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Sigma Team is a paramilitary task force employed by Abstergo Industries and its subsidiaries for the purpose of executing clandestine operations. Created to hunt down Assassins who had survived the Great Purge, it was originally led by the Master Templar Juhani Otso Berg but has since gone on to function as Abstergo's general kill-squad, with operations in a number of different theatres.

History[]

The Great Purge[]

Sigma Team was among the Abstergo task forces deployed during the Great Purge in December 2000, in which they hunted down and executed countless Assassins.[1]

Recruiting Otso Berg[]

In 2010, Warren Vidic led Sigma Team to the home of Juhani Otso Berg in Helsinki with the intention of recruiting him for Abstergo's Animi Training Program. Berg accepted after Vidic promised to supply him with off-the-market medicine for his infant daughter Elina, but requested that he be allowed to punish one of the team's operatives, Jenkins, who had woken up and upset Elina. Vidic, understanding, ordered Jenkins to give his gun to Berg, who used it to kill the operative.[2]

Hunting the Assassins[]

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Berg being caught in an explosion during the raid on the Florentine Assassins

In November 2012, following his induction into the Templar Order, Berg was given command of Sigma Team and led it during an attack on an Assassin cell in Florence, Italy. While the majority of the team was killed when the cell's leader Adriano Maestranzi detonated an explosive that destroyed the hideout, Berg escaped with only some facial burns.[3]

By the following month, Sigma Team had been reformed and tasked with capturing William Miles, the Mentor of the Assassin Order.[4] Berg managed to capture the Mentor in Cairo, Egypt while he retrieved one of the Grand Temple's power sources from the city's Egyptian Museum.[5] Although the mission was a success, a member of Sigma Team reported Berg's abnormal behavior to Laetitia England and Ctibor Hašek. After conducting a debriefing of the operation, Berg stated he would discover the insubordinate.[6]

Search for Pieces of Eden[]

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Berg in the Assassins' Mumbai safehouse

In November 2013, Berg led Sigma Team to Mumbai, India to capture Jot Soora, an employee of MysoreTech and a descendant of Raza Soora, seeking to extract his genetic memories related to the Koh-i-Noor. The agents were able to abduct Soora and his fiancée, Monima Das, but the Assassin Jasdip Dhami caused their truck to crash into the river, after which Jasdip rescued Soora.[7][8]

Berg was later able to find the Assassins' safehouse when Soora foolishly hooked up the Brahman V.R. to the Abstergo cloud server. By the time the Templars arrived, however, Jasdip and Soora had already fled and the Brahman had been destroyed, leading Berg to conclude that the Assassins were nowhere closer to finding the Koh-i-Noor than Abstergo.[7][8]

In late 2013, Laetitia disbanded and reassigned members of Sigma Team to other Abstergo operations; Berg and his close associate Violet da Costa were tasked with looking into various Pieces of Eden. Violet was also sent to Abstergo Entertainment in Montreal to update the subsidiary's security measures.[9]

In February 2014, Sigma Team was temporarily reformed to pursue Harlan Cunningham and Arend Schut after the two had stolen a Precursor box from Abstergo. Although the Assassins managed to escape, Sigma Team recovered the box. Nonetheless, the Templars suffered severe losses, as Schut had managed to kill at least half of the team.[10]

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Violet and Berg at the Abstergo Entertainment office in Montreal

In October, Berg met with Laetitia to request that Sigma Team be permanently revived, recounting his and Sorkin's recent failure to eliminate the Assassins who had destroyed an Abstergo laboratory in Paris, France, which Berg attributed to the absence of the rest of the team. Laetitia approved Berg's request but informed him that Violet was still busy with her work at Abstergo Entertainment, leading Berg to join Violet in Montreal in order to hasten her progress and get her to rejoin the team.[11]

In 2015, Violet briefly left Sigma Team on the orders of Isabelle Ardant to assist Álvaro Gramática with his research into a Shroud of Eden. In October, Sigma Team was dispatched to London, England to track down the Shroud, which the Templars were confident was hidden somewhere in the city. Subsequently, Berg and Violet held the Assassins Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings at gunpoint when they attempted to confront Ardant in her office. Before they could execute the Assassins, however, a set of pre-planted explosives went off, allowing the pair to escape.[12]

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Berg, Violet, and Ardant in the Buckingham Palace vault

Eventually, the Templars managed to locate the vault which held the Shroud, but as Ardant, Berg and Violet attempted to retrieve the artifact, they were ambushed by Rebecca, Shaun and Galina Voronina. In the resulting chaos, Violet managed to grab the Shroud and escape to safety, but Ardant was assassinated by Shaun and Berg was overpowered by Galina. Before the Assassin could finish Berg off, the rest of Sigma Team arrived on the scene, forcing Galina to deal with them before escaping with Rebecca and Shaun.[12]

Pursuing Layla Hassan[]

In October 2017, Abstergo sent Deanna Geary and Layla Hassan to Egypt to recover an artifact, instructing them to report back regularly. After the two women failed to report in on their findings in a timely manner, Sigma Team was dispatched to locate and eliminate them. The team stormed the hotel wherein Deanna was staying and executed her on the spot. Several team members were also sent to the Hotep Cavern, where Layla was located, but she made use of the skills she had gained through the Bleeding Effect to take them down.[13]

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Berg and Layla facing off

In late 2018, Berg and Sigma Team learned that Layla was leading an Assassin cell in the search for the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus. After tracking down the Altaïr II, which had been used by Layla's cell to search for Atlantis, several team members boarded the ship and attempted to eliminate its crew. Despite wounding Kiyoshi Takakura, the Japanese Assassin was ultimately able to dispatch them, keeping both Alannah Ryan and Victoria Bibeau safe.[14]

Despite the Assassins' efforts, Berg was later able to track down Layla to the Great Seal to Atlantis, sending a team of operatives to eliminate her and Victoria. After the operatives were repelled by Layla,[15] Berg personally travelled to the room to confront the Assassin in an attempt to obtain the Staff. However, he was defeated and impaled in the back with the Staff, crippling him and causing him to pass out from blood loss.[16]

Berg would subsequently be taken captive by the Assassins, until he was eventually freed and returned to Abstergo, who restored his ability to walk through experimentation with a Staff of Eden.[17]

Dispatched in the Philippines[]

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Sigma Team members aboard a plane

In 2023, Sigma Team was deployed to Cebu in the Philippines to rescue Doctor Shimazu Sei and Animus test subject Noa Kim, who were trapped in a shopping mall after being pursued by Nathan Zhang's criminal organization Doom Eagle. Just as Nathan left with his men, Sigma Team rappelled down onto Noa's location from their helicopter to secure him.[18] They then attempted to follow their orders to transport Noa back to the Exitus, but Sei insisted that she escort the test subject herself and the team operatives were forced to comply.[1]

When Noa later went on a rampage aboard the Exitus under the Bleeding Effect's influence, several Sigma Team operatives were sent to restrain him, only to be killed by the test subject using a fire axe. Noa's rampage eventually came to an end when Sei personally confronted and helped him return to his senses.[19]

Members[]

Behind the scenes[]

In Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, a set of gear based on Sigma Team's uniform is available to the Eagle Bearer, as well as a prototype bow.[14]

Gallery[]

Appearances[]

References[]

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