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| Resident Evil 1: The Remake : Wesker's Report II |
| The following report has been translated from japanese to english. Some of the grammar may be a little rough.
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| Note: I would like to thank Leon for his help in translating this section. |
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On this day, a ten-year old girl was deployed to Umbrella's Arctic facility as a
Head Researcher. Her name was Alexia Ashford. At that time, I was
twenty-one and Birkin was nineteen. Ruefully, the rumor of "Alexia in the
Arctic" occupied our topics at the Arkley Facility.
The Ashford House was
a legend among long-time employees.
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Whenever our research didn't go well, the unskilled old researchers would say,
"If only Professor Edward were still alive..." Certainly, Edward Ashford
was one of the founders of the "starting virus" and might be the greatest
scientist ever since he established the T-virus plan.
However, Edward
died soon after Umbrella was founded. It has been thirteen years since his
death. After all that time, I wondered what we expected from Ashford
House.
To tell the truth, the Arctic Facility that his son established,
had not developed anything for thirteen years since Edward's death. His
granddaugter Alexia's brain might not be good enough.
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However, after that day, our useless older scientists began to say instead "if
only Alexia were here..." I believed these old men didn't have any future
because they judged people solely on the name of their family or their
blood. That's why they could not work without any direction and could not
ever get promoted when they were old enough to have one leg in the
coffin. However, I remained sensible.
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If I was too hot about this issue as a manager, the Arkley Facility's T-virus
development would run late. Under these circumstances, if we didn't judge
the situation calmly, we would not succeed.
At that time, I thought that
if I used these old men well, the results of our research would show progress. I
also thought the scientists were suitable for the very dangerous experiments
because they were so old. After all, If I didn't use my workers
efficiently, I wouldn't be such a higher manager.
However, Birkin was now
a problem. His reaction to the Alexia rumors were miserable.
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Although Birkin would never admit it, he was proud of becoming the youngest
manager at sixteen. However, a ten-year-old girl had just broken his
pride completely. It was the first time Birkin had ever been
defeated. He couldn't admit that a young girl from a famous family had
defeated him.
Indeed, he was just a child. Although Birkin had an
immature mind we needed him to get over it, because our research had been in
the second phase for three years.
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At this point of the T-virus development, the production of the "Human
biological weapon" the so called "Zombie" was stable. There was not 100%
virus infection to DNA. There are so many kinds of chemical differences among
people.
If a group of people reveived the infection from a "Zombie", ten
percent of them would not get infected. We can't change this result even though
we continuously studied the DNA. If 90% of people got the infection, this would
be enough to be a weapon. However, Spencer's opinion was different. Our
boss wanted an independent weapon that killed 100% of the
people. However, for what?
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Originally, the advantage of biochemical weapons was that they were cheap to
develop. However, our research into the "Human biological weapon" was getting
expensive.
If Spencer wanted to get money the ordinary way, he would not
have chosen such a method. If he used this as an ordinary weapon system,
he would get enough money. However, if he continued to study it as an
independent weapon, it would be too expensive.
Why does he continue this
research even though it costs so much? I would understand if he aimed at
a monopoly of all military industry to change the general idea of war.
So I still don't know Spencer's real intention.
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Apart from Spencer's real intention, what Birkin considered an ideal "Human
biological weapon" was what he attached as a weapons importance to the battle
field of that time. He tried to create that weapon by not only changing
the T-virus DNA but also incorporating other creature's DNA
information.
He devised a Human biological weapon for battle that
destroys people who are armored or recieved a vaccination for the virus. This
experiment was called the "Hunter" in later times. However, that
experiment had to stop for a while to protect our main experiment.
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Birkin felt it meaningless to compete against Alexia. He began to act like
losing was standard behavior. He stayed at the facility twenty-four hours
a day and continuously experimented on casual ideas with no plan.
I tried
to use other researchers to extract as many biological samples as possible
before the experiment bodies died. However, I could not catch up with the speed
of Birkin's experiments.
The facility head supplied new experiment bodies
and acted like nothing was wrong. However, those bodies were dying
continuously. That place was like hell.
However, the "woman
experiment's" body was the only one who survived that hell.
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She was already twenty-eight. That is, she has been in this facility for
fourteen years. She might not have any thinking ability as a human since
getting the "Starting virus". If she had her mind, her only hope would be
death.
However, she survived. I wondered why she was the only
one who survived for such a long time because the data of her experiment was not
any different from the other bodies we experimented on. Until we solved
this mystery, we needed more time
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