How dangerous would Umbrella be in the real world?

[DXP]

If conspiracy theories are believed by some people i have seen some cars and vans driving around with the license plates ending in UMB.

[Project Omega]

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[Vogue_Dirge]

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[Twist]

If conspiracy theories are believed by some people i have seen some cars and vans driving around with the license plates ending in UMB.

It's Hunks team with the G - Fuckin' - Virus!

[Project Omega]

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@_@ Does want.

To bad none of them match colors with by red 'stang. Perhaps I need a new paint job...

[Mr. Spencer]

Well, we know they have several millitary units at there disposal. The damage suffered to the UBCS units in RE3 suggests they have an awful lot more...they were quite happy to throw away that many trained men simply to gather test data. Then there are there more elite units, such as Hunk's. They even have the training facility on Rockford. So it's likely there millitary fire power is significant. However, it's unlikely they'd manage to have enough troops to be a major threat to a nation. Goverments do tend to keep an eye on that sort of thing. I can't imagine they have more than a thousand members in the UBCS plus there own securiy force.

However, add in Umbrella's deep pockets for buying up mercernaries (admittedly the UBCS is mostly mercs already, but this way they could get more men) and add in Nemesis' and Tyrants (even Umbrella wouldn't be dim enough to release the T-Virus but both Nemesis and some Tyrants can be controlled) and they would pose a threat to smaller countries. Larger, more advanced countries would probably be alright due to the kind of air support and heavy artillery they could call upon. Even a Nemesis is going to run into issues getting pummled by several challenger tanks.

I think, head's on, a tank and a Tyrant are probably on close to equal footing. A tank's guns could kill a Tyrant, fast, but a tyrant is fast enough to close and start peeling the armour aside. However, tanks are a hell of lot easier to make than Tyrants so a Tyrant would invariably be out numbered.

That's what I liked about Umbrella, they were the series equivalent of OCP from the Robocop films. When the outbreak happened in Raccoon City, they seemed far more concerned with how much money they would lose, rather than the human cost. However, one thing you would have to realise is that Umbrella is a multinational enterprise, and a strong business is good for a strong economy. In addition, I think that a few governments would be all too keen to turn a blind eye to anything that Umbrella might be up to behind the scenes, or there's the fact that Umbrella had more money than entire governments, which is the case today with some companies.

As for the recruiting of mercenaries, I can also see them buying out a number of today's so-called private security firms, and then incorporating them into their own paramilitary services. Might be worth adding, that the ending of the Cold War provided Umbrella with an almost inexhaustible supply of experienced soldiers. Speaking of their "products", it's entirely feasible for a real world Umbrella to sell biological weapons to small governments, or perhaps even terrorist organisations. Why would it matter who bought them and for what purpose? At the end of the day they're out to make money, not promote any form of political ideology. In fact, that's pretty much what Umbrella is - a group of unscrupulous arms dealers, one that would have much selling power in today's increasingly unstable world.

I think I detracted a little from what I was originally going to say, but that more or less sums up my own theory on what we might see.

[Project Omega]

It was always my belief that Umbrella had their hands in everything: computers and information technology, medicine, industrial and civil engineering, chemical engineering, bio-technology research, weapons development, biological weapons research, chemical weapons research, and they also donated/bribed a large sum of the VIP's throughout the world: politicians, government officials, military officials, various police agencies, etc...

They had a very large wallet and ensured that they kept up with everything that was going on. In my opinion, the most important aspect of the company was not viral weaponry, but rather information gathering (the viruses are just the most interesting, to me anyway). As Wesker called it in the WR2, "the "special investigations" division within the company".

Why do you think information gathering and filtering programs like the ECHELON exist today? Information is a very valuable asset to any company large and small.

[Mr. Spencer]

I concur, it's just that the viruses were what the company is best known for - to us.

[Bertha]

Not going to rehash everything everyone has already stated....but Umbrella would be very dangerous today. Just look at how easy it is to create coverups and hide under the table/secret deals and such.

Umbrella is one of the reasons I find the games so scary. It's not just the zombies and monsters. Any company that powerful can easily exist in the real world. Look at how many already control the sway of politics and such. Not knowing what they are doing behind closed doors and how much of it is very dangerous and illegal is scary to think about. The idea of a company being able to create a biological/nuclear weapon, have 'accidents' like Raccoon, and cover it up so easily is pretty damn scary, especially considering the fact that the world is already on the brink of possibly another world war.

Obviously these companies don't have scruples and would sell their products to the highest bidders, which could mean putting very deadly weapons into the hands of terrorists. That to me...is pretty scary.

Even knowing that danger though...how many people would be willing to work for Umbrella if it really existed? ....I kinda would...It may be wrong but the world runs on money and things just keep getting more and more expensive.

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[Twist]

^ Agreed. It disturbs me how quickly everything seems to be going downhill nowadays.

If there is another World War, we're all fucked.

[Scream]

Of course there will be another world war - the allies (whose political ideologies match so closely) won WWII remember. If the axis had won the world would be conquered already.