During this mission, TF29 and the parties of the arms deal are ambushed by an unknown group of Shadow Operatives wearing gold masks. Here, his TF29 team is tasked with intercepting an illegal arms deal involving mechanical augmentations. Jensen's work for Task Force 29 brings him to an abandoned, partially-built hotel in Dubai. If enacted, the Human Restoration Act would require people with mechanical augmentations to have a control chip inserted in them or else be placed in designated facilities specifically built for augmented people. Meanwhile, the Illuminati have been working on an initiative called the Human Restoration Act, a proposed United Nations resolution. As told in the novel Deus Ex: Black Light, Jensen had decided to collaborate with the Juggernaut Collective towards the common goal of bringing down the Illuminati. The Juggernaut Collective seeks to investigate the Illuminati's influence in the Central European Division of TF29, a unit based in Prague and led by branch director Jim Miller. However, Jensen's allegiance is split between Task Force 29 and the Juggernaut Collective, a hacker group devoted to opposing the Illuminati. This results in a divided world, where mechanically augmented humans are forcibly separated from non-augmented ones.īy 2029, Jensen now works for the Interpol-funded Task Force 29 (TF29), an international unit that deals with augmented terrorists that have sprung up after the Aug Incident. In the aftermath of the Aug Incident, the public is outraged and begins aggressively opposing mechanical augmentation. As a result of Darrow's signal broadcast, augmented people across the world were forced to violently attack those around them until the signal was shut down by Adam Jensen.
Mankind Divided is set in the autumn of 2029, two years after the events of Human Revolution, which culminated in the Aug Incident when Hugh Darrow hijacked the biochip signal. Setting and plot Main article: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided storyline Setting