Resident Evil: Recovery
Prologue
By the year 2000, Umbrella Incorporated was the single largest pharmaceutical in history. But, unknown to it's consumers, or even the majority of it's millions of employees, most of Umbrellas profit came from viral and genetic research and military experiments.
One such experiment, the Umbrellas greatest legacy, and the brainchild of its founding members, was the 'Tyrant-Virus', more commonly referred to as simply the 'T-Virus'. The T-Virus was a mutagenic toxin that reanimated dead tissue, bringing the dead to life once again. While T-Virus research was being conducted around the world, the lead scientist on the project, Dr William Birkin, created the first successful strain at the Racoon City Hive Facility.
When the 'Red Queen', the AI computer that controlled the Hive detected a viral outbreak it initiated lock down procedures that involved killing all of the Hives workers. Unfortunately, the virus was soon at work on the staff, re-animating them but decaying their brains, leaving behind only the most basic of functions, turning them into, for lack of a better word, zombies.
For an unknown reason, however, it had failed to notify Umbrella Central Command about the incident. When they did learn about what happened, they had assumed the worst, that the Red Queen had gone homicidal, so they sent a RET (Retrieval and Elimination Team) to shut the Red Queen down. They succeeded in shutting the computer down, but in doing so released the zombies upon them. Totally unprepared, the team was slowly obliterated by the zombies and by a creature titled a licker, the result of injecting the virus straight into living tissue. No one is believed to have survived, but, according to Umbrella, the incident never happened.
The Red Queens defences weren't perfect. Somehow, the virus had managed to escape, and affected the mansion research facility on the surface as the new researchers moved in to reman the hive.
Later, after hearing reports of savage animal attacks in the Arklay Mountains, a Racoon City S.T.A.R.S. unit, Bravo team, was sent in to the mountainous area to search for missing hikers. When contact was lost with Bravo, Alpha team was sent in to search for Bravo team. Alpha was almost immediately attacked by what the survivors described as "Cerberus, the dog from hell". When their helicopter pilot abandoned them, they were forced to seek refuge in the mansion complex, unknown to what dangers lay ahead. After being attacked, the few survivors agreed to destroy the mansion and get out of there any way they could. Out of the ten people the only survivors were Chris Redfield, an ex Air Force officer and marksman, Jill Valentine, Alpha Teams demolitions expert, Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers. The survivors decided unanimously that Umbrella had to be brought down. They had no idea the worst was yet to come.
Not content with the T-Virus and having retaken the Hive, William Birkin, worked on it some more. Birkin started mutating the virus, and eventually created the most volatile of all, the G-Virus. When Birkin saw the potential in his new discovery, but not pleased with the money he was getting from Umbrella, he threatened to take his discovery elsewhere. Umbrella where not pleased. They sent a team to retrieve the new virus, at any costs.
Birkin, mortally wounded and having his legacy taken away from him, decided on the only course of action he could. Using the last sample of the virus he injected it straight into his body, hoping to benefit from the virus' unprecedented regenerative capabilities. Birkin got more then he bargained for. The virus took over his body and caused a complete and utter change in not only his physical, but mental, state. When he attacked the RET team he released the virus samples into the Racoon City sewer systems, thus infecting every man, women and child in the city. Later that week, two individuals both headed into Racoon City, neither having met before and both for different reasons.
Leon Scott Kennedy, a rookie cop recently hired by the RPD to deal with the growing zombie problem, and Claire Redfield, sister of Chris Redfield who came looking for him after he had disappeared, arrived in town as Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera, a member of the UBCS were fighting their way out of the city wide zombie menace. Leon and Claire met up after they were attacked by zombies and headed for the police station.
Though a long and complicated journey, Leon and Claire were able to successfully escape not only the city but also the second research facility, which also became overrun. But they were also able to rescue the only other Racoon City survivor, a young girl named Sherry Birkin, daughter of William.
When the US Government learnt about Racoon City they had the entire area quarantined. When they were informed by anonymous sources about Umbrellas involvement, the Government forced Umbrella to clean up the area. Umbrella has employed its very best RET operatives, with Government support, to go in and recover the city.
Prologue
By the year 2000, Umbrella Incorporated was the single largest pharmaceutical in history. But, unknown to it's consumers, or even the majority of it's millions of employees, most of Umbrellas profit came from viral and genetic research and military experiments.
One such experiment, the Umbrellas greatest legacy, and the brainchild of its founding members, was the 'Tyrant-Virus', more commonly referred to as simply the 'T-Virus'. The T-Virus was a mutagenic toxin that reanimated dead tissue, bringing the dead to life once again. While T-Virus research was being conducted around the world, the lead scientist on the project, Dr William Birkin, created the first successful strain at the Racoon City Hive Facility.
When the 'Red Queen', the AI computer that controlled the Hive detected a viral outbreak it initiated lock down procedures that involved killing all of the Hives workers. Unfortunately, the virus was soon at work on the staff, re-animating them but decaying their brains, leaving behind only the most basic of functions, turning them into, for lack of a better word, zombies.
For an unknown reason, however, it had failed to notify Umbrella Central Command about the incident. When they did learn about what happened, they had assumed the worst, that the Red Queen had gone homicidal, so they sent a RET (Retrieval and Elimination Team) to shut the Red Queen down. They succeeded in shutting the computer down, but in doing so released the zombies upon them. Totally unprepared, the team was slowly obliterated by the zombies and by a creature titled a licker, the result of injecting the virus straight into living tissue. No one is believed to have survived, but, according to Umbrella, the incident never happened.
The Red Queens defences weren't perfect. Somehow, the virus had managed to escape, and affected the mansion research facility on the surface as the new researchers moved in to reman the hive.
Later, after hearing reports of savage animal attacks in the Arklay Mountains, a Racoon City S.T.A.R.S. unit, Bravo team, was sent in to the mountainous area to search for missing hikers. When contact was lost with Bravo, Alpha team was sent in to search for Bravo team. Alpha was almost immediately attacked by what the survivors described as "Cerberus, the dog from hell". When their helicopter pilot abandoned them, they were forced to seek refuge in the mansion complex, unknown to what dangers lay ahead. After being attacked, the few survivors agreed to destroy the mansion and get out of there any way they could. Out of the ten people the only survivors were Chris Redfield, an ex Air Force officer and marksman, Jill Valentine, Alpha Teams demolitions expert, Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers. The survivors decided unanimously that Umbrella had to be brought down. They had no idea the worst was yet to come.
Not content with the T-Virus and having retaken the Hive, William Birkin, worked on it some more. Birkin started mutating the virus, and eventually created the most volatile of all, the G-Virus. When Birkin saw the potential in his new discovery, but not pleased with the money he was getting from Umbrella, he threatened to take his discovery elsewhere. Umbrella where not pleased. They sent a team to retrieve the new virus, at any costs.
Birkin, mortally wounded and having his legacy taken away from him, decided on the only course of action he could. Using the last sample of the virus he injected it straight into his body, hoping to benefit from the virus' unprecedented regenerative capabilities. Birkin got more then he bargained for. The virus took over his body and caused a complete and utter change in not only his physical, but mental, state. When he attacked the RET team he released the virus samples into the Racoon City sewer systems, thus infecting every man, women and child in the city. Later that week, two individuals both headed into Racoon City, neither having met before and both for different reasons.
Leon Scott Kennedy, a rookie cop recently hired by the RPD to deal with the growing zombie problem, and Claire Redfield, sister of Chris Redfield who came looking for him after he had disappeared, arrived in town as Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera, a member of the UBCS were fighting their way out of the city wide zombie menace. Leon and Claire met up after they were attacked by zombies and headed for the police station.
Though a long and complicated journey, Leon and Claire were able to successfully escape not only the city but also the second research facility, which also became overrun. But they were also able to rescue the only other Racoon City survivor, a young girl named Sherry Birkin, daughter of William.
When the US Government learnt about Racoon City they had the entire area quarantined. When they were informed by anonymous sources about Umbrellas involvement, the Government forced Umbrella to clean up the area. Umbrella has employed its very best RET operatives, with Government support, to go in and recover the city.