on "the Farm", where he grew up in secrecy among other Assassins, and his father's harsh training, which eventually prompted him to run away on his 16th birthday, due to not wanting to live the life his parents had chosen for him. After running into some girls from Illinois who drove him to Chicago, Desmond eventually moved to New York, where he got a job at a high-end bar, but always regretted not being able to properly say goodbye to his parents. Eventually, Abstergo found and kidnapped him in September 2012, at which point Desmond blamed himself for not taking his parents' warnings and training more seriously. In the present, Desmond realizes that his easiest days are now behind him and finally accepts his role as an Assassin. After reliving the memories of Ezio in Constantinopole from 1511 to 1512, the Animus begins to delete Animus Island to get rid of excess data. Clay sacrifices himself to prevent Desmond's consciousness from being deleted, but not before transferring his own genetic memories onto him. Eventually, Desmond is able to find the Synch Nexus: the moment Ezio reached Altaïr's library underneath Masyaf Castle and acknowledged Desmond's presence before unlocking a message from the Isu Jupiter through Altaïr's own Apple of Eden. Jupiter reveals that the Great Catastrophe which ended the Isu was a solar flare that hit the Earth, and directs Desmond to find the Grand Temple, where the Isu have stored most of the data collected over the years, so that he may save humanity before another solar flare occurs in several weeks. Following this, Desmond awakens from his coma to find Shaun, Rebecca, and William next to him, and simply states that he knows what they have to do. The Lost Archive downloadable content for Revelations expands upon Desmond's time in the Black Room, as he involuntarily experiences Clay's memories prior to the latter's death. Through these memories, he learns that Lucy was in fact a double agent for the Templars, and that his escape from Abstergo was staged as part of "Project Siren". In reality, Vidic had ordered Lucy to extract Desmond to a place where he would feel safe so that he would willingly enter the Animus and facilitate the search for Ezio's Apple of Eden, which Abstergo planned to send to space via satellite in an effort to enslave all of humanity. However, this plan came to