It's how our outbreaks started. A multi-national conglomerate in the pharmaceutical sector was pursuing top-secret projects in genetic engineering and biological weaponry. Biological warfare. They were trying to create a super-soldier; they ended up with monsters. These days, the viruses responsible for most of the outbreaks are still available on the black market.
[ a moment for a long breath. she's lived this for too long -- a decade, nearly. and it's hard not to make it sound like a press briefing. ] Take the t-Virus. When many everyday animals are exposed to it, they mutate. Some of these mutations were specifically engineered as bio-organic weaponry. BOWs.
Zombies. [ ugh. that word. she pauses on it, wrinkling her nose. ] Our zombies are individuals who were exposed to the t-Virus. Either in the water supply, or through a bite, or even scratches from someone or something that's carried the virus. Technically, they're what Umbrella deemed failures -- the first 'zombies' were human test subjects who failed to mutate in the way they wanted them to. Failed to become a viable bio-organic weapons system.
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[ a moment for a long breath. she's lived this for too long -- a decade, nearly. and it's hard not to make it sound like a press briefing. ] Take the t-Virus. When many everyday animals are exposed to it, they mutate. Some of these mutations were specifically engineered as bio-organic weaponry. BOWs.
Zombies. [ ugh. that word. she pauses on it, wrinkling her nose. ] Our zombies are individuals who were exposed to the t-Virus. Either in the water supply, or through a bite, or even scratches from someone or something that's carried the virus. Technically, they're what Umbrella deemed failures -- the first 'zombies' were human test subjects who failed to mutate in the way they wanted them to. Failed to become a viable bio-organic weapons system.