Operation: Drive for Lives
Operation: Drive for Lives is the third Queen Victoria memory: the Templar leader has escaped and is believed to be hiding in Westminster. You trail his carriage to Victoria Station, then have to rush a lit cart of explosives away from the crowds.
- Type
- Side
- Given by
- Queen Victoria
- Region
- Westminster
Storylines
Part 3 of 4 in Queen Victoria's London Stories
Found in
- Buckingham PalaceBuckingham Palace is Queen Victoria's London home in Westminster and the setting for the climax of Syndicate's story, the Queen's ball. It is also where the Queen hands out the Operation side memories, and it has a viewpoint.
- Victoria stationVictoria station is a Westminster railway terminus south of Buckingham Palace. In Double Trouble, Jacob comes here after Catherine Gladstone, who is under guard, while gathering invitations to the Queen's ball.
- WestminsterWestminster is the seat of power in Syndicate's London: Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street, the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey all stand here. The Templar Lilla Graves, a prize fighter known as the Bludger, holds it in 1868, and the Devil's Acre slum sits right beside the grand buildings.
Good to know
- Queen Victoria memory 3 of 4, playable as Jacob or Evie.
- The Queen briefs you in the Buckingham Palace gardens, which she says her late husband loved.
- Full synchronisation: reach a safe place in less than 80 seconds.
- Next is Operation: Westminster.
- Fleming had learned from the prisoner that an attack was imminent shortly before the man escaped.
What you do
Find the leader driving a carriage and follow him so he leads you to his group. At Victoria Station he orders his men to take explosives to a safe house and drives off ahead. With too many people around, you let him go and hijack the explosives carriage. A Templar sets the cargo alight, so drive it somewhere clear of civilians and jump out before it blows.
Objectives
Meet the Queen in the garden, find and tail the Templar leader to Victoria Station, steal the explosives carriage, drive it to a safe area and get out before it explodes.
Outcome
The leader gets away again, but the explosives detonate without hurting anyone.
Tips
Full sync gives you 80 seconds to get the burning carriage to a safe place, so pick the shortest route away from the station crowds, ignore any pursuers and jump clear as soon as you arrive.
The Templars at the station
The leader brushes off his capture as a temporary setback, and one of his men teases him for getting pinched. He orders them to take the explosives to a safe house and wait for his signal while he scouts the target. When you take the carriage, a Templar lights the cargo, saying that if they cannot blow up a building, an Assassin will do.
Related missions
- Side
Operation: Dynamite Boat
Operation: Dynamite Boat is the first Queen Victoria memory: a ship of Templars is bringing dynamite from Boston up the Thames, and you help Alfred Fleming's secret service ambush it. Afterwards you catch the faction's fleeing leader alive.
- Side
Operation: Locomotive
Operation: Locomotive is the second Queen Victoria memory: the Templar prisoner will not talk to Fleming, so the Queen sends you to get answers. A short fight gets you the details of a train packed with dynamite heading for a crowded station, and you have to stop it.
- Side
Operation: Westminster
Operation: Westminster is the last Queen Victoria memory: the remaining Templar bombers have got into the Houses of Parliament with their explosives. You work through the building with Fleming, removing bombers one by one, then deal with the leader and defuse the charges.
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A Night to Remember is the final main memory: the twins enter the Queen's ball at Buckingham Palace, Evie retrieves the vault plans from the White Drawing Room while Jacob rescues captive Royal Guards on the roofs, and both face Crawford Starrick in the vault below.