Golgotha Virus



The G-Virus (short for "God virus")  is a highly-advanced strain of the Progenitor Virus possessing fierce-regenerative abilities capable of essentially granting infectees biological immortality. Its main function was the creation of "G-Creatures", a new life form designed for use as a B.O.W. (Bio Organic Weapon) that could breed through sex. However, at some point during its development, its focus turned to its potential for creating "G-Humans", a superior human race.

Transmission
As with its t-Virus, Umbrella considered the G-Virus' primary means of infection to be through injections. To date, only two individuals have been witnessed underground primary infection: Dr. William Birkin and Curtis Miller. Unlike creatures created by the t-Virus, "G"s cannot pass infection on to other creatures through physical contact and injury (eg. bites and open wounds).

The secondary infection is drastically-different, and relates to the "G"s' reproductive system. If a "G" decides upon using a human as a breeding tool, they will impregnate the individual with an embryo through oral-implantation with its reproductive organ, seen on William to be on his hand.

Should the host be of a complementary genetic similarity to the parasite - generally through identical blood groups, as with William and his daughter, Sherry - then a bond between the two will form, leading to the host's assimilation by the parasite, and subsequent mutation into a creature perhaps comparable to the first "G". To date, this occurrence has not been recorded as having happened due to the rarity of G-Virus usage. The only successfully-implanted host with a DNA match - Sherry Birkin - was saved from assimilation by the experimental G-Vaccine, codenamed DEVIL, before mutation could occur with help from her mother, Annette, and Claire Redfield. In unfortunate cases, a host who has no compatible DNA match will reject the parasite in a matter of minutes. The embryo rapidly grows inside its host before bursting from their chest. Upon exiting the host body, the embryo quickly mutates into its adult form.

Microbiology And History
The primary characteristic of the G-virus was its ability to create new life forms able to breed and self-evolve. This set it apart from the t-virus, which only caused single-generation mutations. When administered, the virus creates cells within the host known as "G-Cells" that begin to fuse with host's own somatic cells. If the virus is able to spend sufficient time within a host body and achieve a successful fusion, it would bestow benefits such as superior vitality and regenerative ability while not affecting the host's self-consciousness and intelligence. When the G-virus suddenly and rapidly rewrites a creature's DNA without sufficient time, a fault occurs. The G-Cells begin to erode flesh and rearrange the creature's entire anatomy, causing it to mutate and evolve into a new life form and lose its self-consciousness and intelligence. A primitive form of the virus was discovered in the mutated body of Lisa Trevor, on whom the Umbrella Corporation had been conducting unethical genetic and viral experiments for three decades. When she displayed unexpected immune resistance to the experimental NE-α Type parasite, Birkin and other researchers looked for a cause and found what would later become the G-Virus. The virus was subsequently developed by Umbrella Corporation scientist William Birkin, who had also claimed credit for James Marcus' work on the t-virus.

Treatment and vaccine development
Alongside work on the G-Virus, Drs. William and Annette Birkin also devised the DEVIL vaccine to suppress the virus' take-over of the body. However, as the vaccine could only be injected into an infectee who still had not succumbed to the virus, its only realistic usage would be the administration of hosts - particularly hosts genetically-similar to the "G". When Sherry Birkin was vaccinated, some aspects of the virus was preserved within her DNA. In the same vain as Lisa Trevor, Sherry developed extraordinary regenerative abilities, though no where near what she could have been capable of if un-vaccinated. Right Now, Her Aging Process has stopped around 20 and she has a viral resistance.