Juno

Juno (75,111 BCE-2018 CE) was an Isu scientist, member of the Capitoline Triad, and the leader of the Instruments of the First Will.

Biography
Juno was born in 2195 of the Isu Era in Feyan to Saturn, a famous scientist. Juno followed in her father’s footsteps and became a scientist herself. At an unknown point, Juno came across the abandoned lab of Consus and discovered that he had transferred his consciousness into his prototype Shroud of Eden. Juno then informed Consus of the creation of humans and in return Consus taught her all that he knew. Juno used this information in conjunction with her own theories and grew famous due to her innovations, she also mentored Atlas, the son of the noble Poseidon who used the information to unite the districts of Atlantis and crowned himself king. Juno eventually married Aita, another scientist who designed and oversaw the Observatory, and the couple moved to Atlantis due to its thriving scientific community. The pair then started the Olympos Project in order to mutate humans into monstrosities in order to create a security force and a more powerful military. The couple and their subordinates kept the nature of the project a secret due to the new dikastes Aletheia who was making new laws that mandated the equal treatment of humans and Isu and in order to keep the funding from the Atlantean government. The project hit a standstill due to the high price of human slaves and began hiring the slaver Xarios to kidnap free humans and force them to become subjects. Aletheia discovered the secrets of the Olympos Project and arrested all involved, and although she wanted to imprison Juno and Aita, pressure from the Archons of Atlantis resulted in the couple being banished with the other scientists imprisoned and Xarios was executed for his crimes. Juno and Aita then returned to Feyan and lived with Saturn. Juno later discovered that a solar flare would hit the Earth with two other scientists named Minerva and Jupiter and the trio brought it to the attention to the Sister Realms who held a meeting in Atlantis, however the meeting was not productive and as such the group decided to bring matters into their own hands and created the Capitoline Triad to make solutions. One day while Minerva was visiting Juno to discuss solutions for the disaster, the two began having a conversation about humans with Saturn. As they were speaking, a slave grabbed Saturn’s Scythe of Eden and stabbed Saturn in the head and moved to attack Juno, however Juno grabbed the Koh-i-Noor and killed all the humans in the area. This event and her banishment from Atlantis made Juno despise humanity, with her seeing that they were too dangerous to be left alone and must be controlled for their own good. The triad then made vaults and temples to research solutions and created the Grand Temple in Eries, before sealing themselves and Aita in to begin creating solutions. The scientists went through several solutions and used the Eye in order to test them. One of the solutions was to augment the bodies of the Isu to survive, and Aita volunteered to test it. Aita’s modified body began to grow catatonic and before he became comatose he pleaded with Juno to end his suffering. Juno then used the Nexus to manipulate the DNA of humanity so that a reincarnation of Aita known as a Sage would appear and Aita could live forever, Aita agreed to this and Juno then stabbed Aita in the chest killing him instantly and drove Juno to madness. Juno then began using the Eye to manipulate factors so that humanity would never inherit the Earth, however she was discovered by Minerva and Jupiter who imprisoned her consciousness in the Grey, the Grand Temple’s network. Juno then manipulated the device that would save the planet so that it would free her. Minerva and Jupiter discovered this and reasoned that the Isu would eventually die out, however humanity would survive no matter what happened and as such they refused to activate the device. Juno then used the eye to create various holographic messages to put her plan into motion. Minerva then destroyed the Eye to stop Juno, however Juno accessed the new eye Minerva made and continued to create messages. In 1769 CE, a Mohawk youth named Ratonhnhake:ton used a crystal ball which allowed him to enter the Nexus where a message from Juno awaited him. Juno told Ratonhnhake:ton to join the Assassins which he later did. Years later, Ratonhnhake:ton, now using the name Connor and having become the Mentor of the Colonial Brotherhood, used the crystal ball again and met with Juno who told him to hide the amulet he had gotten from eliminating the Templars in place that no one would find (Juno knew that Connor’s descendant, Desmond Miles, was reliving Connor’s memories in order to find the amulet which functioned as a key to access the device that would prevent the disaster which would happen again in 2012 CE). In 2012 CE the Assassin Clay Kaczmarek was undercover as Subject 16 of the Animus Project started by Abstergo Industries, a front for the Templars, was met by a message from Juno. Juno told Clay that his purpose was to help Desmond, however Clay refused until Juno used the Nexus to show Clay that Lucy Stillman- another Assassin who was undercover as an Abstergo scientist on the Animus Project- was a Templar sleeper agent and a plethora other information throughout history which drove him insane and caused Clay to commit suicide and leave messages of blood for Desmond to find. Later in the year, Juno contacted Desmond who was exploring the Colosseum with his team of Assassins in search of a vault underneath it and began to inform Desmond of the impending disaster. When Desmond obtained the Apple of Eden in the middle of the vault, Juno possessed him forcing him to kill Lucy who was in his group and showing him visions of what would happen if he didn’t before relinquishing control. Later, Juno met Desmond and his group in the Grand Temple and guided them to find the amulet and informed Desmond about the failed solutions the Capitoline Triad had come up with. After Desmond and his team found the amulet and entered the chamber to the device, Minerva interrupted them and told the group of Juno’s intentions. Juno and Minerva then showed them that if they activated the device that Juno would be free to conquer humanity and they didn’t then the cycle of history would repeat with them instead of the Isu. Desmond then reasoned that humanity would be able to unite and defeat Juno, and that it would be better if he activated the device. Minerva’s hologram disappeared and Desmond’s group left, and Desmond activated the device and saved the world but let Juno free and died in the process. Later a team of Abstergo agents entered the temple, found Desmond’s body and began an autopsy, all the while Juno inhabited their equipment and then entered the Internet. Juno later met John Standish, an IT specialist at Abstergo Entertainment, a Sage, and leader of the Instruments of the First Will (a cult that worshiped the Isu and was working to help Juno conquer humanity). The two then made plans to help Juno get a new body. In 2013, John tricked Jesse Schmidt, an Abstergo Entertainment employee, to allow Juno to enter the server and later sent Jesse down to the server in order for Juno to possess him, however Juno was too weak to do so and vanished, enraging John who was later shot to death by Abstergo guards when he attacked Jesse. In 2014, Juno attempted to possess Medeya Voronina, an Assassin scientist who had gone insane due to a powersurge while using the Animus, and furthered her insanity. Galina Voronina, Medeya’s daughter, found Medeya in the Animus yelling about the memories of Juno that she was relieving and Galina killed her mother out of mercy while Juno vanished from the laboratory. Later, Juno contacted several Templars such as Violet de Costa and indoctrinated them into the Instruments and turned the Phoenix Project into one that would make a new body for Juno. Juno later contacted a Helix Initiate named Alexia Johnson who was reliving the memories of twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye. Juno opened a new memory of Lydia Frye, Jacob’s granddaughter, which involved Lydia battling a German Spy Master who founded the Instruments and told Johnson about her history in an attempt to get Johnson to join the Instruments, however this attempt failed. Later Violet contacted Juno and informed her that she was in possession of a Shroud of Eden which was needed to create Juno’s new body. Later, the Instruments stormed Alvaro Gramatica’s lab in Australia which served as the headquarters of the Phoenix Project and forced him to help them create Juno’s body, which he did happily. The Instruments then brought Elijah Redmond, Desmond’s son and a Sage, and Gramatica took some of Elijah’s bone-marrow to accelerate the process. Juno possessed the body and bonded with it in the tank. While Juno’s body was preparing to finish she saw a vision of Consus who mocked her and told her that the Assassin Charlotte de la Cruz and a joint team of Assassins and Templars would defeat her which Juno disregarded. Juno exited the tank and tested her powers. Charlotte and the team then attacked the base and fought with Instruments and Juno. Juno and Charlotte began dueling, however Elijah grabbed the Koh-i-Noor to create an illusion that distracted Juno which allowed Charlotte to sneak behind Juno and stab her in the throat killing her. Juno’s body was destroyed when Juhani Otso Berg, the leader of the Templar portion of the group, detonated the lab.

Legacy
Juno was revered by the Romans, Greeks, and Etruscans as the goddess of love, marriage, family, and childbirth.

Locations

 * Gramatica’s Lab, North Territory, Australia
 * Feyan, Upper Africana, Isu Empire (Formerly)
 * Atlantis, Sister Realms, East Europa, Isu Empire (Formerly)
 * The Grey (Formerly)