Resident Evil Series

Sent to investigate a series of grisly murders in Raccoon City, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team scrambles into action. On the way to the scene, Bravo's helicopter crashes. Although everyone survives, what they discover next is gruesome: an overturned military transport truck riddled with corpses -- and that's only the beginning of their nightmare. Bravo Team is about to discover the evil that is growing all around them, and rookie member Rebecca Chambers is beginning to wonder what she's gotten herself into.

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Enter the world of survival horror...

Raccoon City: a remote mountain community suddenly besieged by a rash of grisly murders encroaching upon it from the surrounding forest. Bizarre reports start to spread, describing attacks from vicious creatures, some human... some not. Victims are apparently eaten.

At the epicenter of these deaths is a dark, secluded mansion belonging to the mysterious Umbrella Corporation. For years Umbrella has labored within the mansion, unwatched, ostensibly conducting benign genetic research.

Deployed to investigate the strange goings-on is the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.), an unusual paramilitary response unit boasting an eclectic assortment of mission specialists: roguish Chris Redfield, former cat burglar Jill Valentine, dead-eye Barry Burton, and the enigmatic team leader, Albert Wesker. Together with the other S..T.A.R.S. operatives, they have good reason to believe they’re ready for anything.

But what unfolds as the S.T.A.R.S. penetrate the mansion’s long-locked doors is terror beyond their worst nightmares: creatures that defy the laws of life and death—the result of forbidden experiments gone disastrously wrong. Behind it all is a conspiracy so vast in its scope and so insidious in its agenda that the S.T.A.R.S. will be betrayed from within to ensure that the world never learns Umbrella’s secret. And if any survive…they may well come to envy those who do not.

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They Knew It Wasn’t Over...

In the aftermath of their ordeal through the Umbrella Corporation's genetic research facility, the surviving members of the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) attempt to warn the world about the conspiracy to create terrifying biological weapons. But the conspiracy is far from dead, as the S.T.A.R.S. learn when they are declared outlaws by the very people who trained them. Forces to go underground, the S.T.A.R.S. resolve to battle the conspiracy on their own, determined to seek out and stop Umbrella's experiments wherever they may be.

Combat medic and biochemist Rebecca Chambers, the sole survivor of Bravo Team, joins a new S.T.A.R.S. strike force when rumor comes of another Umbrella experiment: hidden beneath the rocky cliffs of Caliban Cove, Maine, someone is building an army of the undead. Within a sinister lighthouse, through a complex maze of sea caves, inside the shell of a sunken shipwreck, the S.T.A.R.S. must battle more unspeakable horrors and stop a madman from unleashing the biohazard upon the world.

But the S.T.A.R.S. may never get the chance, as the aggressive DNA-altering virus Umbrella has engineered to create its living weapons begins to infect them...

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Bring on the night...

Leon Kennedy: an energetic and eager rookie cop looking forward to starting a new life in Raccoon City, only to find the town strangely deserted…the eerie evening silence broken only by an occasional footstep in the shadows, and the faint, unearthly moan of something close by....

Claire Redfield: the resourceful but reckless younger sister of Chris Redfield, one of the missing former members of the RPD's special S.T.A.R.S. unit. Claire has come to Raccoon to find Chris at any cost, and to learn what really happened the night her brother's team stormed an isolated mansion deep in Raccoon Forest. But what she uncovers will raise only more questions, and put Chris' fate in doubt....

For on this night, Raccoon City has become a necropolis. In a secret lab for beneath its once-bustling streets, a botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming every man, woman, and child in the city into one of the living dead. And all of them are hungry.

Claire and Leon have one chance to save themselves: get to RPD headquarters and find some means of escape. But others have sought refuge in the precinct as well, and not all of them are on the same side...

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...

Umbrella has secrets. The mysterious corporation is creating monstrous biological killing machines for the highest bidder. But Umbrella has enemies, too—chief among them a contingent of rogue S.T.A.R.S., former members of the paramilitary response unit Umbrella helped create.

Umbrella has secrets. Despite its vast power, the company has begun to lose control of its hidden research facilities, bit by bit, one lab at a time. Three labs have already been destroyed, their work lost, setbacks due in no small part to the meddlesome S.T.A.R.S. and their allies.

Umbrella has secrets. Beneath the deserts of the American Southwest, on of the company's most elaborate facilities is about to go online. Somewhere inside may also be the key to stopping Umbrella once and for all... if Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, Rebecca Chambers, and their friends can get past a strike team of corrupt S.T.A.R.S., and survive the genetically engineered horrors awaiting them below the sun-scorched Earth.

Umbrella has secrets. And one man with an agenda of his own knows them all...

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Zombies. Mutant animals. Bioengineer weapons and surgically enhanced monsters. Secret labs and widespread conspiracies. It seemed impossible, but Kill Valentine and her teammates among the S.T.A.R.S. had seen it all firsthand when the Umbrella Corporation turned Raccoon City into a staging ground for the most insidious genetic experiments ever conceived. After all she's been through, Valentine is ready to leave that remote mountain community forever.
But Umbrella isn't finished with Raccoon City.

Too much evidence of their unethical and immoral research still exists. It must be recovered or destroyed -- and quickly -- before it can be traced back to Umbrella. And with William Birkin's mutagenic virus already spreading through the city like wildfire, drastic measures are needed. Under cover of night, mercenary teams have entered the city, along with something else -- Umbrella's failsafe: an evolved version of its Tyrant-class killing machines, a lethal creature code-named Nemesis. Now Nemesis is on the hunt. And Jill Valentine is about to become prey.

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A desperate search for her missing brother once again pits Claire Redfield against the terrifying bioweapons of the Umbrella Corporation. Her quest leads her to a remote island where a mad genius has unleashed every grotesque creature at his disposal to stop her from interfering with his horrific agenda.

Catapulted to the bottom of the world, Claire is at last reunited with the man she came to find. Chris Redfield has been fighting a one-man war of his own against Umbrella's most terrifying creations…and is now on a collision course with the man who betrayed the S.T.A.R.S. in Raccoon City. A man who should, by all rights, be dead: Captain Albert Wesker.

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The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to bio-warfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes.

But something has gone fatally wrong. The Hive has lost containment of its most lethal and horrific creation: a virus that kills and reanimates human life, reducing the entire facility staff of five hundred men and women to mindless creatures with a single driving force -- hunger. And the key to stopping them rests with one young woman who cannot even remember who she is.

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Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation's most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapons, a hulking prototype soldier code-named NEMESIS that kills anything in its path.

Jill Valentine of the RCPD and several others are determined to get out of Raccoon alive, but only if they can escape the city's hordes of undead, Umbrella's unleashed creatures, and the relentless pursuit of Nemesis itself. Their one chance is with one of the only survivors of the Hive -- a young woman named Alice, who learns a terrifying secret behind her connection to Umbrella.

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Following the events of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the beautiful, dangerous, enigmatic Alice returns, and this time she and her fellow survivor Carlos Olivera are running with a pack of humans led by a new ally, Claire Redfield. Together they are cutting through the wastelands of the United States on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the scheming Dr. Isaacs, Alice has zombies hungry for her flesh and the Umbrella Corporation's monstrous lab rats hungry for her blood... while Alice herself hungers only for revenge.

Released with the Umbrella Chronicles Wii Zapper pack, Wesker's Extra Report is an additional report written by Albert Wesker just prior to his invasion of the Umbrella Caucasus Research Facility which provides some new details.

An interesting incident...

Bizarre murder cases have recently occurred in a poor village of Russia's Caucasus region. The villagers there believe that the legendary monster, Almas, has been resurrected...

The disaster is eerily reminiscent of the original bizarre incident that occurred in Raccoon Forest.

There's an old chemical plant located 3 miles from the village that was built during the Soviet era. According to my investigation, the property was purchased by an aristocrat from a European noble family.

Five years ago, he invested foreign capital into the construction a large-scale underground base.

According to the geological survey, the solid rock formation would be more than satisfactory for the development of a certain facility.

Apparently, the crossword has been solved.

Umbrella has audaciously survived since the disappearance of Raccoon City five years ago.

They were held accountable for the viral outbreak and went to trial where the American government enacted it's own scheme. Yet despite the crash in stock price, they successfully managed to prolong their death sentence. At first, their allegiance to the government was convenient for them. The Umbrella unfolded in America, expelling a deceptive cloud of dust. Their lawyers generated a smoke screen to blind the public and sold it piece by piece to the court and the world's media.

Even people, organizations and nations were frenzied when they caught wind. However, Umbrella faced it's breaking point during that event.

It was only a matter of time before Umbrella's revival became known. B.O.W.s that were supplied as weapons began to appear in conflict regions. Below the surface, a system for the production of biological weapons was devised and the transport ship received it's information from Umbrella.

I must seize this opportunity. The T-virus has a variety of effects that brings about mutation and sells itself. The virus is merely a production medium for development of biological weapons and when left unchecked, only trivial random mutations cannot
be predicted.

Only a truly suitable alchemist deserves the power of the "Philosopher's Stone". Anyone else will be asked to quietly leave.

Eventually, all things Umbrella must come to an end...

Founded: March 1968

Founders: Ozwell E. Spencer, Edward Ashford and James Marcus

Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, USA; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan

Key people: Ozwell E. Spencer (Owner), Sergei Vladimir (Captain of the Guard), Joel Allman (Vice President, Umbrella USA), Koki Igarashi (CEO, Umbrella Japan)

Industry: Pharmaceuticals, bioengineering, information technology

 Officially known as Umbrella Chemical Incorporated. Umbrella was a powerful biochemical conglomerate which officially developed a wide range of pharmaceuticals and derivative products such as cosmetics. Unofficially, Umbrella developed and sold biological weapons, which was later supplemented by divisions specializing in defensive and information technologies, eventually leading to the establishment of a private military. Umbrella's sphere of influence even reached the United States Senate. Umbrella was a primary member on the executive board of the Global Pharmaceutical Consortium, and used it's position in order to acquire the research and development methods of it's fellow pharmaceutical organizations and use them in the development of bioweapons.

1968: Foundation

Following the discovery of the Progenitor virus in the 1960s and it's establishment on December 4th 1966, immediate research had been carried out but with limited capacity. In response to this, Ozwell E. Spencer arranged for the construction of a specialist facility in which research on Progenitor could continue. This facility would later become known as the Arklay Research Facility. With the completion of the facility in the late 1960s, Spencer wished to privatize research on Progenitor, possibly because of potential involvement with the U.S. government - who might have wanted to steal the research for themselves. Seeking to capitalize on the success of their work, Spencer proposed to found a pharmaceuticals firm from which they could operate behind the scenes. Edward Ashford and James Marcus both assisted Spencer in the formation of Umbrella, though Marcus himself was not particularly cordial to the idea. The pharmaceutical company, "Umbrella", was officially established in March 1968. In July that same year, Ashford was killed in a laboratory accident under suspicious circumstances due to infection from Progenitor, and as a result, Spencer was able to acquire Ashford's share of the company. The next month, the Umbrella Management Training Facility was officially established, and Spencer appointed Marcus as director in an effort to minimize his standing in the company while increasing his own. The Umbrella Africa Research Facility was completed in 1969, allowing Progenitor to be cultivated and shipped to the rest of Umbrella's worldwide facilities.

In November 1969, Alexander Ashford finished the renovation and building of the Umbrella Antarctic Base and it's research facilities and commenced the Code: Veronica project. Two years later, the fruit of the project was bore with the twins Alfred and Alexia Ashford being born. Along with the Antarctic base, the Umbrella Antarctica division was officially established.

1978-1988: A Struggle of Power

In 1978, James Marcus made a breakthrough discovery that would revolutionize the course of biological weapons research - the T-virus, a strain of Progenitor that had been infused with the DNA of leeches to form an enhanced variant. Throughout this year, Marcus began a number of criminal experiments that would later become the groundwork for an entirely new form of viral agent. During this time, Spencer started to grow paranoid about Marcus - either because of the breakthrough he was about to make, or the fear that he may have approached the US government in regards to his research. As a result, Spencer set in motion a series of plans to retrieve Marcus' research from him. His first attempts involved the use of ordinary researchers, who ultimately failed in their attempts to find the T-virus and ended up becoming test subjects themselves in Marcus' research.

It wouldn't be until the arrival of two young aspiring researchers - Albert Wesker and William Birkin - that Spencer would finally be able to get his hands on the T-virus. Both were lectured at the Umbrella Management Training Facility, under the tutelage of Marcus himself - the facility's director. Thanks to the efforts Wesker and Birkin, Spencer acquired a sample of the T-virus. Following this, he ordered the closure of the Management Training Facility and had research on the T-virus transferred to his own laboratories at the Arklay Research Facility, with Wesker and Birkin at the forefront of this research. Marcus was then left in isolation, having descended into a twisted obsession with his leech specimens while Spencer and Umbrella worked on ways to profit from his research.

The Training Facility was closed in July 1978, and Marcus became completely obsessed with his leeches and continued his own research in the closed down facility.

1988-1998: Consolidation

In the years following its establishment, Umbrella had become the leading supplier of pharmaceutical products which were ironically developed by utilizing funds gained from developing illegal bio-weapons. It had become No. 1 in business for its recruitment of producers, management and delivery personnel, largely due to its open-ended and equal-opportunity functions which removed any discrimination on the basis of race, sex or religion. While its public image grew in popularity, so did its dark underworld of biological weapons. In time, every industrialized nation on the globe became involved with Umbrella, with the United States government being one of its top customers.For a full decade, James Marcus worked in isolation beneath the Management Training Facility. Fascinated with his leeches, Marcus no longer had any consideration towards his position within Umbrella or even the T-virus itself. Spencer, who at this point had no further use for Marcus, may have begun to grow concerned about the fact that Marcus was the only original founder left who could threaten his own position at Umbrella, and also was the only one aside from Spencer who knew the location of the Progenitor virus. Enlisting the assistance of Birkin and Wesker once again, Spencer authorized the assassination of James Marcus. At an unspecified date in 1988, an Umbrella Special Forces unit stormed Marcus' laboratories and opened fire, taking the doctor by surprise and mortally wounding him. As he lay dying, Wesker and Birkin approached him, and gloated about the success that they would now reap from his work. With Marcus out of the picture, Spencer appointed Birkin and Wesker as the new chief researchers for the T-virus, acquiring all of Marcus' data on the leeches in the process.

In the years that followed, significant advances were made in T-virus research including the development of the "Tyrant" - a biological "super soldier" created via the T-virus. In 1991, Umbrella gained new support in the form of ex-Soviet soldiers left over from the collapse of the USSR. One of these soldiers, Sergei Vladimir, would prove to be instrumental in the establishment of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service and Monitor, as well as become an integral part of Umbrella's Tyrant research programs. Umbrella Europe also commenced the "Nemesis Project" in an effort to improve the effectiveness and overall intelligence of B.O.W.s at the Sixth European Research Facility in Paris.

With it's influence completely engulfing Raccoon City, Umbrella began construction of an expansive underground laboratory in 1991. Spencer himself also gave the green light for William Birkin's G-virus project, and Wesker transferred to the Umbrella Information Department. In 1992, Umbrella solidified it's firm hold on Raccoon City by contributing funds for the refurbishment of the city hall and Raccoon City Hospital, and in 1993 began bribing police chief Brian Irons, fully holding the city in it's sphere of influence. The same year, Birkin transferred to the underground lab beneath Raccoon City to commence the G-virus project, and entered regular meetings with Irons. Alfred Ashford graduated from a university in England and was installed as the director of the Umbrella Antarctic Base, eventually becoming an Umbrella executive and becoming director of Rockfort Island. In December, the military training facility on Rockfort Island was established to train Anti-B.O.W. squad members and members of the Umbrella Security Service.

In 1994, T-virus research at the Arklay Research Facility continued with a researcher named "John" being transferred from the Chicago lab in order to succeed Birkin as head researcher. Alfred Ashford also constructed many facilities on Rockfort Island following the completion of the training facility, including a private mansion and a prison.

1998: Outbreak

Almost ten years after his assassination, a rejuvenated James Marcus awoke thanks to the Queen Leech and vowed revenge against Umbrella. On May 11th 1998, Marcus leaked the T-virus throughout the Management Training Facility and the Arklay Research Facility. This struck the cord on the chain of events that would bring about Umbrella's downfall in 2003. While Umbrella succeeded in retrieving the T-A.L.O.S. prototype before the destruction of the Arklay Research Facility thanks to the deployment of Sergei Vladimir, the virus had already begun to seep into the nearby Raccoon City. In July, Umbrella deployed two investigation groups to the Management Training Facility in order to evaluate the state of the facility. The first group were wiped out by B.O.W.s, while the second group was led by Birkin and Wesker, and also met it's end.

September would mark the date of the completion of the G-virus. When Umbrella began to suspect William Birkin's treachery and his reluctance to hand over the now completed G-virus, Umbrella Europe dispatched the Alpha and Bravo divisions of the Umbrella Security Service to retrieve a sample of the virus. Birkin resisted, and was subsequently shot multiple times. The U.S.S. unit's success was brief, as Birkin injected himself with the virus, transforming himself into a horrendous creature. He tracked down his assailants and eliminated them one-by-one in the Raccoon City sewers, crushing the G and T-virus vials in the process. With the team wiped out (save for HUNK) the spilled T-virus was consumed by rats, who began to spread the virus throughout the town at an alarming rate, sealing Umbrella's fate.

In late September, Raccoon City was completely consumed by the T-virus. Hideous monstrosities roamed the streets, and the majority of the city's population of 100,000 were transformed into Zombies. Using the opportunity, Umbrella dispatched the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service to be used as test subjects, and sent several B.O.W.'s (such as the Hunter Beta and Nemesis T-Type) into Raccoon City to secure combat data. Five Tyrant T-103 units were deployed to the P-12A Incinerator Facility to annihilate a team of United States Special Forces sent to retrieve the G-virus and gain custody of Umbrella researchers. Sergei Vladimir on the other hand, personally sought to retrieve the U.M.F.-013 from Birkin's laboratory beneath Raccoon City. Eventually, the US government decided on bombing Raccoon City in the form of Mission Code: XX (Bacillus Terminate), an order Umbrella put forward but managed to delay until dawn, October 1st. With the launch of an experimental warhead, Raccoon City was wiped out.

1998-2004: Folding Umbrella

Immediately following the Raccoon City incident, ripples were sent through the US Government as they launched an international enquiry into the Umbrella corporation, eventually bringing them to the Supreme Court in a legal battle that would last right up until February 2003. Umbrella also lost numerous facilities due to the actions of Chris Redfield, Claire Redfield and Albert Wesker, losing Rockfort Island and the Antarctic Base. As well as this, numerous anti-Umbrella organizations began to crop up and public opinion of the company fell. Umbrella's stock also plummeted, sending Umbrella USA into complete bankruptcy in February 1999. The US government did not come out unscathed, as the deep pockets of Ozwell E. Spencer ensured that the best lawyers and false testimonies money could buy would shift part of the blame to the US government. At some point after the Raccoon City incident, the current Presidential administration came under heavy fire once its involvement with Umbrella was revealed. This led to the sudden resignation of the president and eventually, the new administration under President Graham set up a complete reformed structure which heavily opposed Umbrella and biological weapons. The US government set up it's own anti-Umbrella task force within US STRATCOM, charged with dealing with dangerous situations implicated by Umbrella employees, the Anti-Umbrella Pursuit and Investigation Team.

With Umbrella now largely side-lined and unable to operate in the US and most of the world, the company began to use a private cruise ship, the Spencer Rain to operate outside of national boundaries, allowing them to secretly auction off their B.O.W.s and viral agents. As well as this, Umbrella dispersed its numerous assets, including B.O.W.'s and viral agents, around the world in "hangers" in order to store for later use should a solution to the company's problems be found. Umbrella also kept a disguised compound in the guise of a chemical processing plant in Siberia, Russia in order to store it's infrastructure and continue working on T-A.L.O.S., the last ace-in-the-hole for Umbrella. The U.M.F.-013 was also stored here. Following an attack on the facility by Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and Albert Wesker however, the T-A.L.O.S. was destroyed and the U.M.F.-013 wiped. With Umbrella's ace-in-the-hole and entire infrastructure destroyed, the company's end was nigh. After Albert Wesker presented anonymous evidence to the Supreme Court, Umbrella was declared guilty of all charges relating to Raccoon City. Ozwell E. Spencer became a fugitive, and the company effectively ceased to exist, with the last division - Umbrella Japan - dying out on March 10th 2004 following a meeting of the board of directors.

Before it's dissolution, Umbrella attempted to continue it's illegal activities in secret by being bought out by another company. Due to the lack of interest and response to this, Umbrella eventually dissolved forever.

Umbrella Europe

Headquartered in Paris, France. Umbrella Europe operated as one of the two major contributors of Umbrella's biological weapons development. They had a long standing rivalry with Umbrella USA, who were making significant advances in the Tyrant program. While Umbrella USA were focused on the T-002 and T-A.L.O.S. developments, Umbrella Europe instead directed its efforts towards enhancing the intelligence of their creations and making them more adept at following complex instructions. Part of this involved the development of the NE-alpha, a parasitic organism that had the ability to consume host bodies. This would later become known as the Nemesis Project. The headquarters for Umbrella Europe was located in Paris, which was also where the majority of Umbrella Europe's critical research took place. Umbrella's 6th Laboratory was also located here, which served as the birthplace of the NE-alpha and the Nemesis Project.

Following the disaster that befell Raccoon City, Umbrella Europe was one of the few divisions of Umbrella that remained in operation. In 2002, they were responsible for the creation of the T+G-virus, a union of both the G-virus and a T-virus antibody. That same year, Morpheus D. Duvall - a disgruntled former researcher of the company - raided the laboratories in France and stole samples of the T-virus, as well as the experimental T+G-virus as part of his bid for power. Known key figures at the division included Christine Henri, the R&D Facility Head Manager who ordered the retrieval mission for the G-virus in Raccoon City.

Umbrella Europe ceased operation completely following the final Supreme Court case around March 4th 2003.

Umbrella Europe's research and development division was almost entirely made up of French researchers, and to this end Umbrella Europe is sometimes merely regarded as the "French Branch/Division".

Umbrella USA

One of the two key divisions that developed biological weapons for Umbrella. With operations throughout the United States, including Chicago Branch and Raccoon City Branch, Umbrella USA made many significant contributions towards Umbrella's B.O.W. programs - such as the development of the T-002 and the imitation of the T-A.L.O.S. project. Umbrella USA also maintained numerous facilities through America, with the Arklay Research Facility being one of the more prominent. Given their contributions towards weapons development, Umbrella USA was instrumental and critically important to the continued success of the company. Their early work led to the creation of the Tyrant program, as well as the synthesis of the first known sample of the G-virus. Known key figures at the division included William Birkin, the creator of the G-virus, and Joel Allman, the Vice President of Umbrella USA.

With the destruction of Raccoon City and increasing pressure from the United States government, Umbrella USA was dissolved in February 1999 after their company stocks plummeted and the government issued an indefinite suspension of business decree.

Umbrella Japan

Established in 1984 as Umbrella Japan Co., Ltd, this division of the company was created for the import and sale of chemicals that had been developed in the United States. Unlike the American and European divisions, Umbrella Japan was initially a small division of the company that did not participate in the development of bio-organic weapons. However, that soon changed. In 1987, the Umbrella Japan Research Facility was constructed with the intent of carrying out further research on biological products, under the pretense of utilizing biotechnology, original research and enhancing development of products. Following the Raccoon City disaster in September 1998, Umbrella began to suffer from political fallout on all sides. With the loss of numerous facilities and production lines, Umbrella Japan soon found itself to be the final operating division of the company. A meeting with the board of directors on March 10th, 2004 determined the division's fate.

On March 14th, 2004, Umbrella Japan ceased operation and closed its doors, effectively ending Umbrella for good.

Umbrella Antarctica

Comprised of the Antarctic Base and the Antarctic Research Facility located beneath it, this facility marked the center of Umbrella's operations in Antarctica. The division was established by Alexander Ashford, but was not officially established for the sale of products or chemicals, and was instead aimed purely at the development and transportation of B.O.W.s. Alexander also used the Research Facility to conduct the CODE: Veronica project. Due to this nature, it was not known to the public. Antarctica was chosen as an ideal location due to its remoteness and the lack of chance the virus had to propagate under such extremes.

Umbrella Africa

The African division of Umbrella, specifically West Africa, was set up in 1969 following the completion of the Umbrella Africa Research Facility and was situated at the site of the location of the Progenitor virus, and was primarily responsible for the cultivation and mass shipping of Progenitor samples to the rest of Umbrella's research facilities and laboratories around the world. The director of the division was Brandon Bailey, the head researcher of the research team responsible for the discovery of the Progenitor virus. Eventually, facilities such as Umbrella Plant 57 were established throughout Africa to accommodate actual B.O.W. research and development.

Umbrella Russia

Comprised of a single research facility in the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, the aptly named Umbrella Caucasus Research Facility made up the Russian division of Umbrella, established sometime after the fall of the Soviet Union following Ozwell E. Spencer's purchase of a previously government owned chemical processing plant. Deep underground levels were built to accommodate B.O.W. research and development as the upper levels served as a disguise. The facility was instrumental in the mass-production of B.O.W.s, and was the newest, and last, Umbrella facility to be built. From this facility, Umbrella distributed its illegal products to any factions willing to purchase them, in particular terrorist cells and militaries of the unstable regions of the globe.

Umbrella Asia

Not much is known about the Asian division of Umbrella, but it is assumed to have operated in similar capacity as Umbrella Japan, through the import and sale of products from Umbrella USA.

Security Divisions

Information Department

In order to keep themselves informed and reach out into other fields, Umbrella placed many spies and operatives throughout law enforcement agencies and other government institutions. Prime examples included the Raccoon Police Department, and the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.). Realizing that he had reached his limits as a researcher, Wesker requested a transfer to Umbrella's Information Department and later was instated as the captain of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team in Raccoon City. Umbrella's intelligence service even went as far as the U.S government and the Senate.

Monitor

Under the direction of Sergei Vladimir, Monitor operated as an internal espionage agency within the company. The purpose of this organization was to keep tabs on employees of the company and to help root out any potential rogue elements. They also specialized in corporate sabotage, such as the destruction of evidence that would implicate Umbrella for any of their crimes. Monitor also carried out assassinations on employees that had turned against the company, a prime example of which being Greg Mueller. Nicholai Ginovaef was a prominent member of this agency.

Paramilitaries

Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service

Established by Sergei Vladimir, sometime following his arrival at Umbrella in the early 1990s. From the outset, the UBCS operated as the paramilitary arm of Umbrella. To the public eye, they were dispatched by Umbrella in response to V.I.P. abduction, corporate terrorism and handling biohazard outbreaks caused by "illegal" products. Commonly, they are also tasked with the rescue of civilians and Umbrella affiliates. In truth however, the UBCS was intended to be used as cannon fodder against Umbrella's creations in order to test their effectiveness against armed military targets in a live combat scenario. From this, Umbrella would be able to acquire combat data with which they could use to improve upon their products. The vast majority of the UBCS was composed of mercenaries and war criminals, men who had nothing to lose and were expendable in the eyes of Umbrella, and the world. The UBCS became the largest test bed for Umbrella's creations and biological weapons. Combat data is collected by a secret unit of "Supervisors" (also known as "Observers") who oversee the slaughter of their fellow men. Nicholai Ginovaef was one such Supervisor.Small units of the UBCS were commonly used to assist in internal espionage missions, such as the retrieval of the Nyx prototype in Raccoon City, a joint-operation with the Umbrella Security Service. They are still used as cannon fodder in these missions however, and serve mainly to provide backup and armed support, as well as security detail and general maintenance to high-ranking employees.

Umbrella Security Service

The Umbrella Security Service, otherwise known as the Umbrella Special Forces Unit, was the elite paramilitary unit consisting of professional agents that Umbrella had used for it's most secret of operations. Delta team was deployed by Albert Wesker and William Birkin to retake the Ecliptic Express passenger train, but were wiped out by swarms of leeches under the control of the revived James Marcus. Alpha and Bravo teams were both sent in by Umbrella Europe to retrieve the G-virus from William Birkin. However, save for HUNK, the entire unit met their end. The USS were primarily trained on the military training facility on Rockfort Island. One such example of the unit is HUNK, who was trained on Rockfort Island in 1996 and went on to successfully retrieve the G-virus from Raccoon City.

Like the UBCS, he USS is not under direct command of any specific division or branch of Umbrella, being one of the few assets the company at large was able to use independently. All top executives of each Umbrella branch were able to utilize the USS.

Anti-B.O.W. Squad

Trained on Rockfort Island, the Anti-B.O.W. Squad was a special military force maintained by Umbrella to help combat their out of control B.O.W.s in cases of emergency, such as in testing, training or research facilities.

Weapons Department

Umbrella Industry

Umbrella maintained a weapons department, known as "Umbrella Industry" which developed numerous weapons used in the handling of B.O.W.s, such as the Flamethrower, Spark Shot, Mine Thrower and Linear Launcher. Custom weapons such as the custom magnum issued to some Umbrella personnel were also manufactured by the same division.

Products

Pharmaceuticals

Safsprin - "The common cure". A product used to fight off small-time infections such as the common cold.Aqua Cure - A product that seems to be popular with women.Adravil - An ointment used to instantly close open wounds. Umbrella's main, most effective pharmaceutical product.Uspirim - A headache and migraine treatment product.

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The Ecliptic Express was an express train built alongside the Arklay Research Facility and Umbrella Management Training Facility, and operated on the railway which connected Raccoon City to the training facility. It's purpose was to transport Umbrella employees to undergo training at the facility. The rail system itself was privately owned by Umbrella, and was used extensively to transport materials and human resources to the two Arklay facilities.

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Umbrella Research Facility - Arklay Mountains

T- Virus

The T-virus (short for Tyrant Virus) was Umbrella's breakthrough in viral weaponry spawned from an attempt to weaponize the Progenitor virus for military use and application. A mutagenic toxin, the T-virus would prove to be the basis for the majority of Umbrella's research. The very first strain of the T-virus was created by Dr. James Marcus, one of the original three founders of Umbrella who had helped to discover the base for the T-virus: Progenitor. Research was then carried out on the virus simultaneously by Albert Wesker and William Birkin and progress excelled at the Arklay Research Facility.

The Los Illuminados were a dark cult based in a rural area of Spain that worshipped the ancient Las Plagas parasitic organism, and sought to use the parasite for their own ends. Their plans were soon extinguished by the first castellan of the prominent and noble Salazar family, who prosecuted the members of the cult and had the Las Plagas sealed away in the very depths of the Salazar Family Castle, as fossils. On top of this, the Salazar family somehow possessed the ability to control the Las Plagas themselves, and this was a necessary component of the overall goal of the Los Illuminados, who wanted to use the parasite in a bid to spread their religion throughout the world and control every being infected with the parasite as a sort of collective hive mind on a global scale.

Despite the sealing of Las Plagas, the Los Illuminados would continue it's plans in the year 2004 under the command of Osmund Saddler. The plan set off when Saddler somehow managed to convince Ramon Salazar, the eighth castellan, that his ancestors had committed a dreadful sin in prosecuting the cult and sealing Las Plagas. With Salazar's backing, Saddler traveled to a nearby village and with the help of the village chief, Bitores Mendez, began long and public religious readings directed at the villagers. A large amount were recruited to excavate the fossilized remains of the Las Plagas. However, the parasite existed in the form of spores at this time, and infected the villagers as soon as they were inhaled. Now with some of the villagers under his control, Saddler then infected the rest of the village with the rest of the excavated Las Plagas via direct injection of Plagas eggs.

Saddler's slightly altered version of the Illuminados overall goal involved the capture of the United States President's daughter, Ashley Graham, and infecting her with the parasite. Once infected, she would be sent back to the US (after some "donations") and the parasite would hatch, and proceed to infect the entire US administration, effectively bringing the entire world to Saddler's fingertips. However due to the actions of Leon S. Kennedy, these plans were destroyed and Saddler was killed.

The current status of the cult is unknown, or whether they even exist at all anymore due to the deaths of Osmund Saddler, Ramon Salazar and Bitores Mendez.

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Las Plagas Virus

In early 2003, former S.T.A.R.S. Officers Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield joined up with an elite regional biohazard containment unit which had been formed shortly after the Raccoon City incident in order to contain any future outbreaks caused by the Umbrella Corporation's bio-weapons program. While investigating a remote village in the heart of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in Southern Russia, the pair discovered that yet another T-virus outbreak had occurred, and that most of the inhabitants had already been infected. They located only one survivor, a young girl by the name of Anna.

After destroying a horde of zombies at the village's massive grain silo, they encountered the man who had once been their commanding officer, Albert Wesker. He revealed to them that the Umbrella Corporation had established several clandestine storage facilities around the world in order to disperse and conceal their developmental B.O.W.s. The village they were in was just such a location, and Anna's father was one of the head researchers in charge of overseeing the collected specimens. An explosive-rigged wall safe foiled Wesker's attempt at acquiring technical data on Umbrella's new Hunter Delta model, and he quickly fled the area.

His mission was not entirely unsuccessful, however, as he did manage to locate a digitally encrypted schematic of a nearby Umbrella research facility. Back at the village, Jill and Chris also learned of this facility after Anna revealed to them that her father had once been an employee there. As local authorities arrived on scene, they quickly left to rejoin the rest of their unit.