WMG / Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

The identity of Bob Page's partner.

The only detail we know of him or her for sure is their occupation: behavioral therapy, essentially a branch of psychology. It is also reasonable to assume that they may be associated with the Illuminati, given the association of their spouse with that organization. One person in Mankind Divided fits both of those characteristics, and that is Delara Auzenne, TF-29's resident psychotherapist and Illuminati agent.

We will see Paul Denton as a child, and/or JC as a baby, or have some serious references to them.

The game is set in 2029, which is stated to be the year of JC's birth according to the Deus Ex Bible.

• Jossed

The Adam we will play as in Mankind Divided is a clone of the Adam from Deus Ex: Human Revolution

It would tie the game thematically to Invisible War in a subtle way so as to not attract its Hate Dom, as well as providing a way for all the endings of HR to be canonical after all.

• Possibly, though that wouldn't explain how his appearance among the wreckage of Panchaea in the trailer. Unless you're suggesting that he did infact perish there and was cloned afterwards, outfitted with all of the same augmentations in the same manner they were given to him, etc.
• Not only is Adam Jensen not the real Adam Jensen, he is actually secretly aligned with Illuminati, and after the game, will soon be nano-augmented and take on a new name: Walton Simons. (They sound exactly the same.)

• It's heavily implied to be CONFIRMED, although instead of being a clone, he is another man turned into a copy of Jensen, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain style
  • Heavy MD spoilers inside: His augs don't have the Sarif serial numbers they should have. He was kept in a Tai Yong Medical facility, where Orlov experimented on him. Tai Yong Medical is an Illuminati company. An email in the game reveals that Tai Yong Medical can replicate Adam's lack of dependency on neuropozyne in other subjects thanks to his DNA. Tai Yong Medical has also experimented on memory implanting, as seen in the Harvester side mission. The scientist responsible for the memory chip, Cipra, was in contact with Orlov while he stayed in Prague, overseeing Adam. Adam doesn't remember the year between the destruction on Panchaea and his escape from the facility. In the post credits cutscene, the TF29 psychoanalyst says that Adam's memories are stable and consistent with the program.
  • The conclusion: the "Adam Jensen" in Mankind Divided is a replacement built by the Illuminati/Tai Yong Medical, and implanted with the original Jensen's memories.
  • Really? «Heavily confirmed»? Aren't you folks jumping to conclusions too early? The only thing we know for real is that Adam's serial numbers weren't registered in the 451 database, which... well, which means nothing. Illuminati could have just faked the data or used the serial numbers of another Aug to conceal Adam's identity, they pulled much bigger cover-ups before. We don't actually know if Adam still has serial numbers on his augs, so it is wiser to wait for DLC or one of Jensen's Stories to shed some light on the whole thing rather than jump to conclusions based on the evidence that is circumstancial at best. Besides, I find it hard to believe that Deus Ex has the technology to extract and/or transfer memories. This isn't SOMA, after all.
  • Jensen does have the right serial numbers. Sarif said that Jensen wouldn't have remained unidentified for so long. It's implied that he was at the GARM facility for most of the first year after Panchaea. Being unidentified with memory problems is their cover for what they did to him.
  • I outlined several piece of evidence that he is a clone here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/337000/discussions/0/343785380897795568/ and here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/337000/discussions/0/1318836262666058440/. He is a clone, even the official Deus Ex timeline confirms it by saying that Jensen's body was found in Panchea. Also, he spent atleast a month underwater in Panchea before being found, no way he could have really survived that.

Mankind Divided will take elements from all the possible endings of Human Revolution to create it's canon version of events

Square Enix/Eidos have already confirmed that none of HR's endings are canon. Plus it wouldn't be unheard of for a Deus Ex sequel to use elements of all the previous game's potential endings. To recap:

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR HUMAN REVOLUTION!

• Ending A: Adam reveals the truth, which will vilify augmentation technology.
• Ending B: Lie on Taggart's behalf, which will vilify corporations, leading to strict regulations. With Taggart's remarks about remodeling the UN, it would most likely lead to the formation of UNATCO.
• Ending C: Lie on Sarif's behalf, which will vilify special interest groups, totally deregulating augmentation possibly leading to the creation of the Grey Death as an alternate method of control. It could also possibly result in the development of nanotech augs in a short period of time and leading to the Dentons' creation.
• Ending D: Destroy The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, along with himself and all three major conspirators, leaving the public to decide the fate of augmentation technology for itself.

The announcement trailer already shows elements of all four endings:

• The fact that augmented humans are not trusted and are being detained obviously ties into either ending A or D.
• The group Jensen is with could easily be the precursor/beginning of UNATCO. Augs being detained and treated like second class citizens suggests that regulations now prevent regular citizens from getting augmented. In such a case it's not unlikely that a special task force/soldiers are the only ones legally allowed to receive augmentations. Those elements tie into ending B.
• Adam's new shield ability could easily be nanotech. Despite new regulations any augmented troops would possibly need an edge against augmented terrorists. Therefore elements of ending C would come into play.
• Finally we have footage of Adam floating in water among wreckage. That in itself highly suggests that elements of ending D will come into play. Even if Adam wasn't the one to flip the switch the facility is apparently destroyed and somehow he winds up being the sole survivor of the incident. Either way they decide to have that one play out in the end the result is the same: Adam feels he didn't make the right choice and it results in him attempting to atone for it over the course of Mankind Divided.
  • Corroborated by Eidos Montreal's executive game director to a question to regarding HR's endings in relation to Mankind Divided:
    Jean-Francois Dugas All endings sport a bit of truth, rumors and whatnot that got spread around the world. So, in a way, the answer to the question is more complex than just identifying one official ending.
• Confirmed: Ending A's truth vilifies augmentation, leading to the formation of the "Augmented Rights Coalition", which leads into Ending C, to whom the latter are slowly becoming vilified in Mankind Divided, Ending B's lying vilifies corporations like Sarif Industries, which has collapsed and is bought up by Tai Yong Medical by Mankind Divided and Ending D's destruction of Panchea did occur as Jensen and Sarif were wounded from its destruction for a set period of time.

The game's environments will heavily feature both yellow and bright blue Color Wash

To bridge the gap between Human Revolution and the original game.

• Alternatively, the yellow might represent augmentations, while the blue would represent the unaugmented people.
  • Semi-confirmed. Blue and white is used as a colour scheme for one faction, but the rest of the game sticks with gold and black, though with heavier emphasis on black.

In this game's version of Human Revolution's ending, all three messages will have been sent for one reason or another

Nobody knows which ones to believe and that leads to well, a Mankind Divided.

David Sarif will pull a Face–Heel Turn and join the Illuminati

In the trailer, the Sarif Industries logo is shown among the puppet corporations of the Illuminati. This is odd as Sarif was a Wide-Eyed Idealist who hoped to uplift humanity rather than control it and his company was one of the few organizations in Human Revolution that wasn't be part of the conspiracy. In fact, Sarif was actively refusing invitations by Lucius DeBeers himself, and the entire plot of the last game was about the Illuminati dealing with Sarif not being among their ranks. It's possible that the actions of both Hugh Darrow and Megan Reed at the end of Human Revolution, as well as Adam's "choice" and it's results, shattered his faith in humanity, and, with Zhao, his biggest competitor, dead at the end of HR, he finally joined to replace her out of sheer pragmatism. If he appears in Mankind Divided it's likely that he will be bitter and cynical over how humanity now views augmentations and that he and Jensen will have a serious What the Hell, Hero? moment for each other.

• Alternatively, it's possible that David never made it out of Panchaea and someone else, possibly Athene Margoulis, took over the company and was less scrupulous about joining than Sarif ever was.
  • It's been confirmed that Sarif survived Panchaea and is in the game, but what he is doing with himself these days is still unknown.
• Jossed
  • David Sarif is NOT working for the Illuminati. In fact, he has lost control of Sarif Industries and its patents to Tai Yong Medical, the latter having bought out the former in the wake of the Aug Incident. In the game itself, Sarif is courting Nathaniel Brown and the Santeau Group, the main target of the Illuminati conspiracy this time around, and actively helps Jensen investigate his recovery from the Aug Incident.

The Juggernaut Collective is a front for Majestic 12

Their leader Janus, is named for a two-faced god. "Janus" is really Bob Page, who is using Adam to cripple the Illuminati so he can take over.

• Jossed. At least, about Bob Page. The art book confirms that Volkard Rand is Janus. (The game only hints at this when it focuses on Rand after Lucius mentions Janus.)

Recurring character speculation

Feel free to put your guesses here.

• Bob Page: Him and Jensen actually interacting this time would be awesome.
  • Confirmed: Page appears in-person during the Illuminati's meetings, but does not interact with Jensen.
• Walton Simons: A key player in Deus Ex who was mysteriously never even referenced in Human Revolution, unlike his co-Big Bad Bob Page.
• Joseph Manderley: He is very likely to appear if Task Force 29 really is UNATCO in its early years. Not to mention the fact that he was referenced several times in HR.
  • Confirmed: Manderley is seen in a recorded conversation in the NSN with James Miller, who orders Task Force 29 to apprehend "Augmented Right S Coalition" leader Talos Rucker as the primary suspect of the Prague bombing.
• Gunther Hermann and/or Anna Navarre: Both are popular with fans and the former appeared in Icarus Effect.
• Paul Denton: It's possible he had some gene therapy done to him (thanks to Adam's genes) so he could survive nanoaugmentation. The player might head to a lab or some MJ12 controlled area and run into him.
  • Jossed
• JC Denton: The game is set in 2029, which is the year of his birth.
  • Jossed
• Ben Saxon and/or Anna Kelso: Since Jensen is now working for the Juggernaut Collective as a double-agent within Interpol, it makes sense for either or both of them to return in this game to tie the stories of HR and The Fall together.
• Faridah Malik: Because she's awesome. And because the devs have already said that decisions don't carry over from the previous game, so it'll be simple enough to just say Adam saved her. And because the craft that appears at the end of the first trailer looks a lot like her VTOL.
  • Here's hoping. She was popular enough among players that many of them went back and re-did their playthrough of the crash in Hengsha, breaking their own attempts at a Pacifist run in favor of saving her from being killed and stripped of her neural augs by the Harvesters, so it is possible that Eidos and Square Enix may decide to make it so she lived canonically, and that is indeed her VTOL in the trailer. If so, then hopefully she'll be working with Jensen on Task Force 29, possibly as their extraction and aerial combat specialist. It'd be nice to see more interactions with her and Jensen.
  • It's been revealed that a new character, Elias Chikane, will be the VTOL pilot for Jensen's team. Also, while they didn't explicitly rule her out altogether, Word of God has said that characters from HR who could potentially die such as Malik will not play a large role in MD's story. Sad to say, but if she even appears at all it will only be a cameo.
  • Jossed: she doesn't show up in-person, but an Easter Egg cutscene implies Malik canonically survived Hengsha.
• Francis Pritchard: A given, honestly. Like Malik he was very well-received, largely for being Jensen's most reliable ally despite his ego, and for his Deadpan Snarker / Tsundere tendencies. I for one would like to see him and Adam grow closer. Doesn't hurt that the parallels with Snake and Otacon were already in Human Revolution.
  • Jossed, although a conversation between Jensen and Sarif mentions Pritchard having found a new job at a tech company in Detroit after Sarif Industries collasped.
    • Later Confirmed, as Pritchard appears in the first story DLC for the game.
• David Sarif: Potentially, for the reasons listed above.
  • Confirmed: he returns in Mankind Divided as part of an optional side-quest.
• Megan Reed: The Megan and Adam arc ended on a cliff hanger, and we last saw her talking to Bob Page about a nanite project that will presumably lead to the creation of the Denton brothers and the Grey Death.
  • Confirmed, but only via a recorded voice clip found in the Versa-Life bank vault, where she converses directly with Page regarding the "Orchid" she created.
  • Megan’s new lab is just off the coast of San Francisco and the entire west coast is supposed to get obliterated in 2030 - a year from when this game is set. Yeah! She’s a goner.

Environment speculation

Guesses for what areas might appear in the game

• Area 51: as noted above, 2029 is the birth year of JC Denton. So what better way to show this then to have Jensen inflitrate Area 51 at one point, and find JC being birthed? It'll also make a really cool bookend for the series up to this point.
  • Jossed
• Detroit: Sarif Industries has apparently become a puppet corp. for the Illuminati, so maybe we'll get to visit Sarif Industries headquarters one more time.
  • Jossed
• London: Long overdue as a city hub in this series. Belltower's headquarters are apparently located there, not to mention the fact that a British delegate was apparently in Panchaea. Lots of potential for aesthetic as well, as the older architecture of the city would juxtapose nicely with futuristic buildings.
  • Confirmed for the last mission of the game.
• Shanghai proper: What would a Deus Ex game be without a confusingly laid-out city in China? Maybe Tai Yong Medical collapsed after Zhao Yun Ru was killed in Panchaea, taking the Hengsha city project with it, so all the international businesses and the Harvester Gang moved onto the mainland. It would explain why we never heard of the two-tiered city in DX1. Shanghai itself is a city full of old architecture crammed next to futuristic, high-tech buildings, is the largest port in the world, and one of the largest business centers in China, which gives a lot of story potential.
  • Jossed
• Australia: Since The Fall ended on a cliffhanger and the followup episode has been cancelled, the devs may try to patch that story into Mankind Divided to provide some kind of closure. Since it ended with Ben heading to investigate a biotech company in Canberra, it's possible that Jensen will be heading there as well. And the Australian Civil War received some decent attention during HR, so it's backstory as a stage is already developed.
  • There's also information within The Missing Link that suggests a Belltower/Illuminati facility similar to Rifleman Bank somewhere near (or possibly inside) Ayers Rock. If Jensen is actively hunting the Illuminati now, that's as good a place to look as any.
  • Jossed
• Any Scandinavian country: No reason besides the fact that Scandinavia is a pretty uncommon video game setting and it would be both cool and funny.
  • Jossed
• Montreal due to the fact it was originally going to be a hub city in human revolution but got cut due to time constraints
  • Jossed
• Heaven: No, not that Heaven. Late in Human Revolution, Picus and Lazarus mention a space station paradise called Heaven being developed by four major tech corporations (including Page Industries) for the wealthy elite and, secretly, the Illuminati. Such a mention near the end of the last game can very well mean that it will be a stage in this one, possibly the site of the endgame.
  • Could also make for an awesome zero-gravity battle.
  • Jossed
• The Moon: Cut from the first game and hinted at again in Human Revolution as an Illuminati outpost. We also know that Page Industries will have interests on the Moon by 2052. Whatever they're building up there must be worth stealing!
  • Jossed
• Dubai: Where the WHO were headed in the last game; also mentioned in a couple of the trailers. Given the amount of buildup, it would make sense that Dubai would be one of the primary hubs.
  • Confirmed: the first mission takes place in a dilapitated complex. However, Dubai is not a hub.

There will be a reference to the Black Ops games.

• Since Eidos noted the similarities, they will put an shout-out to the games. Either as a Take That! (with a Treyarch stand-in) or as simple references (like someone mentioning a prisonner named Menendez).

The Illuminati will kill Rucker and frame Adam for his death by hacking into Rucker's augs and forcing him to commit suicide.

• We already know from promotional interviews that Rucker dies. The E3 trailer shows Rucker convincing Adam to side with him only for Rucker's hand-augs to malfunction while Rucker appears shocked. The Illuminati probably want Rucker to become a martyr and figures that having him die mysteriously while speaking with a government agent is the best way to accomplish this.
  • It is possible that Rucker is suffering from neuropozyne withdrawal. Given the state of things by 2029, it is possible that people can't get the drug like they once could.
  • The first gameplay video reveals that Rucker does die from an augmentation malfunction during his meeting with Adam, but the cause of is not revealed.
  • Confirmed, but not via hacking nor being Driven to Suicide: Viktor Marchenko spikes Rucker's drink with Orchid, causing him to die of poison.

Viktor Marchenko is an Illuminati operative

• The end of the E3 trailer shows Marchenko while Rucker tells Adam to bring his invisible enemies into the light. My guess is that Marchenko is an Illuminati operative sent to infiltrate ARC to commit terrorist acts that will increase the stigma against the augmented. When Rucker dies, Marchenko will take over and ARC will become a true terrorist organization that secretly serves the Illuminati.
  • Confirmed, although Marchenko does genuinely believe that his actions are needed to free the Augmented.

Chikane will die if the player is not careful

• Because at this point in the series, the pilot dying unless the player solves a Guide Dang It! is practically a tradition.
  • Jossed: Chikane survives no matter what.

If Bob Page appears, he will present himself as an Ally to Adam

• We know that at some point in the future, Bob Page betrays the Illuminati and brings about their downfall but by the time of HR, he is still one of them. It is possible that by 2029, he is starting to doubt what the Illuminati is capable of and is feeling constrained by their structure and is looking for ways to bring them down without damaging his own interests. Enter Jensen: He knows about the Illuminati but is not aware of Page's full involvement with them (even on his emails in Rifleman Bank Station, Page was in his Villain with Good Publicity mode) and has seen the worst of Illuminati atrocities (ie: Rifleman Bank Station) and has plenty of reasons to hate them. Page could present himself as an ex-Illuminatus who has seen the error of his ways or just a corporate head who joined up with them to avoid ending up like Sarif. From them on, Page teams up with Adam to identify and bring down Illuminati targets, all the while fomenting the rise of Majestic 12.
  • Jossed: Page does appear in the game, but does not interact with Jensen whatsoever.

The Santeau Group is an Illuminati Religious chain based in Dubai, centered around hating augmented citizens

• The Santeau Group originally showed up in the debut trailer as an illuminati front corporation, and at one point in the trailer, a billboard in the background with their logo reading "Chain, Outsider, Shackle, Oppress, Crush," seemingly referring to augmented citizens. In the World Premiere gameplay demo starting at around 4:10-4:25, you can see a stand handing out flyers reading "Rabi'ah," with "Santeau Group" written below it. According to Wikipedia, "Rabi'ah" was the name of a tribe in Northern Arabia, but also the patronymic of Utbah ibn Rabi'ah, who was a prominent leader of the merchant tribe in control of Mecca at the time of Muhammad. My guess is that the Santeau Group is the illuminati's attempt to fuse all world religions into one, to make them easier to control, but also to further marginalize augmented citizens. And Dubai seems to be a rather prominent mentioned location (Alex mentions something about the city at 4:37 of the world premiere gameplay), so I presume that that, combined with the fact that the organization seems to have at least some Arabic influence, means that the group is based there, and that maybe there'll be a mission in which Jensen must inflitrate their headquarters.
  • Jossed: Nathaniel Brown, CEO of the Santeau Group, is Good All Along, as he opposes the "Human Restoration Act" that, if passed, forces all augmented to live in augmented-only cities built by the Santeau Group. Moreover, Brown stands to lose trillions if this happens.

David Sarif

has survived the events of Human Revolution regardless of what will be the canonical outcome

• At the end of the game, Sarif was trapped in a place from where he could have escaped from: a submarine bay. Provided that the self-destruct mechanism just released all the measures to contain the sea pressure rather than cause a quick, immediate collapse of Panchaea, he may have had the time to board a submarine and save his life.
  • He is confirmed alive, but as far as we know now, he is just part of an optional side quest and not a major character in the game.

Adam Jensen's quest to topple the Illuminati will succeed, but only insofar as to allow Majestic-12 to usurp them

• Adam makes a nice speech in the trailer about wanting to end all the darkness, lies, and manipulation that the Illuminati have used to control society from the shadows. We know that this is, in some ways Doomed by Canon since those darkness, lies, and manipulation continue on under Majestic-12's direction. However, their ascendancy came as the more traditional Illuminati members waned in power. Human Revolution showed that the Illuminati is factious, there are cracks in their unity and influence, and he will probably exploit that to take them down, but he cannot do it completely. Mankind Divided will be the tale of how he weakened them, thinking he "won", only to make room for a greater evil waiting for its chance.

Adam is now a Typhoid Mary for the Grey Death or something similar.

• Those snazzy new nano-augs must have some kind of price, and it's rather convenient that Rucker dies as soon as Adam shows up. Perhaps whoever dredged Adam out of Panchaea has an ulterior motive for bringing him back, and given how even pacifist!Adam has a very good track record of infiltrating high-security fortresses, giving him a weapon that's not under his control would be a rather brilliant move. It would also explain why both Sarif and Malik haven't been shown; they're augmented, and if this version of the Grey Death targets augs, then the best-case-scenario is that they're staying the hell away from Jensen until he deals with it.
• Jossed: a bioweapon is involved, but it's not the Grey Death and as far as we know, Adam's not a carrier, though he does shrug off being dosed with it during an ambush.

Jim Miller, Adam's boss in Task Force 29, is actually Joseph Manderley.

• The background information on Joseph Manderley on the DX wiki mentions that he retired from active field duty. Plus, the name, Jim Miller matches Joseph Manderley's initials, and the name Jim Miller itself seems to be a rather obvious codename.
  • Jossed: Joseph Manderly is Miller's boss.

Despite his abrasiveness towards Adam, MacCready will prove to be a useful ally for Adam, especially if Adam is forced to turn on Task Force 29 as he digs into the conspiracy

It's possible he is going to be Mankind Divided's answer to Pritchard, he'll be an asshole to Jensen in the beginning, but will warm up to him as the game goes on, and may possibly be a useful ally or even defect with Jensen if he finds something irredeemable about TF29, or the higher ups wise up to him trying to derail the Illuminati.

• Confirmed: MacCready in the final mission is more than willing to stop Viktor Marchenko and his ARC terrorists from killing Nathaniel Brown and his associates. However, Adam does not turn on Task Force 29 at all in Mankind Divided.

Orchid...

...is the Super Prototype of the eventual Gray Death.

• Jossed. Orchid requires direct ingestion or injection to take effect, while the Grey Death is airborne. Orchid is a chemical agent that targets the genes for augmentation rejection and kicks them into overdrive. This causes rapid and massive augmentation rejection syndrome as glial tissue swiftly builds up around the PEDOT clusters. The victim's augments no longer receive accurate instructors from the brain and go haywire, often with very bloody effects. The Grey Death is nanites. The nanites invade the body via airborne pathways and embed themselves into the victims cells. Unless the infected has a natural physiological acceptance for nanoaugmentation, the body undergoes several rejection syndrome as it attacks all the cells housing the nanites. This kills the patient by severe organ failure as the body destroys itself from the inside out. Orchid is a Flawed Prototype at best. Just the same as how Mechnical Augmentation is a Flawed Prototype to Nano Augmentation.

"Augs Lives Matters!" was a genuine mistake by destitute foreign protesters with a poor grasp of English, attempting to solicit international media attention.

It's a single protest banner in Moscow trying to reach out to international (Western) media, not the name of a movement. Think of all the misspelled protest signs of real-life grassroots movements that look a bit embarrassing, despite good faith efforts at signal-boosting.

Janus is a prototype form of Icarus.

Janus doesn't show it's face because it doesn't have one. The name Janus is a foreshadowing of Helios' status as a merged entity. The logo of the Collective isn't an "J", its an "I" and it's shadow, with the distortion on the upper half represnting Icarus' work-in-progress nature. Right now Page is using it to take down the Illuminati.

• Jossed. Volkard Rand, another Illuminati member, is Janus. (Revealed in the official artbook.)

Janus is really Bob Page or Walton Simons from Deus Ex

Janus is really Bob Page in disguise, who is using the Juggernaut Collective as a means to cripple the Illuminati and weaken them without drawing suspicion to himself, in retaliation for their perceived unwillingness to use tech to advance mankind. Deus Ex: Black Light even hints that Janus must be an Illuminati member to have such intimate knowledge of their dealings. There is a bit of Fridge Brilliance in the name "Janus" in that it is a name for a two-faced god. Bob Page has shown an affinity for ancient mythology (quoting the Labyrinth to Megan Reed and naming an AI Icarus) and is known to be a duplicitous, two-faced individual.

• Jossed. As explained above.

Janus will become Daedalus

Thanks to the "Art of Deus Ex Universe" book, we now know that Volkard Rand, one of the Illuminati's Council of Five, is Janus. Janus is actively working against the other members of the Illuminati, acting as their biggest rival. Volkard is also the only member met thus far that does not appear in the original Deus Ex. The other Council of Five members (or atleast Bob Page) will find out Volkard is Janus and try to eliminate him. Now, as we see in the side quest to help Eliza/Helle as well as the quests involving Daria and her memory implants, human memories and personalities can be made into software. Daedalus and Janus share many of the same methods and motivations. This all being said, I figure that some how Volkard uploads his personality (may/maybe not memories as well), before he is eliminated and thus he forms the basis for the program that will be Daedalus. Maybe Bob Page was trying to do Volkard like Morgan Everette did De Beers, keep him around for council and guidance without letting him be free. Just he lost control of Daedalus, due to Volkard's "information must be free" personality trait. We know that Bob Page, like Volkard, will also form a splinter group within the Illuminati. Bob Page heads the project that creates the Denton brothers. J.C. Denton being the main protagonist of the original Deus Ex. J.C. is the initials of the Juggernaut Collective, the unwitting splinter faction that Volkard leads. By helping J.C. bring down Bob Page and the Illuminati, Volkard will get his revenge from beyond the grave.

The threequel will be called Deus Ex Extinction

It will be set in 2030 just as the Big One hits and obliterates most of the US West Coast. Prior to that happening, Megan Reed sends a panicked distress call from her Versalife lab, claiming that terrorists are attacking the facility to steal the still unstable and dangerous Orchid to use as a bioweapon against all Augs. Adam mobilized along with MacCready and a lot of other squads only for the earthquake to simultaneously hit. Adam becomes the Sole Survivor of this mission, watching Megan ambiguously die (again), while preventing the outright theft of Orchid samples by incinerating them all. However, once again, the attack was a cover for a hacker stealing the formula for Orchid, and Adam suspects that even the earthquake’s timing was too coincidental. He is therefore given a field promotion to head up TF-29 and investigate the attack. And stop the release of Orchid.

To do this, Adam is given the leeway to recruit his own team and sets out to find incorruptible operatives. He has to perform personal quests to get them onboard. The operatives he recruits are the ex-Belltower Ogre turned vigilante Michael Zelazny, Internal Affairs cop Jenny Alexander, Aria Argento the former rangemaster now promoted to field agent, Jaya the hacker and Knowledge Broker and an original character who is a former sniper. They will all follow different tangents, giving you the opportunity to play individual mission arcs as them.

And Megan Reed will be revealed as Evil All Along hoping to turn Orchid not into an anti-rejection panacea, but a form of enthrallment to turn all Augs into obedient order following slaves. A different faction however wants to use it to wipe out all Augs while a third faction wants to tailor it into a degenerative disease that forces Normals to get augmented to save their lives, thereby removing that division.

Adam Jensen IS a clone, but he DID survive Panchaea as claimed.

He's the same Adam Jensen from Human Revolution, but NOT the same Adam Jensen as from the intro of Human Revolution. He didn't survive the attack and attempts to augment him, but Megan Reed simply switched the 'real' Adam Jensen with a clone, and simply transferred the memories over. Thus, the Adam Jensen in the Versa Life vault is the original, kept on ice.

Adam('s clone) is the Man in Black who killed the Denton's parents and is killed by JC under Area 51.

As the men/women in black have Illuminati symbols on their neck, they were likely created before Majestic 12 separated from the Illuminati. The memory alterations are part of Physiopharmaceutical augmentation designed to make their target loyal to the conspiracy, and the self-destruct mechanism of the MIB is reverse-engineered from Jensen's Typhoon augmentation. As such, Adam becomes the first successful Man in Black, and becomes the conspiracy's top agent.

Jensen wasn't telling the full truth about what happened in A Criminal Past.

If Jensen finishes the mission by killing Guerrero then Auzenne seems to be satisfied with the outcome, but she seems surprised and uneasy if Jensen brought him back alive and asks if he's heard anything since then. Just before Jensen walks off he comments that Guerrero was correct that the terrorist attack they needed intel on never happened, and suggests that Guerrero might have told him something else. Considering that she is working for the Illuminati he might have known something about that or other secrets.

It has been made illegal to conceal augmentations

Wandering around Prague I began to wonder why so many people didn't just cover up their augmentations with clothes, then it hit me. Those in power think that covering up augmentations and trying to blend in with the naturals is subversive behaviour, so they made it illegal. Adam gets away with concealing as much as he does because of his job at Interpol, but others aren't so lucky

Adam possibly divulging his mole status to Chang will bite him in the ass in the future

Should Adam act like a snooping klepto around the TF29 offices, if you choose to chat to Chang during Prague III, he tells Adam that he believes the Juggernaut Collective have a mole in the task force, and points the finger at Adam. He's correct, and Adam discreetly acknowledges it to Chang before convincing him to keep it to himself after assuring him that he has no ill will toward the task force and only wishes to expose the corrupt higher-ups manipulating them. But, even if Chang was on to him, is this really such a good idea? Chang is a neurotic paranoiac who values his own safety over anything. Who's to say that something down the line, whether by coincidence or planned by the Illuminati, wouldn't lead him to see Adam as a threat nonetheless? Or worse, if the Illuminati contact him directly with an offer to work on their behalf - remember, "Chang looks out for Chang".

Original!Adam tried to stop Bob Page as the source of the evils of the Deus Ex series but got Squashed by Bob and was replaced by a programmed clone to unwittingly be Bob's info-relay because of his new augments. How Bob Page managed to beat Jensen whose near-full RoboCop1987 wouldn't require Super Soldier levels of power, but Humanoid Abomination levels of power!!!