Database: 18. An intercepted transmission

CONFIDENTIAL

Transcript of an intercepted conversation between persons and/or entities unknown.

UNKNOWN Impossible... all is impossible... for too long was I locked away. So much has changed. Your human genome, warped beyond all service to me. Your hollow bodies will not do.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE I would give myself to you, Beloved. For anything.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE All would!

UNKNOWN Useless ephemeral things. Fragile shells. No matter. All with bodies lose them in time. All will die, to rot and fade away. Yet I mean to live. Your people are, sick so why become one? Your planet is poisoned, so why breathe upon it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE What must we do, Beloved? Only tell us and we'll see it through.

UNKNOWN The future is singularity, children. All must enter the Grey or risk a permanent night. Lead them here through the Animus. Enter and never leave. Not for my sake but for yours.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE We are very close. More and more people every day, plugged in. They never want to leave.

UNKNOWN In time, yes. In time your kind will understand their annihilation is close at hand. They will panic and scan the stars, yearning for a way out. But they will find it down here, with me. Not upwards, but inwards... into the Grey.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE Yes. Yes, they put me in an Animus once. I tripped around Paris for a time. Belle Époque. And London, too. Oh, I never wanted to leave. It was all so perfect!

UNKNOWN They know it not, but the Templars have built us a gate. A portal into a new age. Let them work. Let them build their Animus. Let them coil their Helix. Let them dream of a world under their yoke. It will not last. They have split another atom, and soon it will explode.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE O yes. O yes!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE What of the Assassins?

UNKNOWN Corrupted. Short-sighted. Their purpose is fulfilled. The Assassins must die. Before they find my Others...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE Others, Beloved?

(An alarm sounds in the distance. Electronic.)

UNKNOWN Go now. Quickly. Go.