In Deus Ex HR you travel to a cylindrical ocean structure which stretches all the way to the ocean floor. Is this structure in any way related to the plot, apart from being the enemy HQ? What is the point of this structure?
What’s the deal with Panchea
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Human Revolution is a prequel to the first Deus Ex so you won't miss out on any preceding storyline by playing HR first. However, HR is built on the same concepts (sneaking, finding alternate routes, talking your way out of problems) as the original and you might feel a little behind the curve since you're picking up the game concepts for the first time. And yes, you may miss some inside jokes about crawling around in ventilation ducts (it happens a lot in the first game, and a lot in HR as well).
Although I haven't finished HR yet, I expect it will tie into the events of Deus Ex (already there are some references to the future of nano-augmentation, a heavy plot point in the original) but you shouldn't miss out on these things, they'll just make sense when you play the original later on.
As for Invisible War, it takes place even later after the events of the original so you won't be missing out on any plot points there. In all honesty, some people don't really consider IW to be a proper sequel as it dropped or reduced a number of features that many people enjoyed from the original (most of which are back in HR). So don't feel bad if you don't play it, ever.
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Panchea is marketed as the first of many new structures to be built by Hugh Darrow to help cool the oceans to fix global warming, however, Hugh was lying to the public. While Panchea might have actually worked to cool the oceans (the game never specifies whether it actually could), the reason Hugh really wanted it built was to demonstrate that augments are bad and to get them banned by using his virus.
Panchea was secluded enough that he could have his demonstration running for long enough to really show the world how bad augments are without police etc interfering.