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| − | |name = Sergei Vladimir |
+ | |name = Sergei Vladimir<br />Сергей Владимир |
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|died = February 18, 2003 |
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|R/N = Caucasian/Russian |
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| − | |occupation = Soviet Army Colonel (?-1992)<br/>UBCS Commander<br/>Leader of [[Monitor]]<br/>Umbrella Executive |
+ | |occupation = Soviet Army Colonel (?-1992)<br />UBCS Commander<br />Leader of [[Monitor]]<br />Umbrella Executive |
|status = Deceased |
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{{For|the Anderson universe counterpart|Sergei Vladimir (Anderson)}} |
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==Biography== |
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| + | During the Soviet-Afghan War, Vladimir served as a ''Polkovnik'' (полковник) in one of the [[Wikipedia:Soviet Army|Soviet Army]]'s Spetsnaz forces. As part of a research project in human cloning, he became father to ten humans, each with their growth accelerated to appear roughly his own. The unit fought together against the Mujahideen, and was withdrawn by 1989. He may have known [[Nikolai Zinoviev]] during his work there, as they would become close friends.<ref name=":0">''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), file: "[[Letter from Sergei to Nicholai]]".</ref> The Soviet defeat, mixed with economic stagnation and new media freedoms, resulted in the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. No longer financially capable of funding such a massive military, the newly-emerged Russian Federation began a two-year Army re-organisation and dismantling effort, which saw many Soviet soldiers discharged and left unemployed. |
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{{Quote|When my country was ruined, I had no place left to call home. Spencer gave me a home and a purpose!}} |
{{Quote|When my country was ruined, I had no place left to call home. Spencer gave me a home and a purpose!}} |
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| + | Not long after the Soviet collapse, the [[Umbrella Corporation]] took advantage of mass unemployment of soldiers to expand its paramilitary organisations. Vladimir and Zinoviev were both approached, among others, due to their talents, and accepted the offers. Finding he was one of a small group of people genetically compatible with the experimental [[ε strain]], Umbrella insisted he hand over the clones to take part in preliminary human research on their Tyrant Project, which planned to create supersoldiers for the US military. Though he had grown a very close bond to the men, seeing them as a part of himself, he nonetheless sold them out to Umbrella, seeing their sacrifice as an unfortunate but necessary evil.<ref name=":0" /> |
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| + | During the early 1990s, Vladimir led the expansion of these paramilitaries with the founding of the [[Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service]]. In keeping with his Army training, Vladimir remained loyal to Umbrella CEO Dr. [[Oswell E. Spencer, Earl Spencer|Oswell E. Spencer]], and would enforce obedience to him through the use of the Monitors, a private security force with agents within Umbrella's paramilitaries.<ref name=":1">''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), file: "[[Sergei Vladimir Profile]]".</ref> Following his surrender of the clones for Tyrant research, Vladimir became closely tied to the [[Tyrant Project]] as it moved on to production models,<ref name=":1"/> and would even lead the proposal for the [[Talos Project]], a next-generation B.O.W. to succeed the [[T-002]], using microprocessors linked to the brain.<ref>''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), file: "[[Talos Project Proposal]]".</ref> He also became a rival of Dr. [[Albert Wesker]], a former member of the Tyrant Project who had moved to Umbrella's Intelligence Division, and treated him with suspicion. |
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| − | In the Gorbachev era, Sergei Vladimir served at the rank of Colonel in the [[Wikipedia:Soviet Army|Soviet Army]]. In the early 1990s the [[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union collapsed]] and the Army began a two year process of disarming. During this time Sergei was retired from duty. At this point in time the Umbrella Corporation began recruiting within the new Russian Federation into their paramilitary forces. Sergei became aware of this and joined them, seeing the private military of Lord Oswell E. Spencer as comparable with the old dictatorship which he grieved the loss of. His rank and experience earned him the role as Colonel of the UBCS.<ref>''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), file: "[[Sergei Vladimir Profile]]".</ref> |
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| − | Sergei was also involved in [[Tyrant]] research, and his experience in military affairs had made him instrumental in the founding of Umbrella’s private militia, the [[Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service]]. |
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| − | During his time at Umbrella, Sergei grew a heated rivalry with another close employee of Spencer, [[Albert Wesker]]. Wesker seemed to have ulterior motives and grew suspicious of Spencer's intentions as well. Sergei believed that Wesker could not be trusted and would inevitably betray the company and its leader. Both men were always at each other's throats, and as Wesker's superior, Sergei was often displeased to find Wesker not obeying orders to the letter and would never hesitate to punish him for failure or remind him who was in charge. Wesker did not seem to be daunted by Sergei's threats, but the two men held a mutual respect for one another regardless and kept a close eye on one another. |
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| − | {{Quote|The Tyrants are my brothers, and my brothers and I will issue in a new era for all mankind!}} |
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| − | As one of the rare individuals whose genetic make-up was capable of producing a Tyrant, Sergei became the genetic model for the majority of Umbrella's later Tyrant program, beyond the [[Proto Tyrant (T-001 Model)|T-001]] and [[Tyrant (T-002 Model)|T-002]] projects initiated by the team led by Albert Wesker and [[William Birkin]]. Sergei also ordered the re-engineering of two [[Tyrant (T-103 Model)|T-103]] Tyrants in order to produce his personal bodyguards, known as "[[Ivan]]". The 10 clones of Sergei would later form the basis of the T-103 model, which shaped every Umbrella manufactured Tyrant model thereafter. The mass production of T-103's which was spearheaded on [[Sheena Island]] was based on the initial Sergei clones, whilst T-103's implanted with the [[NE-α Type]] became [[Nemesis-T Type]]. |
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| − | Vladimir was also very involved in science works, and the Tyrant project. Although not as scientifically skilled as other noted scientists such as [[Alexia Ashford|Alexia]] and [[Alexander Ashford]], he was incredibly intelligent, and his masterpiece Tyrant was undoubtedly [[Tyrant-Armored Lethal Organic System|T-A.L.O.S.]], which he lead the creation of. He continually aided the production of his Ivans, mostly by contributing DNA and testing psychological variables he could create from the original T-103 line. Sergei saw the Tyrants as his "brothers" who would assist him in bringing about a new age under Umbrella's banner. |
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{{Quote|It's good that we can be honest with each other. That's the sign of a healthy relationship. It's a shame that this friendship has to end.}} |
{{Quote|It's good that we can be honest with each other. That's the sign of a healthy relationship. It's a shame that this friendship has to end.}} |
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| + | In May 1998, the ε strain escaped containment in the [[Arklay Laboratory]], causing a number of civilian casualties as well as contaminating other facilities in the [[Arklay Mountains]]. Behind closed doors this represented a major scandal within the corporation, and the possibility of having the Monitors purge disloyal executives became realistic. In July, [[Umbrella HQ]] received the findings from the [[Raccoon Disaster Contingency Committee]], and the Intelligence Division was given orders to blow up the laboratory in a mission dubbed "[[X-Day]]". In a letter from Zinoviev reporting this development, Vladimir was reminded that it would result in the destruction of T-011, their Talos Project candidate.<ref>''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), file: "[[Sealed Letter to Sergei Vladimir]]".</ref> By then the unfinished T-002 had already been superseded by the T-103 mass-production series, but Talos was still of research significance. |
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| + | Arriving in the United States, Vladimir travelled to the Arklay Mountains with his two [[Ivan]] bodyguards - two [[T-103]]s trained to follow his orders. Vladimir's first venture was not, however, to the lab, but to the nearby executive training center. The building, once used by Umbrella co-founder Dr. [[James Marcus]] for the training of new employees, had been abandoned for 20 years and was undergoing a survey ahead of re-opening when it was contaminated by the virus. Placed in charge of the project, Wesker and Dr. [[William Birkin]] instead made plans to detonate a bomb placed under the building. Vladimir warned Wesker about this decision, as it had not been proposed to Spencer first, and ordered one of his Ivans to fight him.<ref>''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), scene: "[[Beginnings 2 scene]]".</ref> When time ran out, he left with the Ivans to the Arklay Lab, leaving Wesker to escape from the bomb on his own.<ref>''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), scene: "[[Beginnings 2 ending]]".</ref> Suspicious of Wesker, who was to take part in [[X-Day]] evacuated the facility with T-011 and the U.M.F.-013, the lab's supercomputer which contained an archive of their research data. Walking straight outside, the Ivans protected him from the escaped Cerberus test subjects which had made the forest their territory.<ref>''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), scene: "[[Nightmare 2 scene 1]]".</ref> |
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| − | At the [[Umbrella Executive Training Center]], Sergei ordered one of his Ivans to "punish" Wesker for his failure to bring the facility up and running. Wesker barely escaped with his life, with only the destruction of the facility giving him a chance to escape, causing Sergei to say "I guess he didn't like his lesson". Afterwards, Sergei and his bodyguard went to the [[Arklay Mountains]]. [[Rebecca Chambers]] quietly watched him exit the mansion, alongside the Ivan carrying the T-A.L.O.S. prototype. They were attacked by a group of [[Cerberus]], but the Ivan easily dispatched them. He was also implied to have started the transfer of the [[Umbrella Archives]] from the [[Arklay Laboratory]] to the [[U.M.F.-013]] computer core during this time. |
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| − | As the head of the U.B.C.S, Sergei permit [[Nicholai Ginovaef|Nicholai]] to kill the other monitors to eradicate any evidence against Umbrella.<ref>[[Letter from Sergei to Nicholai]]</ref> |
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| − | Sergei was then sent to [[Raccoon City]] to retrieve the U.M.F.-013, which he had loaded all of Umbrella's data onto. The helicopter also transported an [[Umbrella executive]] on board, who thought Sergei was reckless for stealing the core from the company, despite the fact that it was at Spencer's orders. Sergei, being "unstable" for this move in the employee's eyes, took the remark as a joke and pointed out how none of history's heroes are stable in their actions. Sergei also acknowledged how the core's data would allow Umbrella to rise from the ashes of defeat. [[Ada Wong]], acting on a tip from Wesker, managed to hitch a ride on the computer core as it was towed away below the copter, going unnoticed by Sergei. The missile launched by the government destroyed Raccoon City the next moment, passing merely feet away from the helicopter as Sergei watched. |
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| + | In September 1998, increasing concern about Raccoon City's safety led Vladimir to mobilise the U.B.C.S. This suspicion proved real when a modified ε strain contaminated the city's drinking water the following week, causing a massive outbreak which mutated thousands into [[Zombies]]. The city was locked down on orders from the Pentagon, and the U.B.C.S. was sent into the city officially to assist in the rescue of civilians, but in fact to test out the mutants against a trained force, with the Monitors within the U.B.C.S. ordered to destroy incriminating evidence or evacuate with research. The outbreak was worse than Umbrella HQ had anticipated, and many of the mercenaries, some of them former Soviet soldiers, were massacred. On the night of 28 September, only two days after drop, Vladimir made preparations for taking direct control of all surviving equipment and personnel, effective at midnight on the 29th.<ref name=":2">''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), file: "[[Emergency Orders]]".</ref> When a helicopter returned from dropping off T-103s into the city, Vladimir boarded it and flew out to a facility he had evacuated the U.M.F.-013 to months earlier.<ref name=":2" /> The operation was a success, and he evacuated with it alongside an executive on the early hours of 1 October, moments before the city was destroyed in a military operation.<ref>''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles'' (2007), scene: "[[Death's Door 1 ending]]".</ref> |
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| − | Sergei saw himself going down in history as a hero because of the last task Oswell E. Spencer had left him with. After Raccoon City's destruction, the government got suspicious of Umbrella and its position in the world was dwindling, making it a sinking ship and no longer a sanctuary for his plans. Spencer had no choice but to further distance himself from the public eye, which he had never stayed close to in the first place. However, before going into hiding, Spencer needed someone to take charge of what was left of his corporation. He chose Sergei, his most faithful and loyal subordinate, confident he would be able to uphold the seemingly doomed company. Sergei was named the chief executive officer of Umbrella some time between 1998 and 2003. It is likely the two still maintained contact behind the scenes. As his first decree as Umbrella's leader, Sergei moved all company data and assets to the Caucasus facility disguised as an oil refinery. |
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===The Twilight of Umbrella=== |
===The Twilight of Umbrella=== |
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| + | In the aftermath of Raccoon City, the US government turned on Umbrella USA, federalising its assets and accusing them of liability over the deaths. This plunged the Umbrella Corporation into a lengthy and expensive legal battle known as the Raccoon Trials. Umbrella's ability to control its own workforce also deteriorated, and with the loss of the US military as a buyer, Vladimir moved their base of operations to a lab in the Caucasus below an oil refinery. There, the facility began mass-producing old B.O.W.s once considered failures, targeted instead for a terrorist buyer that would share the US' standards. Elsewhere in the facility, Vladimir oversaw the completion of the Talos Project. |
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| + | In early 2003, an accident happened at the facility, and a t-Virus strain leaked out once more. B.O.W.s escaped captivity and killed people in a nearby village, earning the attention of Wesker, who was seeking the U.M.F.-013 for his own ends. Along with Wesker came members of a privately funded anti-B.O.W. force funded by Umbrella's rivals, following the same trail. By this point the outbreak had spread to 98% of the research staff. While releasing Talos to confront the paramilitary group, Vladimir sent out his two Ivans to deal with Wesker, who had himself mutated to gain superhuman abilities since their last encounter. Ultimately, he was forced to fight him himself, infecting himself with a t-Virus strain. Being compatible with the virus, he mutated into a powerful creature with his arms fuses into a dangerous claw. Despite Vladimir's immense strength, agility and organic weaponry, Wesker destroyed him, putting an end to his delusions that Umbrella and the Tyrants, his "brothers", would usher in the return of Russia's glory. Despite being beaten and liquefying, Vladimir defiantly declared that "they" were "not done yet," implying that even while dying, he fully intended to continue fighting Wesker. The company's final leader defeated, Wesker stole all of the data, compressed into one disc, and shut down the Red Queen. The base was decommissioned and all data was erased in the process, ending Vladimir's plans and sealing Umbrella's fate. |
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| − | Wesker himself infiltrated the base at the same time a biohazard wiped out some 98% of the research staff. Wesker managed to take a train to the main shaft where he met Sergei a second time. This time, Sergei sent both of his Ivans to kill him. An attack team lead by [[Chris Redfield]] and [[Jill Valentine]] entered the base, with the intention of destroying Umbrella for good. None of that would have been possible if it was not for Wesker's actions. |
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| − | Sergei stood in the way of Wesker's attempt to steal the U.M.F.-013's data and, after releasing the T-A.L.O.S. to fight Chris and Jill, he mutated into a huge creature (indication that he infected himself moments before Wesker caught him). The tentacles binding his arms fused into one large tentacle. At the end of this appendage is a dangerous claw that can be used for movement or attacking. |
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| − | During the fight, Sergei seemed to enjoy the blows of pain Wesker issued to his weak point, evidencing a loss of sanity. Despite Sergei's immense strength, agility and organic weaponry, Wesker destroyed him, putting an end to his delusions that Umbrella and the Tyrants, his "brothers", would usher in a new era for mankind. The company's final leader defeated, Wesker stole all of the data, compressed into one disc, and shut down the Red Queen. The base was decommissioned and all data was erased in the process, ending Sergei's plans and sealing Umbrella's fate. |
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==Further Notes== |
==Further Notes== |
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*Moments before Chris and Jill's second battle with T-A.L.O.S. he gave a speech regarding how it was mutating out of control, however he was fighting Wesker at the same time and never comments on T.A.L.O.S during the battle. This is possibly an error. |
*Moments before Chris and Jill's second battle with T-A.L.O.S. he gave a speech regarding how it was mutating out of control, however he was fighting Wesker at the same time and never comments on T.A.L.O.S during the battle. This is possibly an error. |
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+ | **''[[Biohazard The Umbrella Chronicles SIDE B]]'', however, includes the above speech, and in fact, Vladimir actually transforms ''after'' giving the above speech. |
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+ | *During Wesker's short reunion with Vladimir, he is seen wielding what seems to be a [[Red9]] or a Mauser Model C-96. However, neither weapon was featured as usable in The Umbrella Chronicles. |
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"The people who go down in history as its heroes are never stable." |
Colonel Sergei Vladimir (セルゲイ・ウラジミール Serugei Urajimīru, Russian: Сергей Владимир) was a high ranking executive of the Umbrella Corporation, highly recognized as the company's Captain of the Guard, and Oswell E. Spencer's most loyal officer.
Biography
During the Soviet-Afghan War, Vladimir served as a Polkovnik (полковник) in one of the Soviet Army's Spetsnaz forces. As part of a research project in human cloning, he became father to ten humans, each with their growth accelerated to appear roughly his own. The unit fought together against the Mujahideen, and was withdrawn by 1989. He may have known Nikolai Zinoviev during his work there, as they would become close friends.[1] The Soviet defeat, mixed with economic stagnation and new media freedoms, resulted in the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. No longer financially capable of funding such a massive military, the newly-emerged Russian Federation began a two-year Army re-organisation and dismantling effort, which saw many Soviet soldiers discharged and left unemployed.
Joining Umbrella
"When my country was ruined, I had no place left to call home. Spencer gave me a home and a purpose!" |
Not long after the Soviet collapse, the Umbrella Corporation took advantage of mass unemployment of soldiers to expand its paramilitary organisations. Vladimir and Zinoviev were both approached, among others, due to their talents, and accepted the offers. Finding he was one of a small group of people genetically compatible with the experimental ε strain, Umbrella insisted he hand over the clones to take part in preliminary human research on their Tyrant Project, which planned to create supersoldiers for the US military. Though he had grown a very close bond to the men, seeing them as a part of himself, he nonetheless sold them out to Umbrella, seeing their sacrifice as an unfortunate but necessary evil.[1]
During the early 1990s, Vladimir led the expansion of these paramilitaries with the founding of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service. In keeping with his Army training, Vladimir remained loyal to Umbrella CEO Dr. Oswell E. Spencer, and would enforce obedience to him through the use of the Monitors, a private security force with agents within Umbrella's paramilitaries.[2] Following his surrender of the clones for Tyrant research, Vladimir became closely tied to the Tyrant Project as it moved on to production models,[2] and would even lead the proposal for the Talos Project, a next-generation B.O.W. to succeed the T-002, using microprocessors linked to the brain.[3] He also became a rival of Dr. Albert Wesker, a former member of the Tyrant Project who had moved to Umbrella's Intelligence Division, and treated him with suspicion.
Raccoon City
"It's good that we can be honest with each other. That's the sign of a healthy relationship. It's a shame that this friendship has to end." |
Vladimir confronts Wesker
In May 1998, the ε strain escaped containment in the Arklay Laboratory, causing a number of civilian casualties as well as contaminating other facilities in the Arklay Mountains. Behind closed doors this represented a major scandal within the corporation, and the possibility of having the Monitors purge disloyal executives became realistic. In July, Umbrella HQ received the findings from the Raccoon Disaster Contingency Committee, and the Intelligence Division was given orders to blow up the laboratory in a mission dubbed "X-Day". In a letter from Zinoviev reporting this development, Vladimir was reminded that it would result in the destruction of T-011, their Talos Project candidate.[4] By then the unfinished T-002 had already been superseded by the T-103 mass-production series, but Talos was still of research significance.
Arriving in the United States, Vladimir travelled to the Arklay Mountains with his two Ivan bodyguards - two T-103s trained to follow his orders. Vladimir's first venture was not, however, to the lab, but to the nearby executive training center. The building, once used by Umbrella co-founder Dr. James Marcus for the training of new employees, had been abandoned for 20 years and was undergoing a survey ahead of re-opening when it was contaminated by the virus. Placed in charge of the project, Wesker and Dr. William Birkin instead made plans to detonate a bomb placed under the building. Vladimir warned Wesker about this decision, as it had not been proposed to Spencer first, and ordered one of his Ivans to fight him.[5] When time ran out, he left with the Ivans to the Arklay Lab, leaving Wesker to escape from the bomb on his own.[6] Suspicious of Wesker, who was to take part in X-Day evacuated the facility with T-011 and the U.M.F.-013, the lab's supercomputer which contained an archive of their research data. Walking straight outside, the Ivans protected him from the escaped Cerberus test subjects which had made the forest their territory.[7]
In September 1998, increasing concern about Raccoon City's safety led Vladimir to mobilise the U.B.C.S. This suspicion proved real when a modified ε strain contaminated the city's drinking water the following week, causing a massive outbreak which mutated thousands into Zombies. The city was locked down on orders from the Pentagon, and the U.B.C.S. was sent into the city officially to assist in the rescue of civilians, but in fact to test out the mutants against a trained force, with the Monitors within the U.B.C.S. ordered to destroy incriminating evidence or evacuate with research. The outbreak was worse than Umbrella HQ had anticipated, and many of the mercenaries, some of them former Soviet soldiers, were massacred. On the night of 28 September, only two days after drop, Vladimir made preparations for taking direct control of all surviving equipment and personnel, effective at midnight on the 29th.[8] When a helicopter returned from dropping off T-103s into the city, Vladimir boarded it and flew out to a facility he had evacuated the U.M.F.-013 to months earlier.[8] The operation was a success, and he evacuated with it alongside an executive on the early hours of 1 October, moments before the city was destroyed in a military operation.[9]
The Twilight of Umbrella
Vladimir's Transformation
In the aftermath of Raccoon City, the US government turned on Umbrella USA, federalising its assets and accusing them of liability over the deaths. This plunged the Umbrella Corporation into a lengthy and expensive legal battle known as the Raccoon Trials. Umbrella's ability to control its own workforce also deteriorated, and with the loss of the US military as a buyer, Vladimir moved their base of operations to a lab in the Caucasus below an oil refinery. There, the facility began mass-producing old B.O.W.s once considered failures, targeted instead for a terrorist buyer that would share the US' standards. Elsewhere in the facility, Vladimir oversaw the completion of the Talos Project.
In early 2003, an accident happened at the facility, and a t-Virus strain leaked out once more. B.O.W.s escaped captivity and killed people in a nearby village, earning the attention of Wesker, who was seeking the U.M.F.-013 for his own ends. Along with Wesker came members of a privately funded anti-B.O.W. force funded by Umbrella's rivals, following the same trail. By this point the outbreak had spread to 98% of the research staff. While releasing Talos to confront the paramilitary group, Vladimir sent out his two Ivans to deal with Wesker, who had himself mutated to gain superhuman abilities since their last encounter. Ultimately, he was forced to fight him himself, infecting himself with a t-Virus strain. Being compatible with the virus, he mutated into a powerful creature with his arms fuses into a dangerous claw. Despite Vladimir's immense strength, agility and organic weaponry, Wesker destroyed him, putting an end to his delusions that Umbrella and the Tyrants, his "brothers", would usher in the return of Russia's glory. Despite being beaten and liquefying, Vladimir defiantly declared that "they" were "not done yet," implying that even while dying, he fully intended to continue fighting Wesker. The company's final leader defeated, Wesker stole all of the data, compressed into one disc, and shut down the Red Queen. The base was decommissioned and all data was erased in the process, ending Vladimir's plans and sealing Umbrella's fate.
Further Notes
- Moments before Chris and Jill's second battle with T-A.L.O.S. he gave a speech regarding how it was mutating out of control, however he was fighting Wesker at the same time and never comments on T.A.L.O.S during the battle. This is possibly an error.
- Biohazard The Umbrella Chronicles SIDE B, however, includes the above speech, and in fact, Vladimir actually transforms after giving the above speech.
- During Wesker's short reunion with Vladimir, he is seen wielding what seems to be a Red9 or a Mauser Model C-96. However, neither weapon was featured as usable in The Umbrella Chronicles.
Gallery
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Letter from Sergei to Nicholai".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Sergei Vladimir Profile".
- ↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Talos Project Proposal".
- ↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Sealed Letter to Sergei Vladimir".
- ↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), scene: "Beginnings 2 scene".
- ↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), scene: "Beginnings 2 ending".
- ↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), scene: "Nightmare 2 scene 1".
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Emergency Orders".
- ↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), scene: "Death's Door 1 ending".
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