Hephaestus Email Network - Revision history

imported>Darman36 at 22:50, 11 April 2025

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	While staying in the [[Sanctuary]] of [[Monteriggioni]], [[Desmond Miles]], [[Lucy Stillman]], [[Shaun Hastings]], and [[Rebecca Crane]] exchanged several messages over the network. Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>		While staying in the [[Sanctuary]] of [[Monteriggioni]], [[Desmond Miles]], [[Lucy Stillman]], [[Shaun Hastings]], and [[Rebecca Crane]] exchanged several messages over the network. Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>

	The only outsiders who contacted them were [[Erudito]], a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as [[William Miles\|William M.]], and another William M. who was actually [[Warren Vidic]] impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team. William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the restored memories of 1506.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – [[The Da Vinci Disappearance]]''<ref/>		The only outsiders who contacted them were [[Erudito]], a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as [[William Miles\|William M.]], and another William M. who was actually [[Warren Vidic]] impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team. William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the restored memories of 1506.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – [[The Da Vinci Disappearance]]''</ref>

	On 9 October 2012, [[Lucy Stillman]] called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like [[Clay Kaczmarek\|Subject 16]]'s. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>		On 9 October 2012, [[Lucy Stillman]] called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like [[Clay Kaczmarek\|Subject 16]]'s. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>

imported>Darman36: All these emails are already written in their respective [character name's email] pages. This should be just about the Network

2025-04-11T22:50:20Z

All these emails are already written in their respective [character name's email] pages. This should be just about the Network

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imported>Soranin at 13:49, 13 September 2023

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	\|subject = American politics		\|subject = American politics
	\|cc =		\|cc =
	\|message =You know, it's rather incredible the way your lunatic fringe tries to conjure the "spirit" of the Founding Fathers to support their various causes. And by incredible I mean hilarious. They hold up slave-owning, sexist, homophobes as if that's some sort of ideal to which one should aspire.<br><br>Oh - and in case you think I added that last bit for fun (as the sexism and slavery bits are already common knowledge): sodomy was a criminal offense in every one of the thirteen colonies except for Georgia and Thomas Jefferson ('champion' of personal liberty that he was) advocated for the castration of homosexuals. Lovely fellows, these founding fathers of yours. And now there's that new bit of madness with people asking for the removal of textbook references to their slave-owning...<br><br>And before you think to turn it back 'round and (rightly) point out their barbarism was inspired by English law - last I checked, two stupids don't make a smart. I thought the whole point of the Revolution was to break free of the old ways... And it certainly doesn't recommend your founders as the sort of persons one should aspire to become. Unless you aspire to become a manipulative bigot.<br><br>Lest you think I'm championing some sort of leftist agenda, I'll gladly shame the internet tough guys who celebrate the Treaty of Tripoli as well. Shame on them for thinking it shows anything other than something taken straight out of The First Grader's Guide to International Relations... its intent wasn't to prove America wasn't a ~~{{Wiki\|~~Christianity\|Christian}} nation. They were saying they weren't going to reignite the Crusades. No, that would be delayed for a couple of centuries. Now I don't believe your founding fathers wanted to establish a theocracy. And they probably did intend for the country to be welcoming of all religions. But this isn't proof of that.<br><br>I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that people might want to spend a little less time romanticizing and manipulating the past (fat chance, that) and a bit more time focusing on how to improve the future (fatter chance still).<br><br>That's not say there isn't plenty to be learned from looking back - because there is! It's just that most of those lessons wind up ignored or perverted these days. At best it's disingenuous and unproductive. At worst (and often) it's rather dangerous.		\|message =You know, it's rather incredible the way your lunatic fringe tries to conjure the "spirit" of the Founding Fathers to support their various causes. And by incredible I mean hilarious. They hold up slave-owning, sexist, homophobes as if that's some sort of ideal to which one should aspire.<br><br>Oh - and in case you think I added that last bit for fun (as the sexism and slavery bits are already common knowledge): sodomy was a criminal offense in every one of the thirteen colonies except for Georgia and Thomas Jefferson ('champion' of personal liberty that he was) advocated for the castration of homosexuals. Lovely fellows, these founding fathers of yours. And now there's that new bit of madness with people asking for the removal of textbook references to their slave-owning...<br><br>And before you think to turn it back 'round and (rightly) point out their barbarism was inspired by English law - last I checked, two stupids don't make a smart. I thought the whole point of the Revolution was to break free of the old ways... And it certainly doesn't recommend your founders as the sort of persons one should aspire to become. Unless you aspire to become a manipulative bigot.<br><br>Lest you think I'm championing some sort of leftist agenda, I'll gladly shame the internet tough guys who celebrate the Treaty of Tripoli as well. Shame on them for thinking it shows anything other than something taken straight out of The First Grader's Guide to International Relations... its intent wasn't to prove America wasn't a [[Christianity\|Christian]] nation. They were saying they weren't going to reignite the Crusades. No, that would be delayed for a couple of centuries. Now I don't believe your founding fathers wanted to establish a theocracy. And they probably did intend for the country to be welcoming of all religions. But this isn't proof of that.<br><br>I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that people might want to spend a little less time romanticizing and manipulating the past (fat chance, that) and a bit more time focusing on how to improve the future (fatter chance still).<br><br>That's not say there isn't plenty to be learned from looking back - because there is! It's just that most of those lessons wind up ignored or perverted these days. At best it's disingenuous and unproductive. At worst (and often) it's rather dangerous.
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	===Humans===		===Humans===

imported>Darman36: /* Gallery */

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Gallery

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	==Gallery==		==Gallery==
	<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">		<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
	~~Desmondsmail~~.png\|Desmond's mail		ACB Desmond Email.png\|Desmond's mail
	~~Lucysmail~~.png\|Lucy's mail		ACB Lucy Email.png\|Lucy's mail
	~~Rebeccasmail~~.png\|Rebecca's mail		ACB Rebecca Email.png\|Rebecca's mail
	~~Shaunsmail~~.png\|Shaun's mail		ACB Shaun Email.png\|Shaun's mail
	</gallery>		</gallery>

imported>Sol Pacificus at 00:16, 12 February 2022

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	{{Era\|Technology\|Assassins}}[[File:ACB Hephaestus Email Network.png\|thumb\|250px\|The Hephaestus Network home screen]]		{{Era\|Technology\|Assassins}}[[File:ACB Hephaestus Email Network.png\|thumb\|250px\|The Hephaestus Network home screen]]
	The '''Hephaestus Email Network''' was an ~~internet~~ [[Emails\|email]] service used by the [[Assassins\|Assassin Order]].		The '''Hephaestus Email Network''' was an Internet [[Emails\|email]] service used by the [[Assassins\|Assassin Order]].

	While staying in the [[Sanctuary]] of [[Monteriggioni]], [[Desmond Miles]], [[Lucy Stillman]], [[Shaun Hastings]], and [[Rebecca Crane]] exchanged several messages over the network.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>		While staying in the [[Sanctuary]] of [[Monteriggioni]], [[Desmond Miles]], [[Lucy Stillman]], [[Shaun Hastings]], and [[Rebecca Crane]] exchanged several messages over the network. Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>

	Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.<ref name="ACB"/>		The only outsiders who contacted them were [[Erudito]], a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as [[William Miles\|William M.]], and another William M. who was actually [[Warren Vidic]] impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team. William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the [[The Da Vinci Disappearance\|restored memories of 1506]].<ref name="ACB"/>

	The only outsiders who contacted them were [[Erudito]], a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as [[William Miles\|William M]], and another William M who was actually [[Warren Vidic]] impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team.~~<ref name="ACB"/>~~

	William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the [[The Da Vinci Disappearance\|restored memories of 1506]].<ref name="ACB"/>

	On 9 October 2012, [[Lucy Stillman]] called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like [[Clay Kaczmarek\|Subject 16]]'s. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>		On 9 October 2012, [[Lucy Stillman]] called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like [[Clay Kaczmarek\|Subject 16]]'s. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>

imported>TheAstuteMaverick: /* Juno sighting */ Corrected spelling/grammar

2019-10-23T06:13:48Z

Juno sighting: Corrected spelling/grammar

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	===Juno sighting===		===Juno sighting===
	{{email		{{email
	\|from = Shaun Hastings		\|from = Shaun Hastings
	\|to = D. Miles; W. Miles; R. Crane		\|to = D. Miles; W. Miles; R. Crane
	\|datetime = Oct. 31th, 2012 12:00		\|datetime = Oct. 31th, 2012 12:00
	\|subject = Balls		\|subject = Balls
	~~\|cc =~~		\|message = We've got a visitor down here. It's Juno. She's been appearing every now and then. Sort of flits through the air - reminds us to guard you well, find the key, blah blah - and then POOF - disappears. At first we thought it was just a another holographic recording... But then your father called her some rather choice words - and she glared at him. Honest! Swiveled those eyes in his directions and frowned. Creeped me out.<br><br>I don't know if she's reaching out to us from the past, if some part of her is actually still conscious, or if maybe she's inside the Apple, like some evil genie. Whatever it is... gives me the creeps.<br><br>And on that note: Happy Halloween!
	\|message =We've got a visitor down here. It's Juno. She's been appearing every now and then. Sort of flits through the air - reminds us to guard you well, find the key, blah blah - and then POOF - disappears. At first we thought it was just a another holographic recording... ut then your father called her some rather choice ~~word~~ - and she glared at him. Honest! Swiveled those eyes in his directions and frowned. Creeped me out.<br><br>I don't know if she's reaching out to us from the past, if some part of her is actually still conscious, or if maybe she's inside the Apple, like some evil genie. Whatever it is... gives me the creeps.<br><br>And on that note: Happy Halloween!		}}<br />
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	===Haytham's amulet===		===Haytham's amulet===
	{{email		{{email

imported>TheAstuteMaverick: /* Database */ Corrected spelling

2019-10-23T06:01:59Z

Database: Corrected spelling

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	===Database===		===Database===
	{{email		{{email
	\|from = Shaun Hastings		\|from = Shaun Hastings
	\|to = D. Miles		\|to = D. Miles
	\|datetime = Oct. 30th, 2012 15:07		\|datetime = Oct. 30th, 2012 15:07
	\|subject = Database		\|subject = Database
	~~\|cc =~~		\|message = First of all - welcome back! It's good to see you fully recovered. Can't imagine what it was like for you, trapped in there... If you ever want to chat about it, you just let me know.<br><br>Anyway, you'll find the database essentially unchanged aside from a few cosmetic upgrades. As before, you'll receive a notification when I've added a new entry. I'll also let you know if any of the entries are updated - as is often the case when dealing with these conspiratorial ancestors of yours.
	\|message =First of all - welcome back! It's good to see you fully recovered. Can't imagine what it was like for you, trapped in there... If you ever want to chat about it, you just let me know.<br><br>Anyway, you'll find the database essentially unchanged aside from a few cosmetic upgrades. As before, you'll receive a notification when I've added a new entry. I'll also let you know if any of the ~~entires~~ are updated - as is often the case when dealing with these conspiratorial ancestors of yours.		}}<br />
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	===The mission===		===The mission===
	{{email		{{email

imported>Kaikai947 at 14:20, 4 October 2019

2019-10-04T14:20:05Z

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	\|subject = Murderers		\|subject = Murderers
	\|cc =		\|cc =
	\|message =My father was taken from me by human hands. A war they called it. For their freedom. They were not even meant to exist. YOU were not meant to exist. We conjured you. A mistake. An error that cost us the world.<br><br>My father would sing to me as a child. Soft songs of hope and love. His voice forever stilled when your brutish ancestors took up axe and club. Later turned our own works against us. We might have known what was to come - and averted it - had you not dragged us into war.<br><br>This is your fault.		\|message =[[Saturn\|My father]] was taken from me by human hands. A war they called it. For their freedom. They were not even meant to exist. YOU were not meant to exist. We conjured you. A mistake. An error that cost us the world.<br><br>My father would sing to me as a child. Soft songs of hope and love. His voice forever stilled when your brutish ancestors took up axe and club. Later turned our own works against us. We might have known what was to come - and averted it - had you not dragged us into war.<br><br>This is your fault.
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	===American politics===		===American politics===

imported>Kaikai947: /* Trivia */

2019-10-04T14:16:39Z

Trivia

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	==Trivia==		==Trivia==
	*~~{{Wiki~~\|Hephaestus}} was the Greek god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.		*[[Hephaistos\|Hephaestus]] was the [[Greece\|Greek]] god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.
	*Accessing Desmond's account will earn the player the '''"Mailer Daemon"''' [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood achievements\|achievement]].		*Accessing Desmond's account will earn the player the '''"Mailer Daemon"''' [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood achievements\|achievement]].
	*The emails sent by William during the ''[[The Da Vinci Disappearance\|Da Vinci Disappearance]]'' memory sequence only appear during a playthrough of the game, and are accessible after the completion of Sequence 3. If the player has already completed the entire story, an alternative dialogue will occur when the [[Downloadable content\|DLC]] is accessed.		*The emails sent by William during the ''[[The Da Vinci Disappearance\|Da Vinci Disappearance]]'' memory sequence only appear during a playthrough of the game, and are accessible after the completion of Sequence 3. If the player has already completed the entire story, an alternative dialogue will occur when the [[Downloadable content\|DLC]] is accessed.

imported>RebeccaAWB: /* References */Category update, replaced: Category:Assassin Order → Category:Assassin Brotherhood

2019-03-07T09:43:27Z

References: Category update, replaced: Category:Assassin Order → Category:Assassin Brotherhood

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	==References==		==References==
	{{Reflist}}		{{Reflist}}
	[[Category:Assassin ~~Order~~]]		[[Category:Assassin Brotherhood]]
	[[Category:Hephaestus Email Network\| ]]		[[Category:Hephaestus Email Network\| ]]

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	{{Era\|Technology\|Assassins}}[[File:ACB Hephaestus Email Network.png\|thumb\|250px\|The Hephaestus Network home screen]]		{{Era\|Technology\|Assassins}}[[File:ACB Hephaestus Email Network.png\|thumb\|250px\|The Hephaestus Network home screen]]
	The '''Hephaestus Email Network''' was an ~~internet~~ [[Emails\|email]] service used by the [[Assassins\|Assassin Order]].		The '''Hephaestus Email Network''' was an Internet [[Emails\|email]] service used by the [[Assassins\|Assassin Order]].

	While staying in the [[Sanctuary]] of [[Monteriggioni]], [[Desmond Miles]], [[Lucy Stillman]], [[Shaun Hastings]], and [[Rebecca Crane]] exchanged several messages over the network.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>		While staying in the [[Sanctuary]] of [[Monteriggioni]], [[Desmond Miles]], [[Lucy Stillman]], [[Shaun Hastings]], and [[Rebecca Crane]] exchanged several messages over the network. Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>

	Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.<ref name="ACB"/>		The only outsiders who contacted them were [[Erudito]], a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as [[William Miles\|William M.]], and another William M. who was actually [[Warren Vidic]] impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team. William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the [[The Da Vinci Disappearance\|restored memories of 1506]].<ref name="ACB"/>

	The only outsiders who contacted them were [[Erudito]], a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as [[William Miles\|William M]], and another William M who was actually [[Warren Vidic]] impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team.~~<ref name="ACB"/>~~

	William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the [[The Da Vinci Disappearance\|restored memories of 1506]].<ref name="ACB"/>

	On 9 October 2012, [[Lucy Stillman]] called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like [[Clay Kaczmarek\|Subject 16]]'s. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>		On 9 October 2012, [[Lucy Stillman]] called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like [[Clay Kaczmarek\|Subject 16]]'s. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>