A cataclysmic event in Mankind Divided causes the deaths of over 50 million people, and has turned that rift into a chasm. The key phrase for Mankind Divided's story is 'mechanical apartheid'ĭeus Ex's subtitle offers a good hint as to what the sequel's story is going to touch on - namely, the idea that humanity's rush to augment itself has caused a rift between those who have opted to receive bionic enhancements and those who view it as an abomination of what makes us human. But serving with Task Force 29 is largely a means to a more familiar end. As Mankind Divided begins, Jensen has signed up with Task Force 29, an international police organization dedicated to fighting augmented groups that are chafing against their new position on the bottom of the social order - or, to use the terminology of those on top, terrorists.
In other words, Jensen failed, and the world has turned against all augmented people because he couldn't stop the Illuminati. But suffice it to say that - spoiler alert - augmented people around the world were sent on a brief rampage, the Panchaea geo-engineering plant was destroyed, and the Illuminati have successfully pinned both events on 'transhuman' terrorism. Square Enix Montreal isn't saying which, if any, ending Mankind Divided will build from (and, no, it won't read your old saves). Human Revolution's final hours held some fairly catastrophic events, regardless of what final choice you made at the end.