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.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Pearl Attaway
Storylines
Part 6 of 7 in Sequence 5: The Perils of Business
Good to know
- Sequence 5, memory 6 of 7; global story order 20; played as Jacob Frye.
- Giver: Pearl Attaway.
- Target: Malcolm Millner, who runs Starrick's omnibus company.
- Optional objectives: do not touch the River Thames; sabotage 2 contraband boats at once.
- The title refers to the phrase coined to describe natural selection.
- Follows Research and Development, and End of the Line picks up the fallout.
Objectives
Share champagne with Attaway, then cross the river to Millner's boats. Use crates of dynamite to destroy the contraband on board; setting off two at once covers the optional objective, and hopping boat to boat without falling in covers the other. Infiltrate the docks and assassinate Millner, then follow Attaway into a warehouse.
Tips
The river is full of moving steamboats and barges to use as platforms. Stay on decks and rooftops so you never touch the water.
What happensSpoilerShow
Millner's last words hint that Attaway and Starrick are family. In the warehouse Jacob overhears them: Attaway is Starrick's cousin and a Templar, used Jacob to remove Millner, and plans to return the engines to Starrick via Waterloo station.
Before the job
Attaway pours champagne for a toast to their partnership and her new engines, then tells Jacob that Millner has fled to the Thames to protect his ferry business, the last thing he owns. Jacob notices it is not her first glass of the day.
The warehouse meetingSpoilerShow
Starrick calls Attaway's sentimentality unbecoming, and she snaps that she has heard that word from men all her life. She promises the engines will be returned and that her motorised buses will help him; they part with a Templar blessing about the Father of Understanding.
- Crawford StarrickCrawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
- 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.
- 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
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.
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.
- Image: UbisoftStory
One Good Deed
One Good Deed has Evie protect omnibus builder Ed Bayley in Southwark, where Blighters want to force him to build buses for them now that Attaway and Millner are gone. You fight off a chase, then steal his factory deed back from a gang leader.