Abstergo Industries Australia facility

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The Abstergo Industries Australia facility was a secret complex belonging to Abstergo Industries located in Australia's desert and led by the Inner Sanctum member Dr. Álvaro Gramática.

History

On 13 October 2014, the Assassins Shaun Hastings and Galina Voronina attacked Abstergo's facility in Paris, France, destroying the facility, its Phoenix Project samples from the late Sage John Standish, and the original Shroud of Eden that held the captive consciousness of the Isu scientist Consus. By December, Dr. Gramática was relocated to the new Australia location, both for his own safety and in an attempt to restart the Project from scratch, though he despaired at the thought because so much critical research and samples were lost. His premonitions proved right when he had no significant progress on the Project over the next year, a fact he bitterly resented.

When fellow Sanctum member Isabelle Ardant arrived on 25 September 2015, she told him that the Indian Assassin Arbaaz Mir—whom the Templars had information on from the Brahman V.R. in 2013—had fathered the British Assassin Henry Green, who later came into contact with another Shroud of Eden once worn by the British Templars' Grand Master Crawford Starrick back in the Victorian era. Ecstatic at another lead, he demanded she call the Master Templar Juhani Otso Berg to begin a search for it immediately. Almost a month later, on 14 October, Dr. Gramática revealed to a visiting Ardant that an Abstergo clinic had contacted the facility with the genealogical results of the late Desmond Miles' son Elijah and identified him as a Sage, thus providing the Templars with another chance to restart the Project.

By August 2018, Gramática was in charge of and secluded in the facility, with only him and Otso Berg knowing its location. Happily alone, the doctor was surprised by the Templar traitor Violet da Costa, who led the Instruments of the First Will there along with the child Elijah and their captive, André Bolden. Forced, Dr. Gramática worked alongside da Costa to finish a clone for Juno's consciousness to inhabit. With the Shroud of Eden acting as an accelerant to the clone's growth and the stem cells also forcibly taken from Elijah, the body was nearly completed. The next day, the Instruments readied themselves for Otso Berg's arrival while Violet and Jasdip Dhami checked on the doctor's work for Juno's body. Meanwhile, Richmond took care of Elijah after his surgery but Elijah secretly gained access around the facility.

Inhabiting the new body, Juno demanded the doctor to release her. Meanwhile, Elijah locked the room Richmond took him to as he held a screwdriver in his hand. While Richmond tried to override the door, Elijah stabbed him in the neck for his role of killing his mother. Meanwhile, Violet and Jasdip welcomed Berg at the front door and surrounded him with their Instruments. However, the Assassin Galina Voronina shot her sniper rifle at Dhami's head while Berg killed incoming Instruments. Bringing down the onslaught, the Assassins Arend Schut-Cunningham and Kiyoshi Takakura launched their missiles and took out the entrance's guards. Together, they all infiltrated the facility.

The Assassin Charlotte de la Cruz ventured through the facility's sole air vent and witnessed Juno attack Dr. Gramática. Trying to assassinate her, Charlotte was instead caught by the Isu and immobilized. Elijah came and used the Koh-i-Noor to create visions to lead de la Cruz's allies to them. Together, Elijah and Charlotte put Juno in a trance, which made her believe she killed her attackers but was confronted by Consus. In truth, the Templars and Assassins witnessed Juno use her powers aimlessly and brought down the lab around them, which also effectively killed Dr. Gramática.

Juno barely snapped out of the vision and asked Elijah for help. However, Charlotte assassinated her while Elijah left Charlotte behind with Juno's body. The Instruments planned one last attempt against the Templars and Assassins, but were then surrounded by Abstergo's Templar agents. Violet, disarmed, was then shot by Berg, who planted a Skunkworks bomb in the facility and blew it up. The explosion destroyed the Phoenix project samples, the Precursor box inside, and killed Charlotte, though Elijah had left the facility and escaped into the outback with the Koh-i-Noor.

Gallery

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  Dr. Gramática at the Australia facility
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  Violet da Costa and Dr. Gramática work together
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  The Instruments await Berg's arrival
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  Elijah spies on Dr. Gramática's work on Juno
• Berg explodes the facility
  Berg explodes the facility

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (first mentioned) (mentioned in Database entry only) (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Uprising