Nemesis's History
Umbrella Pharmaceuticals's ultimate goal was the creation of Bio Organic Weaponry to sell to the US Army and, through accumulated revenue, fund its own eugenics program. A major flaw found during the t-Virus Project was that sub-par intelligence was an almost unavoidable side-effect and, as a result, R&D projects typically ruled against the practicality of uncontrollable B.O.W.s on the battlefield.[2][3][excerpt 1] Though the Hunter Project was promising, the clone species' intelligence still limited them to knowing ten commands.To become truly military-grade, Umbrella needed to develop B.O.W.s with near or like human intelligence.
Re-development
By 1988 Umbrella USA and Umbrella Europe were competing to do just this. Umbrella USA's Arklay Laboratory set up the Tyrant Project, which aimed to create human mutants without loss of intelligence. Umbrella Europe's No.6 Laboratory, meanwhile, began the Nemesis Project, which aimed to create parasitic organisms that would take over brain functions in a B.O.W. host. Both projects reached impasses which would not be resolved for years to come, with the Tyrant Project lacking results for most of the next decade until the completion of T-002, and the Nemesis Project finding no hosts which could survive the procedure. By the Summer of 1998, Umbrella USA had successfully created not only the T-002, but a series of genetically altered clones dubbed the "T-103"s. The destruction of the Arklay Laboratory following a biological disaster presented Umbrella with fresh concerns as to the reliability of its products after it emerged a small police team had not only succeeded in killing the failed and outdated prototypes but the T-002 itself. Restarting the Nemesis Project, Umbrella Europe requisitioned several of the new T-103 clones to serve as test subjects. The NE-α parasites planted within their bodies succeeded in hijacking brain functions without killing the hosts.[3] Soon after this procedure, however, at least two of the Nemesis-T Types demonstrated completely unexpected senses of ego and self-awareness, and made an attempt to escape from their laboratory.
The Pursuer
When Umbrella got word of a t-Virus outbreak in Raccoon City, Umbrella Europe began shipping its B.O.W.s over to the city to take advantage of the crisis. Per HQ's plan, the U.B.C.S. were to engage these B.O.W.s, and Monitors in the city were instructed to record the B.O.W.s' combat skills to verify their reliability as military products. With Umbrella wanting vengeance for the destruction of T-002, Nemesis-T02 was given instructions to hunt down and kill S.T.A.R.S. members, of whom it was shown photographs of so they could be recognised. It was taken into the city by helicopter, and provided with heavy weaponry including a rocket launcher. When the Pursuer entered the city, only two S.T.A.R.S. members were left: Brad Vickers and Jill Valentine. The first target it was able to track down was Vickers on or before the night of Monday 28 September. Vickers was able to alert Valentine, and the Pursuer ultimately failed to kill Vickers, either losing track of him completely or him being wounded and mutating into a Zombie. Regardless, its attention focused instead on Valentine, and alongside several ambushes in Downtown Raccoon City also covertly observed Valentine making contact with surviving U.B.C.S. mercenaries, which it considered secondary targets.[6][excerpt 5] One of these targets was Sgt. Nikolai Zinoviev, a Monitor who had been tasked with evaluating the Pursuer's prowess; fearing for his life, he faked his death in the hope his meeting with Valentine was not noticed. Later in the night, the Pursuer made its move on Valentine when a Downtown train or tram she was sheltering in departed. The attempt on her life failed, and Cpt. Mikhail Viktor seriously wounded it in a suicide bombing, and the parasite's secretions promoted mutation as a means of recovering. Accounts differ as to the Pursuer's actions following the failed attack, though in both it confronted Valentine outside the St. Michael Clock Tower and failed though was successful in infecting her with a strain of t-Virus. In one account, this confrontation happened after it downed a UBCS chinook with a rocket launcher, and was forced back by Cpl. Carlos Oliveira before passing out in the flaming ruins. In another, this confrontation was immediately after escaping the derelict train, and Oliveira arrived after its defeat. In spite of its injuries, the Pursuer survived on albeit in a considerably deformed and mentally primitive state compared with when it arrived in the city. There are altogether three distinct accounts of the Pursuer's actions in the city on Thursday 1 October. In two accounts, the Pursuer followed Valentine to Incineration Disposal Plant P-12A they were separated after one fell off a bridge; following this it may have spotted and killed Zinoviev though there is evidence to suggest he escaped unharmed. While fighting Valentine in a treatment room, it was exposed to highly corrosive chemicals which destroyed the Tyrant; the surviving parasite then mutated out of control and dragged the remains of its host out into a scrap yard where it was mortally wounded by a US Army experimental railgun, the Sword of Paracelsus and either succumbed to its wounds minutes later or was shot repeatedly by Valentine. In a third account, the Pursuer instead tracked Valentine to NEST 2, a B.O.W. testing facility adjacent to Spencer Memorial Hospital. There it killed Tyrell Patrick, another mercenary who was working with Valentine, before fighting her at the facility's own dedicated treatment plant where it was exposed to corrosive chemicals. With the Tyrant dead, the parasite mutated out of control into a massive blob, and was killed when Valentine fired an experimental Umbrella railgun, the FINGeR, at it.
