I want to expand on Deus Ex universe...

[Zireael]

So, where do I put the thread? Let it stay here, or move it to World Building...?
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I want to expand this timeline, since it is mostly focused on the US. Do you think the timeline is plausible or too far-fetched? Should I move some events backwards or forwards? Add more conspiracy theories? What did happen in the Europe after 2000? In Asia? In Australia?




Timeline
1940
· The Illuminati gather genetic data via the smallpox vaccinations. This continues for two decades.
1946
· March: The UKUSA agreement is signed creating a vast international global eavesdropping network when US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand joined all of their signals intelligence (SIGINT) organizations.
1954
· The Bilderberg Group is created to control financial matters around the world through vast mining operations, control over the Federal Reserve Board, The Eurobank and the World Bank as well as through a stranglehold on the world's supply of gold.
· Majestic 12 is founded sometime after to control technology and communications. It develops advanced technology and decides what to release to the public. It monitors all communications, some better than others. It also controls drugs, legal and illegal, pharmaceutical and recreational. It even introduces new diseases (for which it already has cures waiting).
1958
· Tong Si Hung is born.
1961
· Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduces the world to MH-1; the first computer-operated mechanical hand. Nearing human likeness, the MH-1 has a hand-arm combination of 35 degrees of freedom, and is sensitive to pattern recognition and simulation of higher cognitive processes.
1965
· The Illuminati finish tracking those who receive a smallpox vaccine. From this they are able to build a database of the genetic codes of nearly all citizens of the United States and much of the rest of the world.
1973
· Hugh Darrow is born in Blackheat, South London. He proves to be a visionary entrepreneur whose innovations and groundbreaking ideas change not only the face of augmentation, but also the very fabric of society itself.
1978
· An Australian professor develops the first safe effective sensorineural biotechnology that directly connects electronic technology to physiological contact within the central nervous system. With the help of this new technology, his patient becomes the first human in the world to receive a multi-channel cochlear implant after losing his hearing from injuries sustained to the head. The implantation proves to successfully give him the ability to regain partial hearing and pitch perception.
1980s
· NSA designs the Echelon system by interconnecting all SIGNIT information gathering computers in the UKUSA agreement (that is to say in United States, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia) into and integrated whole.
1987
· The first implantation of a deep-brain electrical stimulation system and the first Lasik eye surgery are performed on human patients.
· Bruce McIndoe helps to finalize the original Echelon system. Bruce would become the lead architect for Echelon II, which would use words and voice recognition, as well as automatic translation.
1993
· March 9: Adam Jensen is born.
1996
· Hugh Darrow creates a prosthetic company named Darrow Industries. With his family's considerable assets at his disposal, Darrow ensures that this, as well as his claims to the importance of this event, makes front-page news.
1997
· The sovereignty of Hong Kong is handed over by the UK to the PRC. A top official of the PRC central law enforcement agency publicly acknowledges his acceptance of the Triad. He states that many of its members are patriotic to the motherland. It is unknown if this is a government stance or a personal opinion.
1998
· The first brain implant capable of stimulating movement is installed in a human patient by researchers at Emory University. The device, or neurotrophic electrode, is implanted into the brain, allowing cortical cells to grow and form neural contacts. After several weeks, the cortical tissue grows into the electrode. This allows a person to interact with the world as if they were using a computer.
· Bruce McIndoe stops work on Echelon II when his company changes hands.
1999
· January 1: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain succumb to Majestic Twelve pressure exerted via the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union or EMU) and adopt the Euro (EUR) as their currency.
· Yelena Fedorova is born.
2000
· The Artificial Silicon Retina (ASR) is implanted for the first time in the eyes of three nearly blind patients. Containing approximately 3,500 microscopic solar cells that convert light into electrical impulses, the new technology works to replace damaged photoreceptors that normally convert light into electrical signals within the retina.
2001
· January 1: Greece adopts the Euro.
· A high-power lineman who, after losing both of his arms through severe electrocution, receives a life-changing computerized, biohybrid arm is dubbed as one of the first functional cyborgs, his fully robotic limb operated through a nerve muscle graft that uses micro computers instead of cables to perform a wide range of complex motions. It is also the first prototype enabling its carrier to sense pressure.
· September 11: A terrorist attack destroys the World Trade Center towers in New York City.
2002
· After six years of intense research, Darrow Industries scientists successfully interwine PEDOT-electrodes with live neural cells, creating a biocompatible matrix that better enables acceptance of prosthetic materials by organic tissue.
· The implementation of the Euro is complete. As a result, most of Europe and its territories are subjects to the economical control of the Majestic 12.
· Faridah Malik is born in Dearborn, United States.
2003
· The United Kingdom adopts the Euro as currency.
2004
· The US Army starts Project Phoenix — amputee veterans of Persian Bay conflicts are invited to volunteer for advanced prosthetics research.
2005
· Project Echelon is moved to Area 51.
· Building on their earlier creation of PEDOT-clusters, Darrow Industries scientists create a revolutionary biosensor that vastly improves the connection between the human nervous system and artificial limbs. The new technology brings researchers one step closer to thinning the line between prosthetic and organic.
2007
· David Sarif creates Sarif Industries in a former car factory in Detroit.
2008
· With the support of the UN and some big biotech companies, like VersaLife Group, WHO forms Omega Ranch — a center which is to pave the way for research on viral genetics and biology. The program is to support Disease Control Initiative.
2009
· Stretched thin by two Mideast conflicts, the US Congress passes Recycle Military Bill — financing free prosthetics for war veterans who re-enlist. Sarif Industries wins a lucrative contract and become the US leader in prosthetics production.
2011
· Internet 2 hub is moved to underground labs in Area 51.
· Darrow Industries publishes "FittestXY" — a test detecting a rare genetic mutation which makes accepting implants impossible, and in extreme cases can cause death.
· Haydon Suyong opens medical clinics for the mechanically-augmented named L.I.M.B. International. To achieve this, he borrows 50m euro from Hugh Darrow.
2012
· As part of their ultimate exit strategy out of Iraq, the U.S. military sends squads of prosthetic-equipped soldiers into the heaviest conflict zones.

 

[Zireael]

2013
· A milestone in the development of augmentation is reached when the 50th healthcare clinic for mechanically augmented patients opens in New Delhi, with nearly 50,000 patients visiting the facility within its first week. At the opening ceremony Haydon Suyong calls his network of clinics "L.I.M.B. International" for the first time.
· After a year of underground activity, Augmented Combat Challenge (ACC), a martial arts league for mechanically-augmented, is made legal in 12 countries.
2014
· Brian Nittle becomes the first patient with Down syndrome to successfully receive a deep-brain implant capable of stimulating portions of the brain in order to significantly increase natural cognitive functions. The implantation works better than imagined and Nittle is able to lead a near normal life.
· The volcanic Vilama Caldera complex in Argentina unexpectedly detonates in a powerful 'supervolcanic' explosion, blanketing huge swathes of land in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia with hot ash. Over 100,000 citizens are killed, but the world finds hope in augmented humans as they play a major role in the region's rescue and recovery operations. Their enhanced abilities save many lives and prove to make a crucial difference in relief of this awesome disaster.
· · After having banned augmented athletes years earlier, plans to rewrite the guidelines and rules governing international athletic competitions are announced. "We can no longer ignore the [augmented] population. They are obviously a part of our world, and this is a worldwide competition," says voting board member Harris Stevenson.
· Adam Jensen joins the Detroit Police Department.
2015
· Rumors begin to circulate that countries are experimenting with new intelligence-enhancing technology by secretly implanting the device in military and counter-intelligence officers. As leaked intelligence from Asia and Europe begins to corroborate the story, a fear of falling behind these imposing advancements accelerates global biotechnical research to new levels.
· After terrorist attacks against Saudi Arabian oil fields decimate the country's infrastructure and plunge the world into a major energy crisis, an emergency session of the US Congress passes the Green River Energy Bill, opening protected oil shale deposits in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming to development. Seeing the challenges and dangers of drilling in the areas, oil companies begin quietly recruiting augmented war vets to work at the highest salaries.
2016
· A foreign pilot equipped with an intelligence-enhancing implant defects to an international U.S. base and the military immediately begins attempting to reverse-engineer the chip.
· The Singularity Faith of the Machine God (SFMG) – a quasi-religious group in favor of mechanically augmenting people is registered as a church. Augs originally formed the SFMG in 2011 in response to being shunned for going against religious scripts that declare it unholy to biologically 'desecrate' their bodies.
2017
· In an attempt to catch up to the rapid advancements of rival nations, the U.S. military awards Sarif Industries a top secret, no-bid contract to manufacture intelligence-enhancing chips.
· Dallas became a self-declared “protected city-state”, paving the way for several other so-called fortress cities to come into being over the next decade.
· First documents regarding the Aquinas Project show up.
2018
· Paul Denton is born.
· Adam Jensen joins the SWAT.
2019
· A Christian group called the NuChrist Initiative emerges, that embraces and encourages cloning, mechanical augmentations and development of biotechnology. Traditionalist Christians hold protest, but cannot stop the membership of the NuChrist Initiative from growing 300% in one year.
· Belltower Associates, an umbrella group of private military contractors, institutes their new augmentation program, Plan Infinity. The Program offers soldiers immediate augmentations while deferring payment for as long as they remain active employees of Belltower.
2020s
· Mechanical-augmentations are just becoming widespread.
· In the early years of this decade work on nano-technology begins. The Majestic 12 scientists assigned to the project (including Bob Page) have a number of difficulties. A self-replicating nanite that can interact with biological material has to be developed. The nanites must be able to interpret commands directly from the mind, and send information back to the mind in a form that can be interpreted. This will take years to develop. A test subject matching MJ12's selection criteria is needed, as young as possible.
· Australia finds a large underground reserve of fossil fuel off the coast of Antarctica. With the fossil fuel crisis worldwide, tensions between north and south Australia rise. Australian Civil War begins.
· Quincy Durant is severely injured during an encounter with an augmented criminal, and is forced to undergo extensive augmentation to survive. Durant is later put in charge of a new unit of augmented SWAT officers; Adam Jensen is given command of Durant's old unit.
2020
· A California Secessionist Movement was narrowly defeated in a public referendum.

2021
· Quincy Durant's SWAT unit massacres the entire Kowalski Bros. Gang at the El Diablo Lapdancing Club.
2022
· Antoine Thisdale, an unaugmented oil rig worker sues for the right to have both of his fully functional natural arms amputated and replaced with cybernetic arms in an effort to compete with mechanically augmented workers in his profession. The US Supreme Court rules in his favor, therefore creating a constitutional right to be mechanically augmented.
· Bill Taggart forms an anti-augmentation group called Humanity Front based in Utah.
· A Pan-Arab coalition invades Israel. Illuminati control of the region becomes total.
2023
· At 5 years old, Paul is chosen as a test specimen and cloned.
· Quincy Durant's now corrupt SWAT unit has violently taken down half of the organized crime groups in the city, taking over their operations for themselves.
2024
· First nanoaugmentation tests are performed on the clones of Paul Denton.
· An investigative news report reveals that a high-profile contestant on a popular American game show had been implanted with an intelligence-enhancing chip prior to his appearance on the program. The scandal causes a significant upswing in popular opposition to the largely unregulated augmentation industry. The Humanity Front's membership grows sizeably as a result.
2025
· Quincy Durant's SWAT unit instigates the Mexicantown Riots. Durant is badly wounded in a firefight with Adam Jensen, acting on orders to take Durant down. Durant is retrieved in secret by the Illuminati and given further augmentation. Durant's unit is shut down and its other members are stripped of their badges and arrested.
· Adam Jensen does not fulfill an order to shoot a mechanically augmented teen and loses the post of a SWAT commander.

 

[Zireael]

2026 Deus Ex: Icarus Effect (novel) takes place
· Adam Jensen becomes the Chief of Security at the Sarif Industries.
2027 Deus Ex: Human Revolution takes place
· “Biopolitical Vote” takes place
· Bill Taggart is almost killed by an augmented sniper at a Humanity Front rally in Geneva. This pushes the UN to consider regulation of human augmentation.
· Versalife announces they have successfully cured AIDS in laboratory mice using nanites.
2028
· Tests show successful experiments on clones. Paul’s mother is impregnated with JC’s embryo.
2029
· March 17: JC Denton is born.
· Scientists construct embryonic incubators.
2030
· Scientists try to gather samples of the 1918 influenza virus from bodies buried under the North Pole. The virus escapes, causing a worldwide tuberculosis and Spanish flu pandemic. VersaLife, earlier a small genetic lab, creates a medicine, gaining indescribable riches.
· A vaccine for AIDS is found.
· A mostly unknown company based in LA (like VersaLife) creates a vaccine for the flu, too. Soon afterwards, an earthquake happens (low-radiation explosives were placed along the fault line) – sinking the city and the part of San Francisco. The government focuses on helping the state of California. The West Coast is declared a disaster area.
2030s
· After the HIV cure is released new resistant diseases appear. Resistant tuberculosis hits the developing nations, particularly India, very hard. A sample of the 1918 flu virus from bodies buried under the North Pole is accidentally released when it is procured for research.
· · Versalife is instrumental in fighting these epidemics. Versalife soon branches to embrace all forms of science and commerce.
2031
· Utah declares independence and annexes Arizona and Nevada. They are followed by fringe groups in Texas.
· Texas is attacked by the Mexico.
· Northwestern National Secessionist Forces are created, consisting of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana & Wyoming. Start of the Northwest War.
· All of these attempts to secede fail. Martial law enacted by the US government following the reintegration of the rogue states into the motherland continues for years to come in some areas.
2033
· November 20: Alex Denton's assigned false birth date.
· May 13: Nick Pausback's assigned false birth date.
2034
· Research concerning the second generation of clones starts.
· Toxicological study found no carcinogenic effects at chlorine concentrations a thousand times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency revised Kyoto standards.
· February 25: Wade Walker's assigned false birth date.
2035
· Having lined up all of the Illuminati's political, financial, military and religious arms beneath it, Majestic 12 inherits the mantle of de facto ruler of Asia, Eastern Europe and South America. It's rebellion is complete.
· The parents of Paul and JC Denton are assassinated by the MJ-12. JC is sent to a Swiss school.
· MJ12 splinters from the Illuminati.
2036
· Paul Denton begins 4-year university studies.
2040s
· Tracer Tong begins working on the AI project named Ava Johnson.
2040
· Paul Denton, age 22, joins UNATCO.
2042
· Sporting Weapons Act is passed.
· National Secessionist Forces are formed, led by Leon Woods. They intend the "liberation" of Washington, Montana, Oregon, and Northern California.
· JC Denton finishes school.
· Page Industries begins working on the Aquinas.
2044
· Common sensors are discovered in the human brain.
2045
· Leon Woods dies during his infamous “last stand” at the siege of Squalnomie.
2046
· In response to the Upper West Side bombing that killed 45 people and wounded over 100, newly enacted grid zoning laws allow the police to wall off regions of Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs. Foot traffic between these "zones" is prohibited, and traveling between zones restricted to authorized subways or highways subject to police surveillance.
· The crash of '46. Construction of a unnamed building in Paris is stopped.
· VersaLife is suspected to begin working on an antidote to the Gray Death – Ambrosia.
2047
· The "Somnolente Ile" scandal in France.
· Rumors say the work on the Aquinas Protocol begins in this year.
· JC Denton graduates.
2048
· President and Congress elections in the US. Philip Riley Mead becomes POTUS.
2049
· Doctor Moreau starts working in the MJ12 lab under UNATCO.
· Majestic 12 manages to force all brain coils to work with nanoimplants.
2050
· Paul Denton is approached with an offer of implanting nanoaugmentations. The experiment succeeds. Most clones are removed.
· Silhouette sabotages the Internet broadcast of the World Cup by inserting 20th century style advertisements mocking the excesses of mechanical augmentation and UNATCO.
2051
· A Gray Death pandemic breaks out.
· The Templars become inactive due to a raid of the UNATCO and the Interpol on their headquarters in Paris.
· UNATCO destroys the Statue of Liberty and blames the Silhouette.
· September: Beth DuClare dies.
· The members of X-51 escape Area 51. Explosives they had planted destroy most of the machines, including the Universal Constructor.
· JC Denton enters UNATCO and undergoes the experimental procedure of implanting the nanoaugmentations.
· 15,234 young people serve sentences in the state's FBI-run "good behavior" camps, a legacy of the Northwest War.
2052 Deus Ex takes place
· Worldwide flooding from melting polar ice caps at its minimum.
· Mechanical-augmentation reaches its lowest ebb. Mech-augs are no longer popular mere 25 years after their Golden Age.
· Beth DuClare awarded the Legion of Honour posthumously.
· JC Denton begins active duty.
· Martial law in the US.
· The destruction of Area 51 and the Great Fall
· JC Denton merges with Helios. The process overloads the Aquinas Router, triggering an explosion which kills Bob Page and destroys the global communication network. This results in The Collapse, the worst economic disaster in history, and a new Dark Age. Countries disintegrate overnight, plunging the world into chaos.
· JC falls into a coma and moves to the Antarctica.
· Alex Denton leaves the incubator (his false birth year is 2047).
2053
· Chad Dumier leads the WTO, and Nicolette DuClare creates the Order Church.
· The WTO incorporates the city of Trier, Germany. Eldrin Braeden, a influential local businessman, is driven from power as a result of the incorporation.
2057
· Seattle joins WTO.
2060
· Alex Denton begins his schooling in Tarsus, Chicago.
2067
· Disturbances in the structure of the Nanite Cloud 9 give the inhabitants of Cairo hopes for clean air, but turn out to be temporary and caused by the El Niño.
2069
· Donna Morgan is promoted to Security Chief of WTO.
· Paul Denton tests a new biomod architecture – the attempt fails, Paul falls into a coma and is hibernated.
2071
· Riots in a Seattle refinery, when the results of a referendum concerning the city’s entry to the WTO. Some inhabitants of Lower Seattle take to the streets, claiming the voting was falsified.
· Humankind lands on Mars. The words "Mankind is now the inhabitant of two worlds" broadcast in both English and Spanish. Conspiracy theorists contend that the landing was staged.
2072 Deus Ex: Invisible War takes place
· With no practical uses, mechanical-augmentation is made completely obsolete due to its inferiority to nano-augmentation, which is now common.
· Chicago is destroyed by a nanite detonator.
· The Templars split from the Order. An attack of the WTO enclaves.
· Alex Denton awakens JC Denton from his coma.
· Alex Denton uploads the Aquinas protocol

 

[ThinkerX]

It seems mostly phausible.

Some things do 'just appear' without explanation, 'X-51' being the one I can recollect offhand.

You seem to be arguing for 'fast growing clones' - clones that attain maturity in just a few years. That might be dubious. Also, expecting even a 'perfect' clone to have the same personality traits as the original is also dubious, though I'm not certain you are arguing for such.

You might also have people embracing amputation/augmentation a bit overly eagerly.

As to the rest of the world...Brazil is on its way to becoming an economic superpower. A few years ago, real world wise, a major oil deposit was discovered off Brazils coast. Probably be another ten or fifteen years before it is exploited. Worth noting, Brazil also doesn't have an expansionist mindset, prefering to remain neutral. (I used to hang out at oil forums.)

 

[Zireael]

Well, 90% of this is taken from Deus Ex Wikia. I might edit it to be a little more clear about the clones (they aren't fast-growing in any way, both Paul and JC grew up normally and they didn't wait in any way for the expendable ones to grow up).

About mech-augs - do you think these should appear later? Be less successful? Should I think of some events not involving the mech-augs between 2004 and 2052?

 

[ThinkerX]

Deus Ex Wikia? Is this some sort of video game?

About mech-augs - do you think these should appear later? Be less successful? Should I think of some events not involving the mech-augs between 2004 and 2052?

Considering that we just had a very impressive double amputee athlete, I don't object to the success.

Thing is, you're showing the positives, not the downsides. Learning how to walk or move things all over again. Bugs in the equipment.

 

[Zireael]

Yes, Deus Ex is a video game. But I like the universe and thought I might expand on it a bit.

 

[Zireael]

2018

Sarif Industries begins testing their first mechanical augmentations.

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A friend suggested I move Paul's birth to 2039, therefore moving JC's birth to 2049 and Alex's to 2043. Paul would start studying in 2046, which would remove his link to Tracer Tong...

 

[Nobby]

You CANNOT remove Tracer Tong. In DEUS Ex he was the most humanitarian. {bottom lip out}

 

[Zireael]

You CANNOT remove Tracer Tong. In DEUS Ex he was the most humanitarian. {bottom lip out}

I am not saying I would remove Tracer. Just that Paul wouldn't be connected to him (wouldn't have a chance to meet him)

 

[Zireael]

Okay, I got DX HR so I am returning to this project.

HR's Faridah Malik and Dr Marcovic and Michael Zelazny and DX 1's Anna Navarre and some others in DX IW made me think: how many Americans of mixed ancestry are there in 2014 and how many could be around 2025 and around 2050 and 2070?

Wikipedia says there are 2% of multiracial Americans, but I count Polish-German, Russian-Irish or whatever (who would be listed as White or Latino in the U.S. census) as mixed ancestry too. The question is, how high would the number be? 10%?