-Present Day-
Who ever thought this would be possible? To be able to access to one's memories so easily?
Years of research in the Abstergo science and engineering labs came down to a simple airport modem and a fully functional "cloud" network. The D.N.A researcher still couldn't believe how such a light and small electronic device, no bigger than an external hard-drive, could grant access to the terabytes of genetic data they gathered from their subjects so far. All it needed was to be hooked up to a power socket, and of course, a virtual reality desktop computer. Aside from a few system hiccups and bugs, the program and network were fully functional. And the young female scientist couldn't wait to get started. Of course, only after she was finally done going through the pile of files and reports.
That was one of the drawbacks of working in the "Abstergo Data and Network Analysis Department", which was just another cover up for their genetic research division. She was given a simple task by her supervisor: watch and analyze the memories from one of their subjects, and look for a specific event. That also meant the scientist had to read and be familiar with every little detail in the subject's file. She read page after page of information on her computer: historical data, dialogue decryption, security reports, not that she needed to read much of the latter in the first place. The latest test subject had been the topic of Abertergo's social network for months now. She even remembered the night Warren Vidic's death was posted on the company's page. That post got more "likes" than the kitten pictures some airhead uploaded every day.
After what seemed hours, the female scientist smiled when she reached the final pages of the "memories and ancestry" section. Thanks to the Animus data acquired by the subject's Assassin allies, they were spared a lot of time on looking for that information themselves. The female scientist read the biographies and information of the ancestors they gathered so far. The subject's ancestors seemed to come from everywhere: Syria, Mongolia, Rome, Italy, England... The most recent found ancestor was even a Native American. Talk about a cocktail of origins. Either way, this latest individual's biography was incomplete. Much to the female scientist's disappointment, there is no indication on this ancestor's life after his involvement in the American Revolution. Odd... She remembered seeing a woman with the ancestor in a few of the DNA memory screenshots, dating a few months after the English left American territory. The scientist leaned back in her chair and whipped her eyes. Hours of scanning long pdf files of text and images was getting to her. But at last, she was done with her homework. Now, onto the fun part. Closing the data files, she opened her desktop and clicked on a cloud logo with the Abstergo symbol in it- good thing it was only a temporary one; it looked ridiculous. She entered her ID number, her passwords and her clearance codes and opened her desired file. More than 4 hours of video were in there. She sighed. This was clearly going to take a while. She quickly got up and walked to the expresso machine outside of her office. She might as well have some coffee to go with it.
Now playing Subject 17 memories...