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. By 1988 Umbrella USA and Umbrella Europe were competing to do just this. read more