Area 51

Area 51 is a location visited by JC Denton in'' Deus Ex. ''It is a top secret US Air Force installation in Nevada, United States. The underground parts of the base are maintained by Majestic-12 and is where many of their most ambitious projects are researched and developed.

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 Centre, Detachment 3. The most famous once-secret planes, like SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk or B-2 Spirit, were tested over the sands of Nevada.

The "extra-terrestrial" legend of Area 51 started on 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 between US military and an alien civilization. On 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 is controlled by Majestic-12 and is used by Bob Page as a stronghold. It is visited by JC Denton during the last mission of the game and is where he must confront Page and decide on the fate of humanity (see endings).



Exterior
The exterior of Area 51 is a fortified assortment of buildings, including the blast doors into the main Area 51 bunker. It contains a control tower, a command building and a hangar. A ventilation shaft located in the hangar can be used as an alternative entrance into Area 51 (as opposed to using the main blast doors). If not neutralized earlier in the game, Walton Simons can be found, and confronted, in the Command 24 building. Jock's helicopter will explode after dropping JC at Area 51 if the suspicious mechanic at Morgan Everett's home was not dealt with earlier in the game. This is because the mechanic was a MJ12 spy and planted a bomb on the helicopter.

Sector 1
Sector 1 is the first section of the bunker accessed when entering the building through either entrance. The two corridors just inside the front entrance are patrolled by Page Bravo-3 Peacebringers. At the end of the corridor to the left of the entrance is an elevator which goes down to the Sector 2 blast doors. Down the corridor to the right is a large room with a power system that powers the elevator.

Sector 2
Sector 2 contains a barracks and a recreational area as well as numerous MJ12 hostiles. Just past the entrance to Sector 2 is a holographic communicator. This holocomm is used by Morgan Everett to voice his proposal about how to deal with Page ("The Invisible Hand" ending). At the far end of Sector 2, there is another elevator which brings you down to Sector 3. As JC awaits the elevator, Bob Page informs him that he is sending up the Man in Black who murdered JC and Paul's parents.

Sector 3
Among other things, Sector 3 houses the Aquinas Hub and the B13 Antimatter Reactors that power the facility. As is explained by Tracer Tong via hologram, the antimatter reactors can be overloaded to cause an explosion; thus destroying the whole facility ("New Dark Age" ending). It is also in this sector that the third and final proposal ("The Benevolent Dictator" ending) is put forward by Helios. Helios must be visited by JC in the Aquinas Hub area where it asks him to deactivate the uplink locks found in Sector 4. Once JC has listened to this request, Helios opens the previously locked blast doors to Sector 4.

Sector 4
Sector 4 is the final section of Area 51 and is where Bob Page is preparing to merge himself with the Helios AI. Upon entering this area, JC is contacted via a holocomm by either Paul Denton or Gary Savage (depending on whether or not Paul was let die in Hell's Kitchen). Either Paul or Savage discuss Helios' unprecedented influence over the people of Hong Kong and its apparent benevolence.

Just beyond the entrance of Sector 4 is a facility called Cloning Bay A7. Once JC enters this room, Bob Page reveals that this is where he was created. There are a total of four stasis cells in the room, with a log providing information about the occupant in front of each. One at the far end of the room is empty and upon studying the log, it is revealed that this was JC's stasis cell. The other three contain a clone of Paul Denton, assigned the name Alex Denton, a clone of Bob Page named Nick Pauseback, and a clone of Walton Simons called Wade Walker.

The Nanotech Infusion Chamber can be found further into the Sector 4 complex. This is the chamber that Page is using to turn himself into a "cyber-assimilated" life-form. It is powered by four Blue Fusion Reactors, which also power the three Universal Constructors found in this area. Page directly controls the UC's and is using them to create transgenics and Chiang Arcbots. The Aquinas Router control room is nearby the Nanotech Infusion Chamber. This is the room containing the uplink locks that Helios previously mentioned to JC. Also in this area is the Coolant Control for the antimatter reactors in Sector 3.

Endings
Once JC has reached Sector 4, there are three possible courses of action that he can take. Each set of actions will lead him to a different ending to the game and thus a different fate for humanity. As mentioned earlier, these endings are proposed by Everett, Tong and Helios consecutively.

Everett: The Invisible Hand

 * Everett would like JC to kill Bob Page thus allowing the Illuminati to regain control over the world.
 * In order to achieve this, JC must deactivate all four Blue Fusion Reactors and then reroute the power of the Infusion Chamber. This can be done by pressing the red button under the sign 'Infusion Control'. This will turn off the protective plasma forcefield around Page and result in his death. The fusion reactors can be found in Page's complex in Sector 4. The code needed to deactivate them is 7243.

Tong: New Dark Age

 * Tracer Tong asks JC to take down the whole Aquinas infrastructure, effectively shutting down all forms of global communication and inducing an economic collapse. JC can do this by cutting the flow of the antimatter reactors coolant from the Coolant Control on the bottom floor of Sector 4. He must then revisit the reactors themselves in Sector 3, activate the failsafe switches and trigger the three ion injectors. Turning on the reactor at this stage will result in an explosion as it is running at full capacity without any coolant. Everything in the building, including the Aquinas Hub where Helios resides, is destroyed.

Helios: The Benevolent Dictator

 * Helios wants to merge with JC Denton and rule the world with him as a benevolent dictator. This requires JC to gain access to the Aquinas Router control room in Sector 4. If desired, JC can go to the Aquinas Substation on the bottom floor of Sector 4 and use the Security Terminal there to open the door. Alternatively a code can be found for the door or it can be opened using multitools. Once in the Aquinas Router control room, JC must deactivate both uplink locks and engage the primary router. Once this is complete he must return to Helios in the Aquinas Hub in order to merge with it.

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.
 * If the player chooses the New Dark Age ending, Bob Page will warn JC that he will not only take down Aquinas and "the whole electronic infrastructure" but also "the power grid". This suggests that Area 51 may play an important role in power generation for the USA. Perhaps the antimatter reactors or Blue Fusion Reactors produce energy which is fed into the main power grid.
 * As is implied by the Sector 4 blueprint (see Gallery), a person can only gain access to Sector 4 if they have Seraphic/8X clearance.

Bugs

 * There is a large map error behind hangar 18 on the surface. Due to there being no texture on 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.

Gallery
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