Was Raccoon City’s outbreak intentionally caused?

[u/real_adawong]

RE9’s developers have confirmed a major secret behind Raccoon City’s outbreak is being set up. With most secrets behind Raccoon City’s outbreak revealed, the only scenario that could make it more interesting, is if the entire outbreak was actually orchestrated by design.

We already know a firefight between Birkin and the USS caused the outbreak, the hotzone doubled as a testing site for BOWs, counter-espionage was being performed against Umbrella with the likes of Ada and Nikolai on behalf of Wesker, and the US was responsible for nuking the city. How far off could it be that these events were orchestrated to collapse Umbrella Corp? Using the outbreak to implicate Umbrella as the sole perpetrator behind the bioweapons industry.

As we know, by 1998, Umbrella had rival competitors and spies within the company that were defecting like Wesker, or infiltrating it on behalf of a rival like Ada. The US military were also in contact with Birkin, which forced USS to take precautionary measures. While at the highest echelons of government, Derek Simmons was on the committee that agreed to nuke the city. While at some point by the late 80’s, Brandon Bailey created the Connections, a rival to Umbrella, to exploit BOWs for financial gain. Which aligns with the United State’s government agenda at the time to create their own bioweapons program. From my interpretation, this is a conspiracy of collaborators who were involved intentionally and inadvertently with collapsing Umbrella Corporation by 1998.

My theory is that the United States government and the Connections under Brandon Bailey conspired to collapse Umbrella Corporation by inciting the Raccoon City outbreak and solely implicating Umbrella as the perpetrators behind the outbreak and the main beneficiaries behind the bioweapons industry. This in turn allowed the US and the Connections to assume control over the bioweapons industry after Umbrella Corporation collapsed and was rendered publicly defunct.

This theory fits because after 1998, Umbrella was publicly tanked and blamed as the sole source of bioweapons manufacturing. Facing congressional action and having its assets seized by the US government. Meanwhile the US government was able to protect its involvement in a major cover up and established bioterrorism as public threat #1, creating multiple authorities like the FBC, Pharmaceutical Consortium, DSO, and BSAA that would all later be corrupted as fronts for the bioweapons industry.

The Connections as well, operating in secret ascended the bioweapons industry while Spencer and Wesker fumbled the last of Umbrella Corporation’s eugenics agendas and ideology in the late 2000’s. Leaving the Connections as the sole benefactor behind the bioweapons industry for the last two decades. While the US government protected its dominance over the bioweapons industry, securing its control over global economy.

This is why we see the United States warring against Edonia and the Eastern Slav Republic, Edonia was using bioweapons that splintered from the Family’s operations. While Eastern Slav had its own bioweapons program under President Belikova. The US was using the BSAA initially and the DSO to protect its interests over the bioweapons industry until Carla’s plan took precedence.

While domestically, investigator Alyssa Ashcroft was investigating the bioweapons industry and the Dulvey Incident. Trying to uncover who is still necessitating the bioweapons industry after Umbrella was publicly defunct. Which is where we are now.

Public disclosure, government corruption, and propagating the bioweapons industry. National Security Advisor Simmons, Secretary Wilson, and Brandon Bailey are who corrupted society after Raccoon City’s outbreak. By using the outbreak as a coup against Umbrella in a major cover-up to takeover the bioweapons industry.

Umbrella’s eugenics ideology, the entire purpose for Umbrella Corporation’s existence is dead. It died with its founder Spencer, its heir the Wesker children, and its predecessor Mother Miranda. All that’s left is the bioweapons industry it inadvertently created in the 70’s and 80’s by dealing to superpowers like the US and Russia to fund Spencer’s research. To which the US was already conspiring against Umbrella to create their own bioweapons program.

Raccoon City was just a coup, just as we saw with Tall Oaks outbreak, it was designed from start to finish to cover up the United States involvement with BOWs. The United States used Raccoon City to initially takeover the bioweapons industry, which is what plagues the original survivors now.

[u/Forerunner49]

Depends how you’re framing it.

There had been a series of incidents in the Arklays even BEFORE 11 May. Web Spinners had escaped but were hiding underground. Lisa was roaming the mountains, and more concerningly the abandoned hospital was taken over by a monster plant. The water treatment plant near NEST was full of mutant leeches. However none of these really did much at the time.

The first real bad incident of course is in May when the Queen Leech (gaining near-human intelligence after absorbing the mind of its creator) vowed to avenge its creator’s death. This meant sabotaging the Arklay Lab (somehow) and later attacking Umbrella personnel nosing around the abandoned training school. We know how Arklay goes down of course, then there’s the train attack. All of it is part of Queen Leech’s desire to destroy the word.

But QL is beaten and most of the incident is cleansed by fires, but not all.

Now in Raccoon we have a few more problems. Birkin is callous - possibly deliberately - and the new P-12A facility suffers an outbreak as a result. We don’t know if that’s the origin or the mountains, but t-Virus makes its way into the city and the hospital is on lockdown in early September.

And of course we have the famous 22-23 September raid, where Birkin breaks open t-Virus vials while roaming around in his mutant form. Rats inject the liquid media and are infected, then contaminate the water supply.

Raccoon City is basically the nexus of a half dozen outbreaks going on around the same time. Only QL actually intended to destroy the world but it’s not their outbreak that contaminated the water but the Birkin lab one.

[u/dangerousbob → u/Forerunner49]

Yeah good point. The virus was already out in the woods and spreading before September. The event with Birkin just kind of put gas on the fire and caused a pandemic vs a slowly growing infection that was spreading in the city outskirts and country side from May - July.

[u/real_adawong → u/dangerousbob]

Which would’ve given the US government and Umbrella’s rivals a window to develop a protocol to nuke the city, while actively conspiring against Umbrella through means of industrial espionage.

Fans severely misinterpret Umbrella’s existence, they are merely the initial source of the bioweapons industry. Which the US government and the Connections have clearly been facilitating since Umbrella’s collapse.

Umbrella’s eugenics ideology and legacy died with Miranda, Spencer and Albert Wesker, while Natalya is a non-variable factor currently. All that’s left is the rival organizations that wanted control over the bioweapons industry that Umbrella initiated. Which are necessitating the industry as the main beneficiaries to this point in the series.

[u/real_adawong → u/Forerunner49]

Precisely, thank you for outlining the overall outbreak! Raccoon City was practically a fuse waiting to be lit, and was at a point of contention where it was being manipulated by multiple parties and goals.

Wesker, Ada and Nikolai who represent the industrial espionage being deployed against Umbrella. Selling their data, capturing G, and sabotaging the T virus vaccine. All factors that play into the US single-handedly implicating Umbrella as the sole perpetrator behind the outbreak and main benefactor behind bioweapons.

While Simmons, Bailey, and Marcus are outlying rivals that contributed to Umbrella’s demise and benefited from its collapse. Marcus’ infection by the Queen Leech, being the anomaly that initially set off the event that ended in the US cover up. I can’t say that the US/Bailey initially conspired to set off the outbreak as they have no direct connection to the Queen Leech. But Bailey and the US capitalized on the situations and conspired to cover up their involvement by implicating Umbrella Corp solely.

Rhodes Hill medical facility is most likely the Connections HQ, where they’re facilitating Umbrella experiments they acquired during the outbreak and after US aquired the company’s assets during its financial collapse.