Helix

Helix interface screen

Helix is a cloud-based software developed by Abstergo Entertainment.

A continuation of the Data Dump Scanner, a creation of Álvaro Gramática, the Helix software allowed for accounts of various Templars and Assassins throughout history, with propaganda-based narrations delivered by Abstergo in favor of the former, delivered to the public via a games console-style format at a cheap price. Using the headsets, Abstergo can also collect players' genetic data.

Through Helix, a research analyst at Abstergo Entertainment relived Shay Cormac's memories and fixed the damage caused by a virus hidden within Shay's memory bank.

Around the same time, an individual associated with the Assassins used a game console running on the Helix software to relive the memories of Arno Dorian, Jacob and Evie Frye.

Known Helix memories

• The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay: features the Grand Master Jacques de Molay during the dissolution of the Knights Templar and his burning at the stake.
• Triumph of the Borgias: features Rodrigo Borgia in his Papal regalia.
• The Lone Eagle: features Haytham Kenway.
• Murder in the Levant: features Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.
• The Emperor's Shadow: features Shao Jun.
• Fear and Loathing in Florence: features Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
• Washington and the Wolf: features Ratonhnhaké:ton.
• The Liberation of Lady Aveline: features Aveline de Grandpré.
• Devils of the Caribbean: features Edward Kenway, developed as Pirates of Nightmares.
• The Bladed Cross: features a Roman Assassin during Constantine I's rule as Roman Emperor, set in 330 AD.
• Jazz Age Junkies: features an American Assassin during the Jazz Age, and explores the lives of writers Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.
• Hell in Hibernia: features an Irish Assassin during the Irish War of Independence.
• A memory featuring an Assassin during the California Gold Rush.
• Showdown in Shanghai: features Albert Bolden, the Templar Black Cross.

Works in progress (c.2014)

In 2014, Abstergo Entertainment was working on a number of Helix programs for development:

• Fallen Heroes Series
  • Jacques de Molay
  • Rodrigo Borgia
  • Cesare Borgia
  • Haytham Kenway
  • Prince Ahmet
  • Laureano Torres
  • Robert de Sable
• History's Hit Men Series
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
  • Ezio Auditore
  • Connor
  • Aveline de Grandpré
  • Edward Kenway
• They Walk Among Us
• Animus: History's Battleground: multiplayer re-enactments of the American Revolution
• Animus: History's Battleground 2: multiplayer re-enactments of the Golden Age of Piracy
• Dvija A.I.: Monima Das' final film
• White Death: features Nikolai Orelov
• Wounded Dragon, Rising Phoenix: features Shao Jun
• The Sad Lonely Death of Ratonhnhaké:ton

Trivia

• The Helix menu in Assassin's Creed: Unity presents the user with twelve memories—nine of which correspond to events related to eight real-world Assassin's Creed games—although players can only access The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay.
• At one point in the development of Assassin's Creed: Unity the feature The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay was going to end with a closing title card stating "Written and Directed by L.P. Garneau".
• The experience starring Edward is seemingly mislabeled as "Devils of the Caribbean", Abstergo's feature film, when the title of their video game adaptation of Edward's memories was "Pirates of Nightmares".
• Abstergo Entertainment’s Helix Navigator used a Hospitalier Antivirus program, referencing the Knights Hospitalier.
• In earlier versions of Assassin's Creed: Identity (2014), the mail revealed that the memories of Lo Sparviero were running by the Mobile Helix Navigator, but the Memory Corridor was the same as Animus Omega, and the info was later changed for unknown reason by some updates.

Gallery

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  The Helix memory menu
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  The Initiates commenting on the Helix
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  Charlotte de la Cruz using her Helix console
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  The Showdown in Shanghai mission in Helix
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  The mail of employee