BIOHAZARD GUN SURVIVOR OFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK is the first and only official guidebook released for BIOHAZARD GUN SURVIVOR.
Softcover: 128 pages
Publisher: ASCII
Product ID: ISBN4-7572-0748-4
Publisher: ASCII
Product ID: ISBN4-7572-0748-4
Prologue
In October 1998, a small industrial city in the American midwest, Raccoon City, literally vanished from the map.
It was the result of the U.S. Government taking a "countermeasure" to restrain the outbreak of an epidemic that had occurred on a massive scale.
Around the same time, in a different suburban city...
Flames rise from a heavy truck plunged into the shoulder of the main street.
However, there is no sight of rushing fire engines.
Several figures are visible around it, but for some reason seem totally unconcerned about this situation.
Besides the sounds of flames occasionally smoldering with crackles, and the noises of moans and screams subtly carried by the wind, the town is engulfed in an abnormal silence.
Suddenly a roar rings out and a helicopter appears in the night sky.
However, the helicopter suddenly loses control flying over a building with a corporate logo, the mark of an umbrella, before swaying and plummeting into the urban district.
A man walking in a back alley raises his face to the light illuminating the surroundings for an instant with a quake.
The man walks with a swaying gait toward the crash site with no sign of concern, despite white ribs sticking out from his torn chest.
CODE:Blanket Order Issued
Completely Obliterate UM26E
As the setting sun ominously stains the area like blood, several black helicopters receive a special mission from headquarters and take off.
With the name of "Trashsweepers", their other duties are to eliminate surviving residents and completely purge the target area.
Lined up on-board is a squad of soldiers dressed in special equipment the same jet black as the helicopter, flat against the walls on both sides.
Standing by without moving an inch, the soldiers' forearms are unnatural for humans, and long and thin cables extend into the soldiers' heads from a centrally installed device inside the aircraft, the LED lights on their goggles occasionally flickering randomly.
"Lives created to die... what ironic beings."
The operation close at hand, the male commander mutters to himself while staring at his subordinates undergoing final adjustments and studying the mission.
In several hours, only he will be able to return home in the helicopter.
Now the helicopters gradually change color from red to deep black as they move through the twilight overlooking the sea, the group of helicopters fan out on the dull rippling ocean under the sunshine that is about to disappear, and change course to the northwest before fading away into the night sky, as if melting.
In October 1998, a small industrial city in the American midwest, Raccoon City, literally vanished from the map.
It was the result of the U.S. Government taking a "countermeasure" to restrain the outbreak of an epidemic that had occurred on a massive scale.
Around the same time, in a different suburban city...
Flames rise from a heavy truck plunged into the shoulder of the main street.
However, there is no sight of rushing fire engines.
Several figures are visible around it, but for some reason seem totally unconcerned about this situation.
Besides the sounds of flames occasionally smoldering with crackles, and the noises of moans and screams subtly carried by the wind, the town is engulfed in an abnormal silence.
Suddenly a roar rings out and a helicopter appears in the night sky.
However, the helicopter suddenly loses control flying over a building with a corporate logo, the mark of an umbrella, before swaying and plummeting into the urban district.
A man walking in a back alley raises his face to the light illuminating the surroundings for an instant with a quake.
The man walks with a swaying gait toward the crash site with no sign of concern, despite white ribs sticking out from his torn chest.
CODE:Blanket Order Issued
Completely Obliterate UM26E
As the setting sun ominously stains the area like blood, several black helicopters receive a special mission from headquarters and take off.
With the name of "Trashsweepers", their other duties are to eliminate surviving residents and completely purge the target area.
Lined up on-board is a squad of soldiers dressed in special equipment the same jet black as the helicopter, flat against the walls on both sides.
Standing by without moving an inch, the soldiers' forearms are unnatural for humans, and long and thin cables extend into the soldiers' heads from a centrally installed device inside the aircraft, the LED lights on their goggles occasionally flickering randomly.
"Lives created to die... what ironic beings."
The operation close at hand, the male commander mutters to himself while staring at his subordinates undergoing final adjustments and studying the mission.
In several hours, only he will be able to return home in the helicopter.
Now the helicopters gradually change color from red to deep black as they move through the twilight overlooking the sea, the group of helicopters fan out on the dull rippling ocean under the sunshine that is about to disappear, and change course to the northwest before fading away into the night sky, as if melting.
Character Profile (p.124-125)
Ark Thompson
A young detective overflowing with a sense of justice and friend of Leon S. Kennedy from the Raccoon Police Department. After receiving a request from Leon, Ark infiltrated Sheena Island alone and investigated Umbrella's schemes. He finally uncovered a devilish plot and successfully destroyed some of the research results, but the island's commander, Vincent, cornered him in the Umbrella building. Ark stole a helicopter and escaped, but a relentless Vincent was in close pursuit, causing the helicopter to crash, and at that point he lost his memory. In order to conduct his investigation, he contacted the sewer manager Andy right after infiltrating Sheena Island while pretending to be Vincent, and his plan backfires because Andy, believing Ark to be Vincent, ends up going after Ark after he loses his memory.
Vincent Goldman
A young elite of Umbrella Pharmaceuticals assigned as commander of this island in succession to his suddenly deceased predecessor. An exceptional leader and all the while an ingenious scientist, he commenced top-secret biological experiments for the company using the island's facility. With an extremely cruel personality, he disposed of a colleague for his personal advancement and had no hesitation in expending countless people as research material. By his own hand, he even fatally shot test subjects who escaped from the research facility in order to completely kill the worms. For his overwhelming cruelty, even Umbrella employees themselves, not to mention the townspeople, feared him, and citing excessively brutal acts, they attempted to displace his commander position. However, he obtained that news beforehand and disseminated the T-Virus throughout the entire town before it was reported to headquarters, causing all the inhabitants to transform into Zombies and concealing the truth. Naturally, dead men tell no tales. However, even the top-secret experiments he was conducting were well-known information to Umbrella Headquarters, and in their bold connivance, they were allowing him to continue his research.
Lott Klein
A 12-year-old boy whose father was chief of the Gene Application & Engineering Laboratory on Sheena Island. Ever since he could remember, he was brought up being told nothing but stories of natural selection and racial dominance by his father, being tainted with Umbrella's supremacy doctrine which states that it is natural for superior Umbrella humans to control inferior humans. It was also a natural consequence that he informed Vincent, the island's supreme commander, of the townspeople planning a rebellion, as well as private detective Ark Thompson's sniffing around Vincent. However, due to the incident that occurred this time around, the misfortune of his parents transforming into monsters happened before his own eyes, and with that as a trigger, once he understood that the cause of it lied in Vincent, the things he believed for many years were shattered. The thought of attempting to justify that conflicts with his own powerlessness and feelings of guilt, and Lott is frightened and confused.
Lily Klein
Lott's younger sister. Until just two days prior, she was a very typical 8-year-old girl who spent her happy days surrounded by her strong father, kind mother, and close older brother. At the incident's outbreak, obediently honoring her parent's final request, a cry for her to try to quickly escape, she promptly took refuge in the Umbrella building and escaped from trouble. Afterwards she was hiding herself while shivering like a cat until the roars and screams that envelop the town would vanish. Somehow she has to reunite with Lott, as she realizes that her older brother has become the only person she can rely upon in this world.
Andy Holland
An American employed by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals to patrol the island's sewage treatment facility, which is so old that no one can repair it. In reality, he's an ex-convict whose numerous crimes (theft, burglary, assault, etc.) have piled up. Even while thinking it suspicious that Umbrella would grant work to someone like himself, Andy, believing that a life better than his current one was possible, left his defaulted apartment behind and crossed over to Sheena Island. Since he spent almost a year alone inside the dark sewers, his workplace, he hadn't fully grasped the truth about Umbrella. More than that, he is an oddball estranged from everyday life with an interest in photographing the town's garbage, which flows into the sewer.
Under Taker Commander / Under Taker Unit
Also called the "Trashsweepers" of Umbrella, a disposable evidence destruction unit applied to top-secret missions of hazard degree A+ class. Their tactics consist of two phases, total elimination of witnesses and destruction of the target area. The only human is the commander who leads the artificial biological force, they are artificial beings equipped with MP5 automatic machine guns and single night-vision scopes, and upon conclusion of their operations, they self-destruct in accordance with a command programmed beforehand. Only the commander's return is permitted. In this operation on Sheena Island, their orders are to conceal the biohazard, that broke out due to the recklessness of Commander Vincent, and destroy the entire island using the research facility's self-destruct device.
Ark Thompson
A young detective overflowing with a sense of justice and friend of Leon S. Kennedy from the Raccoon Police Department. After receiving a request from Leon, Ark infiltrated Sheena Island alone and investigated Umbrella's schemes. He finally uncovered a devilish plot and successfully destroyed some of the research results, but the island's commander, Vincent, cornered him in the Umbrella building. Ark stole a helicopter and escaped, but a relentless Vincent was in close pursuit, causing the helicopter to crash, and at that point he lost his memory. In order to conduct his investigation, he contacted the sewer manager Andy right after infiltrating Sheena Island while pretending to be Vincent, and his plan backfires because Andy, believing Ark to be Vincent, ends up going after Ark after he loses his memory.
Vincent Goldman
A young elite of Umbrella Pharmaceuticals assigned as commander of this island in succession to his suddenly deceased predecessor. An exceptional leader and all the while an ingenious scientist, he commenced top-secret biological experiments for the company using the island's facility. With an extremely cruel personality, he disposed of a colleague for his personal advancement and had no hesitation in expending countless people as research material. By his own hand, he even fatally shot test subjects who escaped from the research facility in order to completely kill the worms. For his overwhelming cruelty, even Umbrella employees themselves, not to mention the townspeople, feared him, and citing excessively brutal acts, they attempted to displace his commander position. However, he obtained that news beforehand and disseminated the T-Virus throughout the entire town before it was reported to headquarters, causing all the inhabitants to transform into Zombies and concealing the truth. Naturally, dead men tell no tales. However, even the top-secret experiments he was conducting were well-known information to Umbrella Headquarters, and in their bold connivance, they were allowing him to continue his research.
Lott Klein
A 12-year-old boy whose father was chief of the Gene Application & Engineering Laboratory on Sheena Island. Ever since he could remember, he was brought up being told nothing but stories of natural selection and racial dominance by his father, being tainted with Umbrella's supremacy doctrine which states that it is natural for superior Umbrella humans to control inferior humans. It was also a natural consequence that he informed Vincent, the island's supreme commander, of the townspeople planning a rebellion, as well as private detective Ark Thompson's sniffing around Vincent. However, due to the incident that occurred this time around, the misfortune of his parents transforming into monsters happened before his own eyes, and with that as a trigger, once he understood that the cause of it lied in Vincent, the things he believed for many years were shattered. The thought of attempting to justify that conflicts with his own powerlessness and feelings of guilt, and Lott is frightened and confused.
Lily Klein
Lott's younger sister. Until just two days prior, she was a very typical 8-year-old girl who spent her happy days surrounded by her strong father, kind mother, and close older brother. At the incident's outbreak, obediently honoring her parent's final request, a cry for her to try to quickly escape, she promptly took refuge in the Umbrella building and escaped from trouble. Afterwards she was hiding herself while shivering like a cat until the roars and screams that envelop the town would vanish. Somehow she has to reunite with Lott, as she realizes that her older brother has become the only person she can rely upon in this world.
Andy Holland
An American employed by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals to patrol the island's sewage treatment facility, which is so old that no one can repair it. In reality, he's an ex-convict whose numerous crimes (theft, burglary, assault, etc.) have piled up. Even while thinking it suspicious that Umbrella would grant work to someone like himself, Andy, believing that a life better than his current one was possible, left his defaulted apartment behind and crossed over to Sheena Island. Since he spent almost a year alone inside the dark sewers, his workplace, he hadn't fully grasped the truth about Umbrella. More than that, he is an oddball estranged from everyday life with an interest in photographing the town's garbage, which flows into the sewer.
Under Taker Commander / Under Taker Unit
Also called the "Trashsweepers" of Umbrella, a disposable evidence destruction unit applied to top-secret missions of hazard degree A+ class. Their tactics consist of two phases, total elimination of witnesses and destruction of the target area. The only human is the commander who leads the artificial biological force, they are artificial beings equipped with MP5 automatic machine guns and single night-vision scopes, and upon conclusion of their operations, they self-destruct in accordance with a command programmed beforehand. Only the commander's return is permitted. In this operation on Sheena Island, their orders are to conceal the biohazard, that broke out due to the recklessness of Commander Vincent, and destroy the entire island using the research facility's self-destruct device.
Background (p.125)
The Story's Setting Is Sheena Island
The Umbrella Corporation gained high appraisal as an international pharmaceutical company. In contrast to the company name, which has the meaning of protecting people under an umbrella, it is in reality a merchant of death for advancing the development of biological weapons in complete secrecy. The company's pilot plants are scattered throughout the world and the solitary island in Europe, "Sheena Island", is one of the research facilities owned by Umbrella where there is a large-scale weapons factory. Umbrella Corp. purchased the entire town on this island and researchers and their families came to live there. The Bio Organic Weapon "Tyrant" became the main product line for R&D on Sheena Island and additional improvements are being made.
The Story's Setting Is Sheena Island
The Umbrella Corporation gained high appraisal as an international pharmaceutical company. In contrast to the company name, which has the meaning of protecting people under an umbrella, it is in reality a merchant of death for advancing the development of biological weapons in complete secrecy. The company's pilot plants are scattered throughout the world and the solitary island in Europe, "Sheena Island", is one of the research facilities owned by Umbrella where there is a large-scale weapons factory. Umbrella Corp. purchased the entire town on this island and researchers and their families came to live there. The Bio Organic Weapon "Tyrant" became the main product line for R&D on Sheena Island and additional improvements are being made.
B.O.W. Profiles (p.126-127)
B.O.W. (Bio Organic Weapon) is the generic name of biological weapons developed by Umbrella. Below we introduce the B.O.W.'s documented on Sheena Island.
WHAT IS THE T-VIRUS...
One of the artificial viruses manufactured by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals which harbors the power to rapidly transform organisms. The T-Virus causes the bodies of infected creatures to enlarge with high durability and acquire new capabilities that are impossible for evolution in the natural world. It is the raw material most suitable for creating Bio Organic Weapons. At the same time however, since there are side-effects in which ferocity increases and intelligence remarkably declines, the current problems have become establishing efficient control methods and conserving intelligence above the standard as a weapon. Since it also has the ability to make gene synthesis between different species comparatively easy, this virus was mass-produced within Umbrella and supplied to each research facility for the development of new B.O.W. models.
Zombie
Humans afflicted with the T-Virus spread by Vincent. Losing their rational mind and consciousness, they are driven by intense hunger and wander in search of human flesh. In addition, abnormality in metabolic function causes the flesh to rot, making their outward appearance like a corpse. There are also enhanced Zombies created by artificially administering test subjects with the T-Virus.
Giant Moth
A moth afflicted with the T-Virus that has become warped and gigantic. It glides disgustingly while scattering its scales.
Large Roach
A giant cockroach that is about 30cm under the influence of the T-Virus. They inhabit the sewers in groups.
Alligator
Gators that lived in the sewers. Under the influence of the T-Virus, their bodies have grown gigantic to over 10 meters.
Hunter
A B.O.W. developed based on humans. It is an alert and agile monster with phenomenal jumping power, sharp claws and high intelligence, making it able to cooperate with companions and understand simple commands. Considerable numbers have already been mass-produced with a degree of perfection and high practicality, and enhanced models are also being developed in other Umbrella research facilities.
Tyrant
The ultimate T-Virus B.O.W. Umbrella devoted most of its power to develop. With its human-like appearance, terrifying destructive power and intelligence that allows it to follow any given order, it is more than merely a bioweapon. As their main B.O.W. series, various new Tyrant models are being studied in several Umbrella research facilities around the world, with the weapons plant at Sheena Island mainly focused on developing a new mass-production system to create a new type of Tyrant.
Hypnos-T Type
Many cells of different types were made to fight and those that survived were thrown at each other again... the strong genes of the victorious cells were selected to create the most powerful B.O.W. by incorporating them into the genes of the Tyrant... Commander Vincent advanced a new B.O.W. model development project on his own accord. Hundreds of thousands of gene selections were conducted over about three weeks. As the experiment continued, with no distinction between day and night, the scientists were struck with sleepiness and a certain cell was selected from all the other cells. The scientists named the gene of this cell Hypnos (God of Sleep). Due to this project a prototype was completed, of a powerful B.O.W. smaller than the conventional Tyrant.
B.O.W. (Bio Organic Weapon) is the generic name of biological weapons developed by Umbrella. Below we introduce the B.O.W.'s documented on Sheena Island.
WHAT IS THE T-VIRUS...
One of the artificial viruses manufactured by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals which harbors the power to rapidly transform organisms. The T-Virus causes the bodies of infected creatures to enlarge with high durability and acquire new capabilities that are impossible for evolution in the natural world. It is the raw material most suitable for creating Bio Organic Weapons. At the same time however, since there are side-effects in which ferocity increases and intelligence remarkably declines, the current problems have become establishing efficient control methods and conserving intelligence above the standard as a weapon. Since it also has the ability to make gene synthesis between different species comparatively easy, this virus was mass-produced within Umbrella and supplied to each research facility for the development of new B.O.W. models.
Zombie
Humans afflicted with the T-Virus spread by Vincent. Losing their rational mind and consciousness, they are driven by intense hunger and wander in search of human flesh. In addition, abnormality in metabolic function causes the flesh to rot, making their outward appearance like a corpse. There are also enhanced Zombies created by artificially administering test subjects with the T-Virus.
Giant Moth
A moth afflicted with the T-Virus that has become warped and gigantic. It glides disgustingly while scattering its scales.
Large Roach
A giant cockroach that is about 30cm under the influence of the T-Virus. They inhabit the sewers in groups.
Alligator
Gators that lived in the sewers. Under the influence of the T-Virus, their bodies have grown gigantic to over 10 meters.
Hunter
A B.O.W. developed based on humans. It is an alert and agile monster with phenomenal jumping power, sharp claws and high intelligence, making it able to cooperate with companions and understand simple commands. Considerable numbers have already been mass-produced with a degree of perfection and high practicality, and enhanced models are also being developed in other Umbrella research facilities.
Tyrant
The ultimate T-Virus B.O.W. Umbrella devoted most of its power to develop. With its human-like appearance, terrifying destructive power and intelligence that allows it to follow any given order, it is more than merely a bioweapon. As their main B.O.W. series, various new Tyrant models are being studied in several Umbrella research facilities around the world, with the weapons plant at Sheena Island mainly focused on developing a new mass-production system to create a new type of Tyrant.
Hypnos-T Type
Many cells of different types were made to fight and those that survived were thrown at each other again... the strong genes of the victorious cells were selected to create the most powerful B.O.W. by incorporating them into the genes of the Tyrant... Commander Vincent advanced a new B.O.W. model development project on his own accord. Hundreds of thousands of gene selections were conducted over about three weeks. As the experiment continued, with no distinction between day and night, the scientists were struck with sleepiness and a certain cell was selected from all the other cells. The scientists named the gene of this cell Hypnos (God of Sleep). Due to this project a prototype was completed, of a powerful B.O.W. smaller than the conventional Tyrant.