocking out and incapacitating enemies rather than killing them. It is possible for him to die, depending on your actions in the game.
Gunther Hermann Gunther Hermann is a top agent of the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition, or UNATCO. Standing an ample six feet eight inches tall, Gunther's already imposing appearance is made all the more terrifying by his heavy mechanical augmentation. He is well versed in the use of deadly weapons, being the Commandant of the UNATCO weapons course, and is never without his assault rifle, plasma cannon, flame-thrower, and combat knife. With close to 1000 confirmed kills to his name, Gunther is by far UNATCO's deadliest agent. Spoiler warning: // Basic information UNATCO (United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition) is a fictional United Nations organization in the PC and PlayStation 2 video game Deus Ex and its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War. ...
Gunther has a heavy German accent, as well as a love of murder and mayhem that endears him to fellow mechanically augmented UNATCO agent Anna Navarre. This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
While his augmentations grant him strength and speed far beyond that of normal men, they are also prone to the degradation of any constantly operating piece of machinery. He receives significant wear in his line of work, and is often returning to Dr. Jaime Reyes for a tune-up. It would also seem that Gunther's immense size brings with it a rather unique problem: Should the player decide to hack into Gunther's personal computer, he will discover a wealth of badly-typed correspondence. Presumably, Gunther's fingers are too large to allow him to use a keyboard accurately or effectively. (Another suggestion, based on his German name and accent, is that his written English is simply not good enough). An overheard conversation between Gunther and Anna Navarre reveals that his large fingers may also hinder his ability to operate soda machines, although he insists that it is a conspiracy by the janitor (although in Deus Ex: Invisible War you can hear a bum talking about how the machine gave him the wrong drink, so the real issue wasn't really the size of his fingers). To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Beneath his hard metal surface, Gunther is also a very sad and lonely agent. His severely scarring augmentation makes him a freak to the public eye, a monster with a guttural accent who loves to kill. But in truth, Gunther is just a confused and frustrated cyborg killing machine, a pitiful pawn of the bureaucratic high command. His long-time partner and fellow mech-aug Anna Navarre is the only real friend Gunther has in the entire world, and as a result, he is fiercely loyal to her.
Gunther resents the almost infinite power of nano-augmentation, as well as the agents who utilize them (due to their relatively normal appearance), and often finds himself fantasizing about ever more impractical augmentations he believes his superiors might offer him (such as a "skull-gun", allowing him to kill simply by willpower).
Like most active mech-aug agents, Gunther was wired to a killphrase, a failsafe intended to prevent Hermann from turning against his employers. Uttering the phrase "Laputan machine" in Gunther's presence detonates the explosive device in his chest. However, a conversation with Jaime Reyes in Paris reveals that "At the sound of your (JC Denton's) voice, 400 milliamps will discharge into Gunther's mid-brain. Poof!". This self-destruct mechanism apparently takes a few seconds to arm, just long enough for poor Gunther to protest "I am not a machine!". Laputa is a fictional place from the book Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift. ...
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Gunther's size and appearance bears a striking resemblance to Section 9 agent Batou from the Ghost in the Shell franchise. Motoko Kusanagi from the manga Ghost in the Shell. ...
Alex Jacobson UNATCO's IT man, secretly sympathetic to JC's cause. He is able to constantly see everything JC sees and hear everything JC hears, and as such is able to pass along relevant information to JC. His office also houses the hidden stash of UNATCO's thief.
Jock A UNATCO helicopter pilot who turns rogue, Jock (real name Brian Flanagan) is entrusted to fly one of the so-called "black helicopters," low-noise, low-visibility stealth helicopters to assist MJ12 and UNATCO with their covert operations. Jock transports the player from place to place as a dutiful pilot, but when the player is given the opportunity to speak to him in the Underworld Bar at Hell's Kitchen, New York (the only time he can be found apart from his chopper), he/she learns more about Jock's ambitions. Black helicopters are part of a conspiracy theory, prevalent among the American militia, that claims that special silent running black helicopters are used by secret agents of the New World Order, United Nations troops preparing to invade the United States of America, and/or the Men in Black. ...
As a longtime pilot for covert operations, Jock is aware of many top-secret forces at work involving Echelon, Area 51, and other covert government operations. JC is initially skeptical of Jock's claims of massive centralized surveillance and artificial intelligence, but as the game progresses, the proof presents itself. This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ...
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Jock is a longtime friend of Paul Denton, and is eager to assist the resistance by bringing JC to Hong Kong after his escape from UNATCO. Jock continues to assist JC as pilot and occasional informant until the end of the game, where the player's actions determine if he survives to the finale.
Jaime Reyes Dr. Reyes attends to the medical needs of all UNATCO's soldiers, and provides JC with nano-augmentation canisters and upgrades from time to time. His office is also stocked with med-kits. Reyes is endeared to JC because of an understanding of his past, and eagerly assists JC upon his arrival at UNATCO. Reyes becomes dissatisfied with the organization as JC uncovers its secrets, but he is far less passionate about it than Paul. The player is given the choice to either keep Reyes in UNATCO as a covert informant, or to advise him to escape and assist the resistance.
General Carter General Sam Carter is the quartermaster and arms supplier for UNATCO. He is a small legend among the military for his actions in the Merced Operation (which is otherwise unexplained in the game), and JC recognizes him immediately upon meeting him. (Though never explicitly mentioned in the game, Carter was retired from army service after losing one of his legs. He currently uses a mechanical prosthesis) His family was murdered by the NSF, but his response to JC's attempts at sympathy are curt. Although surely a strong fighter and skilled soldier (he claims to have taken out an entire platoon with a pocket knife, and he doesn't joke around...), Carter has an intimate understanding of tactics and deliberacy. He applauds JC when stealth and skill are used in favor of brute force. Carter also has a respect and admiration for military order and discipline; the ability for an organization to harness the power of obedience and teamwork. A United States soldier demonstrates Foosball with two prosthetic limbs In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial extension that replaces a missing part of the body. ...
Sam Carter has a belief that a benign military can exist to truly serve peace and the people. When UNATCO's secrets are revealed, Sam is loathe to give up his loyalty, because of the belief that UNATCO can still do good if most of its employees are there to serve good. As the game progresses, however, Sam realizes that he cannot remain in UNATCO, and escapes the organization, pondering the true meaning of good in a military.
Carter and Doctor Gary Savage of X-51 apparently go back a while. It is him who he contacts when he needs to get out of UNATCO. Sam is staying with him in X-51 Vandenberg headquarters when the player last sees him. This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
Joseph Manderley Joseph Manderley is the director of the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition, or UNATCO.
Manderley is a bureaucrat at heart, a proxy from the Treasury department installed by Majestic 12 to put an urbane face on their operation. After the defection of Paul Denton from UNATCO and the capture of JC Denton by Majestic 12, Manderley was relieved of duty (unless killed by you, the player) and replaced by Walton Simons. In his youth he partecipated in the Templars' apparent demise. A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the government. ...
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Janice Reed Janice Reed is Joseph Manderley's secretary. Her office is outside Manderley's office. She can give the player some information, but scolds JC after he is captured as he escapes from UNATCO.
Anna Navarre Anna Navarre is a top agent of the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition, or UNATCO. Spoiler warning: // Basic information UNATCO (United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition) is a fictional United Nations organization in the PC and PlayStation 2 video game Deus Ex and its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War. ...
Agent Navarre has a heavy russian accent. She stands roughly five feet ten inches tall, and sports fairly extensive mechanical augmentation (though not as instantly horrifying as fellow mech-aug Gunther Herman). She also has a thing for black leather. This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
Anna is not a stranger to blood and gore. In fact, she revels in it (much to the chagrin of fellow agent Paul Denton). Like Gunther, Anna feels that the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. But unlike Gunther, she prefers a silent, stealthy kill to an all-out frontal assault (as evidenced by her focus on stealth in her section of the UNATCO training course). She has even gone so far to have a cloaking augmentation installed.
Anna was JC's first partner after his arrival at UNATCO, but she was content to sit out their first mission outside Castle Clinton while Denton handled the guards inside (presumably so that Denton's performance could be "assessed"). She is suspicious and somewhat hostile toward her nano-augmented colleagues, but has a more open mind than her cohort, Agent Hermann. Anna will put up with them, as long as they get the job done (in as bloody a manner as possible, of course). Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton is a circular sandstone fort and national monument in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City. ...
Anna has something of a unique fighting style in that she always fires her assault rifle one-handed, while everyone else in the Deus Ex world has to use both hands to fire that weapon. She's also unusually adept at scoring headshots and bodyshots instead of simply spraying the arms and legs.
Like Gunther Hermann, agent Navarre can be terminated by simply speaking aloud a killphrase, specifically "flatlander woman". As in Gunther's case, death only occurs after several seconds, long enough for Navarre to express her fury ("How did you know-?!") and Denton to deliver an apt and somewhat jarring one-liner. Flatlander is a term used, moderately disparagingly, by people living at higher altitudes - typically in smaller towns - to refer to those living at lower altitudes. ...
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It is widely believed that Anna is the only character who must die in order to complete the game. However, the existence of alternate dialog later in the game which depends on whether she is alive or dead suggests that she too may be allowed to live without hampering the player's objectives. In fact, the one character who must die (for he is part of a mission objective) is Howard Strong). This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
Allies
Harley Filben Harley Filben sells information to anyone that has the money. He lives life up to the grimy, dirty hilt. He is the man that looks like he's crawled out of the sewer but just as likely to have been in some general's office. He chats with former soldiers who have the gray death, as well as hookers and does odd jobs. He is a lot more than he seems, as you will find out later in the game.
Leo Gold The NSF commander whom JC is assigned to capture in his first mission on Liberty Island. He finds him in the makeshift command centre at the top of the ruined Statue of Liberty. The two discuss capitalist ethics and UNATCO's intervention in the freedom of the people, before Gold is arrested. It is not known what then becomes of him. Liberty Island, formerly called Bedloes Island, is a small uninhabited island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty. ...
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Sandra Renton Daughter of Gilbert Renton. She is rebellious, preferring to live on the street rather than in her father's run down hotel. She is constantly menaced by JoJo Fine and his enforcer Jonny. She also knows the password to get into Smuggler's place and helps JC with general advice.
Gilbert Renton Gilber Renton runs the 'Ton (short for Hilton) Hotel, which is also the permanent residence of Paul and JC Denton.
The Smuggler An arms smuggler that supplies JC with some of his weapons. He lowers the price of these weapons in exchange for rescuing his friend, Ford Schick during the early parts of the game. JC's actions later in the game determines whether he lives or dies.
Tracer Tong Tracer Tong is an ally and informant to Paul Denton. He resides in Hong Kong and heads a small laboratory that aids the resistance. His laboratory is located underneath the compound of the Luminous Path, one of two triads that vie for control of Hong Kong. Paul first becomes an ally of Tracer via e-mail exchanges leading him down a path towards UNATCO's secrets. Both Paul and JC were assigned to assassinate Tracer Tong, as MJ12 views him as a very powerful threat, but both defect before completing their respective missions. This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
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Tracer Tong is a curious man, and curiosity is what leads him to follow JC's actions upon first meeting him; however, his loyalty is not blind. JC must earn the trust of Tracer, even though his brother is Tong's ally and friend. When JC gains a sliver of Tong's trust, Tong uses his laboratory to deactivate JC's killswitch, thus saving his life.
Tong continues to aid JC (as much as JC continues to aid Tong), and with his help JC is led to Area 51 where the game's climax occurs. During the game the MJ12 continue to fight Tong, and successfully manage to infect him with the Gray Death, but Tong's life is saved with the help of resistance members. At the end of the game, Tong advises the player to destroy Area 51, thus removing the technology and starting a new Dark Age; this one of three paths the player can choose to take.
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Gordon Quick The Luminous Path's Dragon Head. He can be found personally guarding the entrance to the Luminous Path's compound. Not much is known about him except that he and his triad provide safe harbor and an operating base for Tracer Tong. He tells JC Denton about Maggie Chow's manipulation of the Triads and how to stop her (by proving to Max Chen that it was her that murdered the Red Arrow's former leader and tricked them both into a triad war). A sub-plot removed from the final release of Deus Ex was Gordon's love for the daughter of Max Chen. While cut, it it still referenced to in his diary, in the Luminous Path compound. This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
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Max Chen The Dragon Head of the Red Arrow triad came to power shortly after his predecessor was murdered by Maggie Chow (who then framed the Luminous Path for his murder to weaken the triads). Both Max Chen and Gordon Quick quickly declare a truce once JC proves that Maggie Chow set them both up.
Nicolette DuClare Nicolette DuClare is the daughter of Elizabeth DuClare, a former member of the Illuminati. Nicolette is a relatively minor character, appearing only in a single mission. After her mother's assassination she began working with the terrorist group Silhouette. She brings JC to Beth DuClare's chateau, and helps him contact Beth's old associate Morgan Everett. Spoiler warning: In the video game Deus Ex. ...
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Chad Dumier Chad Dumier is the leader of the terrorist group Silhouette and a close friend of Nicolette Duclare. He and the rest of Silhouette have taken up residence in an old World War Two bunker located in the Paris Catacombs, and is likely to remain there until the bunker is no longer under threat of siege by Majestic 12.
Morgan Everett Morgan Everett is the acting leader of the Illuminati. His residence is somewhere in France, though the exact location cannot be confirmed.
Everett is highly paranoid, and receives visitors only after they have proven themselves to be loyal to the Illuminati. Even then he does not allow them to know the location of his compound, instead opting to render visitors unconscious with neuroparalytic gas and transport them in secret through his associate Toby Atanwe.
Everett's compound is quite vast, encompassing computer and nanotech laboratories, hydroponic growing vats, a repair depot, and a helipad.
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His mansion has a secret room with his predecessor, who was leader of the Illuminati during the 20th century, preserved within it.
Dr Gary Savage Gary Savage is the leader of the team that defected from Majestic 12 once they found out MJ12's sinister intentions. He is the head of X-51, a well-armed and heavily fortified team of scientists and United States Army soldiers once based at Area 51, but now based at Vandenberg Air Force Base. His team finds itself in constant skirmishes with the forces of Majestic 12. Being the only other institution with a Universal Constructor, his team holds the only hope for a possible cure to the Gray Death.
Tiffany Savage Daughter of Gary Savage. Tiffany Savage turned out to be an unlikely spy when she was sent to recover the remaining schematics to the Universal Constructor. She succeeded in infiltrating the Majestic 12 Ocean Lab in Pasedena, CA, but was eventually captured and held hostage. The Ocean Lab fell under X-51's control after JC obtained the remaining Universal Constructor schematics and cleaned the place out. Depending on the player's actions, JC can rescue Tiffany or allow her to be executed by MJ12.
Antagonists
Jonny Jonny is one of JoJo Fine's many personal enforcers. He beats up, intimidates and even kills without a second thought. Depending on JC's actions, Sandra Renton may be among his victims.
JoJo Fine JoJo Fine is a pimp, drug dealer and all around gangster. Although he is a member of the NSF, he is despised even among their ranks. Sandra Renton initially admires him before realizing his true nature.
Bob Page Bob Page is the main villain in the game and was a special protégé to Illuminati leader Morgan Everett. Although Page was a good student, he was also impatient and short-tempered. Page and Everett developed Daedalus, an Artificial Intelligence program that would help the Illuminati keep track of and control the new communication technologies. The duo also started the project that Majestic 12 would eventually turn into the Gray Death virus. Page was a major power behind the push for nanotechnology, and was a part of the enhancement project that JC Denton and Paul Denton went though. This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
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Page grew impatient with Everett's unwillingness to use the technology and the Illuminati's slow, gentle ways and rebelled by forming Majestic 12, which eventually took over much of the Illuminati's power structures and resources. The final blow to the Illuminati was when Page gained almost total control of the information infrastructure through the Aquinas Protocol/Hub at Area 51 and the Daedalus A.I., making it nigh impossible for the Illuminati to safely communicate using electronic means.
Secretly, Page is the head of Majestic 12. His ultimate plan is to merge with the artificial intelligence Helios to control the world's electronic systems, becoming an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent entity.
Publicly, Bob Page is the richest man on Earth; a trillionaire and head of the unbelievably large Page Industries. Page also likes to groom his image in the public eye as a great philanthropist, donating millions of credits to the needy, while secretly plunging the world into chaos to create the conditions that will allow him to achieve world domination. A philanthropist is someone who devotes his time, money, or effort towards helping others. ...
Walton Simons Walton Simons is the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and a member of Majestic 12. He is a close associate of Bob Page, and a very powerful man in Washington. He was appointed to FEMA through Page's manipulation of an unnamed senator infected with the Gray Death, and went to work immediately. A strictly cloak-and-dagger man, Simons was the first higher-up on the scene after JC Denton's capture of NSF operatives in Battery Park, though his interrogations consisted mostly of numerous shotgun blasts to the chest. New FEMA seal The Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA is an agency of the United States government dedicated to swift response in the event of disasters, both natural and man-made. ...
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The third successful nano-augmented human (After Paul and JC Denton), Simons is widely considered one of the most dangerous men in Majestic 12. Although he claims his augmentations are strictly for increased ability for work in FEMA disaster relief, he often travels with an escort of two or more Men in Black, and he is rarely seen without his plasma rifle close at hand. In one outcome Simons hints to JC (outside Area 51) that he is another clone of Paul Denton. In UFO conspiracy theories, the term Men in Black (MIBs), also known as Men in Gray, are alleged to be men dressed in black suits claiming to be government agents who attempt to harass or threaten UFO witnesses into silence. ...
Simons also has a tendency to continually charge his bioelectric reserves, keeping them at 100% efficiency. This causes an intermittent sharp pain behind his eyes.
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Maggie Chow J.C. Denton encounters Maggie Chow in Hong Kong. A former kung-fu actress turned politician, she claims that the Luminous Path Triads work for Majestic 12 and have stolen the Dragon Tooth Sword to upstage their rivals, the Red Arrow. In reality, she is a Majestic 12 agent and holds the Sword in a hidden barracks in her apartment. There are several ways to deal with Maggie: Denton could either kill her in her apartment and fight his way to the Sword, or he could get the sword without killing her, in which case he would have to fight her later at the Universal Constructor. She is an expert swordsperson, armed with a Dragon Tooth Sword of her own.
Howard Strong JC's encounter with Howard Strong is minor but significant. He is a "fixer" that arranges and carries out various odd jobs for Majestic 12 as a whole, but not the murder of JC and Paul's "parents," who were killed by an MIB, because they knew too much and objected to Paul and JC's training and UNATCO indoctrination. Howard is seen as something of a joke among Deus Ex fans, mainly due to his attitude and the ease of his death - for instance, the tendency to blow himself up when attacking JC, or being easily killed by being jumped on.
Lucius DeBeers DeBeers is the former head of the Illuminati. He is now cryogenically frozen in a pod in new leader Everett's apartment. Everett has told DeBeers that he intends to revive him but is instead using him for his strategic knowledge. The player has a choice whether to inform DeBeers of this and whether to euthanise him at his bequest afterwards. This does not seem to effect the game in any way.
Artificial intelligences
Helios Helios is an A.I. that was created when the artificial intelligences Icarus and Daedalus merged. Bob Page knew the merge would happen, and planned to merge himself with the AI, becoming a biological component of it. He was however unable to control Helios, which itself wanted to control the world as a benevolent dictator, citing history as evidence that humanity will inevitably destroy itself if left on its own. Helios selects JC Denton instead as its biological component, believing that Denton could provide the necessary ability to understand humans that a benevolent dictator would need to rule effectively. The player of Deus Ex could choose to help Helios, or choose one of the other two endings of the game. This is a guide to the characters in the video game Deus Ex. ...
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Even before the ending is chosen however, Helios begins to assert its influence by interfacing with the Aquinas system located in Area 51 which surveys the entirety of the Internet. In Hong Kong Helios shuts down power to all government buildings, disables the Triads electronically and orders free flow of traffic to begin anew.
Icarus Icarus was created by Bob Page (head of Majestic-12) as a replacement for Daedalus, which had escaped from his control, and has similar functions to its predecessor. Icarus is one of the game's antagonists; it is used by MJ-12 to track the movements and activities of the main character, JC Denton, after he escapes from a holding cell in the secret MJ-12 Headquarters on Liberty Island. JC Denton has brief contact with Icarus throughout the game; these involve taunts, warnings, questions and misinformation received as voice messages, phone calls, and posted messages on public computer terminals. Icarus eventually merges with the Daedalus AI to become Helios.
Daedalus The AI that would later be known as Daedalus was conceived by the brilliant mind of Morgan Everett, the current leader of Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati. Everett conceived the program that would eventually create Daedalus, as a way to create the near perfect advisor, with the ability to shift through gigantic amounts of data, and through that predict disasters, both natural and man-made, and to make plans to prevent them, which the Illuminati could then choose to either ignore or execute.
Daedalus was never meant to have an actual sentience or self-awareness, and was only to give advice - not to do anything itself. Everett's protege Bob Page, however, saw Daedalus as the means to keep tabs on and control the huge amounts of electronic information that filtered though the Internet and other electronic media, a feat that both the Illuminati, and its splinter cell, Majestic-12, that Page controlled, had not been able to pull off.
Page's ideas for Daedalus' reconfiguration did not fly totally under the radar, as the entire project became linked, logically enough, to the creation of the Echelon 4's replacement. Before the Illuminati and MJ-12 could put a stop to it, a few rumours filtered though to the various conspiracy theorist groups on the Internet. Meanwhile, Page created the Daedalus, which soon after, without even alerting Page that he had succeeded, fled into the Internet and began to become self-aware. Page originally intended Daedalus as a tool to keep track of any developments that would threaten MJ-12, but this backfired when its pattern-matching code classified MJ-12 in the same category as the groups it was supposed to find and monitor.
After having sorted though much of the information on the Net, Daedalus found that the world was on the verge of collapse. Still retaining some of the basic parameters that Everett had encoded in the basic template, Daedalus began to ponder how it was going to save the world from itself, and not least MJ-12, which it classified as a terrorist organisation due to its disregard for people in its quest for world domination.
Daedalus was not designed to reside in one major mainframe or hub, but rather to exist simultaneously as a line of code or two on every single device connected to the Internet, not unlike the distributed computing of today. This not only made Daedalus almost impossible to trace, but also gave it huge amounts of processing power. This is also eerily evident by the inclusion of the word Daedalus in the code at the bottom of every computer terminal in the game. In computer science, distributed computing studies the coordinated use of physically distributed computers. ...
Morgan Everett: "There's a blip of Daedalus' code running on every communications device on the planet."
Daedalus eventually found Paul Denton to help him, whom it later abandoned in favour of his brother JC, when Paul became unable to continue the fight against MJ-12. In the end Daedalus was tricked into merging with his MJ-12 friendly, and slightly crazed, "brother" Icarus, that Page had made as a replacement, creating the AI Helios.
Morpheus Morpheus is possibly Deus Ex's most poignant element. A semi-hidden AI, Morpheus sees man's obsession with the machine with utter clarity. He observes man's madness, narcissism and desire for judgement with an eerie, almost childlike accuracy. He is found in Morgan Everett's apartment in Paris. Morpheus served as the prototype testbed for Daedalus and according to a book in his room, was behaving erratically as of late, exhibiting what may be cursory signs of true consciousness. Prototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. ...
Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise such key features as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ...
The Oracle An extremely minor AI in the game, whose only communications appear in emails to Smuggler and Alex Jacobson, found on their computers. The Oracle is an AI that provides information to people, in return for information it doesn't already have. It attempts to hide it's true nature in plain sight, pretending to be an automatic server that responds to messages.
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