Gavin Banks
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Gavin is a member of the Assassin Order, stationed on a boat named the Altair II, which roamed the Pacific Ocean. He kept in communication with Assassin teams that operated around the globe, and monitored their progress on a daily basis. After William Miles' team broke their silence, the latter transferred his position as Assassin leader to Gavin.
Biography
Roaming the seas
On September 10, 2012, Gavin was contacted by an Assassin operative who called him from a public phone in Brisbane, Australia. The caller told Gavin that it had been three days since he had last heard from his team, and that they had failed to report again. As Gavin was giving instructions to the caller to quickly pull out of the area, the telephone signal was interrupted. At some later point, Gavin himself confirmed that the whole team in Brisbane had been eliminated.
Two days later, on September 12, Gavin received a call from an operative named Janice, who was a part of an Assassin team in Whistler, Canada. During their conversation, Janice demanded that Gavin send additional manpower as she had only two operatives with her. He replied that he would see what he could do, but this proved to be a moot point when, at that moment, Templars led by Daniel Cross attacked the Whistler team.
Weeks later, on October 5, Gavin called William Miles via cellular phone. He updated William about the status of the Assassin teams in Brisbane, Osaka and Moscow. In turn, William, who was in Italy, briefly informed Gavin of the favorable progress the Assassins were seeing at his end.
Traveling in America
On 24 October, Gavin received a coded message from Adriano Maestranzi, which instructed him to head to New York, and also that William should be making contact with the Order soon. Two days later, Gavin met with William's team at an airport in Syracuse, New York, where he provided them with fake documents, which allowed them safe passage into the state.
Gavin then began traveling around the United States, attempting to draw the Templars' attention away from William's team. On 2 November, Gavin sent William a text from Stillwater, Oklahoma, informing him that the Templars had no clue where they were. The next day, he sent another text to William from New Orleans, updating William on the status of the Assassin team in Florence, which had lost a member.
Back at sea
On 4 December at 6:09am, Gavin and his crew picked up William's team from Vitoria Bay, Brazil, after they had recovered a First Civilization artifact. Two days later, Gavin and the Altaïr II were on the South Atlantic ocean, just off the coast of Brazil, when he received a text message from William at 9:32pm. In the message, William thanked Gavin for the ride, and also included that his team had safely returned to the Grand Temple without the Templars following them.
On 6 December, Gavin sent a text message to William which informed him that the Assassin Order had identified the Templar responsible for initiating an attack on the Florentine Assassins as Juhani Otso Berg, an ex-special forces soldier from Finland who had become a mercenary a few years ago. He remarked that Berg was a serious threat, but that Adriano had managed to scar him before he died. William responded by thanking Gavin for the information and told him that they would be on the watch for Berg.
On 19 December at 9:12pm, Gavin received a call from Harlan T. Cunningham, the only survivor of the Florentine Assassins. Gavin was relieved to learn Harlan had made it safely to a safe house in Vienna, Austria, and expressed his sympathy regarding Adriano's death. He also reassured Harlan that it was not his fault that the other Assassins had died, before instructing the Assassin to go to Rotterdam in the Netherlands and wait for further orders and asking him to take it easy until then.
On 20 December at 6:13pm, Gavin got a text from William that his team had found the Grand Temple Key and were heading back to the Grand Temple to open it. Gavin congratulated him and said that he would pass the news onto the other Assassins.
Leading the Brotherhood
William and his team successfully opened the Grand Temple and prevented the Second Disaster, but at the cost of Desmond Miles' life and releasing Juno upon the Earth. Gavin was not contacted by them for nearly six months, until on 14 May 2013 he received a text from Shaun Hastings with a coded message to pick them up in Peru. Gavin and his team sailed there, meeting with Shaun and Rebecca Crane on 21 May, and they gave him a book and letter from William. The letter informed Gavin that William was leaving the Order, and that he had written all his knowledge down in the book for Gavin so he could lead and rebuild the Assassin Brotherhood. WIlliam apologized for dumping this burden on him, but made clear that his decision to leave was final.
On 24 May, Gavin was asked by Shaun what he was going to do about William, but Gavin felt there was nothing they could do but wait for him to sort out his issues by himself, and that he doubted the Templars would be able to find him if Shaun had failed to do so. Shaun wondered what they would do now, and Gavin informed him they would move on with their work.
Over the next few days, Gavin and his crew made improvements to the Altair II while sailing north. On 29 May, they reached California, where Gavin asked Shaun and Rebecca to be his eyes and ears in America and keep him apprised of any Templar or Abstergo activity. He received several updates from Rebecca over the next few months, and on 27 August Rebecca e-mailed him from Oklahoma City, saying that she and Shaun had decided to try and locate Desmond's body or discover what Abstergo had taken it for. On 3 September he received another e-mail from Rebecca, who expressed concern over the amount of resources the Templars were putting into Abstergo Entertainment.
On 11 September, Gavin and his team stopped in Honolulu Harbor. Susan wondered why they were not in Osaka yet, and Gavin expressed concern over the fact that his guy there had not contacted him. Susan was worried about sailing into a trap, but Gavin reassured her they would not fall into it and ordered Eric Cooper to set sail for the Philippines, and that they were going to go "shopping". By 1 October they had bought weapons from arms dealers there, which Emmanuel Barraza inspected.
On 11 October, Gavin read an article about Abstergo Entertainment's Montreal studio which included a statement from its Chief Creative Officer, Olivier Garneau. Gavin e-mailed Rebecca and questioned who Garneau was and wondered what he might know.
Trivia
- Gavin had known William Miles for many years, and affably called the Assassin leader "Bill", who in turn referred to him as "old friend".
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