Alan Rikkin

2015-01-25T21:24:33Z

174.108.85.40: In being the CEO of Abstergo, Alan is not just a member of the Inner Sanctum, but rather the Grand Master of the Templar Order.

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'''Alan Rikkin''' is the current Chief Executive Officer of [[Abstergo Industries]] and the current Grand Master of the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order]].

==Biography==
In 2000, Rikkin was among those informed by [[Warren Vidic]] that [[Daniel Cross]] had returned to Abstergo's facility in [[Philadelphia]], after Cross had assassinated [[Mentor (2000)|the Mentor]] of the [[Assassins]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>

Rikkin succeeded the previous CEO of Abstergo after their death in January 2012. In a tape, Rikkin's predecessor encouraged him to stay on course after all he had learned from the previous [[Grand Master]]s, and reminded him that the free market would soon collapse, and that he needed to establish the [[New World Order]] before all turned to anarchy.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' - [[Rifts]]</ref>

Later that year, Abstergo was hit by a scandal over the testing of their [[New Fluoride]] product; the [[United States]] government threatened to freeze Abstergo's assets, which coupled with the loss of an [[Apple of Eden 2|Apple of Eden]] in the [[DIA satellite accident]], forced them to hasten the completion of the [[Eye-Abstergo]] satellite.<ref name="ACWE">''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' - [[Warren Vidic's email]]</ref>

===Animus Project===
{{Quote|I'm about ready to pull the plug on your Subject 17. So either get me results or get another person into that Animus.|Rikkin giving orders to Warren Vidic.|Assassin's Creed}}
[[File:AC1 Rikkin Report.png|thumb|250px|left|Kilkerman, Rikkin and Liman listening to Vidic's report]]
Rikkin oversaw the [[Animus Project]] supervised by Vidic and [[Lucy Stillman]], reviewing the data obtained from [[Subject 12|Subjects 12]]-[[Clay Kaczmarek|16]]. He became frustrated that it was taking a few days for [[Desmond Miles]] – Abstergo's seventeenth subject in the program – to [[Synchronization|synchronize]] with the [[Assassination (Al Mualim)|memory]] they needed to map the locations of the [[Pieces of Eden]], one of which would replace the Apple needed to power the Eye-Abstergo satellite.<ref name="ACWE"/>

Rikkin, [[David Kilkerman]] and [[Henry Liman]] came to the [[Animus Project laboratory]] in [[Rome]] the day after an unsuccessful attack from the Assassins. Vidic had obtained the necessary memory, to which Rikkin responded he would send teams to collect all of them, should anyone else obtain one and cause trouble in the Templars' New World.

Rikkin also ordered that Desmond be terminated, but Stillman retorted, saying that they needed him to obtain any more information on the sites from his [[genetic memory]], so Rikkin deferred to her judgment.<ref>''Assassin's Creed''</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Quote|You told me she wasn't going to be a problem and here she is stirring up the shit again.|Rikkin to Warren in an e-mail.|Assassin's Creed}}
Rikkin can be a rude and vulgar individual. Despite both being members of the Inner Sanctum, his emails to Vidic were often disrespectful and impatient.<ref name="ACWE"/> However, in an email written for him with other Abstergo executives, Rikkin showed the intelligence and charisma necessary to head a company.<ref>''Assassin's Creed'' - [[Emails#Project Lead .239 email|Conference room email]]</ref>

Lucy Stillman once emailed Rikkin, requesting information on a deceased friend and ex-employee, [[Leila Marino]]. The only response she received was an out-of-office notice, despite the fact that Rikkin continued to manage his other emails during the time he was supposedly away, even sending Vidic a message warning the latter to keep Lucy from asking difficult questions.<ref name="ACWE"/>

Rikkin is also ignorant of historical facts, proven when he mistook who {{Wiki|Guy Fawkes}} was, believing Fawkes was involved in the [[French Revolution]]. When corrected by [[Caroline Grey]], he snapped at her, claiming "We are making history here, the past is largely irrelevant."<ref>[[James Morse's email]]</ref>

==Trivia==
*In [[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]], Rikkin is identified by [[Laetitia England]] as the Leader of the Templar Order.

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