Animus Subjects

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The '''Subjects''' were people selected and acquired by [[Abstergo Industries]] for use in their experiments with [[genetic memory]] and the [[Animus]]. To date, their have been at least seventeen subjects, many of whom were eliminated by Abstergo Industries once their usefullness was finished.

==Known Subjects==
=== Subject 4===
{{main|Daniel Cross}}
Subject 4, or [[Daniel Cross]], was mentioned in a letter dated September, 1985, in which an individual signed only "W.V." ([[Warren Vidic]]) reported on making a prototype [[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 imprisonment, Cross not only had his memories explored, but was embedded with an impulse that would force him to kill [[the Mentor]] if he was ever presented with the opportunity. In the year 2000, Cross acted upon this impulse and succeeded in his objective.<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 through 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 and the memories of the fetus's father conflicted with Subject 15's own ancestors' memories. 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===
{{main|Subject 16}}
[[File:Ending--article_image.jpg|thumb|right|Subject 16]]
Subject 16 was, as his moniker suggests, the sixteenth individual to undergo Abstergo's experiments. As a result of the "[[Bleeding effect]]", Subject 16 went mad and wrote the [[cryptic messages]] throughout the [[Abstergo laboratory]] and his sleeping quarters, with his own blood.<ref name="Assassin's Creed" />

Like his successor, Subject 16 was a direct descendant of [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]].<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 [[rifts]] throughout the Animus' projection of Ezio's genetic memories; these puzzles were later happened upon by Subject 17, who upon solving them was granted access to one of 16's own memories. It has been romured that Subject 16 was related to Desmond such as, Father / Brother<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" />

===Subject 17===
{{main|Desmond Miles}}
[[File:Desmond2.png|thumb|Subject 17, Desmond Miles]]
Subject 17, or Desmond Miles, was brought to Abstergo against his will, he was threatened with a coma and death if he did not participate in the Warren Vidic's experiments. Giving in to the threat, he entered the Animus and was forced to relive the memories of his ancestor: [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], in order to find the location of a number of [[Pieces of Eden]]. Like Subject 16 before him, Desmond quickly begun to experience the bleeding effect.<ref name="Assassin's Creed" /> Although at first he only suffered from relatively minor changes, after his escape from Abstergo Industries, Desmond willingly choose to relive the memories of another ancestor – Ezio Auditore da Firenze – in order to exploit the bleeding effect and learn the skills necessary to become a true [[Assassins|Assassin]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />

==Notes and references==
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