abstract
| - The Illuminati feared that augmentation technology would cause society and human evolution itself to go beyond their ability to control, jeopardizing their centuries-old vision of a better human society under their management. They decided to implant in every augmented person a biochip that would allow them to limit or shut down a person's augmentations at will. The chip was designed with the aid of Sarif Industries engineers that the Illuminati kidnapped in a raid on Sarif Industries HQ in Detroit, and was manufactured and distributed by Tai Yong Medical. The Illuminati discovered a way to provoke glitches in the existing biochips of augmented individuals by exploiting a security flaw in said chip's firmware. Using Picus broadcast satellites, the Illuminati broadcasted a signal that caused augmented people everywhere to experience harmless but inconvenient glitches. Augmented people everywhere flocked to LIMB clinics to receive the new biochip, unaware of the malware that the Illuminati had installed on it. Unbeknownst to the Illuminati, Hugh Darrow (one of their own members), goes against their intentions and alters the biochip from its original purpose. During the inauguration of the Panchea project, Hugh Darrow broadcasts a signal that causes every augmented person carrying the new biochip to go violently insane. When Adam Jensen confronted Darrow, Darrow claimed he had come to see his invention as a corruption of human identity, and hoped the horror of this crisis would turn humanity away from it and on to a purer path. In reality, he was bitter that he could not be augmented himself, due to a genetic fluke that meant his body couldn't tolerate even the most basic of implants. If he could not be a part of this glorious human revolution, he would destroy it. The incident is resolved by Adam Jensen who shuts down Darrow's signal at Panchaea. Sadly, by this point the damage has been done. Millions of people around the world are dead by the hands of crazed augmented people.
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