Editing Desmond Miles (section)

== Postmortem and legacy==

:''"I had this colleague. He was our boss's son. I didn't much care for him at the start. Everyone treated him like he was so bloody special. To me, he just wasn't invested in anything that didn't affect him personally. But, I was wrong about him. He became my friend. Put himself through hell. And he saved us all in the end. So I reckon... Well, I can't apologize to him, but I can, I don't know. I can try and live up to his example."''
:―Shaun Hastings reflecting on Desmond, 2015.

Desmond's body was eventually discovered by Abstergo several hours after his death, and an immediate autopsy was performed, with various DNA samples being extracted in the process. Case Fisher, the lead of Abstergo Sample Recovery Unit 3, noted that aside from a severely burned arm and fused bones in the right hand, Desmond's body was in good condition.

Upon completion of the autopsy, Desmond's body was removed, while his bag and personal items were collected for further analysis. His genetic memories were uploaded to the Abstergo Cloud.

Within a year, Desmond's memories were being exploited by Abstergo Entertainment, the multimedia branch of Abstergo Industries, for use in the Sample 17 Project. Many of his ancestors' memories were subsequently explored by Abstergo Entertainment's researchers, including the memories of the sheep farmer Bernard Kenway, and his son Edward - the father of Haytham, and grandfather of Ratonhnhaké:ton.

Data from Desmond's mobile phone was also recovered by Abstergo Entertainment, and stored on their servers. This data included photos of the team and voice memos directed towards his father, revealing Desmond's feelings of regret over leaving the Farm and his acceptance of the role that he had been chosen to play.

By 2015, an Assassin surveillance drone was named in honor of Desmond, alongside other drones, all named after fallen Assassins, and used during the missions coordinated by Bishop. The 'Desmond' drone was later destroyed by Templar Juhani Otso Berg beneath the Buckingham Palace vault during the chase for the Shroud of Eden.

Approximately two years after fleeing the Assassins Desmond met a woman with whom he unknowingly sired a son. In 2015 Elijah's mother brought the child to an Abstergo clinic in New York, being unaware of the company's affiliation with, or even the existence of, the Templars. Through analysing the his lineage, Abstergo learned of the boy's parentage; further analysis also revealed that the child was also a Sage. Although Dr. Álvaro Gramática wanted to kidnap the boy and dissect him for experimentation, Isabelle Ardant planned to abduct Elijah when he was older and put him into an Animus for fifty years, so she could study the genetic memories of both his ancestors and Aita. Elijah eventually became a leading member of the Instruments of the First Will only to later betray them. Afterwards, Elijah helped the Assassins in defeating Juno.

By August 2020, Desmond's mind had spent eight years in the Grey. In his time there he was transformed into a being of light calling himself "The Reader". The Assassin Layla Hassan entered the Grey via the Isu simulation device Yggdrasil to find a way to slow the magnetism of the global aurora borealis device. Layla showed the Reader more possibilities and calculations based on timelines he had not explored. The reader then told Layla she had a minute to live as the radiation from the chamber was killing her physical body. Layla then decided to stay in the Grey with the Reader and explore more timelines.