Area 51



Area 51 is a top secret US Air Force installation in Nevada. In Deus Ex, the underground parts of the base are maintained by Majestic-12 and store the Aquinas Hub and Echelon systems.

History
In April 1955, the US Air Force decided to create a new testing facility for a high-altitude surveillance plane U-2. They picked an area near Groom Lake's dry lake bed because of nuclear testing grounds near it - an ideal location for top secret projects. The new air station was called Paradise Ranch or simply The Ranch. It is confirmed that at some time the base's name was indeed Area 51, but it changed several times. The present official name is USAF Flight Test Center, Detachment 3. The most famous once-secret planes, like SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk or B-2 Spirit, were tested nowhere else but over the sands of Nevada.

The "extraterrestrial" legend of Area 51 started at the 14th of October 1988 with a telecast "UFO Cover-up - Live from Washington", where two people codenamed Falcon and Condor stated that it is a joint base of US military and alien civilization. At the 10th of November 1989, a man called Bob Lazar appeared on TV and claimed that he worked at a secret base on reverse-engineering the propulsion of a flying disk. The base's name was S-4 and it was located south of Area 51, at Papoose Lake.

Deus Ex
In Deus Ex, Area 51 has an underground base which contains the Aquinas HUB and Echelon Systems. It is used by Bob Page as a stronghold, housing his top scientists and troops. It is also the home to the Helios AI, through which all of America's communications are routed. The base also contains 3 Universal Constructors. Area 51 is the place where JC and Alex were cloned from their brother Paul Denton.

When the player reaches Area 51, he or she will be challenged by traps and enemy encounters which will test most, if not all of the skills learned so far. This leads up to a final confrontation with Bob Page, at which point the player can choose one of three endings, depending with whom the player would like to side.

Cloning Bay A7
When JC enters this room in Deus Ex, Bob Page reveals that he was created in this room. The room has 4 stasis cells.

Every chamber has a log that provides details of the occupant:

Bugs

 * There is a large map error behind hangar 18 on the surface. Due to there being no texture ton the ground, looking down will show the background to the map, causing lag on some older systems. The player can still walk on this void as if it were normal.

Trivia

 * As JC Denton can choose to destroy the Area 51 facility, the Alex Denton found in stasis cannot be the Alex Denton which appears in Deus Ex: Invisible War. Also, Alex's date of birth is said to be 01/20/2033 on their stasis cell log, whereas Alex is actually born in 2047.

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