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The Umbrella Corporation was a giant conglomerate which operated ruthlessly as a majorinternational player in a number of markets including pharmaceuticals and medical equipment

along with top-secret operations utilizing genetic engineering and biological weaponry. Thecompany also had a more benevolent public face for the ignorant masses, producing cosmetics,

consumer products and foods.

A subsidiary of Umbrella operated as a malevolent paramilitary organization. This division ofthe corporation maintained a highly trained security force capable of rescue, reconnaissance, and

para-military operations. They used a variety of vehicles, including HUMVEEs. Complementingthis security force was an air wing, which maintained a fleet of AV-8B Harrier jump jets, UH-60

Blackhawks, C-130 Hercules water-landing capable cargo planes, CH-53 Sea Stallion cargohelicopters for transporting prisoners and Hughes MH-6 'Little Bird' attack helicopters. The

corporation utilized these resources in order to secure and protect its assets, as well as its highprofile employees.

Umbrella fell from grace of September 24, 1998, when the t-virus had turned a large amount of

the population into Zombies. The morning after, the U.S. Government had the city limitsbordered off by the military, whilst they began an investigation into the matter.

Umbrella itself was divided on the issue of Raccoon City. Its virologists within the limits spenttheir time researching a cure, whilst weapons researchers had experimental B.O.W.'s sent in to

receive combat data on their effectiveness at killing civilians. The Umbrella BiohazardCountermeasure Service (UBCS) was sent in to evacuate civilians, whilst "Monitors" installed

within the fourPlatoon Delta's gathered the combat data, sacrificing their comrades to save theirown lives, where they would receive a very generous sum for the data.

Meanwhile, some employees even turned on each other. Dr. Frost was killed by Monica for

being in the way of a G-sample, whilst Yoko Suzuki - a Tyrant virus test subject used in anexperiment two years earlier - lost her Umbrella security card to the woman, who would soon

walk right into the infected Birkin and become a host for his offspring.

Former Umbrella researcherGreg Muellerhad a University professor create a cure - Daylight -before the Outbreak, knowing what would soon happen. He was wanted by Umbrella, not due to

"Daylight", but because of an experiment Greg took with him when he left - an experimentalTyrant. "Thanatos" was activated and sent outside to kill UBCS personnel attempting to claim it.

Unbeknownst to him or his creation, the supervisor "Nicholai Zinoviev" had infiltrated thebuilding. Whilst discussing his plan with a few survivors, Nicholai shot through the ceiling,

through Greg's head, and out of his neck - death was instantaneous. The University wasdestroyed by C-4 charges, whilst the Tyrant was killed by "Daylight" nearby. A fitting end to the

beast, one of the ingredients of the anti-virus was the creature's very blood.

Elsewhere in Raccoon, an executive had a UBCS team on the lookout for renegade USS member

Rodriguez, who had stolen the executive's "package". Rodriguez was waiting for a researcher -Linda - to return from an Umbrella facility as she left something important behind. This was

AT1521 - Umbrella's answer to Daylight. After recovering it, another researcher - Carter -released the experimental "Tyrant T-0400TP" to kill off the MA-125 Hunter Rrunning amok.


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Although seemingly taking orders from Carter without question, it had already counted the manas a threat - a bomb had been planted in the monster, and Carter had the detonator. The creatures

betrayal led to the destruction of AT1521, leaving Linda to have to remember how to re-synthesize it all by herself.

Eventually, Umbrella was unable to delay the Presidents decision to authorize Mission Code XX.With little time left, all paramilitary forces were ordered to clear out. Carlos Oliveira and JillValentine were rescued by Barry Burton, whilst Nicholai attempted to escape solo by helicopter.

Rodriguez was forced to abandon Linda and pull out, leading to an attempted shoot down byTommy Nielson. The rocket missed, but the helicopter's sudden emergency maneuvers led to the

loss of the "package", revealing a horrific creation. The UBCS team, and T-0400TP weredefeated by the giant blob and absorbed into its body. It would eventually be killed by a group of

survivors, who successfully escaped Raccoon by HUMVEE with Linda.

Still, this was not the last story to tell of Umbrella's actions in the city. Leader of Umbrella'sparamilitary organizations, Sergei Vladimir, stole the U.M.F.-013 storage system - also known as

the Umbrella Archives. Ada Wong, a spy sent into Raccoon to gather "G" for Wesker, hadfinally completed her mission and hitched a ride on the chopper, witnessing the destruction of

Raccoon City.

It would take many years, and many more tragedies to finally gather enough evidence to

condemn Umbrella.

Umbrella's fortunes failed to improve in the time shortly after the Raccoon City incident. Butwith a barrage of false witnesses and Code XX destroying all evidence, all blame for the incident

was carefully shifted to the U.S. Government. Despite Linda and Yoko's appearance at theSupreme court, Umbrella survived.

On Sheena Island, undercover investigator, Ark Thompson, operating on behalf ofLeon S.

Kennedy, succeeded in destroying Umbrella's Tyrant production plant after a senior executiveassigned to the island unleashed the t-virus on its citizens. Shortly afterwards, when Claire

Redfield broke into Umbrella's Paris facilities in search of her brother, she was captured and sentto Umbrella's illegal prison camp on Rockfort Island. While there, she witnessed Albert Wesker

attack the island in search of the T-Veronica virus, another descendant of Progenitor. Escapingthe island, she found herself trapped at the Antarctic Transport Terminal, where Edward

Ashford's granddaughter, Alexia Ashford, awoke from a self-induced coma with a desire toestablish a new order.

With the destruction of Sheena Island, Rockfort Island and the Antarctic Transport Terminal,most of Umbrella's illegitimate operations had been shut down. This, combined with the loss of

so many of Umbrella's research and security personnel throughout each of the disastrousincidents, left Umbrella with little chance of reforming said operations or regaining the years of

research lost thus far.

The U.S. STRATCOM was involved in clean-up operations, such as the theft of the tG virus byformer Umbrella executive in R&D, Morpheus D. Duvall, and his plans to create a new order


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based around his obsessive ideals of 'beauty'. The loss of the experimental virus and the liner"Spencer Rain" would be in vain.

The final blow to the company would come in February of2003, when a private anti-biohazard

paramilitary force was sent to the Caucasus in the Russian Federation in response to rumors of a

new B.O.W being developed by Umbrella. Leading the attack were Chris Redfield and JillValentine, who eventually reached the Russian facility's underground chamber, where theyfought Umbrella's final weapon, T-A.L.O.S., after it was dispatched by Sergei Vladimir. At the

same time, Wesker managed to infiltrate the facility a few hours before Chris and Jill's arrival,and had one final encounter with Sergei, who then mutated into a new, virus-infected monster.

While Chris and Jill destroyed T-A.L.O.S., Wesker managed to extract all data from Umbrella'sRed Queen supercomputer, while also erasing any of the memory left within the computer itself,

in order to use it against Spencer, thus bringing Umbrella to its knees.

Umbrella was finally found guilty soon after the Umbrella Russia incident, after an anonymoustip-off by Albert Wesker, using the data he had extracted. The U.S. Government suspended

Umbrella's market trading license pending further investigation into their business practices.While this investigation must have already provided Umbrella with severe financial problems, a

worldwide manhunt for surviving founder Ozwell E. Spencer sealed the organization's fate.

Albert Wesker kept the stolen data in his secret hideout. Wesker had always desired power more

than anything in the world, seeking to dominate all for his own gain. He saw Umbrella as powerincarnate. His computer had every Umbrella asset stored away safely, and he planned to one day

remake the company under his leadership. This new Umbrella would lead the human race into anew, improved era, fixing a world Wesker saw as unacceptable. His vision for the future would

go beyond that of Spencer, but he would later discover that they both had much in common, asSpencer had made Wesker who he had become.

With trading suspended, Umbrella's shares quickly collapsed, and the company was left

bankrupt. With the corporation shut down, a vast amount of Bio-Weapon and virus samplesappeared on the black market, birthing an age of Bio-terrorism. The ultimate irony being that the

world was safer with Umbrella than without it.

Known Facilities

North America

y Arklay Research Facility: A research facility located in Raccoon Forest, camouflagedby a mansion designed by George Trevor for Ozwell E. Spencer. Umbrella conductedmost of its t-virus experiments there, including the creation of the Tyrant.

y Umbrella Research Center: Also known as the Umbrella Corporation ManagementTraining Facility, this building was managed by James Marcus for the purpose of training

future Umbrella employees. It was officially closed down in 1978, though Marcuscontinued his research there until his assassination in 1988. An investigative unit was sent

in 1998 to inspect the facility for reopening purposes.


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y Unnamed Chicago Research Facility: The facility John, Ada Wong's deceasedboyfriend, worked for before transferring to Arklay Research Facility. William Birkin

used to visit this branch to conduct a monthly training seminar.

y Raccoon City Underground Laboratory: A facility established during the late 1980sfor the sole purpose of William Birkin's G-virus project. It can only be entered through acable car system within Raccoon City's sewers, and is also connected to the ManagementTraining Facility.

y Dead Factory: A facility hidden within an abandoned factory in Raccoon City, used tochemically destroy dead and unusable specimens. Potent contributor to the release of thevirus into the city.

y Raccoon City Corporate Headquarters: A large facility used to test the combatcapabilities of BOWs. An experimental serum was developed there to combat the t-virus.

yRaccoon City Hospital

:

Umbrella maintained a small laboratory in the basement of thecity hospital. This lab contained Hunters in containment tanks, as well as equipmentcapable of synthesizing a vaccine against the t-virus.

y Classified Research and Testing Facility: Located in the area of what used to beRaccoon City, this facility was built after the area was destroyed and gated off. Not muchis known about this facility. But what is known is that Umbrella conducts testing and

research there and monitors the gated area and surrounding area for any possiblebiohazard threats or trespassers.

y The Hive (movie continuity Only): A semi-secret underground lab located beneath thestreets of Raccoon City. This facility is noted to conduct experiments on viral weaponry.When the t-virus escapes through the air ducts a super computer (known as the RedQueen) shuts down the facility trapping anyone within.

y Umbrella Medical Facility (movie continuity Only): A research facility located outsideof Detroit. The facility is known to experiment on animals and possibly humans. 3 weeksafter the t-virus outbreak in Raccoon City, Umbrella began testing a new virus on their

first human subject Alice.

y Umbrella North American Research Facility (movie continuity only): A facility in thedesert, disguised as an old weather station, where the employees of Umbrella's science

division took shelter in the wake of the Global T-virus outbreak. Science division headSam Isaacs, his second in command, Alexander Slater, and the sophisticated White

Queen were all stationed here prior the Isaac's execution and subsequent mutation whichclaimed the lives of the entire staff.

y Sheena Island: A small European island privately owned by Umbrella. It housed acommunity of researchers working for the company and was secretly the site of a Tyrant

Plant which was mass-producing the T-103 models.


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y Umbrella Medical, Paris: The headquarters of Umbrella in Europe. Claire Redfieldinfiltrates this facility briefly, only to be captured by its chief of security, Rodrigo Juan

Raval. Christine Henri is likely the Research and Development Head Manager of thisdivision.

y Umbrella Europe Sixth Laboratory: The facility responsible for the creation of theNE-Alpha parasitic organism that allowed the creation ofNemesis T-Type. Part of theUmbrella Europe branch in Paris.

y Rockfort Island: A solitary island which served as the site of Alfred Ashford's privateresidence and palace after he purchased the land and drove the villagers out. It also

housed an "inescapable" prison camp, a military training facility for the UmbrellaSecurity Service Unit (including a lab used to create B.O.W.s) and an airport.

y Umbrella Antarctic Facility: A facility established by Alexander Ashford for his Code:Veronica project. Later, Alexia Ashford, an offspring of the project, used the facility forher T-Veronica virus research.

y Umbrella Atlantic Facility: A waste disposal facility on an unnamed island in theAtlantic Ocean. It was to this facility that Umbrella sent some of its worst failed

experiments to be disposed of, but for unknown reasons the facility shut down. It wasused as a base of operations by renegade Umbrella executive Morpheus D. Duvall.

y Umbrella Russian Facility: An Umbrella facility disguised as a oil factory. It was at thisfacility that the T.A.L.O.S project was completed and later destroyed by Chris and Jill.

The facility was also one of the locations where the Red Queen computer was held.

y Umbrella Africa Research Center: This facility was set up in the late 1960s byUmbrella Chemical, Inc. in secrecy. Built within the underground ruins of the Ndipaya

Kingdom, only high-ranking Umbrella researchers and the remaining Ndipaya knew ofits existence. After it closed down in 1998, the pharmaceutical enterprise, the Tricell

Pharmaceutical Company - a subsidiary ofTricell, Inc.- under the guidance of AlbertWesker, claimed the abandoned facility and began creating their own, further

underground. It was here where they further developed the Progenitor virus and beganwork on the "Uroboros Project".

Paramilitary units

Umbrella owned and utilized several paramilitary units to ensure the stability of the companyduring their viral experimentation.

Umbrella Security forces Edit

The Umbrella Security forces are the ones in charge of assuring security in Umbrella owned

facilities.Many of it's agents were stationed at Rockfort and at the Antarctic researchfacility.Most of the guards stationed at Rockfort Island and in the Antarctic Transport Terminal

became zombies.The only known member was Rodrigo Juan Raval.Their agents are most of the


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time seen wearing OD green BDU's with OD green caps and are most of the time armed withAK-47s.Their most notable unit was the 3rd Security unit,it was under the direct command of

Rodrigo.

UmbrellaS

ecurityS

ervice Edit

The Umbrella Security Service, orU.S.S., is a secret unit that specializes in infiltration,

protection, and extraction missions.

A squad of special forces commandos designated Alpha team attempted to steal a sample of theG-virus indirectly caused the release of the t-virus into Raccoon City.

[7]Another squad, Delta

team, was eliminated by leeches aboard an Umbrella-owned train.[8]

USS agents are trained at the Rockfort Island facility, which is also home to a descendant of one

of Umbrella's founders.

One member of the USS; agent "HUNK", appears first in a mini-game in Resident Evil 2, wherehis goal is to reach an evacuation point with a sample of the G-virus Also it has not been

confirmed that more than one of the team that was sent to retrieve the G-Virus survived theattack.

U.S.S. agents are always depicted in solid-color gray fatigues, wearing protective vests and gas

masks, and are usually armed with MP5 submachine guns.

Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service Edit

The Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service, orUBCS, specializes in rescue operationsduring biohazard outbreaks. The UBCS is composed of "nightmen," mostly former mercenaries

and war criminals, recruited by Umbrella and trained to deal with "problems caused by illegalproducts." Their uniform consists of tactical vests, green shirts and tan or cream-colored slacks.

They are usually armed with M4 Carbine.

The unit consists of about 120 operatives, divided between four platoons. They were sent toRaccoon City during the outbreak, although most of the UBCS members died.

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