User blog comment:SpaceKat/assassin's creed in general/@comment-187.32.127.181-20120411044356/@comment-4636255-20120413061021

Hey this conversation's a bit too long. Continue it on a new comment after this (can't scroll this much).

To answer the rest of your questions, Subject 16 himself says that Abstergo's Animus is 'primitive'. So it can't depict Eagle Vision/Sense properly. So truthfully no one knows when Altaïr developed Eagle Sense, but it's likely that he gotit early (Database says that he started training himself in it's use since childhood.

Abstergo does know about the Catastrophe, (see Abstergo Files), but it states that this isn't the "End of the World" but just cycles of change. They plan to sent a solar flare-proof satellite up there on 21 Dec, and must have some plan on hiding themselves. About a thousand humans survived the First Disaster, Abstergo plans to be one of these for the Second Disaster as well.