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 is also one of the four former S.T.A.R.S. members still alive (the others being Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Barry Burton).

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

First Mission


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 realized that the train's controls were damaged while speeding up, meaning that it would de-rail and crash; killing them, if they don't use the train's emergency brakes. 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 insanity, and the growing rivalry between two employees, one of whom suspiciously named Albert Wesker - the head of S.T.A.R.S..

Searching for Billy
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 losing 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 in 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. Rebecca stole Billy's Dog Tags - a symbol of a soldier's death - to give Billy a Chance at Freedom. Afterwards, Billy walked into the trees, never to be seen again. Looking down the cliff edge, Rebecca noticed another mansion; which she remembered Enrico having told her about.

Finding Bravo Team/ A New Nightmare
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 bite mark [was] huge". . Chris then goes to find the serum to save Richard.

Help Arrives
Alpha team was sent to rescue Bravo team and Rebecca was found by Alpha team member Chris Redfield, whose 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.

Eventually, the two uncovered that the 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 monstrous 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.

Upon her return to civilization, Rebecca wrote a police report detailing Billy Coen's "death". What happened to her after that is unknown, but it is evident she returned to society outside of Raccoon City following it's demise.

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 Zero 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.

The Mercenaries
Rebecca is a playable character in Mercenaries Reunion mode for Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition. Her updated character model has the same outfit from Resident Evil 0, with the exception of two spray bottles on her belt (which she is able to use), different gloves and minus symbols instead of crosses on her back vest and pack. One of these bottles contains tear spray to stun enemies, while the other contains a flammable spray used to set enemies on fire. Unfortunately, unlike most other characters most of Rebecca's melee attacks do not instantly kill, and require more shots to kill with a melee.

She carries only two weapons:
 * 1) The Heckler & Koch MP5 machine gun with 120 loaded shots (and 300 machine gun ammo on backup); and
 * 2) The Jail Breaker shotgun with 10 loaded shots(and 60 shotgun shells on backup)

George A. Romero's unproduced script
Rebecca also appears in George A. Romero's unproduced script based on the first game, filling the same role as she did in the game, meanig she was a medic of S.T.A.R.S.

Novels
Rebecca also played an important role in the S.D. Perry series of novella. She has appeared in the following:
 * Resident Evil: Zero Hour - a novelization of Resident Evil Zero;
 * Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy - the novelization of the original 1996 game;
 * Resident Evil: Caliban Cove - an original novel set in between the events of Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2.
 * Resident Evil: Underworld - an original novel set after the novelisation of Resident Evil 2.

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.


 * Rebecca is the sole survivor of S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team during the Mansion Incident.


 * In Resident Evil 2, if you check the S.T.A.R.S.. group photo in the RPD S.T.A.R.S. office, Rebecca is missing. This is because she wasn't hired when the group photo was taken. Even though Rebecca is not in the S.T.A.R.S. group photo you can still find a photograph of her in Wesker's desk if you check his desk fifty times.


 * Rebecca can play the piano, though was not as skilled as Jill Valentine or Billy Coen.


 * The BioHazard Archives lists her as deceased after the Raccoon City Outbreak, though 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.


 * Resident Evil is currently the last game Rebecca appeared in the chronological canon. Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition is Rebecca's latest game appearance, albeit as non-canon.


 * Rebbeca is the only character who carries 2 healing items in her inventory in either Mercenaries mode. Most likely because she is a medic.
 * Even though Rebbeca is wearing her costume from the Resident Evil remake. In the Mercenaries Reunion, She does not have a Bullet Proof vest in her inventory.

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