Animus Subjects

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The '''Animus Subjects''' were individuals selected and acquired by [[Abstergo Industries]] for use in their experiments with [[genetic memory]] and the [[Animus]] virtual machine. To date, there have been at least seventeen subjects, many of whom were eliminated by Abstergo Industries once their usefulness to the corporation ceased.

==Known Subjects==
===Subject 4===
[[File:Daniel Cross-The Fall1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Subject 4, Daniel Cross.]]
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Subject 4, or Daniel Cross, was mentioned in a letter dated September, 1985, in which an individual signed "W.V." ([[Warren Vidic]]) reported on making a prototype [[Pieces of Eden|Piece of Eden]] replica, and its use on Subject 4 between their Animus sessions.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>

During his captivity, Cross not only had his memories explored, but was embedded with an impulse that would force him to kill [[The Mentor (2000)|the Mentor]] if he was ever presented with the opportunity. In the year 2000, Cross acted upon this impulse and succeeded in his objective, plunging the Assassins into chaos.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: The Fall">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' <small>Issue #3</small></ref>

===Subject 12===
Subject 12 was the direct descendant of an individual involved in (or subjected to) the [[Philadelphia Project]]; an event wherein the [[wikipedia:USS Eldridge (DE-173)#Philadelphia Experiment|USS ''Eldridge'']] manifested itself in a future state for approximately eighteen minutes.<ref name="Assassin's Creed">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>

===Subject 15===
{{main|Subject 15}}
Subject 15 was female and pregnant. She suffered the [[bleeding effect]] by seeing memories of her ancestors and other people from different time periods. She also experienced "memory-within-memory" patterns due to being pregnant, as the memories of the fetus's father conflicted with Subject 15's own ancestors' memories.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/> After Lucy discovered some adverse effects of the Animus on the subject, she e-mailed Warren Vidic, warning him of said effects. Warren told Lucy that the experiments on Subject 15 would stop, and then sent a disposal unit and had [[James Morse]] file an "accident" report.<ref>http://abstergoindustries.com/portal/</ref>

===Subject 16===
[[File:MrKaczmarek.png|thumb|right|200px|Subject 16, Clay Kaczmarek]]
{{main|Clay Kaczmarek}}
Subject 16, or Clay Kaczmarek was, as his moniker suggests, the sixteenth individual to undergo Abstergo's experiments. As a result of the bleeding effect, Subject 16 went insane and used his own blood to write [[Cryptic Messages|cryptic messages]] throughout the [[Abstergo laboratory]] and his sleeping quarters.<ref name="Assassin's Creed"/>

Like his successor, Subject 16 was a direct descendant of [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed II">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref> During his time at Abstergo Industries, 16 managed to hack into the Animus, and placed several hidden [[glyphs]] and [[rifts]] throughout the Animus' projection of Ezio's genetic memories. These puzzles were later located by Subject 17, who, upon solving them, was granted access to one of 16's own memories.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===Subject 17===
{{main|Desmond Miles}}
[[File:Mesmond.png|thumb|right|200px|Subject 17, Desmond Miles.]]
Subject 17, or Desmond Miles, was brought to Abstergo against his will, and was threatened with a coma and death if he did not participate in Warren Vidic's experiments. Upon agreeing to the experiment, Desmond explored the memories of his ancestor [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed"/> Just before escaping Abstergo with [[Lucy Stillman]], Desmond entered the original Animus one final time to witness the birth of his ancestor, [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]]. Desmond and Lucy sneaked out of the facility and fought off Abstergo guards before entering Lucy's car. Later, he arrived at [[Hideout|one]] of the [[Assassins]]' hideouts and explored the memories of Ezio Auditore in order to exploit the bleeding effect by learning the skills necessary to become a true Assassin.<ref name="Assassin's Creed II"/>

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==Notes and references==
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