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The Harvardville Bio terrorist attack ( ハーバードヴィルのバイオテロ hābādoviru no baio tero) was a t-Virus outbreak perpetrated by Former Umbrella Corporation employee & WP Corporation Head researcher; Frederic Downing and Former TerraSave member Dr. Curtis Miller. The Incident served as a field test to demonstrate to General Miguel Grandé, Downing's client, the power of the "t" and "G" viruses.[1]
History[]
Raccoon City Incident[]
(Necessary Context)
- See also: Raccoon City Destruction Incident
India Incident[]
(Necessary Context)
- See also: 2002 India bioterror attack
Terragrigia Panic[]
(Necessary Context)
- See also: Terragrigia Panic
As a result of the 2004 Terragrigia Panic, the effectiveness of bioweaponry was demonstrated to terrorist organizations, who sought to add viral weapons such as the t-Virus to their armories. WP Corporation, a major American pharmaceuticals manufacturer, was quickly hired by the Pentagon to develop a vaccine for the virus in order to limit the damage. Its Research & Development head, Dr. Frederic Downing, motivated by greed, instead plotted to destroy much of the vaccine and smuggle surviving samples to any interested black market buyers along with the virus itself.
Planning[]
Downing constructed a large plan that would allow him to escape while shifting any blame onto others. In the first stage of the plan, Downing sold t-Virus samples to a small terrorist cell of Miguel Grandé loyalists around August 2005. Terrorists had previously used the virus in a bioterror attack in India. In accordance with the top-secret Anti-Virus Weapon Protocol No. 7600, President Graham ordered for immediate military aid to assist in eradicating the biohazard threat, hiring the WP Corporation as a private contractor to provide its experimental t-Vaccine for their efforts, despite the unethical nature of testing new vaccines on humans. TerraSave, at the time still a small American NGO and protest group, was "leaked" purposefully limited information as to the attack by Downing, leading them to believe that the WP Corporation had conducted illegal and inhumane vaccine trials in India which they were attempting to cover-up. The resulting pressure weakened the WP Corporation's stocks, and put the company in danger.
In the second part of the plan, took place in November, Downing provided Curtis Miller with samples of the t-Virus. Having lost his family in the 1998 Raccoon City Destruction Incident and having grievances with both the WP Corporation and the United States government, Downing intended to have Curtis (having already been ejected as a member of TerraSave for his extremist behaviors) publicly commit the attacks in Harvardville, so that his role in events would go unnoticed. Curtis met with either Downing, or a representative of his, at the Savoy Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
Finally, Downing planned to distribute the WP Corporation's entire shipment of the t-Vaccine to assist in the planned attack. This would work to limit the initial damage and prove its usefulness before having them destroyed in order to make the samples sold to terrorists the only ones in existence while, again, blaming everything on Miller.
Airport Incident[]
Airdome Incident[]
Outcome[]
Further Notes[]
Appearances[]
- Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) (first appearance)
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015) (mentioned)
- Resident Evil 6 (2012) (mentioned)
- Resident Evil: Death Island (2023) (mentioned)