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"You know them as Abstergo Industries. We know them as the Templars—as the enemy. We've been fighting them for thousands of years. Even longer if you believe the stories of their origins. I do. After all, I've seen the truth."

―William Miles on Abstergo's origins, 2012.^[src]^-[m]

Abstergo Industries is a multinational corporate conglomerate, and the primary front for the modern-day activities of the Templar Order. One of the largest and most prominent corporations in the world, Abstergo and its predecessors were responsible for the majority of human technological development for the past millennia.

Despite genuinely contributing to the technological development of society, Abstergo Industries' primary mission, as dictated by its Templar members, was the destruction of the Assassin Order, the procurement of advanced technologies originally created by the Isu, and the establishment a New World Order.

By the year 2012, Abstergo Industries had expanded into various business sectors, setting up numerous subsidiary companies, such as Abstergo Entertainment. That same year, Abstergo came under investigation by the United States government for the "New Fluoride" experiment and was due to have its accounts frozen, prompting the company to hasten their planned Eye-Abstergo satellite launch.

After the failure of the satellite launch, Abstergo has devised various other initiatives to further the Templars' overarching goal of controlling humanity. While several of these initiatives have seen some success, Abstergo's overall agenda of establishing their New World Order remains a work in progress, due to constant interference and sabotage by the Assassins.

History

Foundation

"In 1937, we founded this company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us."

―An Abstergo employee, in a message to Templars around the world, 1944.^[src]^-[m]

On the evening of 22 November 1910, several high-ranking Templars, including Henry Ford, Ransom Eli Olds, Paul Warburg, Frank A. Vanderlip, Charles Norton, Henry Pomeroy Davison, and Nelson W. Aldrich, gathered on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia, United States. They met to discuss the "Plan," a long-term strategy to consolidate power through capitalism and advance their vision of a New World Order. The Plan included creating the Federal Reserve System as the central American banking system (which they accomplished in 1913), establishing Abstergo Industries as a new front for the Templar Order, and initiating a World War in the late 1930s. This war would allow the Templars to reshape governments in its aftermath by leveraging their political influence.^[1]

Officialy founded in 1937, Abstergo Industries was actually one small part of the Templar scheme to control the world through capitalism and scientific progress. The company's establishment enabled the Templars to accumulate wealth and accelerate scientific progress, while keeping their true activities covert. Abstergo's largely anonymous leadership claimed that their duty was to "shepherd those beneath us through life, even if force is required".^[1]

One of Abstergo's earliest known operations was their search for a Piece of Eden – a crescent amulet – which had been hidden in the sea near the Strait of Malacca two centuries prior. In the early 1940s, the SS Ourang Medan was dispatched to retrieve the artifact, but the mission ended in failure when the ship and its entire crew mysteriously vanished.^[2]

World War II

"H. has [the Apple of Eden], so I assume the war will begin as soon as he can take over. We'll let him have his fun (Lord knows, that kind of purge will be good for Europe) and then end it with a bang, as planned. Out of the chaos of war a new order will emerge!"

―Henry Ford in a letter to Thomas Edison, 1930s.^[src]^-[m]

During World War II, Abstergo remained quiet, but kept track of the progress made abroad by Templar puppets "H" and "S" (Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin). In the United States, Abstergo and other Templar-controlled corporations ceded rights to its workers and their labor unions, but only as a means to tie the people closer to the Templar capitalist vision.^[1]

Since at least 1942, Abstergo secretly helped fund Die Glocke, a project masterminded by the German Templar and SS Obergruppenführer Gero Kramer, one of Abstergo's founders. Disguised as the Uranprojekt, the Nazis' attempt to develop nuclear weapons, Die Glocke was in reality an early Animus prototype built by Nikola Tesla, whom the Templars had kidnapped after staging his death.^[3]

Kramer hoped to use the machine to explore the memories of past Assassins in search of Pieces of Eden that would allow him to establish a new order in Europe. However, the project was ultimately a failure due to the Brotherhood's interference, and Kramer was later killed on 15 July 1943 by the Assassins Eddie Gorm and Julia Dusk, in order to acquire his Apple of Eden for Boris Pash.^[3]

In parallel, Abstergo also financed the construction of seven underground structures throughout German-occupied Poland, connected to each other via tunnels. Codenamed Project Riese, its goal was to allow the Templars to create superweapons in secret, using knowledge gained from the Apple of Eden. However, the weapons did not function, and the underground structures were eventually abandoned.^[3]

From the 1st to the 22nd of July 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference took place in the town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to determine the international monetary system to be set up after World War II. 730 delegates from 44 countries were in attendance. Secretly, the conference also served as a cover for a meeting between the economic agents of the Templar Order, including John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White.^[1]

On the final day of the conference, a speech was delivered to Abstergo Industries employees, economists, and world leaders, outlining the formation of the "Plan" by Henry Ford and Ransom Eli Olds in 1910. The speech also addressed the threat posed by the communist system and the efforts of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to create the "turmoil and fear necessary" for the implementation of the new economic system, capitalism.^[1]

Post-war domination

Following the war, Abstergo controlled global, economic, and technological development, though it always remained behind the scenes. In 1948, Abstergo eliminated former Templar and renowned economist Harry Dexter White. White had helped organize the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, two organizations that allowed the Templars to spread their capitalist world vision. However, White was also passing information to the Soviets, and for his betrayal, Abstergo killed White and made it appear like a heart attack.^[1]

Abstergo was also responsible for British mathematician Alan Turing's criminal prosecution and possibly his death. In a phone recording dating to June 1954, two Templars known only by the initials "V" and "N" mentioned the need for Turing to be killed. They feared "mass unemployment" if the mathematician successfully developed robots, and that such an invention would threaten the progress of the Plan.^[1]

Abroad, Abstergo involved itself in foreign governments to ensure the spread of capitalism and Templar control. In 1953, Abstergo agents backed monarch Shah Pahlavi, Tehran strongman Sha'baan Ja'fari, and the National Intelligence and Security Organization, otherwise known as SAVAK, against the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.^[1] Abstergo and the Shah removed Mosaddegh from power and placed him under house arrest, where Mosaddegh later died in his home in 1967.

Internal memos stolen from Abstergo in 2012 implicated the corporation's involvement in the 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's socialist President Jacobo Árbenz and installation of Carlos Castillo Armas as his replacement. In both instances, Abstergo worked through the CIA, a branch of the U.S. intelligence community it had controlled since its inception.^[1]

Abstergo's influence spread beyond the bounds of the Earth, as it helped establish and fund the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958. Ostensibly, NASA was a civilian branch of the U.S. government, but in reality, it was tasked with producing new space-going technologies for Abstergo and Templar use. After the Templars became aware of the existence of an Apple of Eden on the Moon's surface, they tasked NASA with working towards a mission to land on the Moon and retrieve the artifact.^[4]

When President John F. Kennedy planned a joint lunar landing with the Soviet Union, the Templars decided to remove Kennedy from power,^[4] and manipulated the Assassin Bloodstone Unit into killing the president and taking his Apple of Eden, which was then recovered by the Templar double agent William King Harvey.^[5] Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, a Templar puppet, continued the push towards the Moon, and in July 1969, Templar agents Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and retrieved the Piece of Eden.^[4]

Firmly in control of the United States government, Abstergo continued its interference in other nations. In the 1970s, Abstergo focused on Argentina and Chile out of a recognized need "to ensure the company's success" and allow their agents "to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them".^[1] In Argentina, Abstergo promised leading capitalists that they would pass their corporate debt to the Argentinian public, in return for the support of the ruling Junta and the elimination of the Argentinian trade unions. Consequently, the Junta remained in power, and at least 30,000 Argentinians disappeared over the course of the decade.^[1]

In Chile, Abstergo planned to open up the markets and force the sale of all public companies to the private sector. They thwarted President Salvador Allende's efforts to socialize Chile's industries, and may have played some role in his 1973 suicide. In the aftermath, Augusto Pinochet seized power as a dictator. Following both Latin American cases, Abstergo successfully hid its involvement and instead left evidence that implicated the U.S. government.^[1]

The endgame

By the final decades of the 20th century, Abstergo emerged from the shadows as a powerful corporation leading the way in pharmaceuticals, though it also engaged in research in other fields, such as communications. For example, in 1985, Abstergo's research division was secretly working on a device capable of imitating the mind-controlling properties of a Piece of Eden across a network.^[1] That same year, Abstergo developed its first fully-functional Animus device and began to seek out appropriate test subjects.^[6]

In 1991, Abstergo helped Boris Yeltsin to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev, the legitimate head of state and reformer of the Soviet Union, after which Yeltsin introduced privatization of the massive state-owned industries. As such, these industries were quickly taken over by oligarchs, and by 1993, Yeltsin disbanded the Russian Parliament and Constitutional Court. After nearly 80 years of fighting against communism, Abstergo and the Templars had finally eliminated the largest obstacle to the global spread of capitalism. As a failsafe, Abstergo then made sure future leader Vladimir Putin would continue to push for capitalism just as his predecessor Yeltsin had.^[1]

Abstergo employees monitoring raids on Assassin hideouts

At the end of the 20th century, Subject 4 of Abstergo's Animus Project, given the codename "Daniel Cross", infiltrated the Assassin Order as a sleeper agent and successfully killed its global leader, the Mentor. Cross then returned to an Abstergo facility in Philadelphia and provided the locations of Assassin training camps across the world that he had visited. Templar agents would raid these camps, eliminating their inhabitants or capturing them for use in the Animus Project. The operation, referred to as the "Great Purge", eradicated most of the modern-day Assassin Order, allowing Abstergo to continue its goals virtually unopposed.^[7]

That same year, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Templar puppet Antonin Scalia convinced Sandra Day O'Connor to retire. Scalia sent a letter to "S" in which he mentioned that "W" (George W. Bush) would restart animosities with Iraq, which in turn would give "C"'s (Dick Cheney) contractors more work. From there, the Supreme Court could dissolve standing campaign finance laws, which would allow Abstergo to effectively place anyone it chose in the Senate, House, and the Presidency.^[1]

In November 2004, the American author Gary Webb was writing a book on the CIA, and through his research, he had discovered evidence that Abstergo had interests in every large company across the planet. Thanks to Templar intervention, however, Gary's book never saw the light of day.^[1]

By 2011, Abstergo employed its considerable communications division to use closed circuit television to spy on civilians. In April, an individual named Mr. Jameson accidentally discovered this closed circuit on his television set, between channels 172 and 173. This hidden channel displayed the names of his family members, their credit card numbers, medical information, and their personal preferences. Confused, Mr. Jameson contacted his cable company, Comstatic, to complain and in response, Abstergo sent agents to "deal with" Mr. Jameson and his 12-year-old son, Paul.^[1]

In early 2012, the head of Abstergo ceded control of the company to Alan Rikkin, shortly before his death. In a phone call, he warned his successor that if the free market failed, the civilian populace would turn against capitalism and Abstergo.^[1] Abstergo also suffered a major setback in their Eye-Abstergo project when an incident took place in Denver that led to a large loss of civilian life and key Abstergo equipment.^[8]

However, a great success in Abstergo's Animus Project offset the Denver catastrophe, and in September 2012, the Lineage Discovery and Acquisition department captured a new Animus subject, Desmond Miles, to replace the deceased Clay Kaczmarek. Desmond, dubbed "Subject 17", survived the rigors of the Animus and was able to provide Abstergo with a holographic map detailing the locations of many Pieces of Eden,^[6] though he escaped soon after.^[9]

In parallel, the head of the Animus Project, Dr. Warren Vidic, launched a new initiative, the Animi Training Program, to train Abstergo recruits through the use of the Animus. One of the program's most promising participants was Juhani Otso Berg,^[10] an ex-Finnish special forces operative who had been personally recruited by Vidic in 2010, with the promise of receiving treatment for his daughter Elina's rare illness.^[11]^[12] Berg eventually rose through the Order's ranks and became a Master Templar and member of the Inner Sanctum, being given command of Abstergo's elite task force, Sigma Team.^[13]^[12]

Following Desmond Miles' escape, Berg was tasked with capturing his father and the new de facto leader of the Assassin Order, William Miles.^[13] Meanwhile, Daniel Cross, frustrated at Abstergo for losing Desmond, decided to track him down himself. When the Assassin attempted to steal a Precursor battery from an office building in New York City, Daniel confronted him, only to be knocked out by Desmond, who escaped with the battery. Later, Daniel tracked another battery to a mixed martial arts tournament in São Paulo, Brazil, and killed its owner, but Desmond again retrieved the battery after fighting and subduing Daniel.^[14]

After Sigma Team captured William in Cairo, Egypt, during his search for the third Precursor battery, they brought him to the Animus Project laboratory in Rome, where Warren Vidic intended to trade the captive Assassin for the Apple of Eden in Desmond's possession. However, Desmond stormed the facility, fighting his way through the security guards and Daniel, whom he killed inside the Animus Training Facility. He then confronted Vidic and his guards, using the Apple to force them to kill each other. With William rescued, Desmond escorted his father out of the facility, while the Templars were forced to cancel their planned launch of the Eye-Abstergo satellite due to failing to obtain the required Piece of Eden in time.^[14]

Goals

As the greatest industrial force the Templars owned, Abstergo Industries shared the same beliefs as the Templars: order and discipline through power and control. Some Abstergo employees were unaware of the Templar Order's existence and leadership over the company, but certain high-ranking operatives knew of the Templar cause, being members of the Order themselves.^[6]^[15]

Since the Third Crusade, the Templars started realizing the power that the Pieces of Eden had over humans, and so they began searching for them. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, they have used numerous subjects from the Animus Project to access the memories of their ancestors, in order to get hold of a map showing these artifacts. This goal later formed into total control and possession of all Pieces of Eden.^[6]

The Templars' goals changed as they sought to unify the world using these artifacts, going from "lasting peace, no matter what the cost" to the "New World Order". To accomplish this, they had to reach their ultimate goal: launching a Piece of Eden into orbit around the Earth.^[6]^[14] After this plan failed in 2012, the Templars shifted their focus to influencing humans through more subtle means as a way to control them, similarly to how they had done in centuries past.^[16] Some of these new initiatives have also involved Pieces of Eden, as Abstergo's ongoing, primary goal remains the establishment of a New World Order.

Mission statement

We are committed to researching, developing, and providing high-quality products that enrich, entertain, and shape the lives of our customers. We build programs that reexamine the past, improve the present, and define the future.^[17]

Divisions and subsidiaries

Abstergo Industries maintains numerous offices in cities worldwide, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, Madrid, London, Paris, Osaka-Kobe, Shanghai, and Moscow.^[18]

Divisions

Subsidiaries

MysoreTech^[19]
Abstergo Entertainment^[19]^[16]
Abstergo Financial Group^[19]
- Malta Banking Corporation^[19]
Abstergo Foundation^[21]
Abstergo Medical^[22]
- Abstergo Chemical (until 1962)^[23]
Skunkworks^[24]
Chinon Shipping (merged)^[24]

Employees

The vast majority of Abstergo's employees were not aware of the company's Templar roots, and as such were not Templars themselves; this included its scientists, engineers, and several CEOs. Abstergo also had hundreds of corporate spies in companies around the world, including sleeper agents.^[15] The company also employed a number of heavily armed security personnel at their sites; these individuals were skilled combatants, armed with both firearms and tasers.

Current employees

Italicized names indicate membership in the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order.

Alex – Technician, Abstergo Foundation^[21]
Pierre-Louis Belanger – Project Director, Abstergo Entertainment^[25]
Juhani Otso Berg – Operations, Director of Abstergo Medical, and leader of Sigma Team^[13]^[22]
Jane Birkam – friend of Warren Vidic^[6]
M.-O. Boudreault – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Jean-François Brunet – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[26]
Philippe Chartrand – Researcher, Abstergo Entertainment^[27]
Anaya Chodary – Hacker and member of the White Hats^[28]
Benjamin Clarke – Hacker and member of the White Hats^[28]
Cole – Head of security at the Aerie^[29]
Christopher Darby – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
David – Acquisitions, Lineage Research and Acquisition.^[6]
Andrew Davies – Leader of Omega Team^[28]
Evan Dean – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]^[26]
Max Dittmar – Hacker and member of the White Hats^[28]
Laetitia England – Head of Operations^[15]
Case Fisher – Head of Sample Recovery Unit 3^[16]
Ashley Gaudreau – Orientation Representative, Abstergo Entertainment^[30]
Anthony Gbinigie – Tech Director, Abstergo Entertainment^[25]
Steve Gibbs – Head of the disposal units^[18]
Gilles – Technician, Abstergo Foundation^[21]
Caroline Grey – Security analyst^[18]
Harland Hammerstein^[18]
Simon Hathaway – Historical Research Division^[28]
Ctibor Hašek – Psychiatrist^[31]
Aubrey Jacobs – Alan Rikkin's assistant^[6]
John Kane^[32]
Milton Jones^[33]
"Journeyman" – Project Coordinator at Abstergo Entertainment^[34]
Kaori Kagami – Doctor, Yokohama clinic^[35]
Carson Kairns – Delivery department^[18]
Ellen Kaye – Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and leader of the Council of Elders^[21]
Jason Kent^[18]
Kamala Khatri – Scientist, London facility^[36]
David Kilkerman – Research, Animus Project^[6]^[7]
Gabriel King – Chief engineer of the Abstergo Foundation^[37]
Robert Klein^[18]
Raphael Lacoste – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Melanie Lemay – Chief Creative Officer of Abstergo Entertainment^[26]
Kloé Lesney – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Rodrigo Lima – Hacker and leader of the White Hats^[28]

Henry Liman^[6]
Jansen March^[18]
Thomas Marshall – Doctor, the Aerie^[29]
Darby McDevitt – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
McGowen – Former head of security of the Abstergo Foundation^[21]
Kyle Milton^[18]
Zachary Morgenstern – Cryptology department^[28]
James Morse – Warren Vidic's secretary^[18]
Jill Murray – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Mitsuko Nakamura – Research, Lineage Research and Acquisition^[15]
Kama Neron – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Erica Nichols^[18]
Nancy Nilop – Human Resources^[6]
"Numbskull" – Research analyst, Abstergo Entertainment^[26]
"Player Admin" – Administrator of Rebellion^[38]
Agneta Reider – CEO of Abstergo Financial^[28]
Richard – One of three men who threatened to kill Lucy Stillman, before being stopped by Vidic^[6]
Sofia Rikkin – Head of the Abstergo Foundation^[21]
"Rothenburg" – Informant within Abstergo feeding information to the Assassins^[29]
Rothschild^[39]
"S."^[18]
Samia – Technician, Abstergo Foundation^[21]
Damian Saravakos – Medical examiner, Medical Division, Lineage Research and Acquisition^[31]
Marc Scheling – Executive Producer, Abstergo Entertainment^[25]
Amanda Sekibo – Chief Technician of the Animus 4.35^[28]
Robin Smalridge – Human resources manager^[34]
Sorkin – Member of Sigma Team and Juhani Otso Berg's righ-hand man^[40]
Alfred Stearns – Retired Head of Operations^[7]^[28]
Sung – Medical doctor^[39]
Jennifer Tam – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[26]
Philipa Tran – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Kristina Uhrich – employee of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Joseph Vidic^[34]
Percy Westcreek – Archival Department^[34]
Whittaker – Member of Team Epsilon^[41]
Dominika Wilk – Head of the Nexus Eye Project^[42]
Tyrell Williams – Historical Research Division^[32]
Leonard Wong^[18]

Former employees

Deceased individuals are marked with a cross. (†)

Alice Adler † – Technician, Abstergo Foundation^[3]
Thomas Adler † – Technician, Abstergo Foundation^[3]
Isabelle Ardant † – Operations, Historical Research^[43]
Victoria Bibeau † – Psychiatrist^[44]
Aileen Bock † – Project Director of the Surrogate Initiative^[16]
Violet da Costa † – Sigma Team, tactical support^[26]
Clarke – Warren Vidic's assistant in 1983^[7]
Daniel Cross † – Operations^[14]
DDS research analyst – Analyst of the Data Dump Scanner^[45]
Robert Fraser † – Researcher, Abstergo Entertainment^[34]
Freddy † – Medical doctor^[22]
Olivier Garneau † – Chief Creative Officer of Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Deanna Geary † – Member of the Medical Team^[33]^[32]
Robert Getas^[46]
Caitlin Gift † – Animus technician^[22]
Maxime Gorm † – Leader of Team Epsilon^[5]
Álvaro Gramática † – Research, Future Technology^[43]
Heinrich Hart † – Engineer^[24]
Layla Hassan † – Animus engineer^[32]
Didier Hawking † – Animus user, renowned for his memory-hacking skills^[41]
Isaiah † – Director of the Aerie^[44]
Jenkins † – Member of Sigma Team^[40]
Fahad Khan † – Employee of Abstergo Financial and Agneta Reider's right-hand man^[47]
John Maynard Keynes †^[1]
Emmett Leary – Former engineer for the Surrogate Initiative^[48]

Lillian^[16]
Zixuan Long † – Archaeologist and researcher^[49]
Zixuan Long's assistant †^[49]
Leila Marino †
Sebastian Monroe – Former researcher^[44]
"Noob" – Research analyst, Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Aleksandr Omovich † – High-ranking executive^[49]
Felix Oladele † – Animus specialist, Abstergo Entertainment^[24]
Anson Peake – Project Manager for Project Legacy^[45]
Alan Rikkin † – Chief Executive Officer^[21]
Theodore Rizzo †^[31]
Ortega Sanchez †^[41]
Satish – Aileen Bock's assistant^[16]
Otto Schmidt † – Operations, Lineage Research and Acquisition^[14]
Keith Scipione †^[46]
Shimazu Sei – Doctor and supervisor, Archaeological Research Department^[20]
Aidan St. Claire † – Project Manager, Abstergo Entertainment^[34]
John Standish † – Head of IT, Abstergo Entertainment^[16]
Lucy Stillman † – Animus researcher^[6]
Alan Turing †^[1]
Warren Vidic † – Research, Animus Project^[6]^[14]
Harry Dexter White †^[1]
Yu Shu Lien – Former security contractor^[50]
Yuki † – Field agent and Shimazu Sei's bodyguard^[20]

Projects

Products

"Guess the shit's really hit the fan this time."

―An Abstergo employee e-mailing Vidic about the Fluoride failure.^[src]^-[m]

Abstergo remains one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, with their primary focus being anti-depressants. Desmond Miles first saw the word "Abstergo" on a bottle of ibuprofen whilst he was still living on the Farm; according to his mother, "The average American household contains three dozen Abstergo-owned products at any given moment. If you tried to purge them from your life completely, it would be a full-time job."^[51]

It was also stated in an e-mail to Warren Vidic that Abstergo was secretly experimenting their products on people, and that one of their experiments had failed, poisoning an entire town. Information about this incident had partly been leaked, causing the whole pharmaceutical division of the company to be closed down for investigation. The product Abstergo was experimenting with was named "New Fluoride".^[8]

Products sold in 2012 included Herne+, the baby monitor Angelus, the Bodyband exercise bracelet, Animus OS glasses, and the Animus game console with pre-packaged genetic memories.

Sophia Project

The Sophia Project studied cellular information and the means by which information was passed genetically. The end goal was to be able to manipulate genetic information for medical purposes.^[15]

Animus Project

Main article: Animus Project

Abstergo began their Animus Project in September 1985, with Dr. Warren Vidic as the head operative.^[10] The project initially relied on psychoanalysis, hypnosis and chemicals to unlock genetic memories in their subjects, though it all changed with the invention of the Animus, which enabled subjects to synchronize with their ancestors' memories in a virtual reality environment.^[15]

The Lineage Research and Acquisition department acquired subjects to farm memories, which were later implemented into Project Legacy for Abstergo recruits to decode the memories without requiring a descendant to relive them in the Animus.^[45] However, it was put on hold after the collective known as Erudito began hacking into the Project and giving recruits access to memories that Abstergo did not want them to see.^[15]

The Animi Training Program was also launched some time in 2012 to train recruits into becoming lethal agents, by having them synchronize with the skills of great Templar agents and non-Assassin individuals from centuries before.^[10]^[13]

Archeology

Abstergo has performed archeological excavations in various locations around the world, secretly in search of Pieces of Eden and vaults built by the Isu. However, while they successfully uncovered a number of vaults and recovered the artifacts they housed, the vast majority of Isu temples remain hidden.^[15]

Akashic Satellite Plexus

The Akashic Satellite Plexus was launched in 2008, and on 21 December 2012, Abstergo intended to launch its cornerstone, the Eye-Abstergo satellite. On the surface, it was a collection of communications, weather and observation satellites, though the Eye-Abstergo addition was intended to amplify the powers of an Apple of Eden.^[15]

While the Assassins believed Abstergo would use it to control the world, this was denied in their internal documents for their top agents. Emphasis was placed on the "ASP" becoming able to locate "individuals with potential", and was heavily shielded and presumed to be operational in the face of even the worst predicted solar flares.^[15]

Baseline Study

On 24 July 2014, The Wall Street Journal announced that Google had organized a medical and genomics project called the Baseline Study, which would collect genetic information from various people. This caught the attention of the Initiates, who revealed that the project was secretly run by Abstergo.^[52]

Phoenix Project

Main article: Phoenix Project

The Phoenix Project was a secret initiative launched by Abstergo in late 2013, which had the goal of sequencing the Isu's triple-helix genome in order to better understand and master the Pieces of Eden. To this end, Abstergo searched for genetic records of Sages both past and present, hoping to use their high concentration of Isu DNA as a basis for cloning the Isu back into existence. The project was led by Dr. Álvaro Gramática who, following an Assassin attack on his laboratory in Paris in October 2014,^[25] relocated to a remote facility in Australia.^[24]

By August 2018, Gramática, using a Precursor box and Shroud of Eden recovered by the Templars, had succeeded in sequencing the Isu genome, though his research was soon hijacked by the Instruments of the First Will, who sought to resurrect their mistress Juno. The procedure was successful, allowing Juno to be reborn in the physical world, albeit only for a short time, as the Isu was killed when the Assassins and the Master Templar Juhani Otso Berg stormed the Australia facility to stop the Instruments' plans.^[24]

Trivia

Abstergo is a Latin verb, meaning "I cleanse".
During Ezio Auditore's time in the Vatican Vault after fighting Rodrigo Borgia, the Abstergo logo could be seen among several images projected by Minerva. Concept art for the vault had a pillar shaped like Abstergo's logo in the center of the circular room's floor.
During the retrieval of the Apple of Eden from the Colosseum Vault, when Desmond activated the Piece of Eden from its pedestal, several symbols started to appear around him. Among the symbols that were displayed, the Abstergo logo was one that appeared quite frequently.
The Animi room of Abstergo's Rome facility had a wall with a large window in the shape of the Templar cross.
A Twitter page was created for Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy, named the "datadumpscanner".^[53]
The Abstergo logo is present in many forms seen throughout Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles, is projected within the Eesfet Oon-m'Aa Poo vault in Assassin's Creed: Origins, and is used in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla as the HUD screens analyzing the Yggdrasil computer and the Æsir from the Animus Anomalies.
While the company logo strongly resembles the impossible Penrose triangle first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934,^[54] a 1969 letter from Dr. Clinton B. Rosenburg to Abstergo's Director shows that the three bars are actually the heavily-stylized base, arm, and eyepiece of a microscope.

Gallery

The Philadelphia facility
The Animi room at the Rome facility
The interior of the Rome facility
The Aerie
The Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Madrid
The Abstergo Yokohama clinic
The Abstergo Genetic Research Lab in Osaka
The interior of the Abstergo London facility

An Abstergo security guard
An Abstergo field agent
Various Abstergo employees aboard the Exitus
Members of Taurus Team
Members of Sigma Team

Concept art of the Animus room at the Rome facility
Alternate concept art of the Animus room
Concept art of Abstergo employees

External links

Abstergo Industries

References

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 ^1.13 ^1.14 ^1.15 ^1.16 ^1.17 ^1.18 ^1.19 ^1.20 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Rifts
↑ Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 74
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Assassin's Creed II – Glyphs
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone
↑ ^6.00 ^6.01 ^6.02 ^6.03 ^6.04 ^6.05 ^6.06 ^6.07 ^6.08 ^6.09 ^6.10 ^6.11 ^6.12 ^6.13 Assassin's Creed
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 Assassin's Creed: The Fall
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Assassin's Creed – Warren Vidic's email
↑ Assassin's Creed II
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Numbskull's personal files – Otso Berg's Profile: "Vidic's New Recruit"
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Database: Otso Berg
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 ^13.3 Assassin's Creed: Revelations
↑ ^14.0 ^14.1 ^14.2 ^14.3 ^14.4 ^14.5 Assassin's Creed III
↑ ^15.00 ^15.01 ^15.02 ^15.03 ^15.04 ^15.05 ^15.06 ^15.07 ^15.08 ^15.09 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files
↑ ^16.00 ^16.01 ^16.02 ^16.03 ^16.04 ^16.05 ^16.06 ^16.07 ^16.08 ^16.09 ^16.10 ^16.11 ^16.12 ^16.13 ^16.14 ^16.15 ^16.16 ^16.17 ^16.18 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
↑ Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook – Employee Files (Robert Fraser)
↑ ^18.00 ^18.01 ^18.02 ^18.03 ^18.04 ^18.05 ^18.06 ^18.07 ^18.08 ^18.09 ^18.10 ^18.11 ^18.12 Abstergo.com
↑ ^19.0 ^19.1 ^19.2 ^19.3 ^19.4 ^19.5 ^19.6 ^19.7 Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide
↑ ^20.0 ^20.1 ^20.2 ^20.3 Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple
↑ ^21.0 ^21.1 ^21.2 ^21.3 ^21.4 ^21.5 ^21.6 ^21.7 Assassin's Creed film
↑ ^22.0 ^22.1 ^22.2 ^22.3 Assassin's Creed: Templars
↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Rosenburg Letters, III of VII
↑ ^24.0 ^24.1 ^24.2 ^24.3 ^24.4 ^24.5 Assassin's Creed: Uprising
↑ ^25.0 ^25.1 ^25.2 ^25.3 Assassin's Creed: Unity
↑ ^26.0 ^26.1 ^26.2 ^26.3 ^26.4 ^26.5 Assassin's Creed: Rogue
↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Noob Alert"
↑ ^28.00 ^28.01 ^28.02 ^28.03 ^28.04 ^28.05 ^28.06 ^28.07 ^28.08 ^28.09 Assassin's Creed: Heresy
↑ ^29.0 ^29.1 ^29.2 Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan
↑ Assassin's Creed: Memories
↑ ^31.0 ^31.1 ^31.2 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Desmond Files
↑ ^32.0 ^32.1 ^32.2 ^32.3 Assassin's Creed: Origins
↑ ^33.0 ^33.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "The Look of Love"
↑ ^34.0 ^34.1 ^34.2 ^34.3 ^34.4 ^34.5 Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook
↑ Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun
↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Animus Handbook
↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins – Subject header: "Re: You're looking at it the wrong way"
↑ Assassin's Creed: Rebellion
↑ ^39.0 ^39.1 Assassin's Creed: The Chain
↑ ^40.0 ^40.1 Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Numbskull's personal files
↑ ^41.0 ^41.1 ^41.2 Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)
↑ Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR
↑ ^43.0 ^43.1 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
↑ ^44.0 ^44.1 ^44.2 Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants
↑ ^45.0 ^45.1 ^45.2 Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy
↑ ^46.0 ^46.1 Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy – Holidays: Chapter 1 – Ghosts of Christmas Past
↑ Assassin's Creed: Gold
↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Abstergo's Lost Genius"
↑ ^49.0 ^49.1 ^49.2 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History
↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Animus Training Program Quickstart: Character File Folios
↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Training
↑ AC Initiates (@acinitiates) on Twitter "Collecting "genetic" info. What exactly is Google working towards with the Baseline Study? on.wsj.com/VqpJn5 pic.twitter.com/y1zak49pZU" (screenshot)
↑ Data Dump Scanner (@datadumpscanner) on Twitter
↑ Penrose triangle on Wikipedia

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[FT_74-2] Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 74

[ACCo-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies

[AC2_Glyphs-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Assassin's Creed II – Glyphs

[ACBs-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone

[AC1-6] 6.00 ^6.01 ^6.02 ^6.03 ^6.04 ^6.05 ^6.06 ^6.07 ^6.08 ^6.09 ^6.10 ^6.11 ^6.12 ^6.13 Assassin's Creed

[ACTF-7] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 Assassin's Creed: The Fall

[Vidic's_email-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Assassin's Creed – Warren Vidic's email

[AC2-9] Assassin's Creed II

[ACB-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

[11] Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Numbskull's personal files – Otso Berg's Profile: "Vidic's New Recruit"

[Otso_Berg_DB-12] 12.0 ^12.1 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Database: Otso Berg

[ACR-13] 13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 ^13.3 Assassin's Creed: Revelations

[AC3-14] 14.0 ^14.1 ^14.2 ^14.3 ^14.4 ^14.5 Assassin's Creed III

[Abstergo_Files-15] 15.00 ^15.01 ^15.02 ^15.03 ^15.04 ^15.05 ^15.06 ^15.07 ^15.08 ^15.09 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files

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[ACEG-19] 19.0 ^19.1 ^19.2 ^19.3 ^19.4 ^19.5 ^19.6 ^19.7 Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide

[ACFT-20] 20.0 ^20.1 ^20.2 ^20.3 Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple

[Film-21] 21.0 ^21.1 ^21.2 ^21.3 ^21.4 ^21.5 ^21.6 ^21.7 Assassin's Creed film

[ACT-22] 22.0 ^22.1 ^22.2 ^22.3 Assassin's Creed: Templars

[23] Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Rosenburg Letters, III of VII

[ACUp-24] 24.0 ^24.1 ^24.2 ^24.3 ^24.4 ^24.5 Assassin's Creed: Uprising

[ACU-25] 25.0 ^25.1 ^25.2 ^25.3 Assassin's Creed: Unity

[ACRG-26] 26.0 ^26.1 ^26.2 ^26.3 ^26.4 ^26.5 Assassin's Creed: Rogue

[27] Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Noob Alert"

[Heresy-28] 28.00 ^28.01 ^28.02 ^28.03 ^28.04 ^28.05 ^28.06 ^28.07 ^28.08 ^28.09 Assassin's Creed: Heresy

[TotK-29] 29.0 ^29.1 ^29.2 Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan

[ACM-30] Assassin's Creed: Memories

[Desmond_Files-31] 31.0 ^31.1 ^31.2 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Desmond Files

[ACO-32] 32.0 ^32.1 ^32.2 ^32.3 Assassin's Creed: Origins

[Surveillance-33] 33.0 ^33.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "The Look of Love"

[Employee_Handbook-34] 34.0 ^34.1 ^34.2 ^34.3 ^34.4 ^34.5 Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook

[ACBoSJ-35] Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun

[Animus_Handbook-36] Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Animus Handbook

[37] Assassin's Creed: Origins – Subject header: "Re: You're looking at it the wrong way"

[ACReb-38] Assassin's Creed: Rebellion

[ACTC-39] 39.0 ^39.1 Assassin's Creed: The Chain

[Numbskull-40] 40.0 ^40.1 Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Numbskull's personal files

[AC_Titan-41] 41.0 ^41.1 ^41.2 Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)

[ACN-42] Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR

[ACS-43] 43.0 ^43.1 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

[ACLD-44] 44.0 ^44.1 ^44.2 Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants

[ACPL-45] 45.0 ^45.1 ^45.2 Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy

[Holidays-46] 46.0 ^46.1 Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy – Holidays: Chapter 1 – Ghosts of Christmas Past

[ACG-47] Assassin's Creed: Gold

[48] Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Abstergo's Lost Genius"

[Forging_History-49] 49.0 ^49.1 ^49.2 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History

[50] Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Animus Training Program Quickstart: Character File Folios

[51] Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Training

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 |founder = [[Templars]]
 |leader =
-|subsidiaries = [[Abstergo Entertainment]]<br>[[Abstergo Medical]]
+|subsidiaries = [[Abstergo Entertainment]]<br>[[Abstergo Medical]]<br>[[Abstergo Financial Group]]<br>[[Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center|Abstergo Foundation]]<br>[[MysoreTech]]<br>[[Skunkworks]]
 |formed = 1937
 }}
-'''Abstergo Industries''' is a multinational corporate conglomerate, and the primary front for the [[Modern times|modern day]] activities of the [[Templars|Templar Order]]. One of the largest and most prominent corporations in the world, Abstergo Industries and its predecessors were responsible for the majority of human technological development for the past millennia.
+'''Abstergo Industries''' is a multinational corporate conglomerate, and the primary front for the [[Modern times|modern-day]] activities of the [[Templars|Templar Order]]. One of the largest and most prominent corporations in the world, Abstergo and its predecessors were responsible for the majority of human technological development for the past millennia.
-Despite genuinely contributing to the technological development of society, Abstergo Industries' primary mission, as dictated by its Templar members, was the destruction of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]], the procurement of [[Pieces of Eden|advanced technologies]] originally created by the [[Isu|First Civilization]], and establishing a [[New World Order]].
+Despite genuinely contributing to the technological development of society, Abstergo Industries' primary mission, as dictated by its Templar members, was the destruction of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]], the procurement of [[Pieces of Eden|advanced technologies]] originally created by the [[Isu]], and the establishment a [[New World Order]].
-By the year 2012, Abstergo Industries had expanded into various business sectors, setting up various subsidiary companies, such as [[Abstergo Entertainment]]. In the same year, Abstergo Industries had come under investigation by the [[United States]] government for the "[[New Fluoride]]" experiment and was due to have its accounts frozen, prompting the company to hasten their planned [[Eye-Abstergo]] satellite launch.
+By the year 2012, Abstergo Industries had expanded into various business sectors, setting up numerous subsidiary companies, such as [[Abstergo Entertainment]]. That same year, Abstergo came under investigation by the [[United States]] government for the "[[New Fluoride]]" experiment and was due to have its accounts frozen, prompting the company to hasten their planned [[Eye-Abstergo]] satellite launch.
+After the failure of the satellite launch, Abstergo has devised various other initiatives to further the Templars' overarching goal of controlling humanity. While several of these initiatives have seen some success, Abstergo's overall agenda of establishing their New World Order remains a work in progress, due to [[Assassin-Templar War|constant interference and sabotage]] by the Assassins.
 ==History==
 ===Foundation===
 {{Quote|In 1937, we founded this company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us.|An Abstergo employee, in a message to Templars around the world, 1944.|Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Rifts}}
-[[File:Ford Edison Firestone1.jpg|thumb|left|180px|A group of Templars during the formative years of Abstergo, including Henry Ford, [[Thomas Edison]] and [[Harvey Firestone]]]]
+[[File:Ford Edison Firestone1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A group of Templars during Abstergo's formative years, including Henry Ford, [[Thomas Edison]] and [[Harvey Firestone]]]]
 On the evening of 22 November 1910, several high-ranking Templars, including [[Henry Ford]], [[Ransom Eli Olds]], [[Paul Warburg]], [[Frank A. Vanderlip]], [[Charles Norton]], [[Henry Pomeroy Davison]], and [[Nelson W. Aldrich]], gathered on [[Jekyll Island Club|Jekyll Island]] off the coast of [[Georgia]], [[United States]]. They met to discuss the "[[Plan]]," a long-term strategy to consolidate power through capitalism and advance their vision of a [[New World Order]]. The Plan included creating the [[Federal Reserve System]] as the central American banking system (which they accomplished in 1913), establishing Abstergo Industries as a new front for the Templar Order, and initiating a World War in the late 1930s. This war would allow the Templars to reshape governments in its aftermath by leveraging their political influence.<ref name="ACB Rifts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – [[Rifts]]</ref>
-Officialy founded in 1937, Abstergo Industries was actually one small part of the Templar scheme to control the world through capitalism and scientific progress.  the formulators of the Plan established Abstergo Industries as a front for their activities. This enabled them a means to accumulate wealth and accelerate scientific progress, and largely anonymous, Abstergo's leadership claimed their duty was to "shepherd those beneath us through life, even if force is required".<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
+Officialy founded in 1937, Abstergo Industries was actually one small part of the Templar scheme to control the world through capitalism and scientific progress. The company's establishment enabled the Templars to accumulate wealth and accelerate scientific progress, while keeping their true activities covert. Abstergo's largely anonymous leadership claimed that their duty was to "shepherd those beneath us through life, even if force is required".<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
-One of Abstergo's earliest known operations was their search for a [[Piece of Eden]] – a [[crescent amulet]] – which had been hidden in the sea near the [[Strait of Malacca]]. In the early 1940s, the [[Ourang Medan|SS ''Ourang Medan'']] was dispatched to retrieve the artifact, but the mission ended in failure when the ship and its entire crew mysteriously vanished.<ref name="FT 74">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple Episode 74|Episode 74]]</ref>
+One of Abstergo's earliest known operations was their search for a [[Piece of Eden]] – a [[crescent amulet]] – which had been hidden in the sea near the [[Strait of Malacca]] two centuries prior. In the early 1940s, the [[Ourang Medan|SS ''Ourang Medan'']] was dispatched to retrieve the artifact, but the mission ended in failure when the ship and its entire crew mysteriously vanished.<ref name="FT 74">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple Episode 74|Episode 74]]</ref>
+===World War II===
+{{Quote|H. has [the Apple of Eden], so I assume the war will begin as soon as he can take over. We'll let him have his fun (Lord knows, that kind of purge will be good for Europe) and then end it with a bang, as planned. Out of the chaos of war a new order will emerge!|Henry Ford in a letter to Thomas Edison, 1930s.|Assassin's Creed II|Glyphs}}
 During [[World War II]], Abstergo remained quiet, but kept track of the progress made abroad by Templar puppets "H" and "S" ([[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin]]). In the United States, Abstergo and other Templar-controlled corporations ceded rights to its workers and their labor unions, but only as a means to tie the people closer to the Templar capitalist vision.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
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 Kramer hoped to use the machine to explore the memories of past Assassins in search of Pieces of Eden that would allow him to establish a new order in Europe. However, the project was ultimately a failure due to the Brotherhood's interference, and Kramer was later killed on 15 July 1943 by the Assassins [[Eddie Gorm]] and [[Julia Dusk]], in order to acquire his [[Apple of Eden 4|Apple of Eden]] for [[Boris Pash]].<ref name="ACCo" />
+In parallel, Abstergo also financed the construction of seven underground structures throughout German-occupied [[Poland]], connected to each other via tunnels. Codenamed [[Project Riese]], its goal was to allow the Templars to create superweapons in secret, using knowledge gained from the Apple of Eden. However, the weapons did not function, and the underground structures were eventually abandoned.<ref name="ACCo" />
 From the 1st to the 22nd of July 1944, the [[Bretton Woods Conference]] took place in the town of Bretton Woods, [[New Hampshire]], to determine the international monetary system to be set up after World War II. 730 delegates from 44 countries were in attendance. Secretly, the conference also served as a cover for a meeting between the economic agents of the Templar Order, including [[John Maynard Keynes]] and [[Harry Dexter White]].<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
-[[File:ACB - Mount Washington Hotel in 2008.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Mount Washington Hotel, the conference's location]]
+[[File:ACB - Mount Washington Hotel in 2008.jpg|thumb|230px|left|Mount Washington Hotel, the conference's location]]
 On the final day of the conference, a speech was delivered to Abstergo Industries employees, economists, and world leaders, outlining the formation of the "Plan" by Henry Ford and Ransom Eli Olds in 1910. The speech also addressed the threat posed by the communist system and the efforts of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to create the "turmoil and fear necessary" for the implementation of the new economic system, capitalism.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
 {{-}}
 ===Post-war domination===
-Following the war, Abstergo controlled global, economic, and technological development, though it always remained behind the scenes. In 1948, Abstergo eliminated former Templar and renowned economist [[Harry Dexter White]].<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> White helped organize the [[International Monetary Fund]] and {{Wiki|World Bank}}, two organizations that allowed the Templars to spread their capitalist world vision. However, White was also passing information to the Communists, and for his betrayal, Abstergo killed White and made it appear like a heart attack.
+Following the war, Abstergo controlled global, economic, and technological development, though it always remained behind the scenes. In 1948, Abstergo eliminated former Templar and renowned economist Harry Dexter White. White had helped organize the [[International Monetary Fund]] and {{Wiki|World Bank}}, two organizations that allowed the Templars to spread their capitalist world vision. However, White was also passing information to the Soviets, and for his betrayal, Abstergo killed White and made it appear like a heart attack.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
 Abstergo was also responsible for British mathematician [[Alan Turing]]'s criminal prosecution and possibly his death. In a phone recording dating to June 1954, two Templars known only by the initials "V" and "N" mentioned the need for Turing to be killed. They feared "mass unemployment" if the mathematician successfully developed robots, and that such an invention would threaten the progress of the Plan.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
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 Abroad, Abstergo involved itself in foreign governments to ensure the spread of capitalism and Templar control. In 1953, Abstergo agents backed monarch [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah Pahlavi]], Tehran strongman [[Sha'baan Ja'fari]], and the National Intelligence and Security Organization, otherwise known as [[SAVAK]], against the democratically elected Prime Minister [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]].<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> Abstergo and the Shah removed Mosaddegh from power and placed him under house arrest, where Mosaddegh later died in his home in 1967.
-Internal memos stolen from Abstergo in 2012 implicated the corporation's involvement in the 1954 overthrow of [[Guatemala]]'s socialist President [[Jacobo Árbenz]] and installation of {{Wiki|Carlos Castillo Armas}} as his replacement.<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> In both instances, Abstergo worked through the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], a branch of the U.S. intelligence community it had controlled since its inception.
+Internal memos stolen from Abstergo in 2012 implicated the corporation's involvement in the 1954 overthrow of [[Guatemala]]'s socialist President [[Jacobo Árbenz]] and installation of {{Wiki|Carlos Castillo Armas}} as his replacement. In both instances, Abstergo worked through the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], a branch of the U.S. intelligence community it had controlled since its inception.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
-[[File:Glyph 10-4.png|thumb|250px|Unreleased photo negative revealing Abstergo's involvement in launching Apollo 11]]
+[[File:Glyph 10-4.png|thumb|250px|Unreleased photo negative revealing Abstergo's involvement in the Apollo 11 mission]]
-Abstergo's influence spread beyond the bounds of the Earth, as it helped establish and fund the [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] in 1958. Ostensibly, NASA was a civilian branch of the U.S. government, but in reality, it was tasked with producing new space-going technologies for Abstergo and Templar use. When the Templars became aware of the existence of an [[Apple of Eden 5|Apple of Eden]] on the [[Moon]], it tasked NASA with working towards a mission to land on the Moon and retrieve the artifact.
+Abstergo's influence spread beyond the bounds of the Earth, as it helped establish and fund the [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] in 1958. Ostensibly, NASA was a civilian branch of the U.S. government, but in reality, it was tasked with producing new space-going technologies for Abstergo and Templar use. After the Templars became aware of the existence of an [[Apple of Eden 5|Apple of Eden]] on the [[Moon]]'s surface, they tasked NASA with working towards a mission to land on the Moon and retrieve the artifact.<ref name="AC2 Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs]]</ref>
-Also, when President [[John F. Kennedy]] planned a joint lunar landing with the [[Russia|Soviet Union]], the Templars decided to [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|remove Kennedy]] from power. Kennedy's successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], a Templar puppet, continued the push towards the Moon, and in July 1969, Templar agents [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Buzz Aldrin]] landed on the Moon and retrieved the Piece of Eden.<ref name="AC2 Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs]]</ref>
+When President [[John F. Kennedy]] planned a joint lunar landing with the [[Russia|Soviet Union]], the Templars decided to [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|remove Kennedy]] from power,<ref name="AC2 Glyphs" /> and manipulated the Assassin [[Bloodstone Unit]] into killing the president and taking his [[Apple of Eden 3|Apple of Eden]], which was then recovered by the Templar double agent [[William King Harvey]].<ref name="ACBs">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone]]''</ref> Kennedy's successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], a Templar puppet, continued the push towards the Moon, and in July 1969, Templar agents [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Buzz Aldrin]] landed on the Moon and retrieved the Piece of Eden.<ref name="AC2 Glyphs" />
-Firmly in control of the United States government, Abstergo continued its interference in other nations. In the 1970s, Abstergo focused on [[Argentina]] and [[Chile]] out of a recognized need "to ensure company's success" and allow their agents "to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them".<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> In Argentina, Abstergo promised leading capitalists that they would pass their corporate debt to the Argentinian public, in return for the support of the ruling Junta and the elimination of the Argentinian trade unions. Consequently, the Junta remained in power, and at least 30,000 Argentinians disappeared over the course of the decade.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
+Firmly in control of the United States government, Abstergo continued its interference in other nations. In the 1970s, Abstergo focused on [[Argentina]] and [[Chile]] out of a recognized need "to ensure the company's success" and allow their agents "to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them".<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> In Argentina, Abstergo promised leading capitalists that they would pass their corporate debt to the Argentinian public, in return for the support of the ruling Junta and the elimination of the Argentinian trade unions. Consequently, the Junta remained in power, and at least 30,000 Argentinians disappeared over the course of the decade.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
 In Chile, Abstergo planned to open up the markets and force the sale of all public companies to the private sector. They thwarted President [[Salvador Allende]]'s efforts to socialize Chile's industries, and may have played some role in his 1973 suicide. In the aftermath, [[Augusto Pinochet]] seized power as a dictator. Following both Latin American cases, Abstergo successfully hid its involvement and instead left evidence that implicated the U.S. government.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
 ===The endgame===
-By the final decades of the 20th century, Abstergo emerged from the shadows as a powerful corporation leading the way in pharmaceuticals, though it also engaged in research in other fields, such as communications. For example, in 1985, Abstergo's research division was secretly working on a device capable of imitating the mind-controlling properties of a Piece of Eden across a network.<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> In the same year, Abstergo developed its first fully-functional [[Animus]] device and began to seek out appropriate test subjects.<ref name="AC1" />
+By the final decades of the 20th century, Abstergo emerged from the shadows as a powerful corporation leading the way in pharmaceuticals, though it also engaged in research in other fields, such as communications. For example, in 1985, Abstergo's research division was secretly working on a device capable of imitating the mind-controlling properties of a Piece of Eden across a network.<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> That same year, Abstergo developed its first fully-functional [[Animus]] device and began to seek out appropriate test subjects.<ref name="AC1" />
-In 1991, Abstergo helped [[Boris Yeltsin]] to overthrow [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the legitimate head of the state and reformer of the Soviet Union, to which Yeltsin introduced privatization of the massive state-owned industries. As such, these industries were quickly taken over by oligarchs, and by 1993, Yeltsin disbanded the Russian Parliament and Constitutional Court.<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> After nearly 80 years of fighting against communism, Abstergo and the Templars had finally eliminated the largest obstacle to the global spread of capitalism. As a failsafe, Abstergo then made sure future leader [[Vladimir Putin]] would continue to push for capitalism just as his predecessor Yeltsin had.
+In 1991, Abstergo helped [[Boris Yeltsin]] to overthrow [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the legitimate head of state and reformer of the Soviet Union, after which Yeltsin introduced privatization of the massive state-owned industries. As such, these industries were quickly taken over by oligarchs, and by 1993, Yeltsin disbanded the Russian Parliament and Constitutional Court. After nearly 80 years of fighting against communism, Abstergo and the Templars had finally eliminated the largest obstacle to the global spread of capitalism. As a failsafe, Abstergo then made sure future leader [[Vladimir Putin]] would continue to push for capitalism just as his predecessor Yeltsin had.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
 [[File:GreatPurgeOverview.png|thumb|250px|left|Abstergo employees monitoring raids on Assassin hideouts]]
-At the end of the 20th century, the Animus Program's [[Daniel Cross|Subject 4]], given the codename "[[Daniel Cross]]", infiltrated the Assassin Order as a sleeper agent and successfully attacked and killed their head, [[Mentor (2000)|the Mentor]]. Subject 4 then returned to an Abstergo facility in [[Philadelphia, United States|Philadelphia]] and provided the location of Assassin training camps across the world. Following this, Templar agents eliminated the majority of these camps in what they called [[Great Purge|the Great Purge]].<ref name="ACTF">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>
+At the end of the 20th century, Subject 4 of Abstergo's [[Animus Project]], given the codename "[[Daniel Cross]]", infiltrated the Assassin Order as a sleeper agent and successfully killed its global leader, [[Mentor (2000)|the Mentor]]. Cross then returned to an Abstergo [[Abstergo Philadelphia Facility|facility]] in [[Philadelphia, United States|Philadelphia]] and provided the locations of Assassin training camps across the world that he had visited. Templar agents would raid these camps, eliminating their inhabitants or capturing them for use in the Animus Project. The operation, referred to as the "[[Great Purge]]", eradicated most of the modern-day Assassin Order, allowing Abstergo to continue its goals virtually unopposed.<ref name="ACTF">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>
 That same year, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Templar puppet [[Antonin Scalia]] convinced [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] to retire. Scalia sent a letter to "S" in which he mentioned that "W" ([[George W. Bush]]) would [[Iraq War|restart animosities]] with Iraq, which in turn would give "C"'s ([[Dick Cheney]]) contractors more work. From there, the Supreme Court could dissolve standing campaign finance laws, which would allow Abstergo to effectively place anyone it chose in the Senate, House, and the Presidency.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
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 By 2011, Abstergo employed its considerable communications division to use closed circuit television to spy on civilians. In April, an individual named [[Mr. Jameson]] accidentally discovered this closed circuit on his television set, between channels 172 and 173. This hidden channel displayed the names of his family members, their credit card numbers, medical information, and their personal preferences. Confused, Mr. Jameson contacted his cable company, Comstatic, to complain and in response, Abstergo sent agents to "deal with" Mr. Jameson and his 12-year-old son, Paul.<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
-In early 2012, the head of Abstergo ceded control of the company to an unknown person. In a phone call, he warned his successor that if the free market failed, the civilian populace would turn against capitalism and Abstergo.<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> Abstergo also suffered a major setback in their Eye-Abstergo project when an [[DIA satellite accident|incident]] took place in [[Denver]] that led to a large loss of civilian life and key [[Apple of Eden 2|Abstergo equipment]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' – [[Warren Vidic's email]]</ref>
+In early 2012, the [[Alan Rikkin's predecessor|head]] of Abstergo ceded control of the company to [[Alan Rikkin]], shortly before his death. In a phone call, he warned his successor that if the free market failed, the civilian populace would turn against capitalism and Abstergo.<ref name="ACB Rifts" /> Abstergo also suffered a major setback in their [[Eye-Abstergo]] project when an [[DIA satellite accident|incident]] took place in [[Denver]] that led to a large loss of civilian life and key [[Apple of Eden 2|Abstergo equipment]].<ref name="Vidic's email">''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' – [[Warren Vidic's email]]</ref>
 [[File:Desmond Recap 3.png|thumb|250px|Abstergo agents capturing Desmond Miles]]
-However, a great success in Abstergo's Animus Project offset the Denver catastrophe, and in September, the [[Lineage Discovery and Acquisition]] department captured a new Animus subject, [[Desmond Miles|Subject 17]], to replace the deceased [[Clay Kaczmarek|Subject 16]]. Subject 17 successfully survived the rigors of the Animus and was able to provide Abstergo with a holographic map detailing many Pieces of Eden, though he escaped soon after.<ref name="AC1">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>
+However, a great success in Abstergo's Animus Project offset the Denver catastrophe, and in September 2012, the [[Lineage Discovery and Acquisition]] department captured a new Animus subject, [[Desmond Miles]], to replace the deceased [[Clay Kaczmarek]]. Desmond, dubbed "Subject 17", survived the rigors of the Animus and was able to provide Abstergo with a holographic map detailing the locations of many Pieces of Eden,<ref name="AC1">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref> though he escaped soon after.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>
-Repeated attempts to reacquire Subject 17 had to date remained unsuccessful.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref> Recently, Abstergo sent its top recruits and Daniel Cross to eliminate Subject 17 and the ''de facto'' head of the Assassin Order, [[William Miles]].<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref> Frustrated at Abstergo losing Desmond Miles, Daniel was able to track Desmond Miles and his cell to [[New York]]. When Subject 17 attempted to steal a First Civilization battery from an office in Manhattan, Daniel cornered him at gunpoint. However, Desmond disarmed Daniel, and knocked him out with the battery before escaping.<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
+In parallel, the head of the Animus Project, Dr. [[Warren Vidic]], launched a new initiative, the [[Animi Training Program]], to train Abstergo recruits through the use of the Animus. One of the program's most promising participants was [[Juhani Otso Berg]],<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref> an ex-[[Finland|Finnish]] [[Utti Jaeger Regiment|special forces]] operative who had been personally recruited by Vidic in 2010, with the promise of receiving treatment for his daughter [[Elina Berg|Elina]]'s rare illness.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Numbskull's personal files]] – Otso Berg's Profile: "Vidic's New Recruit"</ref><ref name="Otso Berg DB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Database: Otso Berg]]</ref> Berg eventually rose through the Order's ranks and became a [[Master Templar]] and member of the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order|Inner Sanctum]], being given command of Abstergo's elite task force, [[Sigma Team]].<ref name="ACR">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref><ref name="Otso Berg DB" />
-Some time later, Daniel tracked Desmond to a martial arts tournament in [[Brazil]], where a woman held another battery that Desmond needed. Daniel reached the woman first, and shot both her and her husband to death as Desmond arrived. Daniel attempted to flee with the battery, but was caught by Desmond, who once again knocked him out and escaped with the battery.<ref name="AC3"/>
+Following Desmond Miles' escape, Berg was tasked with capturing his father and the new ''de facto'' leader of the Assassin Order, [[William Miles]].<ref name="ACR" /> Meanwhile, Daniel Cross, frustrated at Abstergo for losing Desmond, decided to track him down himself. When the Assassin attempted to steal a [[Power sources|Precursor battery]] from an office building in [[New York City]], Daniel confronted him, only to be knocked out by Desmond, who escaped with the battery. Later, Daniel tracked another battery to a mixed martial arts tournament in [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]], and killed its owner, but Desmond again retrieved the battery after fighting and subduing Daniel.<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
-When the Templar agents successfully captured William Miles who had obtained the third and final battery, [[Doctor]] [[Warren Vidic]] sent Desmond Miles and his team a video proposing his demands: Give him the Apple of Eden and William would be returned to them safely. Despite the fact that William would tell the team to forget him, Desmond decided to rescue his father.<ref name="AC3"/>
+[[File:AC3 Abstergo Suicide Squad.png|thumb|250px|left|Desmond using the Apple of Eden against the Templars]]
+After Sigma Team captured William in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], during his search for the third Precursor battery, they brought him to the [[Animus Project laboratory]] in [[Rome]], where Warren Vidic intended to trade the captive Assassin for the [[Apple of Eden 6|Apple of Eden]] in Desmond's possession. However, Desmond stormed the facility, fighting his way through the security [[Soldier|guards]] and Daniel, whom he killed inside the Animus Training Facility. He then confronted Vidic and his guards, using the Apple to force them to kill each other. With William rescued, Desmond escorted his father out of the facility, while the Templars were forced to cancel their planned launch of the Eye-Abstergo satellite due to failing to obtain the required Piece of Eden in time.<ref name="AC3" />
-[[File:AC3 Desmond Gun.png|thumb|250px|left|Desmond fighting through the Abstergo facility in Rome]]
+==Goals==
-Once Desmond arrived at the Abstergo facility in [[Italy]], Vidic ordered him to come in peacefully. Desmond refused, killing any security [[guards]] who crossed his path. In retaliation, Warren sent Daniel Cross to deal with the Assassin threat. However, once Cross had Desmond cornered, he began to suffer from the [[Bleeding Effect]] and fled trying to deal with his mental breakdown.<ref name="AC3" />
+As the greatest industrial force the Templars owned, Abstergo Industries shared the same beliefs as the Templars: order and discipline through power and control. Some Abstergo employees were unaware of the Templar Order's existence and leadership over the company, but certain high-ranking operatives knew of the Templar cause, being members of the Order themselves.<ref name="AC1" /><ref name="Abstergo Files" />
-Vidic, frustrated with Desmond, stated that he was no longer an asset to Abstergo and authorized the guards to kill him on sight. Meanwhile, Desmond pursued Cross through the Animus Training Facility and assassinated him. Vidic was furious at Cross's death, screaming that the Assassins only took while the Templars gave the world order and peace.<ref name="AC3" />
+Since the [[Third Crusade]], the Templars started realizing the power that the Pieces of Eden had over [[human]]s, and so they began searching for them. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, they have used numerous subjects from the Animus Project to access the memories of their ancestors, in order to get hold of a map showing these artifacts. This goal later formed into total control and possession of all Pieces of Eden.<ref name="AC1" />
-Eventually Desmond reached Vidic's office, where his father sat surrounded by armed guards. Vidic demanded that Desmond to hand him the Apple. Desmond reached out with the Apple in his hand, but instead of giving it to Warren, used its power to manipulate everyone in the room. As Vidic pleaded for the last time, Desmond influenced one of the guards to turn his gun on Warren, shooting and killing him. Desmond then prompted the rest of the guards to kill themselves. Once he had liberated his father, Desmond escorted William out of Abstergo, with the Apple of Eden in his hand. Ultimately, Abstergo cancelled the launch of the satellite as they were unable to obtain the required Piece of Eden in time.<ref name="AC3" />
+The Templars' goals changed as they sought to unify the world using these artifacts, going from "lasting peace, no matter what the cost" to the "New World Order". To accomplish this, they had to reach their ultimate goal: launching a Piece of Eden into orbit around the Earth.<ref name="AC1" /><ref name="AC3" /> After this plan failed in 2012, the Templars shifted their focus to influencing humans through more subtle means as a way to control them, similarly to how they had done in centuries past.<ref name="AC4" /> Some of these new initiatives have also involved Pieces of Eden, as Abstergo's ongoing, primary goal remains the establishment of a New World Order.
-==Goals==
-As the greatest industrial force the Templars owned, Abstergo shared the same beliefs as the Templars; order and discipline through power and control. Some Abstergo employees did not recognize the Templar Order, neither did they hear about it, but certain high-ranking members of Abstergo knew the Templar cause. Since the [[Third Crusade]], the Templars started realizing the power that the Pieces of Eden had over [[humans]], and so they began searching for them. In modern times, they have used numerous subjects from the Animus Project to access the memories of their ancestors, in order to get hold of a map showing these artifacts. This goal later formed into total control and possession of all Pieces of Eden.
-The Templars' goals had changed as they sought control to unify the entire world using these artifacts, going from "lasting peace, no matter what the cost" to the "New World Order". To accomplish this, they had to reach their ultimate goal; launching a Piece of Eden into orbit around Earth.
 ===Mission statement===
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 ==Divisions and subsidiaries==
 [[File:ACR MP Abstergo Industries Structure Map.png|thumb|250px|Abstergo Industries structure in 2012]]
-Abstergo Industries had numerous offices in cities worldwide, including [[New York City|New York]], [[Chicago]], [[Los Angeles]], [[Tokyo]], [[Seoul]], [[Madrid]], [[London]], [[Paris]], [[Osaka|Osaka-Kobe]], [[Shanghai]] and [[Moscow]].<ref>[[Abstergo.com]]</ref>
+Abstergo Industries maintains numerous offices in cities worldwide, including [[New York City|New York]], [[Chicago]], [[Los Angeles]], [[Tokyo]], [[Seoul]], [[Madrid]], [[London]], [[Paris]], [[Osaka|Osaka-Kobe]], [[Shanghai]], and [[Moscow]].<ref name="Abstergo.com">[[Abstergo.com]]</ref>
 ;Divisions
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 *[[Lineage Discovery and Acquisition]]<ref name="ACEG" />
 *[[Future Technology]]<ref name="ACEG" />
-*Archaeological Research Department<ref>[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple|''Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple'']]</ref>
+*[[Abstergo Genetic Research Lab]]<ref name="ACFT">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]''</ref>
+*[[Archaeological Research Department]]<ref name="ACFT" />
 ;Subsidiaries
 *[[MysoreTech]]<ref name="ACEG" />
-*[[Abstergo Entertainment]]<ref name="ACEG" />
+*[[Abstergo Entertainment]]<ref name="ACEG" /><ref name="AC4">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref>
 *[[Abstergo Financial Group]]<ref name="ACEG" />
 **[[Malta Banking Corporation]]<ref name="ACEG" />
-*[[Abstergo Foundation]]<ref name="ACF">''[[Assassin's Creed (film)]]''</ref>
+*[[Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center|Abstergo Foundation]]<ref name="Film">[[Assassin's Creed (film)|''Assassin's Creed'' film]]</ref>
 *[[Abstergo Medical]]<ref name="ACT">''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]''</ref>
-*[[Chinon Shipping]] {{C|merged}}<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]''</ref>
+**[[Abstergo Chemical]] {{c|until 1962}}<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – The Rosenburg Letters, III of VII</ref>
+*[[Skunkworks]]<ref name="ACUp">''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]''</ref>
+*[[Chinon Shipping]] {{C|merged}}<ref name="ACUp" />
 ==Employees==
 [[File:AC1 Rikkin Report.png|thumb|250px|Warren Vidic speaking to three Abstergo executives]]
-The vast majority of Abstergo's employees were not aware of the organisation's Templar roots, and as such were not Templars themselves; this included its scientists, engineers, and several CEOs. Abstergo also had hundreds of corporate spies in companies around the world, including sleeper agents.<ref name="Revelations" /> The company also employed a number of heavily armed security personnel at their sites; these individuals were skilled combatants, armed with both firearms and tasers.
+The vast majority of Abstergo's employees were not aware of the company's Templar roots, and as such were not Templars themselves; this included its scientists, engineers, and several CEOs. Abstergo also had hundreds of corporate spies in companies around the world, including sleeper agents.<ref name="Abstergo Files" /> The company also employed a number of heavily armed security personnel at their sites; these individuals were skilled combatants, armed with both firearms and tasers.
-===Current employees ===
+===Current employees===
-Italicized names indicate membership in the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order]]:
+''Italicized names indicate membership in the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order]].''
+<div style="float:left; width: 48%;">
+*[[Alex]] – Technician, Abstergo Foundation<ref name="Film" />
+*[[Pierre-Louis Belanger]] – Project Director, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACU">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref>
+*''[[Juhani Otso Berg]]'' – Operations, Director of Abstergo Medical, and leader of [[Sigma Team]]<ref name="ACR" /><ref name="ACT" />
 *[[Jane Birkam]] – friend of Warren Vidic<ref name="AC1" />
+*[[M.-O. Boudreault]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Jean-François Brunet]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>
+*[[Philippe Chartrand]] – Researcher, Abstergo Entertainment<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – [[Surveillance]]: "Noob Alert"</ref>
+*[[Anaya Chodary]] – Hacker and member of the ''White Hats''<ref name="Heresy">''[[Assassin's Creed: Heresy]]''</ref>
+*[[Benjamin Clarke]] – Hacker and member of the ''White Hats''<ref name="Heresy" />
+*[[Cole]] – Head of security at [[the Aerie]]<ref name="TotK">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan]]''</ref>
+*[[Christopher Darby]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
 *David – Acquisitions, Lineage Research and Acquisition.<ref name="AC1" />
-* ''[[Laetitia England]]'' – Head of Operations
+*[[Andrew Davies]] – Leader of [[Omega Team]]<ref name="Heresy" />
-*''[[Simon Hathaway]]'' – Historical Research Division
+*[[Evan Dean]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" /><ref name="ACRG" />
+*[[Max Dittmar]] – Hacker and member of the ''White Hats''<ref name="Heresy" />
+*''[[Laetitia England]]'' – Head of Operations<ref name="Abstergo Files" />
+*[[Case Fisher]] – Head of Sample Recovery Unit 3<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Ashley Gaudreau]] – Orientation Representative, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACM">''[[Assassin's Creed: Memories]]''</ref>
+*[[Anthony Gbinigie]] – Tech Director, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACU" />
+*[[Steve Gibbs]] – Head of the disposal units<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Gilles]] – Technician, Abstergo Foundation<ref name="Film" />
+*[[Caroline Grey]] – Security analyst<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Harland Hammerstein]]<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*''[[Simon Hathaway]]'' – Historical Research Division<ref name="Heresy" />
+*[[Ctibor Hašek]] – Psychiatrist<ref name="Desmond Files">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – [[The Desmond Files]]</ref>
 *[[Aubrey Jacobs]] – Alan Rikkin's assistant<ref name="AC1" />
-*[[Kaori Kagami]] – Yokohama clinic<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun]]''</ref>
+*[[John Kane]]<ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''</ref>
-*[[Carson Kairns]]
+*[[Milton Jones]]<ref name="Surveillance">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – [[Surveillance]]: "The Look of Love"</ref>
-*''[[David Kilkerman]]'' – Research, Animus Project <ref name="AC1" /><ref name="ACTF" />
+*"[[Journeyman]]" – Project Coordinator at Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="Employee Handbook" />
-*[[Gabriel King]] – Chief engineer of the [[Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center|Abstergo Foundation]]<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's emails#Abstergo|Subject header: "Re: You're looking at it the wrong way"]]</ref>
+*[[Kaori Kagami]] – Doctor, [[Abstergo Industries Yokohama facility|Yokohama clinic]]<ref name="ACBoSJ">''[[Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun]]''</ref>
-*[[Robert Klein]]
+*[[Carson Kairns]] – Delivery department<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Ellen Kaye]] – Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and leader of the [[Council of Elders]]<ref name="Film" />
+*[[Jason Kent]]<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Kamala Khatri]] – Scientist, [[Abstergo Industries London facility|London facility]]<ref name="Animus Handbook">''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]] – [[Animus Handbook]]''</ref>
+*''[[David Kilkerman]]'' – Research, Animus Project<ref name="AC1" /><ref name="ACTF" />
+*[[Gabriel King]] – Chief engineer of the Abstergo Foundation<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's emails#Abstergo|Subject header: "Re: You're looking at it the wrong way"]]</ref>
+*[[Robert Klein]]<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Raphael Lacoste (Abstergo Entertainment)|Raphael Lacoste]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Melanie Lemay]] – Chief Creative Officer of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACRG" />
+*[[Kloé Lesney]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Rodrigo Lima]] – Hacker and leader of the ''White Hats''<ref name="Heresy" />
+</div>
+<div style="float:right; width: 48%;">
 *[[Henry Liman]]<ref name="AC1" />
-*[[Jansen March]]
+*[[Jansen March]]<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
-*[[Zachary Morgenstern]] – Cryptology
+*[[Thomas Marshall]] – Doctor, the Aerie<ref name="TotK" />
-*[[James Morse]] – Warren Vidic's secretary
+*[[Darby McDevitt (Abstergo Entertainment)|Darby McDevitt]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
-*''[[Mitsuko Nakamura]]'' – Research, Lineage Research and Acquisition
+*[[McGowen]] – Former head of security of the Abstergo Foundation<ref name="Film" />
-*[[Erica Nichols]]
+*[[Kyle Milton]]<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
-*[[Nancy Nilop]] – Human Resources agent<ref name="AC1" />
+*[[Zachary Morgenstern]] – Cryptology department<ref name="Heresy" />
+*[[James Morse]] – Warren Vidic's secretary<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Jill Murray (Abstergo Entertainment)|Jill Murray]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*''[[Mitsuko Nakamura]]'' – Research, Lineage Research and Acquisition<ref name="Abstergo Files" />
+*[[Kama Neron]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Erica Nichols]]<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Nancy Nilop]] – Human Resources<ref name="AC1" />
+*"[[Numbskull]]" – Research analyst, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACRG" />
+*"[[Player Admin]]" – Administrator of ''[[Rebellion]]''<ref name="ACReb">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rebellion]]''</ref>
+*''[[Agneta Reider]]'' – CEO of Abstergo Financial<ref name="Heresy" />
 *[[Richard]] – One of three men who threatened to kill Lucy Stillman, before being stopped by Vidic<ref name="AC1" />
-*[[S.]]<ref name="AC1" />
+*[[Sofia Rikkin]] – Head of the Abstergo Foundation<ref name="Film" />
-*[[Sofia Rikkin]] - Head of the Abstergo Foundation
+*"[[Rothenburg]]" – Informant within Abstergo feeding information to the Assassins<ref name="TotK" />
-*[[Rothenburg]] – Informant within Abstergo feeding information to the Assassins
+*[[Rothschild]]<ref name="ACTC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref>
-*[[Damian Saravakos]] – Medical examiner, Medical Division, Lineage Research and Acquisition<ref name="ACI Desmond Files">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Desmond Files</ref>
+*"[[S.]]"<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+*[[Samia]] – Technician, Abstergo Foundation<ref name="Film" />
+*[[Damian Saravakos]] – Medical examiner, Medical Division, Lineage Research and Acquisition<ref name="Desmond Files" />
+*[[Marc Scheling]] – Executive Producer, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACU" />
+*[[Amanda Sekibo]] – Chief Technician of the Animus 4.35<ref name="Heresy" />
+*[[Robin Smalridge]] – Human resources manager<ref name="Employee Handbook">''[[Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook]]''</ref>
+*[[Sorkin]] – Member of Sigma Team and Juhani Otso Berg's righ-hand man<ref name="Numbskull">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Numbskull's personal files]]</ref>
+*''[[Alfred Stearns]]'' – Retired Head of Operations<ref name="ACTF" /><Ref name="Heresy" />
+*[[Sung]] – Medical doctor<ref name="ACTC" />
+*[[Jennifer Tam]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACRG" />
+*[[Philipa Tran]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Kristina Uhrich]] – employee of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Joseph Vidic]]<ref name="Employee Handbook" />
+*[[Percy Westcreek]] – Archival Department<ref name="Employee Handbook" />
+*[[Whittaker]] – Member of [[Team Epsilon]]<ref name="AC Titan">[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|''Assassin's Creed'' (Titan Comics)]]</ref>
+*[[Dominika Wilk]] – Head of the Nexus Eye Project<ref name="ACN">''[[Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR]]''</ref>
+*[[Tyrell Williams]] – Historical Research Division<ref name="ACO" />
+*[[Leonard Wong]]<ref name="Abstergo.com" />
+</div>
+{{-}}
 ===Former employees===
-*''[[Isabelle Ardant]]'' † – Operations, Historical Research<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref>
+''Deceased individuals are marked with a cross. (†)''
-*[[Victoria Bibeau]] †
+<div style="float:left; width: 48%;">
+*[[Alice Adler]] † – Technician, Abstergo Foundation<ref name="ACCo" />
+*[[Thomas Adler]] † – Technician, Abstergo Foundation<ref name="ACCo" />
+*''[[Isabelle Ardant]]'' † – Operations, Historical Research<ref name="ACS">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref>
+*[[Victoria Bibeau]] † – Psychiatrist<ref name="ACLD">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants]]''</ref>
+*[[Aileen Bock]] † – Project Director of the [[Surrogate Initiative]]<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Violet da Costa]] † – Sigma Team, tactical support<ref name="ACRG" />
+*[[Clarke]] – Warren Vidic's assistant in 1983<ref name="ACTF" />
 *''[[Daniel Cross]]'' † – Operations<ref name="AC3" />
-*''[[Álvaro Gramática]]'' † – Research, Future Technology
+*[[DDS research analyst]] – Analyst of the [[Data Dump Scanner]]<ref name="ACPL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]''</ref>
-*[[Caroline Grey]]
+*[[Robert Fraser]] † – Researcher, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="Employee Handbook" />
-*[[Layla Hassan]] † – Animus engineer
+*[[Freddy]] † – Medical doctor<ref name="ACT" />
-*[[Isaiah]] †
+*[[Olivier Garneau]] † – Chief Creative Officer of Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Deanna Geary]] † – Member of the Medical Team<ref name="Surveillance" /><ref name="ACO" />
+*[[Robert Getas]]<ref name="Holidays">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' – [[Holidays: Chapter 1 – Ghosts of Christmas Past]]</ref>
+*[[Caitlin Gift]] † – Animus technician<ref name="ACT" />
+*[[Maxime Gorm]] † – Leader of [[Team Epsilon]]<ref name="ACBs" />
+*''[[Álvaro Gramática]]'' † – Research, Future Technology<ref name="ACS" />
+*[[Heinrich Hart]] † – Engineer<ref name="ACUp" />
+*[[Layla Hassan]] † – Animus engineer<ref name="ACO" />
+*[[Didier Hawking]] † – Animus user, renowned for his memory-hacking skills<ref name="AC Titan" />
+*[[Isaiah]] † – Director of the Aerie<ref name="ACLD" />
+*[[Jenkins]] † – Member of Sigma Team<ref name="Numbskull" />
+*[[Fahad Khan]] † – Employee of Abstergo Financial and Agneta Reider's right-hand man<ref name="ACG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Gold]]''</ref>
+*[[John Maynard Keynes]] †<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
+*[[Emmett Leary]] – Former engineer for the Surrogate Initiative<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – [[Surveillance]]: "Abstergo's Lost Genius"</ref>
+</div>
+<div style="float:right; width: 48%;">
+*[[Lillian]]<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Zixuan Long]] † – Archaeologist and researcher<ref name="Forging History">''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]] – [[Forging History]]''</ref>
+*[[Zixuan Long's assistant]] †<ref name="Forging History" />
 *[[Leila Marino]] †
-*[[Sebastian Monroe]]
+*[[Sebastian Monroe]] – Former researcher<ref name="ACLD" />
-*''[[Alan Rikkin]]'' † – Chief Executive Officer<ref>[[Assassin's Creed (film)|''Assassin's Creed'' film]]</ref>
+*"[[Noob]]" – Research analyst, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
-*[[Theodore Rizzo]] †<ref name="ACI Desmond Files" />
+*[[Aleksandr Omovich]] † – High-ranking executive<ref name="Forging History" />
-*[[Shimazu Sei]] – Doctor and supervisor<ref name="ACFT">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]''</ref>
+*[[Felix Oladele]] † – Animus specialist, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="ACUp" />
-*[[Lucy Stillman]]†<ref name="ACB" />
+*[[Anson Peake]] – Project Manager for Project Legacy<ref name="ACPL" />
+*''[[Alan Rikkin]]'' † – Chief Executive Officer<ref name="Film" />
+*[[Theodore Rizzo]] †<ref name="Desmond Files" />
+*[[Ortega Sanchez]] †<ref name="AC Titan" />
+*[[Satish]] – Aileen Bock's assistant<ref name="AC4" />
 *''[[Otto Schmidt]]'' † – Operations, Lineage Research and Acquisition<ref name="AC3" />
-*''Warren Vidic'' † – Research, Animus Project<ref name="AC1" /><ref name="AC3" />
+*[[Keith Scipione]] †<ref name="Holidays" />
-* [[Yuki]] † – Field agent and Shimazu Sei's bodyguard<ref name="ACFT" />
+*[[Shimazu Sei]] – Doctor and supervisor, Archaeological Research Department<ref name="ACFT" />
+*[[Aidan St. Claire]] † – Project Manager, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="Employee Handbook" />
+*[[John Standish]] † – Head of IT, Abstergo Entertainment<ref name="AC4" />
+*[[Lucy Stillman]] † – Animus researcher<ref name="AC1" />
+*[[Alan Turing]] †<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
+*''[[Warren Vidic]]'' † – Research, Animus Project<ref name="AC1" /><ref name="AC3" />
+*[[Harry Dexter White]] †<ref name="ACB Rifts" />
+*[[Yu Shu Lien]] – Former security contractor<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' – Animus Training Program Quickstart: Character File Folios</ref>
+*[[Yuki]] † – Field agent and Shimazu Sei's bodyguard<ref name="ACFT" />
+</div>
+{{-}}
 ==Projects==
 ===Products===
-{{Quote|Guess the shit's really hit the fan this time.|An Abstergo employee e-mailing Vidic about the Fluoride failure.|Vidic's e-mail}}Abstergo was one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, with their primary focus being anti-depressants. Desmond Miles first saw the word "Abstergo" on a bottle of ibuprofen whilst he was still living on [[the Farm]]: according to his mother, "The average American household contains three dozen Abstergo-owned products at any given moment. If you tried to purge them from your life completely, it would be a full-time job."<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Training]]</ref>
+{{Quote|Guess the shit's really hit the fan this time.|An Abstergo employee e-mailing Vidic about the Fluoride failure.|Assassin's Creed|Warren Vidic's email}}
+Abstergo remains one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, with their primary focus being anti-depressants. Desmond Miles first saw the word "Abstergo" on a bottle of ibuprofen whilst he was still living on [[the Farm]]; according to his mother, "The average American household contains three dozen Abstergo-owned products at any given moment. If you tried to purge them from your life completely, it would be a full-time job."<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Training]]</ref>
-It was also stated in an [[Warren Vidic's email|e-mail]] to Warren Vidic that Abstergo was secretly experimenting their products on people, and that one of their experiments had failed, poisoning an entire town. Information about this incident had partly been leaked, causing the whole pharmaceutical division of the company to be closed down for investigation. The product Abstergo was experimenting with was named "New Fluoride".
+It was also stated in an [[Warren Vidic's email|e-mail]] to Warren Vidic that Abstergo was secretly experimenting their products on people, and that one of their experiments had failed, poisoning an entire town. Information about this incident had partly been leaked, causing the whole pharmaceutical division of the company to be closed down for investigation. The product Abstergo was experimenting with was named "New Fluoride".<ref name="Vidic's email" />
-Products sold in 2012 include [[Herne+]], the baby monitor [[Angelus]], the [[Bodyband]] exercise bracelet, Animus OS glasses, and the Animus game console with pre-packaged genetic memories.
+Products sold in 2012 included [[Herne+]], the baby monitor [[Angelus]], the [[Bodyband]] exercise bracelet, Animus OS glasses, and the Animus game console with pre-packaged genetic memories.
 ===Sophia Project===
-The [[Sophia Project]] studied cellular information and the means by which information was passed genetically. The end goal was to be able to manipulate genetic information for medical purposes.<ref name="Revelations">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]</ref>
+The [[Sophia Project]] studied cellular information and the means by which information was passed genetically. The end goal was to be able to manipulate genetic information for medical purposes.<ref name="Abstergo Files">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]</ref>
 ===Animus Project===
 {{Main|Animus Project}}
-[[File:AC1 Animus 1.28.png|thumb|left|250px|An Animus in the [[Rome]] facility]]
+[[File:AC1 Animus 1.28.png|thumb|left|250px|An Animus in the Rome facility]]
-Abstergo began their Animus Project in September 1985, with Dr. Warren Vidic as the head operative.<ref name="ACB" /> The project initially relied on psychoanalysis, hypnosis and chemicals to unlock genetic memories in their subjects, though it all changed with the invention of the Animus, which enabled subjects to [[Synchronization|synchronize]] with their ancestors' memories in a virtual reality environment.<ref name="Revelations" />
+Abstergo began their Animus Project in September 1985, with Dr. Warren Vidic as the head operative.<ref name="ACB" /> The project initially relied on psychoanalysis, hypnosis and chemicals to unlock genetic memories in their subjects, though it all changed with the invention of the Animus, which enabled subjects to [[Synchronization|synchronize]] with their ancestors' memories in a virtual reality environment.<ref name="Abstergo Files" />
-The Lineage Research and Acquisition department acquired subjects to farm memories, which were later implemented into [[Project Legacy]] for Abstergo recruits to decode the memories without requiring a descendant to relive them in the Animus. However, it was put on hold after the individual or group known as [[Erudito]] began hacking into the Project and giving recruits memories Abstergo did not want them to see.<ref name="Revelations" />
+The Lineage Research and Acquisition department acquired subjects to farm memories, which were later implemented into [[Project Legacy]] for Abstergo recruits to decode the memories without requiring a descendant to relive them in the Animus.<ref name="ACPL" /> However, it was put on hold after the collective known as [[Erudito]] began hacking into the Project and giving recruits access to memories that Abstergo did not want them to see.<ref name="Abstergo Files" />
-The [[Animi Training Program]] was also launched some time in 2012 to train recruits into becoming lethal agents, by having them synchronize with the skills of great Templar agents and non-Assassin individuals from centuries before.
+The [[Animi Training Program]] was also launched some time in 2012 to train recruits into becoming lethal agents, by having them synchronize with the skills of great Templar agents and non-Assassin individuals from centuries before.<ref name="ACB" /><ref name="ACR" />
-=== Archeology===
+===Archeology===
-Abstergo knew of the First Civilization and the Pieces of Eden. However, they had only discovered a few of the locations of [[Temple (Isu)|vaults]], and were unaware of how to access the information archived within them.<ref name="Revelations" />
+Abstergo has performed archeological excavations in various locations around the world, secretly in search of Pieces of Eden and [[Temple (Isu)|vaults]] built by the Isu. However, while they successfully uncovered a number of vaults and recovered the artifacts they housed, the vast majority of Isu temples remain hidden.<ref name="Abstergo Files" />
 ===Akashic Satellite Plexus===
 [[File:Early ASP model.jpg|thumb|250px|Early ASP model]]
-The [[Akashic Satellite Plexus]] was launched in 2008, and on 21 December 2012, Abstergo intended to launch its cornerstone, the Eye-Abstergo satellite. On the surface, it was a collection of communications, weather and observation satellites, though the Eye-Abstergo addition was intended to amplify the powers of an [[Apples of Eden|Apple of Eden]].
+The [[Akashic Satellite Plexus]] was launched in 2008, and on 21 December 2012, Abstergo intended to launch its cornerstone, the Eye-Abstergo satellite. On the surface, it was a collection of communications, weather and observation satellites, though the Eye-Abstergo addition was intended to amplify the powers of an [[Apples of Eden|Apple of Eden]].<ref name="Abstergo Files" />
-Though the Assassins believed Abstergo would use it to control the world, this was denied in their [[Abstergo Files|internal documents]] for their top agents. Emphasis was placed on the "ASP" becoming able to locate "individuals with potential", and was heavily shielded and presumed to be operational in the face of even the worst predicted solar flares.<ref name="Revelations" />
+While the Assassins believed Abstergo would use it to control the world, this was denied in their [[Abstergo Files|internal documents]] for their top agents. Emphasis was placed on the "ASP" becoming able to locate "individuals with potential", and was heavily shielded and presumed to be operational in the face of even the worst predicted solar flares.<ref name="Abstergo Files" />
 ===Baseline Study===
 [[File:Baseline Study.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The Baseline Study]]
 On 24 July 2014, ''{{Wiki|The Wall Street Journal}}'' announced that {{Wiki|Google}} had organized a medical and genomics project called the {{Wiki|Baseline Study}}, which would collect genetic information from various people. This caught the attention of the [[Initiates]], who revealed that the project was secretly run by Abstergo.<ref name="InitiatesTwitter">{{Twitter|acinitiates|status/500304550704979968|AC Initiates|quote=Collecting "genetic" info. What exactly is Google working towards with the Baseline Study? [http://on.wsj.com/VqpJn5 on.wsj.com/VqpJn5] [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvFwVnEIQAArs50.jpg pic.twitter.com/y1zak49pZU]|image=File:ACI Baseline Study run by Abstergo.png}}</ref>
+{{-}}
+===Phoenix Project===
+{{Main|Phoenix Project}}
+The [[Phoenix Project]] was a secret initiative launched by Abstergo in late 2013, which had the goal of sequencing the Isu's triple-helix genome in order to better understand and master the Pieces of Eden. To this end, Abstergo searched for genetic records of [[Sage]]s both past and present, hoping to use their high concentration of Isu DNA as a basis for cloning the Isu back into existence. The project was led by Dr. [[Álvaro Gramática]] who, following an Assassin attack on his [[Abstergo Industries Paris facility|laboratory]] in [[Paris]] in October 2014,<ref name="ACU" /> relocated to a remote [[Abstergo Industries Australia facility|facility]] in [[Australia]].<ref name="ACUp" />
-{{-}}
+[[File:ACU The Phoenix Project.png|thumb|250px|''Phoenix Project'' logo]]
+By August 2018, Gramática, using a [[Precursor box]] and [[Shroud of Eden 2|Shroud of Eden]] recovered by the Templars, had succeeded in sequencing the Isu genome, though his research was soon hijacked by the [[Instruments of the First Will]], who sought to resurrect their mistress [[Juno]]. The procedure was successful, allowing Juno to be reborn in the physical world, albeit only for a short time, as the Isu was killed when the Assassins and the Master Templar [[Juhani Otso Berg]] stormed the Australia facility to stop the Instruments' plans.<ref name="ACUp" />
 ==Trivia==
 *''Abstergo'' is a Latin verb, meaning "I cleanse".
-*In the tenth [[Glyphs|Glyph]], titled "Apollo", scanning the American flag on the ''Eagle'' lander showed the Abstergo logo, suggesting that Abstergo Industries was behind the [[moon]] [[Apollo 11 Moon landing|landings]]. Similarly, scanning the white flag planted on the moon revealed the [[Templar insignia|Templar crosses]].
 *During [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]]'s time in the [[Vatican Vault]] after fighting [[Rodrigo Borgia]], the Abstergo logo could be seen among several images projected by [[Minerva]]. [[:File:AC2 Vaticano Vault Concept Art.jpg|Concept art]] for the vault had a pillar shaped like Abstergo's logo in the center of the circular room's floor.
-*During the retrieval of [[Apple of Eden 6|the Apple]] from the [[Colosseum Vault]], when Desmond activated the [[Piece of Eden]] from its [[Vault pedestal|pedestal]], several symbols started to appear around him. Among the symbols that were displayed, the Abstergo logo was one that appeared quite frequently.
+*During the retrieval of the Apple of Eden from the [[Colosseum Vault]], when Desmond activated the Piece of Eden from its [[Vault pedestal|pedestal]], several symbols started to appear around him. Among the symbols that were displayed, the Abstergo logo was one that appeared quite frequently.
-*Abstergo's Animi room had a wall with a large window in the shape of the Templar cross.
+*The Animi room of Abstergo's Rome facility had a wall with a large window in the shape of the [[Templar insignia|Templar cross]].
-*A Twitter page was created for ''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'', named the "datadumpscanner".<ref>{{Twitter|datadumpscanner||Data Dump Scanner}}</ref>
+*A Twitter page was created for ''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'', named the "datadumpscanner".<ref>{{Twitter|datadumpscanner||Data Dump Scanner}}</ref>
-*The Abstergo logo was present in many forms seen throughout ''[[Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles]]'', is projected within the [[Eesfet Oon-m'Aa Poo]] vault in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'', and is used in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' as the HUD screens analyzing the [[Yggdrasil]] computer and the [[Æsir]] from the [[Animus Anomalies]].
+*The Abstergo logo is present in many forms seen throughout ''[[Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles]]'', is projected within the [[Eesfet Oon-m'Aa Poo]] vault in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'', and is used in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' as the HUD screens analyzing the [[Yggdrasil]] computer and the [[Æsir]] from the [[Animus Anomalies]].
 *While the company logo strongly resembles the impossible {{Wiki|Penrose triangle}} first created by the Swedish artist {{Wiki|Oscar Reutersvärd}} in 1934,<ref>{{WP|Penrose triangle}}</ref> a [[:File:ACI-Letter 4.jpg|1969 letter]] from Dr. [[Clinton B. Rosenburg]] to Abstergo's Director shows that the three bars are actually the heavily-stylized base, arm, and eyepiece of a microscope.
 ==Gallery==
 <tabber>Locations=
-<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
+<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
-Fall 3 Daniel Abstergo.png|Philadelphia facility
+Fall 3 Daniel Abstergo.png|The [[Abstergo Philadelphia Facility|Philadelphia facility]]
-AC2 Animi Room.png|The Animi room
+AC2 Animi Room.png|The Animi room at the Rome facility
 AC2 Abstergo Corridor.png|The interior of the Rome facility
+The Aerie-0.png|[[The Aerie]]
+Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center.png|The [[Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center]] in Madrid
+ACBoSJ Yokohama Facility 9.jpg|The [[Abstergo Industries Yokohama facility|Abstergo Yokohama clinic]]
+ACFT - Abstergo Genetic Research Lab.png|The [[Abstergo Genetic Research Lab]] in Osaka
+ACRPG - Sabotaging the Abstergo Research Lab 2.png|The interior of the [[Abstergo Industries London facility|Abstergo London facility]]
 </gallery>
 |-|Employees=
-<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
+<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
 AC2-Guard-Abstergo.png|An Abstergo security guard
-ACFT - Abstergo Macau facility employees.png|Various Abstergo employees aboard the ''[[Exitus]]''
+AC3 Abstergo Agent.png|An Abstergo field agent
+ACFT - Abstergo employees.png|Various Abstergo employees aboard the ''[[Exitus]]''
+ACTF-TaurusTeam.png|Members of [[Taurus Team]]
+ACFT - Sigma Team.png|Members of Sigma Team
 </gallery>
 |-|Concept art=
-<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
+<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
-AbstergoAnimusConcept.jpg|Concept art of the Animus room in Abstergo
+AbstergoAnimusConcept.jpg|Concept art of the Animus room at the Rome facility
-AbstergoAnimusRoomConcept2.jpg|Concept art of another angle of the Animus room
+AbstergoAnimusRoomConcept2.jpg|Alternate concept art of the Animus room
 AbstergoPeople.jpg|Concept art of Abstergo employees
 </gallery>
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