Tricell isn't quite dead. (Mansion Incident / Raccoon City Redux)

[News Bot]

Umm...question: Where do the ages of the characters in or around the time of RE5 come from? Chris's is the only one I know.

For me, the Biohazard 5 Kaitai Shinsho guidebook and Biohazard Archives II.

[Jill4EverSTARS]

I'm not taking sides but the source of Jill being born in 1974 is just as credible as the source of it taking place March 2009

[News Bot]

I'm not taking sides but the source of Jill being born in 1974 is just as credible as the source of it taking place March 2009

Yes, she was born in 1974. I double-checked all available sources. The game is still set in 2009 regardless.

[Guest]

So, with no concrete ages revealed in the game, what was the big fuzz about again?

[Bertha]

So, with no concrete ages revealed in the game, what was the big fuzz about again?

If I remember correctly, on the profile screens in Mercs it lists the ages for the characters.

[Mr. Spencer]

SOMEONE ON THE INTERNET IS FUCKIN' WRONG!

[Shadow Stalker]

In a few ways, the situation with Tricell following Biohazard 5 more closely resembles the situation which the Umbrella Corporation was in immediately after the Mansion Incident, as well as Raccoon City. The entire background and epilogue of the game's storyline is in the BSAA Remote Desktop and Adam's "Experience Kijuju" blog. So, they are not "promotional nonsense", to quote.

Background; the BSAA Remote Desktop focuses on a level 6 intelligence analyst of the BSAA named 'Ryan'. That's basically it for starters.

(translations by Prime Blue)



Right off the bat, Ryan sets up the entire game in one day;
1) suspects Plagas
2) promotes observation and investigation of Kijuju
3) requests the West African branch to send in Reynard Fisher




Further setup for the game.
1) Reynard reports back to Ryan, having detected signs of Las Plagas.
2) Ryan informs the West African branch, and awaits more evidence to finally push the planning for an operation forward



1) Ryan vouches for the importance of Kijuju while the rest of the BSAA is dismissive. He predicts everything correctly, such as the existence of evolved Plaga (Type 2 & Type 3)



1) Reynard manages to catch Ricardo Irving in the middle of a transaction and takes a photo and sends it to Ryan.
2) Ryan basically ejaculates in his pants, as this is the hard (lol) evidence required in order to launch a proper investigation.
3) this is the entire set-up for Irving's EXISTENCE in Biohazard 5.



1) this report details the entire reason Chris is the main character in Biohazard 5. He was conducting his own investigation and wound up with a connection to Irving. As such, he insists on taking part in the investigation Ryan is setting up.
2) did I mention that anyone who thinks this is "promotional nonsense" right now is pretty narrow-minded?



1) M. Suzuki really gets involved here. She is the sender of the virus.



1) Chris bears the fruit of his investigation. He pin-points the exact building where Irving carries out his transactions in Kijuju, as well as the buyers and the date of his latest transaction (where he is scheduled to sell Popokarimu).
2) at some point, M. Suzuki reports this to Irving, which is how he anticipates the BSAA's entire presence in Kijuju and manages to lead them straight into death, as guinea pigs against the Type 2 Plagas. Still just promotional nonsense?



1) the background on Sheva being chosen as Chris's partner.
2) M. Suzuki also requests to become his partner (in order to fuck up the operation on his end) but is denied by Ryan due to her lack of experience. Yes. Ryan just saved Chris Redfield's life.



1) two days before the operation. Ryan realizes that he and the West African branch do not see eye-to-eye. Ryan sees the operation as a potential stage for bioterrorism, while the West African branch only sees it as a simple arrest. Again, Ryan is the one, single figure who vouches for the severity and importance of it. Because Chris and Sheva are under the same assumption as the West African branch, Ryan takes matters into his own hands and requests M. Suzuki (in reality a Tricell agent) to inform them about the (high) possibility of bioterrorism. She doesn't, pretty clearly in order to try and have them die by virtue of not expecting shit.





Ryan finally realizes, and he is murdered by Suzuki for his trouble. She then deletes his entire hard drive, erasing all evidence of the operation and its planning.

Sound familiar?



Definitely.



In closing, Tricell is essentially free of responsibility for the bioterrorism in Kijuju. If the BSAA does manage to cough up evidence (which will be hard to procure since Ryan, the man behind the operation, is dead and all of his data deleted. And the Kijuju Autonomous Region was carpet bombed by the BSAA. Oops.) then, at the very least, only the pharmaceuticals division of Tricell will be persecuted since each division of Tricell is basically a completely separate company. Maybe the world has gotten more common sense since the days of Umbrella, who got themselves adjourned for 5 years before they had their own data used as evidence.

Hate to burst any bubbles too, but Biohazard 5 takes place in 2009 whether anyone likes it or not.


(Biohazard 5 Kaitai Shinsho ~ Biohazard CHRONICLE)


(Inside of Biohazard: The Darkside Chronicles ~ Chronicle of the Darkside Chronicles)


(Biohazard Archives II ~ Chronological Table)

That's a good read mate!

Very interesting info ... I guess Tricell is able to continue on beyond the events in RE5. I've always assumed Tricell would be history considering the fact that anti-bioterror groups such as the BSAA and TerraSave would be able to tear TriCell into pieces once the fiasco in Kijuju had passed. Now thanks to these translated documents, I know that it's not going to be the case.

Great work News Bot and Prime Blue.

[Mr. Spencer]

At least someone on here is prepared to post something that isn't brainless raging at something they couldn't possibly influence or change. Agree to disagree.

[TheSelfishGene]

So frustrating that things like this and the library files weren't actually *in* the gameplay.

[News Bot]

So frustrating that things like this and the library files weren't actually *in* the gameplay.

70% of the plot isn't in the gameplay, sadly. CAPCOM has a real issue with this sort of stuff. The scenarios are generally extremely detailed, but they put the bare minimum in the games themselves. The rest is sparsely released over additional documents (or even just left out altogether until a later game).

Progenitor's origin in Africa is actually in Zero, for example. And evidently, it was included as early as the scenario draft for CODE: Veronica.

[Shadow Stalker]

At least someone on here is prepared to post something that isn't brainless raging at something they couldn't possibly influence or change. Agree to disagree.

Thanks. Although I don't get what you mean by "agree to disagree".

[Wesker_101]

That was a great read! Very interesting stuff there. This M. Suzuki appears to be pretty wicked. She really made a huge mess for the BSAA. Damn...

Stuff like this is one of the main reasons why I love this series so much. Thanks, NB and Prime.

[Dracarys]

So, with no concrete ages revealed in the game, what was the big fuzz about again?

Are you kidding? Each character has a profile in the game, can view it on Mercs menu as well as Desperate Escape for Jill/Josh.

[TheBatMan]

But it says in game that Jill's age is 30 when you select her character for LIN, but when you select her character for for Desperate Escape it is 33. That's in-game evidence for you that the game is set in 2009 and that the actual number of her age is just a simple mistake that got overlooked.
I believe someone else has already pointed out that Chris' age fits correct with 2009 as does Wesker. Wesker's birthday must be somewhere between late March - early July if he is 38 in both July and December 1998 and still only 48 by the events of March 09 in RE5.

[Dracarys]

But it says in game that Jill's age is 30 when you select her character for LIN, but when you select her character for for Desperate Escape it is 33. That's in-game evidence for you that the game is set in 2009 and that the actual number of her age is just a simple mistake that got overlooked.
I believe someone else has already pointed out that Chris' age fits correct with 2009 as does Wesker. Wesker's birthday must be somewhere between late March - early July if he is 38 in both July and December 1998 and still only 48 by the events of March 09 in RE5.

The LiN ages are in error for both Jill and Chris, LiN stated ages are impossible given the year LiN is set and LiN has a clear date, Jill would have to be 31. Presumably someone at Capcom made the error of checking supplementary material and just counted backwards 3 for both characters original profiles without checking anything else.

Either way Mercs, Mercs Reunion and DE are all correct.