"Sheva: An assault bomber? When Jill said Weaker [sic] was planning to spread Uroboros throughout the world... Chris: He's planning to use this to spread it." |
Wesker's bomber after taking flight.
After joining Tricell, Inc., Albert Wesker had a specialized Tricell Assault Bomber placed on the Tricell tanker. He and Excella Gionne intended to use the plane to spread the Uroboros virus around the world as part of their ultimate plan to spur evolution on the human race.
History
"In less than five minutes, we'll reach the optimal altitude for missile deployment. Uroboros will be released into the atmosphere, ensuring complete. Global. Saturation.
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When Wesker and Excella became partners, plotting to reshape humanity into advanced beings, Wesker commissioned this stealth bomber to be placed in a specialized hangar below the deck of their freighter. The ocean tanker was located at the large deck behind the Umbrella Africa Research Center, having resources loaded onto it by Majini soldiers while Excella and Wesker waited in the facility. The bomber was loaded with missiles filled with Uroboros, which would be fired into the atmosphere in order to achieve "complete global saturation". When the ship was ready to take off, Excella and Wesker went aboard. Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar, B.S.A.A. agents who had been sent to investigate Tricell's activities and were battling the pair, followed them.
Once aboard the freighter, Chris pointed out that Wesker and Excella must have had another plan to cause an Uroboros outbreak, as the ship would give away their position too soon. After a long battle across the massive boat against various Las Plagas creatures, and destroying the Uroboros who arose from the remains of Excella after Wesker betrayed her and infected her with the virus, Chris and Jill finally found Wesker's strategy to spread his virus. In the freighter's command center, they saw the assault bomber in the hangar below the deck on a security camera, along with Wesker, standing on a platform overlooking the plane. The two agents decided to pursue him before he could deploy his plane. Chris noted that if he Wesker flew in the bomber, he could not get shot down, as a biohazard would be initiated.
Chris then received a video contact from Jill Valentine, who revealed that a special serum was the key to besting Wesker's superhuman powers. Sheva showed Chris that she had collected the vials of serum from Excella earlier, and they went to confront the madman at his hangar, the tool necessary for his defeat in hand. Cornering Wesker as he used his bomber, they engaged their powerful foe in what began a final battle. After everyone landed on the lower platform of the hangar, it began to rise up from below the ship's deck, showing that it would be moments before Wesker's bomber took off. While Chris and Sheva turned down the lights, Wesker threw missiles placed beside the plane on the central platform.
Wesker was eventually injected with the serum, weakening him greatly. He decided to flee to his bomber as it prepared to take off. Chris and Sheva gave pursuit, managing to barely slip in as the plane ran off the platform. The bomber jettisoned its JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rockets and ascended into the sky. In the air, Chris and Sheva again confronted Wesker, greatly angered by his weakened state due to the serum and possibly addled from the overdose itself. He told them that it would be no more than five minutes before the missiles could be launched. An intense battle ensued, Wesker using what was left of his superhuman strength, but he was overpowered by the two agents while ranting about his completed plans and new world. Chris injected him again with the serum, weakening him further. Sheva reminded Chris of the only way they could stop the plane, just as the mechanized pilot announced that it would be three minutes to missile deployment.
Chris went for the override lever as Wesker again charged them. With Sheva covering him, Chris managed to pull the airlock's lever just in time to avoid Wesker's fist smashing into the wall next to him. As the back door of the plane opened, Wesker viciously told Chris he would pay for it. Chris urged Sheva to hang onto something, and Wesker was pulled toward the open hatch. Banging into the floor and metal column Sheva was holding onto, Wesker gripped onto her legs, refusing to be defeated. As Sheva struggled to kick Wesker off, she realized he would not let go, and looked sadly at Chris. He had flashbacks of Jill's sacrifice to defeat Wesker years ago. Sheva let go, but Chris refused to lose another partner.
Chris grabbed onto the column Sheva let go of and grabbed her hand before she could be sucked out as they continued to fall from the sky. Wesker, still gripping Sheva, tried to pull the two of them with him, but Sheva shot him in the face, causing him to finally let go and fall out of the bomber. It crashed into an active volcano, and Chris and Sheva emerged from its ruins. Wesker, walking out to the front of the bomber's roof, revealed himself to be alive and punched into an intact Uroboros missile; unlike all former hosts, it did not reject him, and instead wrapped around his arms and torso, assimilating broken parts of the plane to form formidable weaponry. Wesker fought Chris and Sheva one last time, but was defeated. The bomber was left to melt in the volcano.
Further notes
- On the ship, the plane's runway is unrealistic in length (not to mention half of it was probably taken up for Sheva to catch up to the cargo door), as a plane that size would need a very large airfield. The plane does utilize JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rockets to help it attain takeoff velocity quicker, which it jettisons once airborne.
- Its design looks a lot like the B-2 Spirit or Ace Combat Zero's XB-0 Hresvelgr.
- The bomber seems to be remotely piloted (as its engines start spinning up before Wesker boards it) or is preprogrammed to reach a certain altitude, as Wesker does not appear to pilot the bomber and there is no indication of a flight crew. In addition, throughout Sheva and Chris's fight against Wesker on the bomber, there was a PM containing a computerized female voice blaring in the background, further supporting that the plane was automated at least to some extent. The bomber is not unmanned, as cockpit windows can be seen on the front.
- Despite it being called a bomber, it appears to function more as a high altitude missile platform, deploying missiles at a high altitude instead of dropping them like a normal bomber.