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Arkley Mountians/ Research Facility
Topic Started: Feb 9 2010, 11:26 PM (222 Views)
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The Arklay Research Facility was the first of many clandestine biological weapon research laboratories to be established by Umbrella. The facility was hidden beneath a mansion built in the forests of the Arklay Mountains on the outskirts of Raccoon City.

History
In 1962, nobleman Ozwell E. Spencer ordered the construction of an elaborate mansion several miles outside of the then-small town of Raccoon City to serve as a retreat for executives of the corporation he intended to form several years later. The mansion was designed by renowned architect George Trevor, and Spencer ordered Trevor to design many nefarious traps, secret doors, and hidden spaces into the mansion. Work was completed in 1967, and to celebrate the completion of the mansion, Spencer invited Trevor and his family to stay in the mansion for a few days.

However, Spencer's true plans were to use the mansion as a front for a secret laboratory which would conduct research on the newly-discovered Progenitor virus. In order to protect the mansion's secrets, George Trevor was imprisoned and killed. His wife and daughter were used as some of the first test subjects of Progenitor.

The laboratory beneath the mansion was the site of several developments in the Umbrella Corporation's research. While the T-virus was initially developed elsewhere, at James Marcus's lab just outside the Umbrella Management Training Facility a short distance away, the virus was perfected at the Arklay facility by researchers William Birkin and Albert Wesker in 1988. Early successful applications of the T-virus, such as the Hunter series of Bio-Organic Weapons, were developed here, and much of the early research on the Tyrant program was conducted here as well. Further experiments involving the first successful Progenitor test subject, Lisa Trevor, led Birkin to discover the foundations of the G-virus.

An outbreak of the T-virus occurred in the laboratory on May 11, 1998. The outbreak was attributed to James Marcus, who was believed killed ten years earlier. Over the next two months, the entire staff of the Arklay Research Facility were killed or infected. In order to destroy any evidence of wrongdoing, Umbrella ordered Albert Wesker, now an intelligence officer in the corporation and the leader of Raccoon City's S.T.A.R.S. unit, to trigger the facility's self-destruct device. Wesker led his S.T.A.R.S. team into the mansion to obtain combat data against the facility's Bio-Organic Weapons, intending to destroy the facility when they were all dead. However, several S.T.A.R.S. members survived long enough to trigger the self-destruct mechanism themselves and escape by helicopter. The facility, including both the mansion and the laboratory beneath it, were obliterated, erasing all evidence of Umbrella's experiments.

The Grounds
The mansion itself is a three-story plantation-style building with a spacious main hall and second-floor terraces on the front of both wings. Numerous hidden passages and traps are distributed throughout the structure, hiding key components of other traps and mechanisms leading to the laboratory itself. Behind the main stairs is a second stairwell leading deep underground to a crypt holding the body of Jessica Trevor, the first unsuccessful Progenitor subject. From this crypt, an elevator leads to a fountain which is not accessible from the main courtyard. This fountain hides a secret passage leading to the laboratory facilities.

Behind the mansion, and accessible from the main hall, is a graveyard with a large crypt. A roofed passage leads behind the mansion to the courtyard, from which the guardhouse can be accessed. The guardhouse (or "residence") is a single-story building with three dormitories, a recreation lounge, and a gallery; a secret passage in one of the dormitories leads to a large ring-shaped aquarium beneath the entire building, which is used to keep and study sharks. Also accessible from the courtyard by way of a secret passage is a network of abandoned mining tunnels.

Arklay Laboratory

The laboratory facilities consist of four levels; the first is a simple passageway with access to the surface and to a heliport. The second level holds only a Visual Data and presentation room. The third level houses several laboratories, a dormitory for the lead researcher, a surgical room, a morgue, the laboratory's power system, and the facility's self-destruct device. The third level also allows access to a holding cell for prisoners or test subjects. The lowest level is used for special research projects, such as the Tyrant program.
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