Skunkworks
Abstergo Skunkworks,[2] doing business as Skunkworks,[3] is Abstergo Industries' arms manufacturing subsidiary that produces high-end military technology. Its prototypes are usually field-tested by select members of the paramilitary strike force Sigma Team.[2]
History
In February 2017, the Black Cross Juhani Otso Berg investigated a raid on an Abstergo facility in Hong Kong. There, he found a set of advanced Skunkworks military goggles, valued at over $35,000, carelessly discarded. Berg then cannibalized the goggles to improve his own set.[3] Using the goggles, he discovered that the Instruments of the First Will had infiltrated Templars' upper echelons. When Berg confronted the Skunkworks employee and secret Instrument Heinrich Hart, he detonated an Endgame grenade with a blast strength of 0.25 kilotonnes.[1]
A year later, at Abstergo's facility in Australia on Resurrection Day, Berg detonated another Endgame grenade to destroy the lab after Charlotte de la Cruz had assassinated the recently-revived Juno, killing everyone left behind, including Charlotte.[4]
Employees
Former employees
- Heinrich Hart† – Developmental engineer[1]
Products
Behind the scenes
The company name and its nature as an arms subsidiary are likely allusions to the American arms company Lockheed Martin and its research and development branch Advanced Development Programs, also known by the official pseudonym Skunk Works. In American slang, the term "skunkworks project" refers to a small, loosely-structured group of people in a larger organization who are given significant autonomy to do innovative research.
Gallery
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Berg finding a pair of Skunkworks goggles -
Hart using the electric whip -
Hart using the Endgame grenade
Appearances
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Issue #2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide (2nd ed.) – Chapter 8: Modern-Day: "The Abstergo Conglomerate"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Issue #1
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Issue #12