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The Hive is a fictional top secret underground laboratory located beneath Raccoon City and is the primary setting in the 2002 film Resident Evil. It was also mentioned in the game briefly. The complex is controlled by a super computer known as The Red Queen and is connected to the Spencer Mansion via an underground rail network. The facility was filmed at the incomplete Reichstag U-bahn station during March 2001.

Template:Resident Evil locations Various locations from the facility have made appearances in the video games including the laser corridor in Resident Evil 4, the facility itself in Resident Evil Outbreak, and The Red Queen and laser corridor in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. A similar facility has also appeared in Resident Evil: Extinction which is controlled by a similar AI known as The White Queen.

Plot

Film

During the attempted theft of the T-Virus, a vial was deliberately broken, releasing the virus into the ventilation systems. An uncontrollable pattern of infection spread and resulted in The Red Queen sealing off all entrances gassing everyone to death inside in order to contain the infection. Three hours after the incident, Umbrella dispatched a team of the U.B.C.S. to investigate and deactivate The Red Queen. Upon doing so the team encounters Alice, Matt Addison, an environmentalist, and Spencer.

After the main power loss, the Red Queen was reactivated and had given out detailed outlines of a way out, indicating there are secret passages built-in inside the facility.

After two survivors emerge from the Hive and arrive at the mansion by an underground rail system, Matt and Alice were both seized by Umbrella scientists and taken away into the hospital to conduct further studies on Program Nemesis and Program Alice.

The initial facility was the birthplace of the T-Virus, where it was produced and manufactured. The T-Virus was engineered by Dr. Charles Ashford in order to make his daughter Angela Ashford walk again. After Umbrella learned of his discovery, Umbrella scientists took the virus and applied it to creating biological and viral weaponry.

The facility was a research laboratory which provided citizens of Raccoon City with pharmaceutical and medical drugs, along with extensive health care. Unaware to the citizens and Umbrella's employees however, the facility's major profits were generated from experimentation, genetic engineering and weaponry.The facility also housed more than 500 scientists, technicians and support staff.

Re-opening

After the events of Resident Evil, the Umbrella Corporation had assembled and sent in a specialist team (Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service) to re-open the underground facility in order to find out what happened to the people inside. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the specialist team was situated at the Hive's (Raccoon City) entrance. As the medical team proceeds into the darkened entrance, the undead from the hive begin towards the entrance, with hundreds being picked up on the contagion screen.

The incident sparked an immediate investigation by S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics And Rescue Service) which resulted in accusations being laid against Umbrella for secretly developing bioweapons in the facility as numerous creatures were encountered during the reopening of The Hive and in the Arklay Mountains region.

Game

The Hive made its first appearance in Resident Evil 2 as a secret Laboratory used by the Umbrella Corporation to develop their Bio-Organic Weapons and has since made recurring appearances.The Hive is situated under Raccoon City, and on it's first appearance is accessed via The Raccoon City police department building. However it is later shown that it is also accessible via an elevator system as was seen when the same elevator system was used by the main characters Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2. The story in the games show that the Hive was the birth place of the G-virus.

In the games, it was one of the original developers of the T-virus, James Marcus, who scattered the T-virus Throughout the Spencer mansion, Arkley mountains and Arkley Lab. However it is not known how as the method was never specified. The possibility of air-borne spreading is ruled out under the games continuity as the Ebola virus is used as the 'Founder Virus' for both the 'T-Virus' and 'G-Virus' and cannot survive outside the body. The Arkley lab was blown up to cover any traces of the T-virus and its resulting creations and to stop it spreading by Albert Wesker.

T-Virus Outbreak

The G-Virus is the advancement on the T-Virus designed and made by William Birkin, it shows abilities of the T-virus and more without the necrotizing symptoms. After William Birkin injected himself with the G-Virus to stop HUNK's team from stealing it, both the T- and G-Virus is broken, Birkin consuming the vials of G-Virus and smashing the T-Virus vials. The rats consume the T-Virus eventually taking it above ground causing the Raccoon City outbreak. At the end of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, the American government issues the destruction of Raccoon City by means of a nuclear missile to cover up Umbrella's activities, and to stop the virus from spreading outside the city limits.

Location & significance

The re-opening of the Hive was responsible for the deaths of thousands in Raccoon City.As the virus began spreading amongst citizens, Umbrella resulted in setting up a quarantine perimeter around the city, screening citizens of any T-Virus detection, allowing those cleared to pass while the infected were ordered to return to their homes.

When the virus had reached critical stages, Umbrella activated its Nemesis program to kill the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members (Special Tactics And Rescue Squad) who had known the truth about Umbrella's involvement in the Arklay Mountains region, including Jill Valentine. S.T.A.R.S. members were killed after the Raccoon City Incident by the Nemesis, a mutation designed to hunt and kill all S.T.A.R.S operatives. Only Jill Valentine is known to have survived, and is the last of the elite.There is also speculation that Leon S. Kennedy was a raccoon city cop on his first day during the raccoon city incident. During the Raccoon City incident, news reporter Terri Morales videotaped Umbrella's response to the outbreak. Umbrella was then held responsible for the death of thousands until the video was discredited as a hoax by the corporation (stating the region encountered a nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl). Umbrella was eventually found guilty on all charges on it's involvement five years after the city's destruction.

North American facility

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In Resident Evil: Extinction, the Umbrella Corporation had established a second hive buried beneath a weather monitoring station in Death Valley (completely fenced off so as not to let anything in) near Las Vegas. Under the command of Sam Isaacs, the new Hive facility was used in Umbrella's experiments to develop a sustainable and efficient cure for the T-Virus - which had continued to spread following the Raccoon City incident. In addition to the T-Virus research, The Tyrant Program was also being researched.

The new Hive was modified from the original and featured several advancements. The Artificial Intelligence system was upgraded and was known as The White Queen. A holographic communications chamber was included in the design which allowed for communication with Umbrella Executives hidden in similar outposts throughout the world. A cloning chamber was established for use of Project: Alice in the hope of replicating the original perfectly, since Alice may be the only available potential cure. The Hive featured provisions to safely support the Umbrella staff living in The Hive. Additionally, a testing range was built into the lowest levels which incorporated replicas of the Main Hall of Spencer Mansion, the Red Queen's Chamber corridor, and the ground floor of Raccoon City Hospital.

After the transformation of Sam Issacs into The Tyrant, Alice, curious of the Hive, infiltrated the complex after aiding Claire Redfield in stealing a helicopter assigned to the base. Claire headed to Alaska for a peaceful and viral free life along with the many children she had rescued while Alice stayed behind. The White Queen informed Alice of Doctor Issacs' transformation into The Tyrant and requested Alice to destroy the creature. After a fight that led to the laser corridor where The Tyrant was killed, a clone of Alice disabled the laser grid thus saving the original Alice from death. The facility, now empty of the technicians, scientists and support staff was left under the supervision of Alice as she prepared a series of clones to wage war against the remaining Umbrella complexes.

Construction

Film

Dr. Ashford was held responsible for the facility's design and construction stages, where he also designed the super computer The Red Queen. This Artificial Intelligence was represented as a holographic representation of his daughter Angela. The Red Queen itself was programmed using a 3-Dimentional representation of an 8 year old girl. The Red Queen's chamber was constructed at the end of a laser corridor as part of a self defense mechanism to prevent its destruction. The construction of the facility was a top secret project as none of Raccoon City's citizens knew about the facility until underground explosions occurred during the viral outbreak in Raccoon City.

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