REX-84

REX-84, also known as RX 84, is a covert United States counter-insurgency and continuity of government program. Ostensibly intended for use in a national crisis, REX-84 instead served as the legal basis for ongoing extrajudicial detention and execution of enemies of the state.

History
In 2026, REX-84 was divided into multiple plans, including:


 * REX-84 Alpha ("Operation Garden Plot"): Subsection of Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, regulating large-scale suppression, arrest, and detainment of civilians in an emergency. Officially intended to suppress insurgence and "unlawful assemblies" and "rebellion" in situations where ordinary proceedings would be impractical, it effectively subordinated local, state, and federal police and National Guard to the federal government and its political goals. In Detroit alone, this would marshal between five and twelve thousand troops.
 * REX-84 Charlie ("Operation Night Train", later "Operation Terror Trail"): Ongoing program of extrajudicial detention of political opponents, using separatism or terrorism as rationale.

The program remained on the books in 2051. Designated RX 84, it provided for the detention of six million Americans, including the President, his cabinet, Congress, and the Supreme Court. According to the Midnight Sun, detention could be imposed on citizens deemed to be dangerous to the continuance of public order, in an estimated eleven camps worldwide. The plan would be triggered in the event of an emergency (invasion, concerted military strike, civil disruption, natural disaster, pandemic or other condition deemed an imminent threat to the safety and stability of the country), using military and commandeered civilian vehicles to execute. The decision could apparently be triggered unilaterally. The program was not yet initiated, but remained a potential tool for Majestic 12, if Americans misbehaved particularly badly.

Trivia

 * REX-84, as depicted in Deus Ex: Human Revolution in-game media, is based on the real-world REX-84 (Readiness Exercise 84) mass detention program and the real-world Garden Plot.