Observatory (Isu)
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- "Dirty and decrepit. Not quite as I remember. But it has been over 80 millennia."
- ―The Sage Bartholomew Roberts, commenting on the state of the Observatory, 1719.[src]
The Observatory is a First Civilization complex in the area that would become Long Bay, Jamaica, that allowed for the remote viewing of an individual's vision though the use of a Crystal Skull.
The Observatory operated by placing a vial, containing a drop of blood from the person to be observed, into a Crystal Skull located within an armillary sphere. The device would then project what the person was seeing and hearing into the room. Around the central altar, there were rows of seats that would allow for a large number of people to view the projection at any one time.
Security measures
If the Crystal Skull was removed, the complex activated a lethal security system, which could only be deactivated, in most circumstances, by a Sage. If left in operation, the system would project walls of energy at regular intervals, strong enough to vaporize humans on contact.
It also caused the interior of the structure to shift and separate into several platforms, in order to make traversal of the complex difficult. During such instances, the only apparent way to deactivate the security system was to return the Crystal Skull to the complex's armillary sphere. In the hallway leading to the main viewing chamber, the Observatory housed a large number of vials containing the blood of numerous First Civilization individuals.
In order to ensure the security of the Observatory, indigenous Guardians protected the structure from encroachers. Additionally, the main door to the complex could only be opened by inserting a vial containing the blood of a Sage.
History
In 1718, the Observatory was visited by the Sage Bartholomew Roberts and Edward Kenway, a fellow pirate. After neutralizing the Guardians protecting the complex, Edward was betrayed and sealed inside by Roberts, but managed to escape via a secondary exit leading to a waterfall near the beach.
Four years later, in 1722, Edward once again visited the complex, this time in pursuit of Laureano de Torres y Ayala, Grand Master of the Templars in the Caribbean. By this point, the blood vials had been removed, and the Assassins devoted themselves to locating and returning them to their rightful place, in time.
In 2013, it was noted by an Abstergo Entertainment employee that whilst the Observatory's observational facilities were on par with modern-day surveillance techniques, and thus not entirely important to the Templar Order, the location of the blood vials would provide them with an abundance of First Civilization genetic material to work with.
Trivia
- The Observatory was jokingly referred to as "Captain Kenway's Folly" by Adéwalé.
Gallery
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Concept art of the Observatory -
Concept art of Edward in the Observatory -
Concept art of the Observatory's main chamber -
James Kidd holding a sketch of the armillary sphere
Reference
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