Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - The Cause and Aftermath of the Aug Incident
In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the Aug Incident of 2027 refers to a catastrophic event during which augmented people worldwide were driven to psychotic acts of violence. The incident occurred due to Hugh Darrow's broadcast of a biochip signal from Panchaea, causing augmented people outfitted with the biochip to lose control of their functions and attack other people around them.
Intended by Darrow — the CEO of Darrow Industries and former member of the Illuminati — to reduce the Illuminati's growing control over human augmentation, the Aug Incident caused the death of fifty million people and injured hundreds of thousands more. This scenario is the one that puts the basis for all the events that occurred in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
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The Illuminati were concerned that augmentation technology would cause society and human evolution to spiral out of their control, jeopardizing their centuries-old vision of a better human society under their control. This is why they decided to implant a biochip in every augmented person in the world, allowing them to limit or shut down a person's augmentations at their discretion. This chip was created with the assistance of Sarif Industries engineers who were kidnapped by the Illuminati during a raid on the Sarif Industries, a biotechnology company that appears in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
The Illuminati discovered a way to cause glitches in the existing biochips of augmented individuals while studying the biochip by exploiting a security flaw in their chip's firmware. The Illuminati used Picus broadcast satellites to send out a signal that caused harmless but inconvenient glitches for augmented people worldwide. As a
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