Rockfort Island Incident

This incident at Rockfort Island starting on the 27th of December 1998 was one of several t-viral outbreaks.

This outbreak, unlike other t-viral outbreaks was not caused by the Umbrella Corporation, but by the Organisation when the latter sent a team of special forces under the command of ex-Umbrella employee Albert Wesker to attack the island with the aim of locating and capturing Alexia Ashford and/or a sample of her experimental T-Veronica virus.

The initial viral release is theorised by Chris Redfield to have come from the basement of the military training facility, within a small laboratory. The outbreak quickly infected much of the islands population, although some managed to escape to Antarctica via the island's cargo planes, the virus was already onboard at least one, and all survivors were dead or infected by the time Rockfort prisoners Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside reached Antarctica.

The outbreak ended when island commander Alfred Ashford set off the island's self destruct system and abandons the island for Antarctica. With it's entire population dead and it's most dangerous B.O.W.s (T-078, Gulp Worm, Albinoid) slain, the fate of the island remains unclear, but no further record is made in known Umbrella documents