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Sikorsky H-76 Eagle Umbrella Corporation

Outbreaks

Ten years after Marcus' assassination, however, a disaster struck the Umbrella Corporation. Despite having seemingly been killed, Marcus came back to life through the Progenitor Virus. Marcus exacted his revenge on Spencer and Umbrella by releasing the T-Virus into the Arklay facilities, turning the personnel into zombies and leaving the facilities in complete chaos, allowing dangerous research specimens to escape into the surrounding area. Included in his anti-Umbrella activities, he also released the virus in the only Management Facility, which Umbrella was refurbishing for possible re-use. A train transporting Umbrella personel across the Raccoon Forest was a third target.

Birkin and Wesker used this as a diversion for their own plans to leave Umbrella, taking their research with them. Wesker, having formed Raccoon Police Department's (RPD) STARS two years earlier, would develop a plan to lure the unit to the Arklay Research Facility to obtain battle data from the conflict that would follow with the STARS and various Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs). Of the two STARS teams, the first to be deployed was Bravo team, and it was Bravo team's Rebecca Chambers' and Billy Coen's intervention that eventually stopped Marcus' plans for revenge within the Arklay Training Facility, resulting in the facility's destruction.

Bravo team was followed by Alpha team. Both suffered heavy losses while battling the BOWs. In the Arklay Research Facility, one of Umbrella's most potent BOWs, the Tyrant, was released, resulting in unforeseen side-effects for Wesker. In the end, both the laboratory and the rampaging Tyrant were destroyed by STARS.

Wesker was forced to go into hiding for a number of months, using his operative Ada Wong to carry out his objectives, including the recovery of Birkin's ultimate creation, the G-Virus. Several months after the Arklay incident, Birkin finally perfected the G-Virus. Birkin planned to use the virus to force the Umbrella Corporation into allowing him on to their executive board.

Umbrella deployed its UBCS in a bid to steal a G-virus sample from Birkin. Although Birkin was mortally wounded in the ensuing conflict, and the G-Virus was successfully recovered by Umbrella, he was able to inject the G-Virus into his own body and kill most of the team before it could make its escape.

This event was directly responsible for unleashing the T-Virus on Raccoon City. While the Arklay incident had been relatively isolated and concealed from the public, and Umbrella's control over key government and law enforcement personnel had ensured that any record of what had occurred could be safely swept into obscurity, they were now faced with an entire city infected with the T-Virus and a trail leading directly back to the Umbrella Corporation.

[edit] Decline

Umbrella's fortunes failed to improve after the Raccoon City incident. The US government was forced to take extreme measures to ensure the spread of the T-Virus was stopped. "Mission: Code XX" was approved, and Raccoon City was annihilated by a missile strike.[2][3] Despite the apparent disastrous effects this would bring for Umbrella, Spencer used his immense wealth and assets in an attempt to cover up the catastrophe as the result of a government conspiracy.[4] Because most of the evidence of Umbrella's involvement had been destroyed by the strike, Umbrella managed to drag out the legal proceedings. Witnesses like Yoko Suzuki were called to testify against the company, but Umbrella still managed to evade conviction and endure for another five years.

Shortly after the Raccoon City incident, the US government began a formal investigation of Umbrella's business practices. Several further disasters virtually ensured Umbrella's eventual collapse: On Sheena Island, an Umbrella senior executive, Vincent Goldman, unleashed the T-Virus on its citizens in a bid to cover up his business on the island that had not been accepted by Umbrella's executive board and emerge as the sole survivor of the incident, bringing vital research data regarding the new Tyrant project-- Hypnos T-Type --with him. However, an undercover investigator Ark Thompson, operating on behalf of Leon S. Kennedy, a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, succeeded in stopping Goldman's plans, resulting in his death and the loss of data regarding the new Tyrant type. Thompson emerged as a survivor of the incident along with two local children.

Shortly afterwards, Claire Redfield, sister of STARS Alpha team member Chris Redfield and also a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, broke into Umbrella's Paris facilities in search of her brother. She was captured and sent to Umbrella's facility on Rockfort Island. While there, she witnessed Wesker attack the island in search of the T-Veronica Virus, another derivative of the T-Virus. Escaping the island, she found herself trapped at the Antarctic Transport Terminal, another Umbrella Facility, where Edward Ashford's granddaughter, Alexia Ashford, awoke from a self-induced coma with a desire to establish a new order. Alexia was eventually killed and the Facility destroyed by Chris and Claire Redfield.

[edit] The end

Due to the series of disasters plaguing the company, and the ongoing legal proceedings against them, Umbrella's stock prices plummeted. By the early 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation's ruin was nearly absolute. Umbrella retained one last major stronghold located in southern Russia. Following Spencer's disappearance, this facility was placed under the leadership of Sergei Vladimir, and now housed the UMF-013, a supercomputer containing all of the company's data.

In 2003, Umbrella's stronghold came under attack by special forces troops led by Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, along with an unrelated attack by Albert Wesker. While the special forces secured the facility and destroyed the Talos project, Wesker infiltrated the facility and assassinated Vladimir, stealing all the data from the UMF-013. Wesker then turned incriminating data over to the prosecutors working against Umbrella, and testified, under the guise as a friend of Ozwell. Five years after Raccoon City's destruction, Umbrella was finally found guilty on all charges of its involvement in that massacre and an international manhunt by the FBI and the Russian equivalent was begun to bring Spencer to justice.

Description
Sikorsky H-76 Eagle Umbrella Corporation

Outbreaks

Ten years after Marcus' assassination, however, a disaster struck the Umbrella Corporation. Despite having seemingly been killed, Marcus came back to life through the Progenitor Virus. Marcus exacted his revenge on Spencer and Umbrella by releasing the T-Virus into the Arklay facilities, turning the personnel into zombies and leaving the facilities in complete chaos, allowing dangerous research specimens to escape into the surrounding area. Included in his anti-Umbrella activities, he also released the virus in the only Management Facility, which Umbrella was refurbishing for possible re-use. A train transporting Umbrella personel across the Raccoon Forest was a third target.

Birkin and Wesker used this as a diversion for their own plans to leave Umbrella, taking their research with them. Wesker, having formed Raccoon Police Department's (RPD) STARS two years earlier, would develop a plan to lure the unit to the Arklay Research Facility to obtain battle data from the conflict that would follow with the STARS and various Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs). Of the two STARS teams, the first to be deployed was Bravo team, and it was Bravo team's Rebecca Chambers' and Billy Coen's intervention that eventually stopped Marcus' plans for revenge within the Arklay Training Facility, resulting in the facility's destruction.

Bravo team was followed by Alpha team. Both suffered heavy losses while battling the BOWs. In the Arklay Research Facility, one of Umbrella's most potent BOWs, the Tyrant, was released, resulting in unforeseen side-effects for Wesker. In the end, both the laboratory and the rampaging Tyrant were destroyed by STARS.

Wesker was forced to go into hiding for a number of months, using his operative Ada Wong to carry out his objectives, including the recovery of Birkin's ultimate creation, the G-Virus. Several months after the Arklay incident, Birkin finally perfected the G-Virus. Birkin planned to use the virus to force the Umbrella Corporation into allowing him on to their executive board.

Umbrella deployed its UBCS in a bid to steal a G-virus sample from Birkin. Although Birkin was mortally wounded in the ensuing conflict, and the G-Virus was successfully recovered by Umbrella, he was able to inject the G-Virus into his own body and kill most of the team before it could make its escape.

This event was directly responsible for unleashing the T-Virus on Raccoon City. While the Arklay incident had been relatively isolated and concealed from the public, and Umbrella's control over key government and law enforcement personnel had ensured that any record of what had occurred could be safely swept into obscurity, they were now faced with an entire city infected with the T-Virus and a trail leading directly back to the Umbrella Corporation.

[edit] Decline

Umbrella's fortunes failed to improve after the Raccoon City incident. The US government was forced to take extreme measures to ensure the spread of the T-Virus was stopped. "Mission: Code XX" was approved, and Raccoon City was annihilated by a missile strike.[2][3] Despite the apparent disastrous effects this would bring for Umbrella, Spencer used his immense wealth and assets in an attempt to cover up the catastrophe as the result of a government conspiracy.[4] Because most of the evidence of Umbrella's involvement had been destroyed by the strike, Umbrella managed to drag out the legal proceedings. Witnesses like Yoko Suzuki were called to testify against the company, but Umbrella still managed to evade conviction and endure for another five years.

Shortly after the Raccoon City incident, the US government began a formal investigation of Umbrella's business practices. Several further disasters virtually ensured Umbrella's eventual collapse: On Sheena Island, an Umbrella senior executive, Vincent Goldman, unleashed the T-Virus on its citizens in a bid to cover up his business on the island that had not been accepted by Umbrella's executive board and emerge as the sole survivor of the incident, bringing vital research data regarding the new Tyrant project-- Hypnos T-Type --with him. However, an undercover investigator Ark Thompson, operating on behalf of Leon S. Kennedy, a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, succeeded in stopping Goldman's plans, resulting in his death and the loss of data regarding the new Tyrant type. Thompson emerged as a survivor of the incident along with two local children.

Shortly afterwards, Claire Redfield, sister of STARS Alpha team member Chris Redfield and also a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, broke into Umbrella's Paris facilities in search of her brother. She was captured and sent to Umbrella's facility on Rockfort Island. While there, she witnessed Wesker attack the island in search of the T-Veronica Virus, another derivative of the T-Virus. Escaping the island, she found herself trapped at the Antarctic Transport Terminal, another Umbrella Facility, where Edward Ashford's granddaughter, Alexia Ashford, awoke from a self-induced coma with a desire to establish a new order. Alexia was eventually killed and the Facility destroyed by Chris and Claire Redfield.

[edit] The end

Due to the series of disasters plaguing the company, and the ongoing legal proceedings against them, Umbrella's stock prices plummeted. By the early 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation's ruin was nearly absolute. Umbrella retained one last major stronghold located in southern Russia. Following Spencer's disappearance, this facility was placed under the leadership of Sergei Vladimir, and now housed the UMF-013, a supercomputer containing all of the company's data.

In 2003, Umbrella's stronghold came under attack by special forces troops led by Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, along with an unrelated attack by Albert Wesker. While the special forces secured the facility and destroyed the Talos project, Wesker infiltrated the facility and assassinated Vladimir, stealing all the data from the UMF-013. Wesker then turned incriminating data over to the prosecutors working against Umbrella, and testified, under the guise as a friend of Ozwell. Five years after Raccoon City's destruction, Umbrella was finally found guilty on all charges of its involvement in that massacre and an international manhunt by the FBI and the Russian equivalent was begun to bring Spencer to justice.