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Revision as of 03:23, 31 December 2011
- Tricell is a conglomerate organization comprised of
- shipping, natural resources development, and
- pharmaceuticals divisions.
- Tricell's history dates back to the period known as
- the Age of Exploration. The forbearer to Tricell was
- Travis Trading, a company owned by the wealthy
- European merchant Thomas Travis.
- This company profited greatly from expansive trading
- with the Orient, and laid the groundwork for what
- would become Tricell's shipping division.
- Travis Trading entered the 19th century as a
- profitable trading venture.
- In the 1800's, Henry Travis, the youngest of seven
- siblings, invested much of his own fortune into the
- exploration of Africa.
- During this period, the exploits of explorers like
- David Livingstone were creating quite a stir in the
- newspapers of the day. Henry's expedition was inspired
- by these accounts, and his decision was to have a
- great impact on Travis Trading's future.
- Henry made five expeditions to the African continent
- in order to explore all of its regions. The extensive
- funds of the Travis family allowed him to continue
- his research into Africa even through times when
- results were not forthcoming.
- After his fifth and final expedition in Africa, Henry
- Travis returned to his home country a full 34 years
- after he had first left it.
- Henry compiled the records of his expeditions into an
- impressive 72-volume set entitled "Survey of Natural
- History." These books covered everything from animals,
- plants, insects, minerals, and topography to the
- native inhabitants and their cultures, histories, and
- traditions. These books also contained extensive
- records detailing the folklore of various peoples
- throughout the continent. These tomes were a veritable
- encyclopedia of the African continent.
- Henry's survey was published in its entirety, but his
- meticulous details were viewed as products of creative
- license and an overzealous imagination. The books
- were ultimately discredited by the scientific
- community. Considered to be a novelty item, only a
- few copies of the entire series were ever published.
- The shock of being shunned by the scientific
- community sent Henry into a deep state of depression.
- He passed away only two years after his return from
- Africa.
- It is now believed that the head of Travis Trading at
- that time (Henry's eldest brother) purposely spread
- the rumor that Henry's books were nothing more than
- fiction.
- The thought being that he did this because he wanted
- Travis Trading to be the only company that could
- exploit the information contained within those books.
- Of particular interest was the topographical
- information contained in volumes 17 through 24.
- By the end of the 19th Century, Travis Trading had
- begun to exploit the mineral resources of Africa. All
- over the continent, the company was mining for
- precious metals and discovering/developing oil and
- natural gas fields. Meanwhile, the company's profits
- continued to soar. These operations formed the basis
- of Tricell's natural resources development division.
- Travis Trading built a firm foothold in Africa, and
- beginning in the mid-20th century, they had begun to
- actively collect samples of plants, animals, and
- insects.
- Henry's books were instrumental in guiding these
- endeavors.
- The collected specimens were used in pharmaceutical
- research, and before long that research brought
- commercial success and the subsequent founding of
- Tricell's pharmaceuticals division.
- Travis Trading was the basis for the shipping
- division.
- The natural resources development division was born
- from the information contained in Henry's journals.
- The specimens obtained from the African fauna were
- used to create the independent pharmaceuticals division.
- By the 1960's, these three divisions of Travis Trading
- were firmly established, and they formed a
- conglomerate under the name Tricell.
- The Travis family, however, were not the only ones
- privy to the knowledge of Henry's journals.
- Umbrella's founder, Ozwell E. Spencer, was interested
- in them for the folklore recorded therein. Of
- particular interest were the accounts of the Ndipaya's
- rituals. Spencer hypothesized that the flower used in
- their rituals held significance, and this ultimately
- led to the discovery of the Progenitor virus.
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