Australia

Australia is a country that is located in the southern Pacific Ocean. It comprises the mainlaind of the Australian continent.

History

Pre-colonial era

During the Isu Era, at least three structures were made in what would become Australia: one on the east coast, one on the west coast, and a third in the middle of the desert.

In the late 5th century BCE, through a projection of a map created by the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus by Aletheia for the Spartan misthios Kassandra, the location of an Isu artifact was marked northwest of Lake Eyre.

Victorian era

During the 19th century, the Colony of Tasmania was advertised as holiday destination for people from the United Kingdom wishing to visit the colonies of the British Empire. Tasmania was described as a fertile land with its own host of exotic animals.

Modern era

By 2011, Abstergo Industries was aware of only one of the Isu structures in Australia, at the center of the Outback, and later shared a map containing its location along with other known vaults to Juhani Otso Berg as a reward for his performance in the second stage of the Animi Training Program. Abstergo theorized that the Isu locations were possibly Isu vaults.

On 10 September 2012, a group of Assassins located in the city of Brisbane were eliminated by the Templars. The sole survivor was away from his team and called Gavin Banks following three days of no contact with his cell. However, he was tracked down and killed before he could be instructed on how to flee the country.

On 21 August 2013, the Initiates network received an update from the help of the C.TAG (Coordinates Temporal And Geographical) program in the New South Wales town of Parkes. However due to the increased risk factor attached to this, the C.TAG development was proposed to be shut down to instead focus on Initiate operations.

By late 2014, Álvaro Gramática, the Director of Research of the Future Technology division of Abstergo Industries, had a lab in an undisclosed location in Australia, where he conducted experiments on Pieces of Eden, including a Shroud and a Precursor box, in order to boost the progress of the Phoenix Project. In August 2018, the Instruments of the First Will discovered the lab's location after capturing André Bolden and took over the facility.

Gramática was subsequently forced to use his Phoenix Project research to create an Isu body for Juno's consciousness to inhabit. However, just as Juno was reborn in her new body, the lab came under attack by Galina Voronina's Assassin cell. They killed Juno and most of the Instruments, while Gramática was crushed by falling debris from the battle. As a Templar strike team arrived to arrest the surviving Instruments, Juhani Otso Berg detonated an explosive to destroy the lab, killing Charlotte de la Cruz, who failed to escape in time.

Behind the scenes

In issue #11 of Assassin's Creed: Uprising, the nationally recognized sandstone rock formation Uluru can be seen in the distance, most likely placing the location of Gramática's laboratory in the Northern Territory of Australia. The desert region seen throughout issues #11 and #12 is the Great Sandy Desert that starts in Western Australia and also encompasses a lower half of the Northern Territory.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed II (map only)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (map only)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (mentioned in Database entry only)
• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (promotional material only)
• Assassin's Creed: Uprising (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Origins (map only)
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)
  • Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories (map only)