Rebecca Chambers

The name is Rebecca Chambers, but that's 'Officer Chambers' to you!

Rebecca Chambers was a rookie member of the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team, with experience in the field of biochemistry. She was the sole survivor of the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team after the events of July, 1998, and also one of the four former S.T.A.R.S. members still alive.

Background
A gifted girl, Rebecca was able to graduate university by the age of 18. Her expertise in chemistry and medicine earned her a position in S.T.A.R.S. as Rear Security (RS) for Bravo team. She became the unit's youngest (and most inexperienced) member which made her quite nervous around her teammates. Because of this, she is eager to please and has been known to take on any task assigned to her without hesitation.

Arklay Mountains incident


My first mission and I've already disobeyed orders. So much for my great law enforcement career.

On July 23, 1998, Rebecca was sent in to the Arklay Mountains on her first case to investigate a series of cannibalistic homicides. Bravo team's helicopter broke down over the Forest and an emergency landing was made, the team did not know that this was intentional. During Bravo team's search of the area, they discovered the wreckage of a military police van, along with the corpses of the driver and guard, along with the document of a prisoner: Billy Coen, who was being transported to a Military base for Execution.

Upon further investigation of the area, Rebecca broke from the group and uncovered the Umbrella Corporation's private company train, the Ecliptic Express. Within the train, Rebecca immediately encountered the passengers, who had already succumbed to t-virus infection and turned into zombies as a result of an earlier attack. Rebecca was able to fend for herself for a time and met the fugitive, Billy Coen. After witnessing the death of Bravo team member Edward Dewey, as well as the appearance of mutated animals, Rebecca and Billy made a temporary alliance and teamed up.

The train began to move again, due to the dexterous manipulations of Umbrella operatives already sent by Wesker and Birkin. Securing the control cabin, the train was sped up to reach Umbrella's former training facility within ten minutes. } The team was attacked by mutated leeches, who had adopted a hive-mind. Rebecca and Billy managed to reach the cabin after finding the keycard hidden in a briefcase.

Finding the controls locked, Billy realised that the train would crash were it to reach a siding or corner. Rebecca ran to the rear of the train to activate the emergency brake controls on that side, while Billy stayed in the cabin to operate the brake controls in there. On her way, she discovered that Edward was alive, though now a Zombie. Unable to stop him walking to her, hungry for flesh, Rebecca was forced to kill him.

Rebecca and Billy finally activated the emergency brakes, but it was too late to stop the train. The train exploded through a tunnel into the Training facility's station, impacting on the track's buffers and its carriages hurled across the room. Despite the odds, the two survived the crash in good condition.

Now on new ground, the two explored the expansive mansion and its laboratory, uncovering brief, dark moments in the facility's history, such as the use of Bio-organic weapons, the director's developing instanity, and the growing rivalry between two employees, one of whom suspiciously named Albert Wesker - the head of S.T.A.R.S..

The two would find trouble several times, however, leading to Rebecca being attacked by an enormous centipede, and nearly falling to her death after being attacked by a monkey. The two soon uncovered further 'dark' deeds, such as Human experimentation.

After starting up an underground gondola, Billy pushed Rebecca out of the way of an attacking Eliminator, the two falling down into the waters below. On her own, she made it to the other side, where she found captain Enrico. Telling him about loosing Billy, Enrico agrees to let her look for him, as long as she be careful. After this, he heads back to his team's meeting point.

On her way to an elevator, the steel shutter behind her closed, and a monster attacked from behind the rubble. Defeating the beast, she went down the elevator and found Billy on the water below. After activating the facility's dam, the two found each other, but to their horror, the bones of many people used in the director's experiments had been thrown around where they were standing. Determined to get out of the place alive, the two fought insurmountable odds before reaching the exit. There, they found the director - James Marcus, unusually youthful looking for an elderly man.

The doctor explained to them his gruesome death at the hands of Umbrella and with his trusting students Albert and William, and his rebirth from his leeches - he is the man who spread the t-virus. The doctor suddenly began to vomit out leeches before mutating into a sickening Leech-like foe.

Although he seemed impervious to firearms, Rebecca and Billy quickly discovered that Marcus was vulnerable to sunlight. . Billy baited Marcus while Rebecca was opening the roof hatch eventually exposing Marcus to the light of day. Rebecca tossed Billy a Magnum, who fired at the creature in its weakened state, killing it. The monster plummeted down a cargo elevator shaft, while flames went up as the facility's auto-destruct timer ended. The two escaped just before the training facility/mansion exploded. Billy gave Rebecca his dog tag - a symbol of a soldier's death - and walked into the trees, never to be seen again. Looking down the cliff edge, Rebecca noticed another mansion, which she remembered Enrico telling her about.

Mansion incident
Rebecca reached the mansion later that morning, only to find no one there. Tired from her experiences the previous night, she fell asleep in one of the servant residence's bedrooms, where she was awoken by fellow Bravo team member Richard Aiken.

The two searched the grounds for Marini, whom they relied on for safety after the team split up. However, due to a heightened amount of Web Spinners, the two were forced to abort the search of the grounds and went into the mansion, unaware that their captain would soon come into the dark tunnels near the spider's den. While in the attic, Richard was attacked by a poisonous snake, "but the size of the bightmark [was] huge".

Alpha team was sent to rescue Bravo team and Rebecca was found by Alpha team member Chris Redfield, whos team faced a similar problem to the Bravos. Richard would give Chris his radio so he could call for help, not knowing that it was broken.

Rebecca helped Chris with the numerous puzzles on the grounds, such as the playing of the Moonlight Sonata on a piano to uncover a secret hiding place, and saving Chris from a gigantic plant with her chemical knowlege.

Eventually, the two uncovered that Alpha team leader, Albert Wesker, was the one who masterminded the deaths of several S.T.A.R.S. members and was personally responsible for Enrico Marini's assassination.

After awakening the monsterous Tyrant T-002, he was swiftly impaled by its claws. After escaping it, Chris and Rebecca, along with Alpha team members Jill Valentine and Barry Burton headed up for the heliport after the Mansion's auto-destruct was activated.

The creature would heal from its wounds and attack the surviving S.T.A.R.S. mercilessly. Luckily, Alpha team's pilot Brad Vickers flew over and dropped a Rocket launcher to be used on the monster. After the beast was eradicated by the explosive missile, the four escaped with Brad back home.

Wardrobe
In the original Resident Evil, Rebecca is seen wearing her S.T.A.R.S. uniform, a green t-shirt and pants with a white bulletproof vest. The red cross symbol is printed on the back of her vest to indicate that she is a medic. She also wears black, fingerless gloves and boots. She also wore a red headband and white earrings, which had been omitted in the remake and Resident Evil 0.

In the Arranged Mode featured in Resident Evil: Director's Cut, she wore a streamlined, burgundy-colored version of her uniform, which consisted of shorts and a T-shirt. In the Resident Evil remake, her alternate costume is a cowgirl outfit consisting of a brown cowboy vest, boots and jeans shorts. This costume was carried over to Resident Evil 0 along with another alternate costume consisting of leather pants and a halter top with long fingerless gloves. In the Rebirth Mode of Resident Evil DS', she also has a bikini as one of her costumes and has a cheerleader costume.

Trivia

 * Rebecca's overall appearance in RE0 was modeled after popstar Ayumi Hamasaki, who was the official spokeswoman for Biohazard 0 in Japan.


 * Rebecca is the shortest female main character in the Resident Evil series.


 * A Photograph of Rebecca can be found in Resident Evil 2 if you examine Wesker's desk fifty times.


 * The BioHazard Archives lists her as deceased after the Raccoon City Outbreak, although this was considered one of the Archive's many mistakes. Her status was confirmed in the History files in Resident Evil 5, where she is listed as being one of the surviving members of S.T.A.R.S.