Research and Development
Research and Development is a train heist: Pearl Attaway wants the internal combustion engines Millner is shipping, so Jacob breaks Ned Wynert out of a police convoy and uses a second train to rob Millner's cargo on the move.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Pearl Attaway
Storylines
Part 5 of 7 in Sequence 5: The Perils of Business
Good to know
- Sequence 5, memory 5 of 7; global story order 19; played as Jacob Frye, with Ned Wynert and a crew of Rooks.
- Giver: Pearl Attaway.
- Target cargo: Millner's internal combustion engines.
- Optional objectives: do not kill a single policeman from the convoy; detach the 2 reinforcement wagons.
- Ned insists he prefers people owing him, not the other way round.
Objectives
Visit Attaway's moving carriage to get the delivery details. Find the police convoy taking Ned in and hijack his carriage without killing officers. With Ned, steal a train and pull alongside Millner's. Jump across, search the crates until you find the engines, detach the cargo wagon and defend Ned as the Rooks transfer the load.
Tips
Uncouple the reinforcement wagons as they approach to stop extra thugs reaching you. Check each crate quickly, since only one holds the engines.
Outcome
Jacob hands Attaway's document to Ned and tells him the engines go to his business partner, not to market. Ned is curious about Pearl, but Jacob tells him to mind his own business.
Jacob and Ned
Ned is annoyed to be rescued, since he prefers people owing him favours rather than the other way round, but he signs on once Jacob explains the job. Looking at the engine, Jacob calls it the end of horse-drawn transport, and Ned wonders aloud what the future is worth.
The briefing
Attaway calls internal combustion engines eight small syllables worth a great deal of money, and says Millner will be devastated to lose them. Jacob decides at once that the job needs a second train and a man who knows trains, which is why you go looking for Ned.
- Malcolm MillnerMalcolm Millner runs the Millner Company, the omnibus firm Starrick uses against Pearl Attaway. In Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate Jacob Frye wrecks his business for Pearl and then hunts him on the Thames in Survival of the Fittest.
- Ned WynertNed Wynert is an American crime boss who uses London's road, rail and river shipping as cover for theft. He is the twins' contact for cargo work: hijacking Blighter shipments and, once you have met him, the Ale Heist gang upgrade that adds ale carts to rob or escort.
- Pearl AttawayPearl Attaway is the owner of Attaway Transport, London's leading omnibus company, and a secret Templar who hires Jacob Frye to ruin her rival Malcolm Millner in Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is the target of the memory End of the Line at Waterloo station.
Related missions
- Story
Friendly Competition
Friendly Competition introduces Pearl Attaway, the omnibus owner competing with Starrick's Millner Company. Jacob finds her beside a burning bus, protects her fleet from Millner's raiders and then blows up Millner's own omnibuses in his storage yard.
- Story
Survival of the Fittest
Survival of the Fittest is the hit on Malcolm Millner: with the engines secured, Pearl Attaway sends Jacob to the Thames to sink Millner's smuggling boats and kill him at the docks. What Jacob overhears afterwards changes everything.
Image: UbisoftStoryEnd of the Line
End of the Line ends Sequence 5 at Waterloo station, where Jacob has to reach Pearl Attaway's fortified train carriage before Starrick's men collect the engines. You free a hostage station chief, clear the crowd and find a weak point in the carriage roof.
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Freedom of the Press
Freedom of the Press introduces Alexander Graham Bell, who turns Kaylock's broken launcher into the rope launcher on your gauntlet. As Evie you then test it on Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster, fitting fuses for Bell's independent telegraph line.