Collapse (Deus Ex)
The Collapse is an event that features in Deus Ex.
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History
The Collapse
Among the mentioned singular events are the destruction of the Statue of Liberty and UNATCO HQ, the event of nanite swells with subsequent use of nuclear weapons to put them down, an unknown incident which reduced Cairo international airport into a 'landfill', and what seems to be the complete collapse of parts of Siberian Russia which prompted the creation of the Omar as a survival measure.
The United States fragmented into various city-states during the Collapse. Germany appears to have survived as either a sovereign nation or geographical territory, but it has lost its international power. Newly independent Cairo was hit with a weapon of mass destruction during the Collapse; its residents still need to use filtration masks to survive the parasitic nanoscale particles outside the Cairo Arcology. India and Pakistan obliterated each other with nuclear warheads. All other countries have either lost their international power, were destroyed, or were fragmented.
Fourteen nanite swells plague the Earth, though there was a brief disruption of Swell 9 in 2067.
The World Trade Organization (WTO), with Chad Dumier as its Chairman, was founded to rebuild societal infrastructure, economy, and standard of living. The Order Church was formed to counteract the WTO and unify the world religions. The Order is led by Nicolette DuClare, publicly known as Her Holiness. Secretly, both organizations are controlled by the Illuminati, with the heads of the WTO and Order being its co-leaders. The Illuminati chose this form of control due to the belief that the world population will not accept a public world government.
The WTO created a federated state in order to end the chaos caused by the fall of the United States. City-state members of this North American WTO federated state include Tacoma, Newark, Leander, New York City, Austin, Reno, Dallas, Seattle, and until its destruction, Chicago. The WTO also set up another federated state administrating Europe, the Middle East, and Eastern Africa. This state consists of Thebes, Istanbul, Jedda, Jordan, Madrid, Nairobi, London, Cairo, and Trier. The Order, conversely, created a decentralized theocratic system of government to aid the poor kept out of the WTO enclaves.
Overview
Notes
- The Collapse was created by Sheldon Pacotti, Chris Todd and Austin Grossman where they featured in the setting of the Deus Ex universe.
Appearances
- Deus Ex:
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