Survival of the Fittest

Survival of the Fittest was a virtual representation of one of Jacob Frye's genetic memories, relived through the Helix Navigator.

Description

With the engines in her possession, Pearl Attaway charged Jacob with assassinating Malcolm Millner.

Dialogue

Jacob entered Attaway's moving carriage.

• Attaway: Jacob, darling! Do join me!

Attaway poured them a glass of champagne.

• Jacob: To our fruitful partnership.
• Attaway: And to the shiny new engines now in my possession!

Jacob and Attaway toasted.

• Attaway: Back to business. Millner's fled to the Thames - occupied with securing his ferry. It's all he has left.
• Jacob: Hm, protecting it with his life, no doubt.
• Attaway: The very thing I want you to take. Just kill him!
• Jacob: That's not your first glass of champagne, is it?
• Attaway: Success is more intoxicating than alcohol, Mr. Frye.
• Jacob: Then save a glass for me.

Jacob gave Attaway his cup and left the carriage. He then crossed the Thames and reached Millner's smuggling boats.

• Jacob: Now to sink Millner's enterprise.

Using crates of dynamite, Jacob destroyed the contraband aboard the boats. At the nearby docks, Millner took note of this.

• Millner: What the bloody hell?!

Jacob infiltrated the docks.

• Millner: You were supposed to watch over them! What do I pay you oafs for?!

Jacob assassinated Millner.

• Millner: I knew this day would come... Mr. Starrick was furious I lost the engines. So this is my comeuppance...
• Jacob: Pearl Attaway led me to you, not Starrick.
• Millner: Then they're working together again. I should never have come between Mr. Starrick and Ms. Attaway. Family always stay together in the end.
• Jacob: What do you mean, they're family?

Millner died.

• Jacob: Time for Pearl and I to have a real conversation.

Jacob saw Pearl enter a warehouse.

• Jacob: There you are. What are you up to now, Pearl?

Infiltrating the warehouse, Jacob eavesdropped on Attaway and Starrick.

• Attaway: I was certain he knew that I belonged to the Order and was there to end me. Imagine my delight when he told me his true purpose. An Assassin helping the Templar cause! Isn't that delicious?
• Starrick: It's sickening.
• Attaway: It's business, cousin. Look at the big picture. With Millner gone, I own the only omnibus company left in London. We already have a monopoly English transportation; the moment your engines power my buses, we will be legends!
• Starrick:
• Attaway: You glower too much, cousin. You will get your engines back. Our new motorized buses will bring us both a lot of money.
• Starrick: I'll need to arrange proper transport for the engines to get back to my factory. I want you at Waterloo, personally, to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
• Attaway: Of course. May the Father of Understanding guide us.
• Starrick: Today and in all of our future endeavors, cousin.
• Jacob: Waterloo station.
• Blighter 1: Door's jammed.
• Blighter 2: Again? Just give it a shove!

Jacob escaped the area.

Outcome

After killing Millner, Jacob learned that Attaway was Starrick's cousin and fellow Templar, and that she had manipulated him all along.

Trivia

• The title of the memory is a reference to a phrase describing natural selection.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate