Abstergo Entertainment

Abstergo Entertainment is a subsidiary of Abstergo Industries, tasked with producing multimedia consumer goods.

Its primary product is a gaming console version of the Animus, known as the Animus Omega, which is sold on a worldwide scale. Through its initial basis, it enabled the company to influence the general public through pre-packaged genetic memories and wide, social gaming constructs.

History

The company that would eventually become Abstergo Entertainment was a software developer in the 1990s.

Founded as Abstergo Entertainment in 2010, the company's main mediums included video games, movies, and other media sourced from genetic memories. Their games were released in partnership with Ubisoft. The division's first major release was a 2012 game called Liberation, entailing the story of the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré.

Since 2013, the Abstergo Entertainment offices in Montreal have been focusing on the Sample 17 Project, involving the genetic memories harvested from Desmond Miles' DNA, in hopes of finding new, interesting settings for future products. The only currently known projects derived from these memories are a video game titled Pirates of Nightmares, and a feature film called Devils of the Caribbean, both focusing on Desmond's ancestor, Edward Kenway, a Welsh pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy. The company also focused on the memories of another pirate of this period, Alonzo Batilla, a Frenchman and associate of the infamous Olivier Levasseur, in order to find the treasures that Oliver had hidden before his execution. In a similar spirit, Abstergo also reviewed the genetic memories of other Assassins throughout history, a venture referred to as the Identity Project.

Due to the company's Templar affiliation, any products that involved the Templars or Assassins, their ongoing war, or any traces of the mysterious First Civilization were heavily censored or even modified, either omitting evidence of the hidden orders or presenting the Templars as a benevolent group committed to stopping the malicious Assassins. However, despite these aims, the scheme faced some opposition from a group of hackers known only as the Erudito Collective, who intended to reveal the falsified histories that Abstergo had created for their products.

In the future, the company hopes to open "sample collection" locations, where individuals can donate samples of their genetic code to the Abstergo system, allowing the company access to exciting new scenarios locked away within DNA. These genetic memories would then be explored by research analysts and, if deemed good investments, would go into production.

In 2018, Abstergo Entertainment produced a mobile game titled Rebellion, focusing on the memories of the Spanish Assassin Aguilar de Nerha during the Reconquista. To date, this is the last known product released by the company.

Products

• Project Legacy – Social media platform
• Liberation – Video Game
• Multiplayer – Video game
• Pirates of Nightmares – Video game
• Devils of the Caribbean – Film
• Blackbeard: The Musical - Musical (in development)
• Helix – Cloud Computing Service
  • The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay – Helix experience
  • Triumph of the Borgias – Helix experience
  • The Lone Eagle – Helix experience
  • Murder in the Levant – Helix experience
  • The Emperor's Shadow – Helix experience
  • Fear and Loathing in Florence – Helix experience
  • Washington and the Wolf – Helix experience
  • The Liberation of Lady Aveline – Helix experience
  • The Bladed Cross – Helix experience
  • Jazz Age Junkies – Helix experience
  • Hell in Hibernia – Helix experience
  • Showdown in Shanghai – Helix experience
• Rebellion – Mobile game

Known employees

Abstergo Entertainment employees aware of or part of the Templar Order are marked in italics. Deceased individuals are marked with a cross. (†)

Current employees

• Pierre-Louis Belanger – Project Director
• M.-O. Boudreault
• Jean-François Brunet – Research analyst
• Philippe Chartrand – Research analyst
• Christopher Darby
• Evan Dean
• Ashley Gaudreau – Orientation Representative
• Anthony Gbinigie – Tech Director
• "Journeyman" – Project Coordinator
• Raphael Lacoste
• Melanie Lemay – Chief Creative Officer
• Kloé Lesney
• Darby McDevitt
• Jill Murray
• Kama Neron
• "Player Admin" – Administrator of Rebellion
• Marc Scheling – Executive Producer
• Jennifer Tam
• Philipa Tran – Security Officer
• Kristina Uhrich
• Percy Westcreek – Project Manager
• "Numbskull" – Research analyst

Former employees

• Victoria Bibeau † – Staff psychiatrist
• Juhani Otso Berg – Security contractor
• Aidan St. Claire † – Project Manager
• Violet da Costa † – Security Contractor
• Robert Fraser † – Research analyst
• Olivier Garneau † – Chief Creative Officer
• Felix Oladele † – Animus specialist
• John Standish † – Head of IT
• "Noob" – Research analyst

Trivia

• The Abstergo Entertainment Montreal building is located on the site of the real life Olympic Stadium.
• Despite being a subsidiary of the Templar-run Abstergo Industries, there were no major Templars working at Abstergo Entertainment in 2013, although some of the Inner Sanctum such as Alan Rikkin and Laetitia England were in contact with the subsidiary's CCO Olivier Garneau. This changed with the induction of Melanie Lemay, who succeeded Garneau after his disappearance in Chicago.
• As of 11 November 2014, the introduction to this page can be found on the bathroom screens in Assassin's Creed: Rogue.
• In Assassin's Creed: Rogue, one of the busts near the CCO's office was changed to depict John Standish.
• A statue of Rodrigo Borgia in his Papal attire was located outside the front doors.
• The CCO's office seems to have a Sir Isaac Newton theme to it. There is a Newton's cradle on the desk, and there are large spheres over the table which could have been inspired by Newton's cradle. Sir Isaac Newton was a scientist backed by the Templars.
• On the Sample 17 floor, images can be found that were on Shaun Hastings' board in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
• At one point in the development Assassin's Creed: Unity, a "L. P. Garneau" was going to be credited with the writing and directing of the feature The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (first mentioned)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Pirates
• Assassin's Creed: Memories (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Rogue
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment – Employee Handbook (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Identity (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics) (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed: Templars (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed: Uprising
• Assassin's Creed: Rebellion (mentioned only)

References

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