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Abstergo Industries

2011-08-07T02:05:41Z

174.115.78.250: /* Former employees */

{{era|AC1|AC2|Brotherhood|PL|TF|Abstergo|Templars}}
{{Revamp}}
{{Faction infobox
|image = Animuslogowhite.svg
|imgdesc = [http://abstergoindustries.com Abstergo Industries]
|founder = [[Templars]]
|leader = Chief Executive Officer
|locations =
|related = [[Templars]]
|religion = Atheist
|formed = 1937
|notable = *[[Henry Ford]]
*[[Ranny Olds]]
*[[Alan Rikkin]]
*[[Warren Vidic]]
}}
{{Quote|We change the world. Every day, in a hundred different ways. Did you know that every single breakthrough of the last millennia, be it medical, mechanical or philosophical, has come from Abstergo, or its predecessors?|[[Warren Vidic]] to [[Desmond Miles]].|Assassin's Creed}}

'''Abstergo Industries''' was one of the largest and most prominent multinational corporations of the [[Modern Times|modern era]], serving as the primary front for the [[Templars|Templar Order]]. Outwardly labeled as primarily a pharmaceutical development company, Abstergo Industries, or its predecessors, had been responsible for the majority of human technological development for the past millenia.

Despite genuinely contributing to the technological development of society, Abstergo Industries' primary mission, as dictated by its Templar members, "is the destruction of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]] and the procurement of [[Pieces of Eden|advanced technologies]] originally created by the [[First Civilization]]."

As of the year 2012, Abstergo Industries had come under investigation by the United States Government for the "New Fluoride" and was due to have its accounts frozen, prompting the company to speed-up their planned Abstergo-Eye Satellite launch.

==History==
===1940's - Assembly Lines===
[[File:Henry_Ford.jpg|thumb|160px|Henry Ford, a Templar in the 1940's.]]On July 22, 1944, an unknown member of the company sent out a memo to fellow members. They mentioned using the assembly line to control both capitalists and workers, and credited [[Ransom Eli Olds|Ransom "Ranny" Olds]] and [[Henry Ford]] for its creation.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref> This person further added that they hoped that in the future, the company would not have to use such "ugly chains".

They mention that Abstergo's founders designed the "Plan" in 1910. This individual also brought up the Communists and said it was Abstergo's duty to save them (neutralize) and their followers. The reasons given were that they were to be allowed to eat and to reproduce.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

The sender of the memo further elaborates on Abstergo's goals, stating to his fellow Templars that their duty was to "shepherd those beneath us through life, even if force is required".<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

The unknown member mentioned other Templars known only by the initials "H." and "S." ([[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin]]) who brought on the "turmoil and fear". Towards the end of this memo, they brought up the "successful ruse of Rockefeller's dimes".<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===1950's - The Creation of the Computer===
Abstergo was responsible for British mathematician [[Alan Turing]]'s criminal prosecution and possibly his death. In a phone recording dating to June 1954, also hidden by Subject 16, two Templars only known by the initials "V." and "N" mention the need for Turing to be arrested.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

They feared "mass unemployment" if the mathematician did end up creating a computer.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/> The two men also mentioned American economist and senior U.S. Treasury Department official [[Harry Dexter White]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===1960's - Apollo 11===

[[File:Glyph_10-3.jpg|thumb|Glyph puzzle proof.]]In one of the glyphs it was shown that there was an Apple on the Moon, with under the picture a text; "With Jack deep underground, it was easy." - Jack being former American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; his nickname being Jack. The part it stated that he's "deep underground" goes back to his murder in 1963, as where "it" was easy, points to the moonlanding in 1969, in order to retrieve the Apple.

As the glyphs state, Kennedy was assassinated by the Templars because he had plans in doing a joint moonlanding with the Soviet Union. However, the Templars also knew that there was one of the artifacts hidden on the Moon, and they weren't considering sharing it; thus they killed Kennedy, went on with the moon project and assigned a Templar for presidency, Nixon, to recover the Piece of Eden in 1969.<ref name="Assassins Creed 2 Glyphs">''[[Glyphs]]''</ref>

===1970's - Global International Order===
Abstergo involved itself in the economic and political affairs of Iran, Argentina, and Chile. This information was also revealed to Desmond by Subject 16 via a company memo hidden in a glyph.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

This memo on the subject of South America stated that "to ensure company's success, company agents must be able to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them. A global international order must be implemented".<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

In Argentina, the memo tells members to inform capitalists that if they helped ensure that the junta stays in power, Abstergo will pass all their corporate debt onto the Argentine people, thus quelling any attempts of popular revolt.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

The person who wrote the memo also added that they wanted Argentinian trade unions there to be destroyed. The actions of Abstergo likely contributed to the disappearance of at least 30,000 Argentinian people in the 1970s.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

[[File:Allende.jpg|thumb|left|189px|Salvador Allende, former president of Chile.]]In neighboring Chile, Abstergo wanted the free markets to proceed. The memo mentioned a Templar known as "F.", who visited the country last year, thus helping things along. The memo went on to state that all public companies need to be sold to the private sector, preferably at a cheap price.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

The price of bread and other staples must rise, therefore ensuring that the Chilean people remain in poverty and being unable to resist. Abstergo's efforts ended up thwarting President [[Salvador Allende]]'s efforts to allow the people to own Chile's corporations, which ended with his apparent suicide in 1973. This helped future dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]] to assume power. Abstergo escaped detection because it deliberately hid its involvement and implicated the U.S. government.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

In Iran, Abstergo backed monarch Shah Pahlavi, [[Sha'baan Ja'fari]], and the National Intelligence and Security Organization, otherwise known as [[SAVAK]], against democratically elected Prime Minister [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]]. This resulted in Mosaddegh being overthrown in 1953 and dying under house arrest in 1967.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

[[File:Daniel_Cross-The_Fall1.jpg|thumb|155px|Subject 4, Daniel Cross.]]

===1980's - Prototype of a Piece===
In September 1985, the research division of Abstergo worked on a prototype capable of mimicking Piece of Eden capabilities across a network. They also began testing on Subject 4.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===1990's - Gorbachev Overthrown===
In 1991 in Russia, they helped [[Boris Yeltsin]] to overthrow Gorbachev, the legitimate head of the state and reformer of the Soviet Union to democracy. Privatization started, the people were deceived, state property became belonging to oligarchs.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===2000's - Secrets Revealed===

In November 2004, a member of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] named Gary discovered Abstergo through researching for a book he was writing. He told a female associate that Abstergo has holdings in numerous global companies ([[Kraft]], [[Coke]] etc.) and that Abstergo has interests in all companies over a certain size. He was going to publish this book, but was presumably thwarted by the Templars.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

Justice of the Supreme Court and Templar [[Antonin Scalia]] convinced Sandra O'Connor to retire. He sent a letter to "S.". Scalia mentioned that "W". ([[George W. Bush]]) will restart animosities with Iraq, giving "C."'s ([[Dick Cheney]]) contractors more work. After the destruction of the Campaign finance laws, the company would be free to elect anyone they choose to the Senate, House, and eventually the Presidency.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

Abstergo used closed circuit televisions to spy on civilians and used online gaming to distract them. The secret menu is located between channels 172 and 173 and it has the owner's names, credit card number, their likes, EEG, and ARAS. In April 2011, a man named Mr. Jameson found out about this and called his cable company, Comstatic. In response, Abstergo sent someone to 'deal with' him and his twelve year old son Paul.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

In January 2012, the head of the company left the company to an unknown person. He warned his successor of a crisis, that once the free market falls, the people will turn against them.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

==Products==
{{Template:Quote|Guess the shit's really hit the fan this time.|An Abstergo employee e-mailing Warren V. about the Fluoride failure.|http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Vidic%27s_e-mail}}In one of the conversations with [[Lucy]], she revealed that Abstergo was one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, with their primary focus of pharmaceutics being anti-depressants. [[Vidic]] mentioned that Abstergo was responsible of nearly every single breakthrough over the past millennia to enhance everyday life, helped by their discovery of Pieces of Eden, but without taking any credit for it.

It was also stated in an [[Vidic's E-mail|e-mail]] to Warren Vidic, that Abstergo was secretly experimenting their products on people, and that one of their experimentations had failed, poisoning an entire town. The information about this incident had partly been leaked, causing the whole pharmaceutical division of the company to be closed down for investigation. The product Abstergo was experimenting with, was named New Fluoride.

Abstergo Industries was also planning to launch a telecommunication satellite, however, this was just their cover-up story. Secretly, they were planning to launch a Piece of Eden into orbit by satellite. The date of the launch was planned to be the 21st of December, 2012.<ref name="ACII:TT">''[[Assassin's Creed II]] - [[The Truth]]''</ref>

==Goals==
[[File:Apple-of-Eden.jpg|left|thumb|150px|The Apple, a Piece of Eden.]]As the greatest industrial force the Templars owned, Abstergo shared the same beliefs as the Templars; order and discipline, through force and control. Since the late Middle Ages, the Templars started realising the power the Pieces of Eden had over mankind, and thus started searching these Pieces. In Modern Times they used [[Desmond Miles]]' to access the memories of his ancestor, [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], to get ahold of a map of these artifacts, which they then started searching for; being more interested in total control, and possession of ''all'' Pieces.

Their goals changed as they sought control to unify the entire world using these artifacts, going from "lasting peace, no matter what the cost" to the "[[New World Order]]". To accomplish this, they had to reach their ultimate goal; launching a Piece of Eden into orbit around the Earth.

===The Animus Project===

The Animus' purpose during Subject 17's time was merely to access his ancestor's memories, in order to retrieve a map of the Pieces of Eden, which his [[Altair Ibn-La'Ahad|ancestor]] had been in contact with. After this, Subject 17 was to be executed, but was saved by a former Abstergo employee with whom he escaped. However, since Subject 17's escape the project has expanded to an [[Animus project|internal training]] and [[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy|data gather initiative]] for Abstergo employees.

====Other Subjects====

The first known Subject to be exposed to the Animus was Subject 4, [[Daniel Cross]]. He was programmed by the Animus to assassinate [[the Mentor]] once he saw him, in an attempt to damage the modern [[Assassin Order]] to extinction.

[[Subject 16]], like Subject 17, was put into the Animus to access his ancestors' memories, in order to retrieve Pieces of Eden. His prolonged exposure to the Animus, because of his failure to retrieve information about the location of the artifacts, caused an extreme [[bleeding effect]] to occur, making him go insane and write warnings on the wall to his successor, with his own blood.

==Known employees==
[[File:Abstergoppl.png|thumb|Some employees at Abstergo]]

===Current employees===
*[[S.]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Erica Nichols]]
*[[Robert Klein]]
*[[Caroline Grey]]
*[[Carson Kairns]]
*[[Alan Rikkin]] – CEO of Abstergo.<ref name="AC">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>
*[[Warren Vidic]] – Head of Research for [[genetic memory]] and the [[Animus project]].<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Nancy Nilop]] – Human Resources agent.<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Jane Birkam]] – Position is unknown, friend of Warren Vidic.<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Audrey Jacobs]] – Alan Rikkin's assistant.<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Richard]] – One of the three men that threatened to kill Lucy Stillman, before being stopped by Vidic.<ref name="AC"/>
*[[James Morse]] - Abstergo employee whose [[James Morse's E-mail|Abstergo e-mail]] can be accessed from their [http://abstergoindustries.com/portal/ website] by inputting the login password "'''PFRDVJ5aLLg'''".

===Former employees===
*[[Lucy Stillman]] (deceased - forcefully killed by Desmond)
*[[Leila Marino]] (deceased)

==Trivia==
*''Abstergo'' is a Latin verb, meaning "I cleanse."
*In [[the Truth]] file regarding Apollo, scanning the American flag on the ''Eagle'' shows the Abstergo logo, suggesting that Abstergo Industries was behind the moon landings. Similarly, scanning the white flag planted on the moon reveals the Templar cross.
*During [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio]]'s visit to [[Vatican Vault|the vault]], the Abstergo logo can be seen on several images projected by [[Minerva]].
*During the [[Retrieval of the Apple]], when Desmond activated the [[Sixth Apple]], several symbols started to appear around him. Of the symbols that appeared, the Abstergo Logo is one that appears quite frequently.
*In the concept art for the Vault, what looks like the Abstergo logo can be seen on the floor of the circular room in which Ezio fights Rodrigo.
*Abstergo's Animi room has a wall with a large window in the shape of the Templar cross.
*The doors within the laboratory are marked with blue lights in the shape of the Templar cross.
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'', the player is an Abstergo employee. However, the player does not seem to be aware of the company's association with the Templar Order or their war against the Assassins.
*Abstergo has a Twitter page for ''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy''.<ref>[http://twitter.com/datadumpscanner Twitter Data Dump Scanner]</ref>
*The multiplayer mode of ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' is played from the point of view of Abstergo employees undergoing training in the Animi.
*In the game [[Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles]] the Abstergo logo is present in many forms throughout the games (visibility meter and loading screen).

==Gallery==
===Locations===

<center><gallery widths="172" captionalign="left">
Philadelphia facility.jpg|[[Philadelphia]] facility.
the animus.jpg|An [[Animus]] in the [[Florence]] facility.
Symbols3.jpg|A symbol on the floor of Abstergo, Florence facility.
EBF4562C4A676B671AF642_Large.jpg|Abstergo's Animi room
AbstergoAnimusRoom.png
</gallery></center>

===People===

<center><gallery widths="172">
vidic.jpg|Doctor [[Warren Vidic]].
Animus (2000).jpg|[[Daniel Cross|Subject 4, 'Daniel Cross']].
desmond.jpg|[[Desmond Miles|Subject 17, Desmond Miles]].
lucy stillman.jpg|Vidic's assistant, [[Lucy Stillman]].
</gallery></center>

==Notes and references==
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Sword

2011-06-26T03:56:38Z

174.115.78.250: /* Hammers Rack */

{{Era|AC2|Brotherhood}}
[[File:Oxcgn-assassins-creed-2-weapons.jpg|thumb|Several weapons Ezio can use.]]
In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]] and [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio]] can purchase a wide variety of weapons to use in combat. This page in particular will list the names and prices of the numerous swords and maces available at various [[Blacksmiths]].

==Weapons==
===Left Rack===
{|width="80%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="text-align:center"
!scope="col" width="25%"|Name
!scope="col" width="15%"|Damage
!scope="col" width="15%"|Speed
!scope="col" width="15%"|Deflect
!scope="col" width="15%"|Unlocked
!scope="col" width="15%"|Cost
|-
!Common Sword
|1
|2
|2
|Sequence 3, Memory 3
|Free<br />(Received at the end of Sequence 1 after putting on the [[Assassin]]'s robes)
|-
!scope="row"|Captain's Sword
|2
|4
|3
|Sequence 5, Memory 1
|5,200 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Milanese Sword
|4
|4
|2
|Sequence 8, Memory 1
|11,300 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Schiavona
|4
|5
|4
|Sequence 8, Memory 1
|25,000 ƒ
|}

===Right Rack===
{|width="80%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="text-align:center"
!width="25%" scope="col"|Name
!width="15%" scope="col"|Damage
!width="15%" scope="col"|Speed
!width="15%" scope="col"|Deflect
!width="15%" scope="col"|Unlocked
!width="15%" scope="col"|Cost
|-
!scope="row"|[[Sword Of Altaïr]]
|5
|5
|5
|
Sequence 9, memory 3
|47,500 f
|-
!scope="row"|Old Syrian Sword
|1
|2
|3
|Sequence 3, Memory 3
|2,300 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Venetian Falchion
|1
|5
|5
|Sequence 3, Memory 3
|1,900 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Florentine Falchion
|2
|3
|4
|Sequence 5, Memory 1
|5,200 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|[[Scimitar]]
|3
|3
|5
|Sequence 6, Memory 1
|11,300 ƒ
|}

===Hammers Rack===
{|width="80%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="text-align:center"
!scope="col" width="25%"|Name
!scope="col" width="15%"|Damage
!scope="col" width="15%"|Speed
!scope="col" width="15%"|Deflect
!scope="col" width="15%"|Unlocked
!scope="col" width="15%"|Cost
|-
!scope="row"|Mercenario War Hammer
|1
|3
|5
|Sequence 3, Memory 3
|1,900 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Condottiero War Hammer
|5
|3
|4
|Obtained after collecting 50 [[Feather|feathers]]
|30,600 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Maul
|2
|1
|2
|Sequence 4, Memory 1
|3,600 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Flanged Mace
|3
|3
|3
|Sequence 6, Memory 1
|10,500 ƒ
|-
!scope="row"|Cavalieri Mace
|2
|1
|1
|Sequence 7, Memory 1
|20,800 ƒ
|}

===Special Weapons Rack===
''Obtained after synchronizing with the PSP upon completion of [[Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines]].''
{|width="80%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="text-align:center"
!scope="col" width="40%"|Name
!scope="col" width="20%"|Damage
!scope="col" width="20%"|Speed
!scope="col" width="20%"|Deflect
|-
!scope="row"|
[[Maria Thorpe]]'s Longsword
|1
|3
|3
|-
!scope="row"|[[Fredrick|Frederick]]'s Hammer
|2
|4
|4
|-
!scope="row"|Mace Of [[Moloch|The Bull]]
|4
|2
|3
|-
!scope="row"|Twin's Rapier
|2
|5
|3
|-
!scope="row"|[[Armand Bouchart|Bouchart]]'s Blade
|2
|5
|5
|}

==Trivia==
*The Sword of [[Altaïr]] and the Condottiero War Hammer can only be purchased from the blacksmith shop in [[Monteriggioni]].
*Monteriggioni's Blacksmith sells every weapon available after Sequence 11, apart from the Condottiero War Hammer, which is only available after collecting 50 feathers.
* The Old Syrian Sword is Altaïr's final and strongest sword in ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''.
* The "grab kill" of the mace is exactly that of the sword's. It is possible to use the sharp end of the mace to achieve the same results.
* It is interesting to note that even though the Condottiero War Hammer can only be bought from the Monteriggioni blacksmith, once unlocked, random guards will use this as their weapon.
* In ''Assassin's Creed II'', the Syrian Sword does less damage than the Sword of Altaïr, despite the Syrian Sword being the best sword in the first game.
* The first sword Ezio is equipped with in ''Assassin's Creed II'' is the common sword, however when he is disarmed by a Brute during [[Auditore Execution|the execution]], it becomes the Syrian Sword.
*[[The Captain]], a multiplayer character from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' uses a shortsword, which resembles a shorter version of the Milanese Sword.
*Performing a double execution with a blunt weapon will sometimes make it appear as if Ezio is impaling his target with the mace/hammer/improvised weapon.
*For some reason, in ''Brotherhood'', the Scimitar, Maul, Flanged Mace, Channeled Cinquedea, and Florentine Falchion appear as weapons, but are not purchasable. However, they can be acquired by disarming a guard while Ezio is equipped with an empty heavy sheath.
*With Swords and Maces, if you hold down the attack button after finishing off the first enemy in an execution streak, you will kill a guard with your weapon and your gun.
*If you steal a Captain's Sword from a guard before unlocking it. You must steal it again if you want to use it.

==Videos==
[[Video:Assassins Creed II - Orchesteral Disarmings and Counters 2|thumb|346px|left|Almost all counters and disarmings with the sword, mace and dagger.]]

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