After finishing "Deus Ex" for the fourth time (best game ever,) I only this time around read a newspaper blurb in the game referring to the "Order of Cincinatti", an order established by George Washington to honor certain soldiers who had won an important victory in the Revolution.

However, the same text goes on to hint at a theory that the Order was really made as a hereditary military group that was trained, when the moment called for it, to swiftly take over the country's military when the executive branch was compromised.

This sounds like standard conspiracy boilerplate bollocks, but has anyone else heard of this group?

I remember coming across that in Deus Ex, but I don't think that it is anything of significance. I searched the net and couldn't find anything on it. And Deus Ex is one of the best games that I have ever played IMO, too bad Invisible War wasn't as good as the original.

There were plenty of little blurbs within the game. The book "Jacob's Shadow" was written by one fo the developers exclusively for the game. There are plenty of nuggets of truth in the game, but even I ahve no clue about this one.

DE