Editing Precursor box

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{{Item Infobox
|name=Precursor box
|image=ACRG Precursor box.png
|type=[[Pieces of Eden|Piece of Eden]]
|powers=
*Siphoning other artifacts as power sources 
*Decyphering [[Isu]] [[Isu script|writing]] and producing holograms
*Imprinting [[Genetic memories|memories]] into the minds of users 
|current=Unknown {{c|one box destroyed during [[Resurrection Day]]}}
|period=*Prehistory
*[[Ming dynasty]]
*[[Seven Years' War]]
*[[Age of Enlightenment]]
*[[Sikh Empire]]
*[[Russian Revolution]]
*[[Modern times]]
|created=Isu
|notable=*[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]]
*[[Shao Jun]]
*[[Shay Cormac]]
*[[William Sleeman]]
*[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
*[[Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia Nikolaevna]]
*[[Álvaro Gramática]]
}}
A '''Precursor box''', also known as an '''Isu Data Cache''',<ref name="FoA:JoA">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]] – [[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]''</ref> is a type of device created by the [[Isu]] capable of interacting with other [[Piece of Eden|Pieces of Eden]] to accomplish a variety of functions;<ref name="The Essential Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]''</ref> principally, to store vast contents of knowledge on any single given subject.<ref name="FoA:JoA"/>

Normally powered by the Piece of Eden it is paired with, in the absence of such a device, electricity can be used in its place. However, the amount of electricity required is on the magnitude of a lightning strike and can damage the box.<ref name="The Essential Guide"/> One such box was indeed powered in this way, and when activated, it was able to decipher the [[Isu script]] written in the [[Voynich manuscript]], giving the location of the [[Seismic Temple]]s.<ref name="FiatLux">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Fiat Lux]]</ref> Using the [[Koh-i-Noor]] [[diamond]] to power another box, the Templars used the artifact to translate the writings in the [[Tosha Khana]] [[Temple (Isu)|Temple]] beneath [[Amritsar]] to locate the emplacement of other Temples.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]'' – [[The Enemy Revealed]]</ref>

Combined with [[Staves of Eden]], the boxes were also shown to have the ability to imprint the [[genetic memories]] of someone into another individual, like in 1918 when [[Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia Nikolaevna]] ended up with the memories of [[Shao Jun]].<ref name="RedFury">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]'' – [[Red Fury]]</ref>

==History==
===Move to China===
[[File:ACE-V 10.png|thumb|left|250px|Ezio handing the box to Shao Jun]]
By November 1524, one Precursor box was owned by the [[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian Assassins]]' retired [[Mentor]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]] in his villa in [[Tuscany]], [[Italy]]. When the [[Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins|Chinese Assassin]] Shao Jun arrived there seeking Ezio's advice on resolving problems back in [[China]], he gave her the box and told that it would aid her, stating that she should only open it if she were to lose her way.<ref name="Embers">''[[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]''</ref>

Upon returning to China, Shao Jun used the box as bait to get closer to [[Gao Feng]], a [[Shanghai Rite of the Templar Order|Chinese Templar]] and one of the [[Eight Tigers]] responsible for conducting a near-complete [[Great Rites Controversy|purge]] of the Chinese Assassins. She [[Assassination|assassinated]] him,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China]]'' – [[The Escape (China)|The Escape]]</ref> but the box itself was taken by [[Yu Dayong]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China'' – [[The Port]]</ref> Eventually, Shao Jun assassinated Yu and reclaimed the box.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China'' – [[The Slaver]]</ref> She entrusted it to her Mentor [[Wang Yangming]], who took it to have a contact help them study the box.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China'' – [[The Search]]</ref><ref name="ReunionManga">''[[Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun]]'' – [[Reunion (manga)|Reunion]]</ref> However, the Eight Tigers' leader [[Zhang Yong]] traced Yangming's location and joined an ambush to the Assassin's meeting. Promptly murdering the contact,<ref name="ReunionManga"/> he attacked the outnumbered Mentor<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun'' – [[Trap (manga)|Trap]]</ref> until Yangming was fatally wounded,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun'' – [[Funeral Pyre]]</ref> then took the box<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China'' – [[Hunted]]</ref> and later had it sent out of China to other Templars.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China'' – [[Vengeance]]</ref>

===West Indies===
[[File:De Fayet's Last Stand 7.png|thumb|250px|Adéwalé handing the box to Bastienne]]
By 1735, the Precursor box had wound up in the possession of the [[Parisian Rite of the Templar Order|French Templars]], who were transporting it on aboard a [[Man O' War|galleon]] to [[Port-au-Prince]] to be given to [[Bastienne Josèphe]]. However, the fleet transporting the artifact was attacked by the [[West Indies Brotherhood of Assassins|Caribbean Assassin]] [[Adéwalé]], who retrieved the parcel that contained the box from the [[Templar Admiral (1735)|Templar admiral]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]] – [[Freedom Cry]]'' – [[The Calm Before the Storm]]</ref> In July 1737, after two years of working alongside her, Adéwalé eventually handed the artifact to Bastienne.<ref>''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry'' – [[De Fayet's Last Stand]]</ref>

By November 1751, the [[Saint-Domingue Brotherhood of Assassins|Saint-Domingue Assassins]]' Mentor [[François Mackandal]] owned both the Precursor box and the Voynich manuscript. Using the artifacts, Mackandal discovered the existence of [[Port-au-Prince Temple|an Isu Temple]] near Port-au-Prince and sent his subordinate [[Vendredi]] to investigate it. Unbeknownst to Mackandal, the Temple was part of a system that held the [[Earth]] together.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Lessons and Revelations]]</ref>

Vendredi activated the Temple's machinery, causing a massive [[1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake|earthquake]] which destroyed Port-au-Prince and the surrounding region. After the disaster, the [[Master Templar]] [[Lawrence Washington]] stole the Precursor box and manuscript from Mackandal's camp and took the artifacts with him to [[Virginia (state)|Virginia]], where the Templars studied the artifacts in an attempt to learn how to use them.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[War Letters]]: "Family Vacation"</ref>

===Struggle in the colonies===
[[File:One Little Victory 6.png|thumb|left|250px|Shay holding the Precursor box]]
In 1752, the [[American Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Assassin]] [[Shay Cormac]] assassinated Washington in search of the box in 1752. However, the box was already in possession of the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|Colonial Templar]] [[Samuel Smith]], while the manuscript had been entrusted to [[James Wardrop]], another noted Templar.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[By Invitation Only]]</ref> In 1754, Shay had managed to track Smith down and assassinate him, with the help of fellow Assassin [[Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye|Chevalier de la Vérendrye]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[One Little Victory]]</ref> Shay recovered the Precursor box from Smith and delivered it to the scientist [[Benjamin Franklin]], who was confident conducting electricity through the box would activate it.<ref name="FiatLux"/>

With Shay and [[Hope Jensen]]'s assistance, Franklin succeeded in powering the box, which projected a [[Isu map|map]] of the Earth and displayed locations of several Isu sites, one of them in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]. The box was subsequently given to the Colonial Assassins' Mentor [[Achilles Davenport]], who kept it secure at the [[Davenport Homestead]], the Assassins' primary base of operations in the [[British Empire|British colonies]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Kyrie Eleison]]</ref>

In 1759, Hope managed to replicate Franklin's experiment and discovered [[Arctic Temple|another Isu Temple]] hidden in the [[Arctic Ocean|Arctic]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Caress of Steel]]</ref> After the ordeal, Chevalier de la Vérendrye was tasked with hiding the box and decided to ship it away from the colonies.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Non Nobis Domine]]</ref>

===Exchanging hands===
[[File:ACRG Shay Dorian.jpg|thumb|250px|Shay stealing the box from Charles Dorian]]
By December 1776, the [[Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins|French Assassins]] owned the box.<ref name="ACRGAssassination">''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[QXNzYXNzaW5hdGlvbg0K]]</ref> Having [[Assassin-Templar War|defected]] to the Templars twenty years before,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Scars]]</ref> Shay learned of this and traveled to [[Paris]]. Rescuing Franklin from a group of criminals,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[RGVjb25zdHJ1Y3RlZA0K]]</ref> Shay enlisted his aid in entering the [[Palace of Versailles]], claiming to have a business meeting there.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[UHJvdGVjdGlvbg0K]]</ref> After a meeting in the palace, the Assassins entrusted the box to [[Charles Dorian]]. Having made his way inside, Shay assassinated Charles and took the box from him, reclaiming it for the Templars.<ref name="ACRGAssassination"/>

Eventually, the box ended up into the hands of [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Templar]] [[Francis Cotton]]. After Cotton's death,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]''</ref> his appointed successor [[William Sleeman]] took possession of it, and in 1841, launched a campaign to find Isu Temples in India by using the artifact. In order to power it, he stole the Koh-i-Noor from the Assassins.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India'' – [[The Quest Begins]]</ref> However, the [[Indian Brotherhood of Assassins|Indian Assassin]] [[Arbaaz Mir]] and the [[Sikh Empire]] princess [[Pyara Kaur]] countered his efforts and recovered the stolen artifact.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India'' – [[The Thief Within]]</ref> Despite discovering a [[Herat Temple|new Temple]] in [[Herat]], Arbaaz could not prevent William from fleeing with the box.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India'' – [[The Rescue (India)|The Rescue]]</ref>

After [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s {{Wiki|1868 United States presidential election|election}} as President of the [[United States]] in 1868, the American Templars infiltrated his inner circle and subsequently corrupted his administration. During the [[American Civil War]], the Assassins gave Grant the [[Trident of Eden]]'s Faith Prong and helped him master its powers, which gave him access to the Precursor box and the Voynich manuscript's page. The former presidential candidate [[Horace Greeley]] discovered this and tasked one of his associates in Grant's office to steal the box from the Templars. His associate managed to bring him the box and inform him of several manuscript pages which had been housed at the {{Wiki|British Museum}} before being murdered.<ref name="Locus1">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus 1|Issue #1]]</ref>

In 1872, the Templars learned Greeley had kept the Precursor box in his home and sent their agent [[Alice (Templar)|Alice]] to recover it. Although the [[Pinkerton]] agent [[Tommy Greyling]] managed to prevent her assassination attempt on the near-death Greeley,<ref name="Locus1"/> she succeeded in recovering the box and brought it back to her superiors.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus 4|Issue #4]]</ref>

===Revolutionary Russia===
[[File:ACCR RF (9).jpg|thumb|left|250px|The box and the Staff shard interacting]]
Decades later, the box had come into the possession of Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]], who in 1918 and along with his family was held prisoner by the Bolcheviks in [[Yekaterinburg]]. Sent by the Brotherhood to recover the artifact, [[Nikolai Orelov]] was confronted by the Templars who had infiltrated the ranks of the [[Red Army]] and also coveted the box.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' – [[Dawn of the Tsars]]</ref> Infiltrating [[Ipatiev House]] where the Romanovs were kept, Nikolai witnessed [[Execution of the Romanov family|their murder]] but reached Grand Duchess Anastasia, who was holding the box, in time to secure the artifact.<ref name="RedFury"/>

However, as Nikolai was taking the Precursor box from Anastasia's hands, the box interacted with a shard around his neck<ref name="RedFury"/> from the [[Imperial Sceptre]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: The Fall 3|Issue #3]]</ref> and the girl was imprinted with the Chinese Assassin Shao Jun's genetic memories.<ref name="RedFury"/> Suffering from a kind of [[Bleeding Effect]],<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' – [[Power from the Past]]</ref> Anastasia became overwhelmed by Shao Jun's skills and memories, and the older man decided to take both her and the box to the Brotherhood in [[Moscow]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' – [[The Train of Revolution]]</ref>

Once in Moscow, the pair reached to the Assassin [[Sergei]], who took the box and promised Nikolai that they would keep her safe while discovering what the box had done to her. Nikolai then found out by [[eavesdropping]] on some Assassins' conversation that they did not care about Anastasia's safety, that Sergei only wanted to uncover the box's secrets, and that the procedure they planned to use on Anastasia would most likely kill her.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China'' – [[In Safe Hands]]</ref> Nikolai ultimately managed to rescue Anastasia, but left the box behind.<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' – [[Dark Secrets]]</ref>

===Phoenix Project===
By February 2014, [[Abstergo Industries]] had come into possession of this Precursor box, which they kept at their facility in [[Rotterdam]]. Although the Assassins [[Harlan Cunningham]] and [[Arend Schut-Cunningham|Arend Schut]] managed to steal it during their raid of the facility, they were forced to leave the artifact behind after being pursued by Abstergo's [[Sigma Team]] led by the Master Templar [[Juhani Otso Berg]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Numbskull's personal files]]: "Sigma Team's Most Wanted: The Soldiers"</ref>
[[File:ACCR Alvaro box.jpg|thumb|250px|Álvaro Gramática holding the box]]
In 2015, [[Laetitia England]] assigned Juhani Otso Berg to deliver the box to [[Álvaro Gramática]]’s top secret laboratory, so he could use it for the [[Phoenix Project]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' – [[21st century conversations|Modern day]]</ref> Gramática would subsequently experiment on the box, as well as a [[Shroud of Eden 2|Shroud of Eden]] delivered to him by [[Violet da Costa]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[21st century conversations|Modern day]]</ref> until 2018, when his laboratory was forcefully taken over by the [[Instruments of the First Will]].<ref name="Uprising">''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' – {{Cite|37 March 2024}}</ref>

The Instruments sought to create a new body for the Isu [[Juno]] to inhabit and Gramática complied, using the knowledge from the box, along with the Shroud's healing properties and Isu DNA extracted from the young [[Sage]] [[Elijah]], to give Juno a new body. However, the Phoenix Project laboratory was shortly after attacked by an [[Assassin cell]] led by [[Galina Voronina]] and Juhani Otso Berg, who sought to prevent Juno's return to power. During the subsequent battle, the laboratory was destroyed by a high-caliber explosive thrown by Otso Berg, which presumably also destroyed the box and the Shroud.<ref name="Uprising"/>

===Attempts to find other boxes===
By 2019, the [[Japanese Rite of the Templar Order|Japanese Templar]] [[Kaori Kagami]] was attempting to locate Shao Jun's Precursor box. When [[Kō Risa]], a descendant of Jun, began attending therapy sessions at the Abstergo [[Abstergo Industries Yokohama facility|clinic]] in [[Yokohama]], Kagami placed her in the [[Animus]] to relive her ancestor's genetic memories.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun'' – [[Homecoming (manga)|Homecoming]]</ref> However, Jun's memories ultimately proved to be a dead end,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun'' – [[Culmination]]</ref> and Kagami was forced to postpone her search after Risa destroyed her Animus. Shortly after, Risa and her cousin [[Mari]] were recruited into the Brotherhood by the Mentor [[Saeko Mochizuki]], who tasked them to find Jun's box.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun'' – [[Creed]]</ref>

In August 2020, the Assassin [[Antony Henry]] mentioned in his notes to [[Layla Hassan]] detailing his efforts translating [[Isu script]] that he had tried to translate some of the Voynich manuscript's pages. His attempt was unsuccessful, but he theorized that the text may have required a Precursor box to decode.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]] – SecureShare: "PRE_trslt_Canterbury.odt <v. 1 by ahenry>"</ref>

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==Behind the scenes==
There is inconsistency over the identity of the Precursor boxes across the [[Assassin's Creed (series)|''Assassin's Creed'' series]]. In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'', the Templar John Harrison wrote to Grand Master Reginald Birch that the Chinese Assassins had sent Shao Jun's box to {{Wiki|Acapulco}}, and from there, to the West Indies, about a century after her death.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – War Letter: "The Manila Galleons"</ref> Since the box in ''Rogue'' seems to be identical to the one held by the Caribbean Assassin Adéwalé, this heavily suggests a clear continuity from Shao Jun's box in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]'' to Adéwalé's box in ''[[Freedom Cry]]'' and to Shay Cormac's box in ''Rogue'', that they are all the same box.

However, [[Richard Farrese]], the lead writer to ''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'', discounted in a podcast with the YouTuber Loomer that Shao Jun's box is identical to that of Shay.<ref name="Loomer">{{Youtube|video=0aNOdYDnogk|text=The Assassin's Den - ft. Richard Farrese (Lead Writer on Assassin's Creed Rogue)|channel=channel/UCfB8dJdMxEofkcybwAskjqQ|channelname=Loomer|quote={{Cite|27 March 2024}}}}</ref> With the release of ''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]'', Shao Jun's box is implied to have passed from the Chinese Templars to the British Templar William Sleeman operating in India and thence to the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. If this were true, it would be peculiar that Harrison reports that the Chinese Assassins retained Shao Jun's box for more than a century given that the box would be assumed to have remained in Templar hands from the end of ''Chronicles: China'', though it is not impossible that Shao Jun had recaptured the box before it eventually fell into the hands of Sleeman.

At the same time, the box's presence in ''Chronicles: India'' and ''Chronicles: Russia'' does not necessarily contradict the war letter in ''Rogue'', as the events of ''Freedom Cry'' and ''Rogue'' are set in between those of ''Chronicles: China'' and ''Chronicles: India''. This allows for the possibility that the Chinese Brotherhood really did send the box to the West Indies, and after Shay took it back from Charles Dorian, it eventually fell into the hands of William Sleeman. Indeed, the fact that the box handed to Álvaro Gramática at the end of ''Chronicles: Russia'' is labeled "SHAY'S PRECURSOR BOX" heavily suggests that Ezio's box seen throughout the spin-off series is Shay's box. This is because it would be a peculiar narrative choice for the game to end with Gramática receiving a different item of no relevance to the game's story, i.e. Shay's box if it is distinct, rather than Ezio's box.

On 21 March 2017, ''Assassin's Creed''{{'}}s then-Head of Content [[Aymar Azaïzia]] answered in an {{wiki|Reddit#IAmA_and_AMA|AMA}} on Reddit that Ezio's box and Shay's box were the same in response to a question concerning this matter,<ref>{{Cite web|author="AymarMtl"|date=21 March 2017|publisher=''{{Wiki|Reddit}}''|title=I am Aymar Azaizia, Head of Content for Assassin's Creed, Ask Me Anything!|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/60pj33/i_am_aymar_azaizia_head_of_content_for_assassins/?limit=500|accessdate=2 August 2017|quote=@J_Deedubze_W: Hi Aymar! Glad your doing this AMA, it'll give us a chance to clear up a few things. My question is: Will the mystery with the box Ezio gave to Shao Jun in Embers ever be picked up on again? Is the one Shay used in Rogue that same box? Could it be the box that held the Apple that Napoleon took in Unity?There have been many fan theories going around, and I think I speak for a few of us when I say we really enjoy the mystery, but would love to have some hints towards its contents, maybe in a game, rather than book or comic, but a book or comic would still be great. (I feel like I may be missing something here, If I am, my bad)<br>@AymarMtl: Ok I'll help, but just a bit... The box that Ezio gave to Shao Jun is the same that Shay used... The rest may come :D}}</ref> thereby clearly contradicting not only Richard Farrese, but seemingly the reference book ''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]'' as well. Aside from consistently describing Precursor boxes in the plural, ''The Essential Guide'' states that ''"Two confirmed Precursor Boxes exist; one is currently in possession of Álvaro Gramática, while the location of the other is unknown"''. The reference to two Precursor boxes rather than one highly suggests that Shay's box, the one given to Gramática, and Ezio's box are distinct. However, it stops short of explicitly describing the second box, meaning that it technically does not contradict Aymar's claim because it could be that Ezio's box and Shay's box should still be taken as an identical box in Gramática's hands while the second box is merely one that has never appeared in the series. It would be odd, however, for the book to mention two boxes while intending one to be one that has been absent from the entire series.

Adding to the confusion, while Farrese also clarified that Adéwalé's box in ''Freedom Cry'' is the one that ends up in Shay's hands in ''Rogue'',<ref name="Loomer"/> they are distinct in design. While the latter bears a rectangular lid which splits in half and slides open, with even the sides of the box unraveling to expose the mechanisms within,<ref name="FiatLux"/> the former has a round lid that seems to open on hinges like a typical box. Ironically, this means that the box in ''Freedom Cry'' is actually more similar in design and appearance to the one in ''Embers''.

Another inconsistency appears in the 2019 manga ''[[Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun]]''. During its modern-day events, which are presumably set in 2019, both the Japanese Assassins and Templars seek to find Shao Jun's Precursor box. However, if Shao Jun's box is the same as Shay's, then it would have already been destroyed during the events of  ''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'', which take place in 2018.

Because the city of [[Atlantis]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]''{{'}}s [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' was a [[Aletheia's simulations|simulation]] made by [[Aletheia]], it is possible there were multiple Precursor boxes in the real city.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center">
ACRG Precursor Box - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of the Precursor box
ACOD FoA JoA Isu Data Cache.jpg|An Isu Data Cache in the simulation of Atlantis
The Escape China (2).jpg|The box used to lure the Chinese Templars
ACCC Zhang Yong box.png|Zhang Yong with the box
Fiat Lux 7.png|The Precursor box being used
Fiat Lux 6.png|The box displaying a map of the Seismic Temples
ACCI Enemy Revealed (2).jpg|Sleeman using the box and the Koh-i-Noor to find Isu Temples
ACCI Rescue (5).jpg|Pyara and Sleeman fighting for the artifacts
ACCR RF (17).jpg|Anastasia being imprinted with Shao Jun's memories
ACUP Australia Facility 1.jpg|Álvaro Gramática gloating over the Precursor box
</gallery>

==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]] – [[Freedom Cry]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' {{c|first identified as Precursor box}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]] – [[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' {{c|simulation only; first identified as Isu Data Cache}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' {{Mo}}

===Non-canonical appearances===
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Ming Storm]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Turbulence in the Ming Dynasty]]''

==References==
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