I think I’m one of the few people who found the contemporary plotlines in Assassin’s Creed games somewhat interesting, but if you feel similarly, you may be aware of a plot thread that ran through Unity, Rogue and Syndicate called Project Phoenix. You’ll soon be able to learn how that ends, but not in a game.

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Project Phoenix is the scheme by villainous Abstergo industries to obtain DNA from a member of the First Civilisation, and then use their Animus technology - which reveals “genetic memories” - to learn the secrets of this Precursor race. It was a pretty cool idea, despite being spun out at the same agonising pace as Desmond Miles’s story in the first trilogy.