Sheena Island
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| Resident Evil location | |
| Sheena Island | |
|---|---|
| Establishment Date | Unknown |
| Location | Europe |
| Population | None |
| Transporatation | None |
| Operated By | Umbrella Corporation |
| Used As | Pharmaceutical Research |
| Famous Locations | None |
| Notable Events | T-virus outbreak |
| Notable People | Vincent Goldman |
| Current Status | Destroyed |
Sheena Island is a fictional island in Capcom's survival horror series Resident Evil. The island is one of several research facilities owned by the Umbrella Corporation and is the main setting for Resident Evil: Survivor. The island is known to be the next Raccoon City, due to the similarity between both cities and the fact that the game itself took most of Resident Evil 2 graphic material.
[edit] History
Sheena Island is a top secret island located off the European coast. It has a city owned in its totality by the Umbrella Corporation. The island contains a research facility that houses a community of researchers that work on the mass production of the Tyrant series. It included the small city and suburban research centers. Sheena Island became a site of another T-Virus outbreak that infected the residing city and the Umbrella owned facilities. Sheena Island's residents (at least those working for Umbrella) were often cruel with the foreign prisoners taken for biological experimentation.
Sheena Island was led by Commander Vincent Goldman, a ruthless Umbrella executive. He was stationed in there to supervise the Tyrant mass production in the so-called "Tyrant Plant". Additionally he contributed in creating a way to perform the Tyrant mass production more efficiently (which included the extraction of a test subject's brain material during painful surgeries). Goldman also ordered for the abduction of young individuals from around the world. They were brought to the island to be used as "guinea pigs" in the Tyrant Plant. They were also drugged with some out-of-the-experiment chemical materials, supposedly to test some Umbrella pharmaceutical products. An arcade was intentionally used for the enjoyment of the prisoners, to relieve their stress before their impending surgery.
However, one particular prisoner was able to overcome with the situation and became aware of his fate. In order to retain his consciousness he avoided most meals that appeared to be impregnated with experimental drugs. He then began to formulate an escape plan with some inmates. With the security guards of the prison busy gathering information about a disaster that occurred in the United States (the destruction of Raccoon City), the prisoner gathered his other comrades to formulate their escape plan. They launched an armed disturbance and proceeded to escape the prison. But Commander Vincent found out about this and killed them all (in one way or another). Goldman then ordered for the coverup of these events. However, some residents of Sheena Island found out about Vincent's affairs and began to gather evidence and expose it to deprive him of his position. During these events, Ark Thompson had infiltrated the city and began posing as Vincent to collect valuable information (by orders from Leon Scott Kennedy). But Vincent (thanks to a local child whom he trusted named Lott Klein) discovered this and he planned to solve the problem with a definite solution.
On November 22, Commander Vincent Goldman managed to spread the T-Virus over the entire island (making sure it appeared to be an accident). He then attempted to hunt down Ark Thompson to finish the job and then return to Umbrella headquarters to collect his earnings; and when Ark was attempting to escape Sheena Island via helicopter, Vincent tracked him and shot it down. Ark lost his memory after the fall and wandered aimlessly (though not unconsciously) through the T-Virus infected city. Vincent lost consciousness when the helicopter crashed, but survived. Somehow he got back at the local Umbrella facility to call Umbrella HQ for rescue. But Umbrella, after getting the disturbing news of the outbreak, sent a squad of special clean-up forces to eliminate any survivor with knowledge of the Tyrant production instead. These Umbrella Trashsweepers (colloquially known as "Cleaners", or "Undertakers") were ordered to recover the Tyrant data and to eliminate the possible perpetrators of the outbreak (Vincent was supposed to be part of the hitlist because of his knowledge, but it is not known for sure).
Meanwhile, Ark Thompson began to uncover some of Sheena Island's secrets as he ventured through the city. He visited certain areas that contained classified Umbrella data. With the help of a local sewer caretaker named Andy Holland (who earlier thought Ark was Vincent Goldman), Ark managed to reach the Umbrella research facility. There, Vincent Goldman released several mass produced Tyrants to dispose of Thompson. He also found the now orphaned Lott Klein, a boy which was the son of an Umbrella employee in the island. He later recovered his memory and confronted Vincent in the research facility. During this, a prototype Tyrant (Hypnos) escaped from its container and killed Vincent in front of Ark Thompson. He survived the Tyrant onslaught and escaped the facility through a train which got Ark and Lott to a small airfield. There Ark found a plane (which was apparently used by the Umbrella Trashsweepers) and used it to escape the island with Lott & Lily (Lott's sister) Klein at his side. However, the earlier Tyrant reached the plane in a more mutated form. Ark managed to fire a stored missile to the mutated Tyrant and launch it out of the plane. He then used a second stored missile to blow up the Tyrant in mid air. Ark Thompson and the Kleins escaped to safety.
Sheena Island's fate is still debated. Whether the island was deserted after the outbreak or it was subsequently nuked to stop the infection is unknown. But it is likely that Umbrella Inc would have destroyed it to stop a possible sea-level infection (since some T-Virus infected creatures would reach Sheena Island's shores and amphibian species could get infected).
During the T-Virus outbreak Sheena Island was populated by infected residents of the city and the Umbrella facilities including the Tyrant Plant. Lickers were also produced in the outbreak. Some hunters that were being housed in the Umbrella facility were released by Goldman to dispose of Ark Thompson.
