Having spent years nurturing his hatred for Thomas Edison and his Templar companions, Nikola Tesla received a visit from the Assassin Brotherhood. They sought aid in foiling a Templar plot to exploit the properties of another Piece of Eden, known as the Staff, which was being held at a compound in Tunguska, Russia. Tesla agreed, and from Wardenclyffe Tower, his recently foreclosed facility in Long Island, he activated a powerful electrical weapon that traversed the globe, wiping out the Templar research compound, almost completely destroying the staff and killing everyone on site, except for the Assassin Nikolai Orelov.