UMBRELLA CORPORATION

 

An umbrella corporation is an agency which supports several member organizations, usual working in a specific program area. http://www.umbrellacorporation.ca  City Gruop, the largest financial firm in the world, is an umbrella corporation in terms of the definition of the phrase and the fact that its logo is a red umbrella, originally from the firm's roots in the Traveler's Gruop. Umbrella and its U.B.C.S.S  logo shares a nearly identical design to that of the shoulder sleeve insignia patch for the U.S Army.

 

 Arklay Mountains

 

The Arklay Mountains (or Arclay Mountains) is a fictional Regionfrom the Umbrella's  series. The region is synonymous with the Arklay Forest.

 

Located generally on the outskirts of Raccon City, the Arklay Mountains faced heavy traffic from the notorious Umbrella Corporation, who maintained several large facilities in the region, including the Arkley Research Faculity and Management Training Facility. After the destruction of Raccoon City by the US government, in its last desperate attempt to halt the spread of the T-Virus, much of the Arklay region was left a desolate wasteland.

 

 

 

 

 

 About Us

 

The Umbrella Corporation was founded by Lord Ozwel, a man descended from the British Royal Family, in the 1960's. Two other people were prominently involved in the conception of Umbrella, Dr. James Marcus and Sir Edward Ashford, although it is apparent that Spencer was the driving force behind the formation of the company as Marcus and Ashford were far more interested in the potential uses of the newly-discovered P-Virus. When Ashford died in 1968, Spencer was able to largely sideline Marcus at the Raccon City facilities while he maintained control over the company for the next thirty years. Spencer would eventually grow distrustful of Marcus, worried that his research would allow the scientist to eventually supplant him as Umbrella's CEO.

 

Lord Spencer arranged for the assassination of Dr. Marcus, a task that was duly carried out by two of Marcus' most brilliant and ambitious assistants, William Brikin and Albert Wesker. Birkin would subsequently take over all of Marcus' research, including the studies on the Progenitor Virus. Ten years later, Marcus was completely restored by the Queen Leech (see James Marcus for more information regarding this event). Marcus would exact his revenge on Spencer and Umbrella by releasing the T-Virus  into the Arkley Research Faculity's water supply, turning the facility personnel into zombies and leaving the laboratory and mansion in complete chaos, allowing for the team's extremely dangerous research specimens to escape into the surrounding area. Birkin and Wesker used this as a diversion for their own plans to leave Umbrella, taking their research with them. Wesker, having formed Raccoon City's elite S.T.A.R.S unit two years previous, would develop a plan to lure the team to the Spencer Mansion to obtain battle data from the conflict that would surely follow. Spencer Mansion had been constructed above the actual laboratory to conceal it from negative interests such as the government and local populace, and was now crawling with infected researchers and experiments wandering its halls. Although the Tyrant  was deployed, resulting in unforseen side-effects for Wesker, both the laboratory and the rampaging Tyrant were destroyed by S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team before making it's escape back to Raccoon City with a single Bravo Team survivor.

 

Wesker was forced to go into hiding for a number of months, using his operative Ada Wong to carry out his objectives, including the recovery of Birkin's ultimate creation, the G-Virus. Several months after the Arklay incident, William Birkin finally perfected the viral strain that he'd been toiling to achieve since obtaining Marcus' research so many years earlier, the G-Virus. Birkin planned to use the virus to force the Umbrella Corporation into allowing him onto their executive board, but then changed his plans when he found that selling it directly to the U.S Goverment  would prove far more beneficial. Umbrella deployed it's elite U.S.S. team (a para-military black-operations unit created for Umbrella's most clandestine purposes) in a desperate bid to stop Birkin from handing over his ultimate creation. Although Birkin was mortally wounded in the ensuing conflict, and the G-Virus was successfully recovered by Umbrella, he was able to inject the G-Virus into his own body and devastate most of the team before it could make it's escape. This event would be indirectly responsible for unleashing the T-Virus on Raccoon City. While the Arkly incident had been relatively isolated and concealed from the public, and Umbrella's control over key government and law enforcement personnel had ensured that any record of what had occurred could be safely swept into obscurity, they were now faced with an entire city infected with the T-Virus and a trail leading directly back to the Umbrella Corporation. This would prove exceedingly difficult, even for Umbrella, to make simply disappear.

 

Decline and Collapse

 

Umbrella's fortunes failed to improve after the Raccon City  incident, the U.S. Government was forced to take extreme measures to ensure the spread of the T-Virus  was stopped for good. Mission Code XX was approved for immediate deployment, and Raccoon City was annihilated via an air-to-surface surgical missile strike. Contrary to popular belief, there was no cover-up following the incident. After escaping to the city limits with the USS Rodrigez and her fellow Umbrella researcher Linda, Yoko Suzuki's amnesia finally lifted, and all of the evil deeds she had witnessed and helped Umbrella keep secret came flooding back. With her newly regained memories, Yoko decided it was time the world was told the truth, and that doing so would start her down a better path. Linda and Yoko were brought forward as key witnesses to Umbrella's atrocities in the Supreme Court, and all was made known.

 

Shortly after the Raccoon City incident, the U.S. Government suspended Umbrella's market trading pending an investigation into their business practices. While this Investigation must have already provided Umbrella with severe financial problems, several further disasters virtually ensured their eventual collapse. On Sheena Island, undercover investigator, Arkley Tempson, operating on behalf of Leon S Keneddy, succeeded in destroying Umbrella's Tyrant production plant after Umbrella's senior executive assigned to the island unleashed the T-Virus on its citizens. Shortly afterwards, when Claiere RedField broke into Umbrella's Paris facilities in search of her brother, she was captured and sent to Umbrella's illegal prison camp on Rockfort Island. While there, she witnessed Albert Wesker attack the island in search of the T-Vronica Virus, another relative of the now infamous T-Virus. Escaping the island, she found herself trapped at the South Pole Facility, where Edward Ashford's granddaughter, Alexia Ashford, awoke from a self-induced coma with a desire to establish a new order. With the destruction of Sheena Island, Rockfort Island and the South Pole Facility, most of Umbrella's illegitimate operations had been shut down. This, combined with the loss of so many of Umbrella's research and security personnel throughout each of the disastrous incidents, left Umbrella with little chance of reforming said operations or regaining the years of research lost thus far.

 

With trading suspended, Umbrella's shares quickly collapsed, and the company was virtually bankrupt. Umbrella became largely fragmented, with power struggles between senior executives becoming a constant occurrence. The U.S. STRATCOM was mainly involved in clean-up operations, such as the theft of the T/G Virus  by former Umbrella executive in R&D, Morpheus D. Duvall, and his plans to create a new order based around his obsessive ideals of 'beauty'. By the early 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation's bankruptcy was absolute, and the U.S. government had completed the process of fully dismantling the remnants of the organization. However, in Umbrella Corporation, it was revealed that Albert Wesker's grand scheme involves the resurrection of the Umbrella Corporation