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Nemesis-T Type (ネメシス-T型 nemeshishu-tī-gata?) was a series of experimental Bio Organic Weapons. Created by Umbrella Europe's No. 6 Laboratory, the Nemesis-T Types were the culmination of the Nemesis Project with the successful implantation of NE-α parasites within T-103 hosts, presenting Umbrella with a highly intelligent and powerful creature. Several Nemesis-T Types were produced, though only one - Nemesis-T02 - is known to have experienced combat. This individual was sent in Raccoon City and nicknamed the "Pursuer (追跡者 tuisekisha?)".

Model history[]

Origins[]

Umbrella Pharmaceuticals's ultimate goal was the creation of Bio Organic Weaponry to sell to the US Army and, through accumulated revenue, fund its own eugenics program. A major flaw found during the t-Virus Project was that sub-par intelligence was an almost unavoidable side-effect and, as a result, R&D projects typically ruled against the practicality of uncontrollable B.O.W.s on the battlefield.[2][3][excerpt 1] Though the Hunter Project was promising, the clone species' intelligence still limited them to knowing ten commands.[4] To become truly military-grade, Umbrella needed to develop B.O.W.s with near or like human intelligence.

By 1988 Umbrella USA and Umbrella Europe were competing to do just this. Umbrella USA's Arklay Laboratory set up the Tyrant Project, which aimed to create human mutants without loss of intelligence. Umbrella Europe's No.6 Laboratory, meanwhile, began the Nemesis Project, which aimed to create parasitic organisms that would take over brain functions in a B.O.W. host. Both projects reached impasses which would not be resolved for years to come, with the Tyrant Project lacking results for most of the next decade until the completion of T-002, and the Nemesis Project finding no hosts which could survive the procedure.[2]

Re-development[]

By the Summer of 1998, Umbrella USA had successfully created not only the T-002, but a series of genetically altered clones dubbed the "T-103"s. The destruction of the Arklay Laboratory following a biological disaster presented Umbrella with fresh concerns as to the reliability of its products after it emerged that the RPD's S.T.A.R.S. unit had not only succeeded in killing the failed and outdated prototypes but the T-002 itself. Restarting the Nemesis Project, Umbrella Europe requisitioned several of the new T-103 clones to serve as test subjects. The NE-α parasites planted within their bodies succeeded in hijacking brain functions without killing the hosts.[3] Soon after this procedure, however, at least two of the Nemesis-T Types demonstrated completely unexpected senses of ego and self-awareness, and made an attempt to escape from their laboratory.[5][excerpt 2]

The Pursuer[]

When Umbrella got word of a t-Virus outbreak in Raccoon City, Umbrella Europe began shipping its B.O.W.s over to the city to take advantage of the crisis. Per HQ's plan, the U.B.C.S. were to engage these B.O.W.s, and Monitors in the city were instructed to record the B.O.W.s' combat skills to verify their reliability as military products. With Umbrella wanting vengeance for the destruction of T-002, Nemesis-T02 was given instructions to hunt down and kill S.T.A.R.S. members, of whom it was shown photographs of so they could be recognised.[6][excerpt 3] It was taken into the city by helicopter, and provided with heavy weaponry including a rocket launcher.[6][excerpt 4]

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Nemesis attacks the surviving S.T.A.R.S. members.

When the Pursuer entered the city, only two S.T.A.R.S. members were left: Brad Vickers and Jill Valentine. The first target it was able to track down was Vickers on or before the night of Monday 28 September. Vickers was able to alert Valentine, and the Pursuer ultimately failed to kill Vickers, either losing track of him completely or him being wounded and mutating into a Zombie.[7] Regardless, its attention focused instead on Valentine, and alongside several ambushes in Downtown Raccoon City also covertly observed Valentine making contact with surviving U.B.C.S. mercenaries, which it considered secondary targets.[6][excerpt 5] One of these targets was Sgt. Nikolai Zinoviev, a Monitor who had been tasked with evaluating the Pursuer's prowess; fearing for his life, he faked his death in the hope his meeting with Valentine was not noticed. Later in the night, the Pursuer made its move on Valentine when a Downtown train or tram she was sheltering in departed. The attempt on her life failed, and Cpt. Mikhail Viktor seriously wounded it in a suicide bombing, and the parasite's secretions promoted mutation as a means of recovering.

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Nemesis attacking Jill with its tentacle, and thus, infecting her.

Accounts differ as to the Pursuer's actions following the failed attack, though in both it confronted Valentine outside the St. Michael Clock Tower and failed though was successful in infecting her with a strain of t-Virus. In one account, this confrontation happened after it downed a UBCS chinook with a rocket launcher, and was forced back by Cpl. Carlos Oliveira before passing out in the flaming ruins. In another, this confrontation was immediately after escaping the derelict train, and Oliveira arrived after its defeat. In spite of its injuries, the Pursuer survived on albeit in a considerably deformed and mentally primitive state compared with when it arrived in the city.

There are altogether three distinct accounts of the Pursuer's actions in the city on Thursday 1 October. In two accounts, the Pursuer followed Valentine to Incineration Disposal Plant P-12A they were separated after one fell off a bridge; following this it may have spotted and killed Zinoviev though there is evidence to suggest he escaped unharmed. While fighting Valentine in a treatment room, it was exposed to highly corrosive chemicals which destroyed the Tyrant; the surviving parasite then mutated out of control and dragged the remains of its host out into a scrap yard where it was mortally wounded by a US Army experimental railgun, the Sword of Paracelsus and either succumbed to its wounds minutes later or was shot repeatedly by Valentine. In a third account, the Pursuer instead tracked Valentine to NEST 2, a B.O.W. testing facility underneath Spencer Memorial Hospital. There it killed Tyrell Patrick, another mercenary who was working with Valentine, before fighting her at the facility's own dedicated treatment plant where it was exposed to corrosive chemicals. With the Tyrant dead, the parasite mutated out of control into a massive blob, and was killed when Valentine fired an experimental Umbrella railgun, the FINGeR, at it.

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excerpts
  1. Excerpt from Conquest of Nemesis: "寄生生物「NE-α型」――通称ネメシスによって外部から悩を制御させることで、 T-ウィルスの副次的作用である知性の著しい低下を克服した最新B.O.W.。 ベースとなっているのは、 すでにある程度の完成度を持つ量産型タイラントだが、 被支配関係にあるネメシスが分泌する細胞賦活成分の影響で、 その外観はより怪物じみたものへと変容している。 思考能力は徒来のB.O.W.にくらべ格段に高く、 自己の判断で継続的に任務を遂行するほか、 ロケットランチャーなど専門的な知識を必要とする武装を、 状況に応じて使いわけることさえも可能。 全身を包むコートは防弾・耐爆仕様で、 万一の爆走を抑える拘束衣の役割をも果たしている。"
  2. Excerpt from Complete Conquest of Nemesis, p.81: "”洋館事件” で得られた貴重な実戦データの検証により、 アンブレラの生物兵器研究チームは、 T-ウィルスを用いて造られたB.O.W.のほとんどが、 そのままでは”商品”たり得ないほどに低い知性しか持ち合わせていないという事実を認識するに至った。 究極の完成体と考えられていたタイラントでさえ、 命令を満足に実行することはできなかった――この結果に対し、 各支部の研究チームはそれぞれに異なるアプローチで知性向上の可能性を模索することになる。 その回答のひとつとして提示されたのが、 本社直属のヨーロッパ支部で以前から研究がつづけられていた、 まったく別種の新生物を寄生させることでB.O.W.の能力を強化しつつ、 その頭脳をも完全に支配下においてコントロールしようという独創的な、 そしてより悪魔的な生体改造法であった。 そうして開発されたのが、 寄生生物「NE-α型」――通称ネメシスである。 これらは細胞レベルで生物兵器の脊髄に移植されると、 その体内のT-ウィルス細胞を取りこんで増殖し、 延髄付近に独自の脳を形成する。 同時に中枢神経を侵食して宿主の前頭葉を破壊し、 残る脳機能をすべて自己の脳と連動するよう神経回路を改変してしまう。 このようにしてネメシスは宿主に成りかわって思考をつかさどり、 肉体を我がものとして完全に制御するのである。 なお、 これらを最新型のタイラントに移植した実験体「ネメシスーT型」に関しては、 興味深い報告がなされている。 ネメシスの培養過程で自我が芽生え、 仲間とともに施設から脱走をくわだてたという事例である。 それは実験体の知性が飛躍的に向上したことを示すとともに、 B.O.W.が人類に反旗をひるがえす新たな知的生命体となり得る危険性をも示唆している。そのとき、 人類は生き残れるのだろうか――?".
  3. Excerpt from Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura: Q4. How does the Pursuer seem to find S.T.A.R.S. members? A4. The Pursuer's development team were also in charge of educating it; an officer would bait the Pursuer with footage of the S.T.A.R.S. members. Since the Pursuer is intelligent, it understood and carried out its orders.
  4. Excerpt from Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura: Q2. The Pursuer, through what method was it inserted into Raccoon City? A2. The Tyrant was airlifted by a dedicated carrier such as a helicopter. Also, the Hunters were brought in in large numbers by land.
  5. Excerpt from Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura: Q18. Why did the Pursuer kill Nikolai? A18. The Pursuer saw Nikolai and Jill interact, watching them talking several times and recognised Nikolai as an associate of Jill's. "That woman is dangerous......" - his concern became a reality and he lost his life.
references
  1. Capcom. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. (Capcom Co., Ltd.). File: Nemesis T-Type (Pursuer) Notes.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Wesker's Report Ⅱ.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Conquest of Nemesis, p.78.
  4. Takeo (ed.), Inside of BIO-HAZARD, p.53.
  5. Complete Conquest of Nemesis, p.81.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura.
  7. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), scene: "Imminent Slaughter".
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