Meanwhile, you’re a busy-bee student at Tarsus Academy in Chicago. The WTO rebuilds cities into enclaves and argues for free trade while the Order is an attempt to merge all religions into a SuperOmegaReligion ™. Two organizations rise up from the ashes: the World Trade Organization and the Order. The Internet goes bye-bye, the Collapse happens, and the world plunges into another Dark Age. Invisible War starts twenty years after the first game, and instead of choosing one canon ending from Deus Ex, the developers merged all of the endings: JC destroyed the hub AND tried to merge with the AI – which fails, leading up to the events of IW – and the Illuminati return to power. The end of Deus Ex had vastly different endings, depending on how you decided the world should be governed: you could destroy the hub for global communications (bringing the world back to pre-Internet times), merge with an AI to become a benevolent supergod (capable of making the Best decisions) or bring the Illuminati back to power to rule the world from behind the scenes. The Story (spoilers ahead for Deus Ex and Invisible War)