Majestic 12

The Majestic Council of th Tewelve (Majestic-12, MJ12, MJ-12, Those Who Rule in Majesty, the twelve, They Who Rule the World in Majetsy) is a secretive organization made up of elites who are conspiring to rule the world. They are the main antagonist faction of Deus Ex.

History
Majestic-12 is a branch of the Illuminati next to the Bilderberg Group and was founded around the time of the 20th century. The Illuminati leadership had realized that they would need to control both financial and technology in an effort to achieve their goals. Majestic-12 had become a branch of the Illuminati and became the leader of illuminati technology and communications and were given supressed technologies as well to control both legal and illegal drug distribution. Majestic-12 was also put incharge of inrtoducing diseases and was put incharge of influencing (and possibly managing) world intelligence organizations. The group dates back to 1947 (see real world conspiracy here) after a UFO had crashlanded in Roswell, New Mexico and was retrieved by the military. The UFO had remained intact and began to be examined by the US military. The President of the United States had ordered the extraction of the UFO technologies and the US government had did whatever they could to supress the incident and keep it hidden from public eye. In the fields of communication was where MJ12 had struggled the most. MJ12 had been able to link up satellite communication but when the internet began to rise, Majestic-12 had to gather large amounts of resources to acomplish their goals.

21st Century
By the start of the 21st Century, Majestic-12 had semented their dominance in both Europe and Asia and began to allow the United States to collapse by the early 21st century so the nation could fall under their rule and the US government can suspend the constitution. In 2030 a massive earthquake had striken the west coast and had submerged all of southern California and most of the west coast underwater. This led to the rising authoritarian government and the remannts of the west coast to be declared disaster areas and this led to the formation of the National Secessionist Forces and declared all areas they controled to be independent nations. The US government had responded with martial law and all secession attempts failed and by 2035 Majestic-12 had control over all political, military, financial and religous arms of the Illuminati and Majestic-12 had became the de facto rulers of Europe and Asia and began to have the US become the first nation to fall under their rule. By 2052 Majestic-12 had control over UNATCO.

Events of Deus Ex
By the year 2052 (main year for Deus Ex) Majestic-12 had full control over the United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition, an international counter-terrorist organization to combat the rise of international terrorism and used the organization to grow their dominance over the world. As the game goes on, UNATCO Director Joseph Manderley had been discovered to be part of the organization and had assisted in allowing UNATCO to support Majestic-12 and their global hegemony.