Liberty Island

Liberty Island is an island near New York City. Liberty Island is a setting in Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War.

History[]

2052[]

In 2052, Liberty Island is the location of the United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition Headquarters. It is also home to the damaged Statue of Liberty and its disembodied head. In a daring raid, the National Secessionist Forces attack Liberty Island to intercept a shipment of Ambrosia, managing to capture Gunther Hermann in the siege. JC Denton is ordered to infiltrate the statue to rescue Hermann and interrogate the NSF commander Leo Gold near the top of the reachable section of the tower.

2072[]

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JC Denton began his career by helping to neutralize a band of terrorists who had taken control of Liberty Island. The island once concealed a United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO) base. Since the Collapse, the island has been abandoned. Paul Denton worked for UNATCO until he defected when he learned of their corruption.

— Description in Deus Ex: Invisible War: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By 2072, the UNATCO HQ has been gradually abandoned, and now is populated entirely by homeless people and the former maintenance and janitorial staff. The three major forces vying for world control, the Illuminati, Knights Templar, and ApostleCorp, are all trying to access the old Aquinas servers under UNATCO, which would effectively give one side enough power to accomplish their own objective and eliminate the other two. Additionally, JC Denton places, under the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, the servers of the Helios AI, a more modern form of Universal Constructor, and a nanite mass distribution center. He rebuilds the Statue with nanites and lowers the temperature to increase their effectiveness, literally turning the island into an ice cap.

Deus Ex[]

Liberty island is the setting for the first mission of the game. Afterwards, most of the island is closed off for investigation, only allowing access to UNATCO HQ by helicopter. A sunken boat can be found just off the north dock of the island.

On the last visit to Liberty Island, if managing to get out from the gate, JC can encounter an hostile NSF mercenary thug walking, just left from the main entrance of the statue. This is an uncancelled mistake from the first visit, where the thug usually was.

Deus Ex: Invisible War[]

Liberty island is the setting for the final mission of the game. All three factions have a presence on the island, setting the stage for a battle decided by Alex Denton.

The Knights Templar establish a makeshift base under a small bunker on the north side of the island and maintain a military presence on the island through Paladins in Templar V68A power armor and a few RB-76 Military bots.
On the northern dock, where Harley Filben was located in Deus Ex, Tracer Tong has his own force to assist ApostleCorp, 3 HS-66 Hunter-Seeker bots, though their protective carriers have all been frozen solid.
On the southern dock, where Deus Ex began, the Illuminati have built their own base on a massive glacier over the former ocean. Chad Dumier and Nicolette DuClare both reside in this house, and countless Illuminati Elite Troopers patrol the dock.

Whichever of the three factions Alex chooses to support here will be given world control, and the ending will show how the winning faction will affect the world in the future. If Alex kills all three leaders, the mankind will eventually eliminate itself through 200 years of nuclear war, with only the Omar emerging. Taking the American flag in the UNATCO HQ and using it on a toilet in the woman's restroom triggers a secret fifth ending, where the characters are seen dancing in Club Vox and quotes from the developers can be read.

Trivia[]

The comm van beside UNATCO headquarters requires the code 0451 to enter it. This number is a reference to the door code that was needed to access the offices of Looking Glass Studios.^[1] The number was first used in Looking Glass' game System Shock (451), as well as its sequel System Shock 2 (45100). The code has since appeared in numerous other games including Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: The Fall.